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Sony Vegas effects on separate track?
Okay so I make gaming montages for a partner channel on YouTube and I’ve always done a lot of syncing and stuff with my montages. The way I always did this was by cutting specific chunks from the clips and adding whatever effects to them. Now it’s come time where I want to do more advanced or multiple effects, but how can I do that? Let’s say I cut a clip in 3 pieces and put effect on the center piece to sync to the beat of song, well, if the next sync I need to do is inbetween that clip and the next 1 I can’t do anything because of the split.
I guess what I am asking is how can I add effects to “track 1” by putting them on “track 2” is this possible?
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Copy the event, right click on the event you want to put the new effects on, and select “Paste event attributes”.
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I don’t understand.
I want to be able to put effects on a totally separate track than the video footage is on. When I put an effect on a blank track above it nothing shows. It’s like you can only add effects to a piece of video. But I’ve already cut my whole video track to shreds because of fast forwards and other syncs I did. It’s kind of hard to explain.
I want to add a sphere effect at 10 seconds lasting until 12 seconds. I can’t do that though because I already have effects at 10, 11, 12, 13 seconds. Beat are usually repetitive too so I thought it would save a LOT of time to be able to just paste an effect every x amount of seconds rather than having to put it on a piece of video clip that’s been split too many times already.
Is that posssible? I hope that makes sense. Sorry.
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Then just right click on the track with the effects you want, select “Duplicate track”, and delete all the video you don’t want on there.
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I don’t want to delete any of my video. I am only looking for a way to add effects to it from a separate track. The video track has already been split too many times for me to add beat syncing effect successfully.
Is there no way to put effects on a blank track and have them show on the video track?
I don’t know how else to explain what I am trying to accomplish.
I want a “sphere” effect every 4 seconds, but I can’t manually do this on the video track because of all the splits I have done.
I was hoping I could just simply put “sphere” every 4 seconds on a track above it instead of trying to add it to a split mess.
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Apply the ‘sphere’ effect at the track level and use keyframing to enable/disable it.
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Another way to get to where you want to be is to save your current project, say as “FileA.veg”. This veg file has all the cuts you want, possibly multiple tracks used. Now open a new project, and INSERT the FileA.veg to your timeline (i.e. don’t just open the FileA.veg file in Vegas, acutally add it just like a clip to a new vegas project). When you do this, the file will be comprised of two tracks (1 video, 1 audio). So now your track that you say has multiple cuts in it every few seconds is one continuous track with no cuts. Add the “sphere” effect you want and as Mike Kujbida says in his post, you can keyframe the effect you want onto this one continuous clip.
Note that you can also copy and paste your keyframes. If you have the effect “on” in keyframe 1 and then “off” in keyframe 2, you can click the first keyframe, shift-click the second keyframe (selecting both), press CTRL-C (copy), then move your cursor to the next time you want your effect to turn “on” (say 4 seconds later) and press the CTRL-V (paste), which will paste BOTH keyframes (the first one at your cursor, the second one will be the same distance from the 1st keyframe as when you made the “copy”). Hopefully this helps.
Andrew Lenczycki
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