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Excalibur 4.5 Question
Boy, I don’t know what’s going on here, but I need help before I lose it completely if I haven’t already.
I have 86 photos on the timeline. I’ve selected photos 3-84 to cut 1 second off the duration of each of these selected photos. From 7 seconds to 6 seconds. I have automatic crossfade set to all photos, with a 1.5 second dissolve.
Using Excalibur 4.5 in Vegas 6.0b on the “Velocity/Duration” tab, I “Set Duration” for 00:00:06:00. Then I click “Set Duration”. The only thing that happens is it cuts 1 second off my 1.5 second crossfade dissolves all the way through the timeline.
Anyway, I’ve tried to describe the problem as well as I can. I hope this makes some sense. Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Mike Sullivan -
3 Replies
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That would be correct. The duration tool simply shortens the events. You then need to run the Gap/Overlap tool to adjust the fade lengths. NOTE: you may need to GAP (i.e. to a cut) before you OVERLAP. However, that should fix you up.
Edward Troxel
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Edward,
I don’t want to shorten the duration of my overlaps, I want to shorten the duration of each picture, but keep the 1.5 second overlap. Can you tell me how to do this using Excalibur?
Thanks,
Mike -
I did. You do it in TWO steps.
Step 1: Shorten the events to the desired length.
Step 2: Adjust the overlaps to the desired length.Because of something I have just discovered, you may actually need to use three steps
Step 2: Change the remaining overlaps to cuts
Step 3: Adjust the overlaps to the desired lengthEdward Troxel
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