Built in visual effect require a loaded file before you can access it?

Old Forum djay Pro for Mac
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DJay comes with a selection of visual effects loops that have no audio. DJay also comes with some built in canned effects like Cube, halos etc… If I want to have no audio on deck2 for example but have one of the canned effects I am required to first load a video loop (without audio) then I can override it with the canned effect. Why can’t I just go to the canned effect straitaway since the video loop is not going anywhere.

I suppose this is both a howto tip and a question.

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yep, Since there is an easy work around by just loading an audio free clip then over riding it with the visual effect i would not consider this a huge issue. It just seemed odd to me that the VE option would not come until something was loaded even if that something had no audio.

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Hi Daniel,

to get this right, you want to have a deck without an track, only the visual effect in order to make a transition from one visual effect to another?

Cheers,
Lukas E.

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