• VEGAS Pro

  How to turn a video track effect on and off using keyframe?

  Posted by Gilles Gagnon on April 13, 2020 at 3:39 pm

  Hi Folks,

  I know I can animate parameters of an effect using keyframes… however for the life of me I can’t figure out how to turn the entire effect on or off … at will on the timeline.
  For example, turn on the Glint effect for a bit… the turn it on (with all the parameters already set to what I configured).

  Thanks in advance for any tips.

  Gilles

  Gilles Gagnon replied 6 years ago 4 Members · 9 Replies
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  Francois Pénzes

  April 13, 2020 at 10:45 pm

  Hi Gilles

  Do you want a progressive shutdown of the glint effect or on/off/on ?

  Cheers !

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  Francois Pénzes

  April 13, 2020 at 11:23 pm

  Hi Gilles

  When ever I want to do something I try to go the easiest way possible. What I would do is that once you have all of your effects in, just split (S on the keyboard) at the point you want the effect(s) to stop.

  

  Choose the effect(s) you want to turn of. Split the timeline were you want it back again. You can also have it fade in and/or out by overlapping.

  

  Cheers !

  PC Win 10 Pro 64-bit 16gb
  Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core 4.60GHz
  Radeon RX 5700 XT
  Cameras: Canon XF305 + Canon XH-A1
  Vegas Pro 16, User since Vegas 3.0

  \’\’When the cutting stops, the editing begins…\’\’
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  Gilles Gagnon

  April 14, 2020 at 2:37 am

  Thanks so much for your help Francois.
  As you discovered ☺ there isn’t an on/off for this effect…. and in this case, I can’t use the split trick because the effect was a track effect not a clip effect.

  I really thought there would be an easy way to control the effect at the track level.
  Any other ideas? (other than duplicating the track)

  Gilles
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  Francois Pénzes

  April 16, 2020 at 10:53 pm

  Hi Gilles

  Well, in between renders I managed to achieve what I think you wanted to do with keyframes but it implied jumping thru so many hoops that it would be incredibly time consuming compared to what I proposed above.

  Sorry mate

  Cheers !

  PC Win 10 Pro 64-bit 16gb
  Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core 4.60GHz
  Radeon RX 5700 XT
  Cameras: Canon XF305 + Canon XH-A1
  Vegas Pro 16, User since Vegas 3.0

  \’\’When the cutting stops, the editing begins…\’\’
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  Gilles Gagnon

  April 16, 2020 at 10:56 pm

  Hahaha! np at all Francois,
  Maybe it’s something Vegas will add in the future.
  or…
  maybe a missing on/off parameter within the glint plugin was an oversight by de devs.

  Cheers!

  Gilles
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  Tyson Onaga

  April 20, 2020 at 7:02 pm

  This solution involves duplication, but the clip is not split in any way ….

  Track 1 – Sony Solid Color, White
  Track 2 – Video clip w/ Glint FX @ Track level
  Track 3 – Video clip (NO FX)

  Make Track 2 a Compositing Child of Track 1
  Make Track 1 Compositing Mode = Mutiply

  Where you want the Glint FX:
  drag the White object to that position
  adjust length as desired
  add fade in/fade out as desired

  Track 1 will now “play” over Track 3 w/ the Glint FX applied.
  Where there is no White object in Track 1, Track 3 will show.

  To add more “Glint sections”, copy-paste-adjust the White object in Track 1.

  Best,
  – tyson
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  Gilles Gagnon

  April 21, 2020 at 9:39 pm

  Thanks Tyson, very clever approach. I’ll keep it in mind.

  In my case, I really was looking for something simple… as I thought something simple would/should exist ☺
  Like animating an on/off effect parameter. No dice though.

  Thanks again for sharing it.
  Cheers!
  Gilles

  Gilles
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  Dimitrios Papadimitriou

  April 22, 2020 at 8:39 pm

  Whenever I put an effect on a track rather than a clip it’s usually because I want that track to be dedicated to that one purpose. When I don’t want that effect to be active I’ll take that portion of the video off that track usually to the one below it. This is essentially an on off, though I don’t understand your current difficulty even after reading all the replies.
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  Gilles Gagnon

  April 23, 2020 at 2:47 pm

  Hi Dimitri, thanks for responding.
  This post is not moot as I worked around it.

  The question, in simplified form was:
  With the Glint effect assigned to a track effect, how can you automate turning the entire effect on or off on that track?

  I wasn’t looking for multi-track solutions to the problem. I was perplexed as to why I couldn’t find a way to do this as I would say for the Black/White effect using Threshold.

  I just revisited it and found a solution by adjusting the Streaks parameter from it’s current value (ON) to 0/zero (OFF)

  I hope this helps others.
  Cheers!

  Gilles

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