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How to copy & paste fades?
Hello,
I’m a Premiere user who’s trying to learn Vegas 6. I like the program, but one of the features I miss is the ability to paste a fade to multiple clips. When I have like 20 short clips that I want to slowly fade in (opacity 0% -> 100%), it would be a lot less work to modify only a single event and then paste the opacity change to the rest of the clips.
In Premiere I could easily do this with the command “Paste attributes”. In Vegas I can only paste FX or Pan/Crop settings. I know about track composite level envelopes, but I haven’t figured a way to paste the envelope points to another clip.
Help on this matter would be much appreciated.
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4 Replies
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[Janzki] “When I have like 20 short clips that I want to slowly fade in (opacity 0% -> 100%)”
There isn’t a way to do this natively in Vegas, but the Fade Wizard in Excalibur applies a fade you specify to any selecetd events. For a free demo version, click below my name.
Gary Kleiner
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Janzki ~
Welcome to Vegas land
Deferring to what Gary said I am not sure if this is what you mean. You have a number of clips on a timeline separated by spaces and want to apply a standard fade up to each? Is this correct? If so this is what we do.
Go to ‘options’ then ‘preferences’ and select the ‘editing’ tab. Go to the ‘cut to overlap conversion’ time window. Lets say you want a fifteen-frame fade up on each clip. Adjust the ‘amount (seconds)’ time window until it shows 15 frames to the right. Hit apply and then get out of there.
This is assuming that all the clips you want to apply a fade up to are one track, that is virgin clips with no transitions on them. Use the ‘Selection Edit Tool’, the one that looks like an arrow with a dotted box around it. Drag a selection along the track selecting all the clips you that want fade ups on.
Next go to the ‘Transitions’ tab and select ‘Dissolve’ in the left menu pane. This will open up the dissolve ‘Preset’ pane. With left mouse button click, hold, then drag the ‘Additive Dissolve’ up to one of your pre-selected clips and place your cursor on the small blue triangle at the top left corner of the clip until you see three small white squares, one with a cross on it. Release your left mouse button and the ‘Video Event FX’ dialogue box will open up. If all you want are fade ups that’s it. Just close the dialogue box and all your selected clips will have a 15 frame fade up.
This select and apply method will work for almost any transition. You can of course select any of the available ‘presets’ once you have the ‘Video Event FX’ dialogue box open if you want something other than a plain ‘fade up’. You can apply a fade down to the end of all selected clips as well; just select the small blue triangle at the end of one of your selected clips when you drag the ‘Additive Dissolve’ up to the track.
If you have various clips on various tracks the same rule applies, just use the ‘Selection Edit Tool’ to drag over the tracks and clips you want.
If this is not what you want to do then I have misunderstood your request. Good luck!
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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[Chris Young] “Release your left mouse button and the ‘Video Event FX’ dialogue box will open up. If all you want are fade ups that’s it. Just close the dialogue box and all your selected clips will have a 15 frame fade up.”
Not bad, Chris. Just to add a detail : if you don’t need the dialog box when applying a transition, hold the shift key as you drop it in.
Gary Kleiner
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Thank Gary, good tip! Had not discovered this ‘shift’ key trick. This will be good. We use this method to apply specific wipes and fades to all our grids and results graphic in each show, around fifty per show so it sure beats doing one at a time.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney
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