add fade to multiple clips

[Graham Bernard]

I was adding to the FIRST Event, and this wasn’t being carried to the others. However, when I add it to the meeting of Event 1 and Event 2 THEN I get the result. However, the Audio is then ungrouped with result of being unsynced too.

Interesting . . . .

So I can get a Fade thru Black with the Events overlapping and no need to add to Back-end. Well, that’s the outcome, but of course this HASN’T added it to the back-end, it just appears to have done it as its the Front end that is giving the fade thru black – if you get my drift?

Grazie

[Michael Bushell]

Hi Chris

Thanks for the tip. I can get it to work on the front end of the clip as described (and then through to the other selected clips), however it doesn’t seem to take on the back end. I’m working with 8.0c.

Update: it works at the back of a clip when that clip has no other clips immediately butting up to it- which means I have to go through and manually separate all the fade-out clips from the vision following- not ideal, but I’ll take what I can get!

Mike

[Chris Young]

Mike ~

Working fine here on 8.0c. After using the’ Selection edit tool’ you hold down the shift key and drag your transition to the front of one of the pre-selected clips. This will only apply the transitions to the start of each clip. Once you have applied the transition to the start of each clip keep holding the shift key down and now left mouse click / drag a transition to the end of one of the selected clips and if it’s done correctly this will apply the transition to the end of all clips.

NOTE: If you clips are butted up end to end on one track you must make sure each clip has sufficient overlap ‘handles’ to allow for the duration of the transition applied. If the clips have their full length on the timeline and are butted up together the transitions will still be applied but the process will ‘loop’ the ends of the clips as there is insufficient transition time left in the clips. Believe me it does work. As previously mentioned I normally only use this technique for repeating the same transitions along a track that has nothing but lower thirds / captions etc so obviously everyone’s experience can be different depending on what they are trying to achieve.

As one other post mentioned it can un-group any associated audio. In the final analysis it’s up to the editor to decide if this technique is useful in any particular situation. So like always you weigh up the techniques pros and cons and decide if it’s useful in your workflow.

Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney

[Stephen Crye]

Chris, thanks so much for this! It was driving me mad that when I tried to apply a cross-fade to thousands of stills already on the timeline, it would only do every other event. The trick is to do it to BOTH ends of the event as you described.

I have a deadline – making a Requiem for My Cat Max video, it will go in his casket (which will be entombed in cement in my backyard with markers )for future archaeologists. He will not last more than a day or two.

No time now, but will post some more info on Max The Cat ASAP. He is the best …

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T7500, MultiTB SATA, 12GB RAM, nVidia Quadro 2000, Vegas 12, 11, 10, 9 DVDA 6.0 & 5.2(build 135) Sony HDR-CX550V, Panasonic GH3 with LUMIX G X VARIO 12-35mm / F2.8 ASPH, LUMIX G X VARIO 35-100mm / F2.8

[Chris Young]

Wow! A post reply after five years. I’m glad the info was of some help. Ore, our the cat sends his best to Max

Chris

[Robert Daly]

Works in Sony Vegas Pro. Thanks for the tip. Saves me loads of time editing. I couldn’t find it in the Sony Help at all.

Bob (Otto Focus)

[Chris Young]

As far as I know this tip is undocumented in the help files. Stumbled across it some years back and still use quite often.

Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney