fading tracks in unison

[Mike Kujbida]

View – Video Bus Track (Ctrl+Shift+B is the shortcut).
This adds a “master” video track at the very bottom of your timeline which affects everything above it.
On this new track, right-click and choose “Insert – Fade to Color”.
Add two points at the desired location and drag the second one to the bottom.

[Gilles Gagnon]

Mike to the rescue!

Thanks a lot! I had read about this once or seen a demo but could not remember where/how.

A BIG THANKS!

Gilles

[Mike Kujbida]

You’re welcome Gilles.
I’m always glad to help, especially a fellow Canuck 🙂

[Graham Bernard]

Master track will give Fade to Colour. But in these circumstances I’d employ a Nest into another instance of Vegas.

Grazie

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks for the idea Graham. Makes sense.

In this case though, I really fading the entire project (all tracks) so Mike’s solution is the simplest/fastest/easiest.

I thought there would be a way to “link” tracks together and adjust this though… a bit like parenting tracks and using track motion to affect them all. Doesn’t look like it.

Gilles

[Graham Bernard]

Yup! I’m all for simplicity.

Grazie

[James Houghtaling]

I’m lazy and just add a black media generated event to the top track and fade it in. Done.

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My Hardware:
Core i7 2.67GHz; Nvidia GTX580, 12 gig RAM.

My Software:
Vegas Pro V11 with Boris Continuum Complete 7, VASST Ultimate S; Bluff Titler; AE5; PhotoPaint and other stuff.

[Graham Bernard]

WOW! So obvious. I’ve never heard of that one. Brilliant solution. I just hope I remember it.

Grazie

[Gilles Gagnon]

James,

I echo Graham’s comment 🙂

Thanks for poiting out the obvious. I like it.

Gilles

[James Houghtaling]

You’re most welcome, having figured out Vegas through a solo school of hard knocks my workflow tends to be simplistic. Though through forums and mostly watching tutorials I’m finding much easier ways of doing things all the time. But I still use the black generated media fade out all the time. You can also add transitions to the front end of it like iris, etc.

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My Hardware:
Core i7 2.67GHz; Nvidia GTX580, 12 gig RAM.

My Software:
Vegas Pro V11 with Boris Continuum Complete 7, VASST Ultimate S; Bluff Titler; AE5; PhotoPaint and other stuff.