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I need a quicker way to do something that should be simple, this will take days.
I need a quicker way to do something, this will take days.
I am using Sony Vegas for create a music video and in my video I am using the glow effect to make stars in my video flash on every beat in the song. TI have used the split tool to cut a line right before every beat in the video, which already took hours and now I want to apply the same glow effect and key frame setup to all of these segments, I don’t know how to do this or if it is even possible. I found that I can apply the same effect to all clips easily enough but the all end up with only the one key frame, I then need to manually put the second key frame into each individual segment and since there are about 600+ of these segments, it’s at this rate going to take days to finish.
If I could just automatically apply the same identical effect and key frame setup to all 600+ segments at once it will turn a several day job into a few seconds. I hope I have explained this well enough as I don’t know if I have used the right terminology, segment, clip, split. I’m not sure what to call them. Please post if you can help or if you need me to explain it better. Thanks.
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I have in the past created an event that had a pulsing glow on a text item. I made the length of the clip the time between two beats. I then just grabbed the end of the event and dragged it out for however long I needed. Now I was eyeballing the waveform for an approximate time, but only had to make a few adjustments to fix any timing issues. (i.e. split and trim a frame or two)
John Gordon
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Thanks, but I don’t think this will work. Because you just did that will a still text clip, i’m trying to do this with moving video that looks different in each clip, so if I were to stretch it out it would either make the clip move at the incorrect speed or have the clip repeat itself over and over instead of resuming to the next clip.
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Jamie, what should work is to copy event #1, click event #2 to select it, right-click and choose Paste Event Attributes.
If this is successful, click event #3, go to the end of the timeline and shift+click the last one (to select all of them), right-click and choose Paste Event Attributes to apply to all events. -
‘I made the length of the clip the time between two beats. I then just grabbed the end of the event and dragged it out for however long I needed’
Both VASST and JetDV have scripts that could have done this job in seconds….
Theo
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That did it, thank you so much. You’ve saved me dozen of hours of time, now I can spend that time making the video more awesome.
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Always glad to help out 🙂
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it’s time to pay more attention to these tools 😉
Also take a look to https://vegasaur.com, the new powerful extension for Vegas. -
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