Out of Sync flags when adding transition

[Nigel O’neill]

You can do as Steve suggested, and the transition will take on the duration of the overlap. If you simply butt two events up against each other, the default transition length set in preferences will apply.

In either case, you should not lose sync. I think Dale needs to explain his workflow.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Dale Mcclelland]

Nigel, I appreciate you sticking with this. A solution would be appreciated by me, and I am sure, by the OP, Richard Strom.

To illustrate this, I started a new project to do a simple test. These are the steps I took:

1. New project

2. Added 2 clips to the timeline (1920x1080i AVCHD) by selecting them in the Explorer then dragging them both to the time line. I dragged them so they butted up against each other (the blue snap line appeared).

3. From the Transitions tab, I selected “Dissolve” and dragged the large “Fade to Black” icon to the time line to the point where the two events touched.

Following is a screen shot taken after step 2 (just before adding the transition), followed by a screen shot taken after step 3 (after adding the transition). In the second screen shot, note that the out of sync amount that Vegas is showing in the red box is the length of the 2nd event. Despite the warning from Vegas, when I play the timeline, the lip sync is perfect. This is the same thing reported by Richard in the original post of this thread.

(Sorry, I should have taken the screen shots so they both showed exactly the same area of timeline. The two shots look like they don’t line up, but that is just because of my screenshot technique. The time line cursor didn’t move.)

Before adding transition:

After adding transition:

I have tried this with various options toggled on/off that I thought might have an impact. This includes “Ignore Event Grouping” and “Auto Ripple”. The out of sync warning occurs regardless of whether these are selected or not. Also it may be relevant to know that I keep Automatic Crossfades turned off. I rarely want an event cross-fading to the next. I prefer fading to black, like you get when you draw a fade with the mouse.

Hopefully someone will spot a flaw in my workflow that explains this false out of sync warning. Richard hasn’t responded to Steve’s question yet about how he added the transition, but I suspect his workflow is similar to mine.

Thanks again.

Dale