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Smooth transitions to and from Black and White
Hello,
I have been tinkering around with the trial version of this program for a while now and really enjoying it. Expecting my full Platinum version to arrive in the mail today.
What I want to do is make one of my clips Black and White for a period, that is easy, I just split it and apply the relevant FX to it. However, I then want to the video to continue playing and smoothly fade from B&W to colour. I cannot seem to find a way to do this..Maybe cause it’s the trial version I am using?
I also want to know how to smoothly fade to and from blur while video is playing, but once I know how to do it for B&W that will be easy….
Any help much appreciated.
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4 Replies
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I use Vegas Pro but I “think” that Platinum has the key frame feature too and this is the tool that you want to use.
When you apply an FX to an event, it automatically creates a keyframe at the very first frame.
This is the first keyframe to modify as you want to set it so that the B&W FX is at 100% B&W.
Go a bit further into it, create another keyframe and change the FX setting to the desired B&W level (in your case, 100% colour / 0% B&W).
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Thanks for the info.
Is there no smooth fade in / out for FX? This is an incredibly labour intesive way to do it…I do the same thing for shaky cam so I know what you mean…
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“Is there no smooth fade in / out for FX?”
Nope. Keyframes is the only way.
“This is an incredibly labour intesive way to do it.”
I don’t think so but then I’ve been doing it for a number of years now.
In the time it took me to type this, I could’ve done the necessary keyframes on both the B&W and Blur clips. -
“I just split it and apply the relevant FX to it. However, I then want to the video to continue playing and smoothly fade from B&W to colour”, since you’ve already done that, you might just want to do a crossfade between the to video events. The technique is explained on page 41 of the manual. they explain it for audio events, but it also works for video events. Keep two things in mind, I am not sure if the demo version will allow to do it (although I don’t see why not), and it might slow down the preview during the crossfade.
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