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New User – Transition Question
I’ve recently switched from AVID to Vegas, and I’m quite impressed. Much of my work involves editing presentations. I’ll have my video on one track, and then add still graphics (slides) over top on the next video track.
When I’m done adding the graphics, is there an easy way to highlight the whole track, and have Vegas insert dissolves on the in and out of each graphic?
Or better yet – is there a way that I can drag a graphic to the timeline and have it automatically have dissolves applied to the in and out as it’s applied?
I’m finding it overly difficult to add dissolves to graphics since my default crossfade length doesn’t seem to apply to graphics for some reason, and I need to painstakingly drag my dissolve handle to 20 frams for each one. VERY time consuming.
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One of the best features in Vegas – scripts. They allow to increase the speed of editing process and save you from tedious work. There are some good paid tools. I use Vegasaur ( https://vegasaur.com ). It contains many helpful tools. Among them is Quick Properties tool that allows to change properties of multiple events, create transitions, place events on the timeline etc. You can freely download it and use for one month of trial period.
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I just looked at Vegasaur, and it is interesting, but not very well written for adding transitions. In AVID, there was a setting called “Apply to all Transitions – In to out”, which would add dissolves between clips, including the beginning of a clip block or selected area. Vegasaur neglects the beginning and end of clips over a selected area. Massive product-killing blunder on their part.
Vegas in general seems to not want to make it easy to add a transition to the beginning or end of a piece of media (if it’s not touching another piece of media). It does not “lock in” on my default of 20 frames. Why is this? I want to put stuff on many tracks – not just one. Why does the transition default setting ONLY apply to touching media?
Adding transitions are kinda important in my work, and this seems like a HUGE HUGE weakness when coming from AVID. -
I think that the scripts from Excalibur, Production Assistant and Ultimate S do exactly what you need (and much more):
https://www.vasst.com/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=9&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=66
https://www.jetdv.com/excalibur/home.php
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegasproassist
Theo
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Sorry, but Vegas is not Avid, it is another world and, imho, it is a mistake to try to find Avid’s features in Vegas. Good luck!
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‘Sorry, but Vegas is not Avid, it is another world and, imho, it is a mistake to try to find Avid’s features in Vegas. Good luck!’
What do you mean by this? Do you intend to say that the scripts I referred to can not do the job that Mike Dalton was asking for?
BTW, are you the seller of Vegasaur? If yes, it would ne nice if you mentioned that in all the posts where you advertize for Vegasaur
Theo
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Mike, have a look at the free script that John Rofrano talks about in the Automatic fade in fade out? thread.
I’m positive that it will do what you want.
Please let us know if you have any questions about using scripts as, IMO, they’re a VERY powerful feature of Vegas. -
All of these solutions are similar, and yet none seem to accomplish what many editors need to do – apply a dissolve regardless of the relation of the clip to other clips.
If you have some clips adjacent to others, and some that are stand-alone and not near others, you would naturally want them all to dissolve. The suggestions listed (which I do appreciate by the way) would merely dip to black or lower media between clips for adjacent media. I need a cross-dissolve centered on the clip – which will either dissolving up from nothing, or dissolving into the clip next to it.
Basically everywhere there is a start of end of media, that point would get a centered cross-dissolve.
I use this feature all the time, and really can’t imagine it not being in an editing system. All editors, regardless of what type of editing you do, need this script – and you’ll cry when you realize the years you spend without it.
Perhaps if nobody has ever written it, I need to do it myself. However I know nothing of scripting. It seems that everyone so far has not realized the editing power possible with such a script. I just can’t believe it wasn’t in version .001 of Vegas. That floors me!!! -
I’m not sure wheter I understand you completely. But you would like to add a fade-in to all your clips which are not superimposed on other clips, just with one click?
I quess (haven’t tried, sorry), you can do this by using any of the scripts I mentioned before, to add the Spicemaster as FX (not as transition) to all the clips. You just have to make the desired preset first in Spicemaster
Theo
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Actually my post was directed to Mike Dalton 🙂
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Hi Mike,
Are you trying to change or make the same transition for every slide on the track? If so, then right click on the first slide of the track and then select (select events to end) this will highlight all the slides. Then drag the transition you want to the front, back, or front and back of the first slide. This will then change all the slides for that track.
Good luck…
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