Pinwheel wipe transition

[Mike Kujbida]

If you can show us an example of what a pinwheel transition looks like (youtube?), we might be able to show you how to “roll your own”.

[Charles Lawrence]

Thanks Mike for your response.

It took me a while to figure out how to upload to YouTube, never having done it before.

I have provided a 10 sec clip of two free ArtBeat clips with the subject pinwheel wipe transition. I used Adobe Premiere Elements 7 to do the video. Here is a link to the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCDoEVb5Lmw&layer_token=9ac1eef39c5d06be

Thank you for your interest. I’m hoping you can show me how to “roll my own” in Vegas Pro.

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[Mike Kujbida]

Charles, give me a day or so to work on it and I’m sure I can come up with something for you.

[Charles Lawrence]

Hello Mike,

Thanks for your efforts. I anxiously await your solution to this request.

Charles

[Theo Van laar]

You can just make a grayscale image with a gradient containing your pinwheel in a program like photoshop.

Then in Vegas add the gradient whipe transition. In the popup menu, you browse to your pinwheel gradient. Thats all.

Theo

[Mike Kujbida]

Charles, the effect is called a transitional wipe.
Below is a zip file of 31 PNG images that you can use to recreate this effect in Vegas.
Use the velocity envelope to reverse direction if desired.
You’ll need to follow these steps on the Digital Juice site to achieve the effect.

797_png.zip

[Charles Lawrence]

Thank you Mike for your response. I really appreciate you taking the time to help me with this. I am sorry to be so late in responding to your previous post, but I have been away for a few days.

I downloaded the collection of png files, and I looked at the steps on the Digital Juice site. Excuse my ignorance, being a relative newcomer to Vegas, but I don’t see how to utilize the png files to achieve the desired result. Would you mind elaborating just a little for us “newbies” on how to put it all together? Thanks in advance for your time.

It also seems that this procedure is just way too complicated to achieve the pinwheel transition, but I do want to understand it. After all, PRE7 has the transition built in with several options like number of vanes, border width/color, direction, etc. Its too bad Vegas doesn’t have something like it.

Theo van Laar also suggested using the “gradient wipe” within Vegas to achieve the desired effect. I just have to figure out how to create the grayscale image of the pinwheel using Photoshop, which I do have, but again, I am not an expert with Photoshop either.

[Charles Lawrence]

Thank you Theo for your suggestion. I’m sorry to be so late in responding to your post, but I have been away for a few days.

It looks like your technique will work, based on the way the other supplied “gradients” within Vegas work. Too bad there is no pinwheel.

Now I just have to figure out how to create the pinwheel gradient using Photoshop. If you could, can you provide a few instructions on how to do it in Photoshop? I would greatly appreciate it. I am a novice using Photoshop too, but I do want to learn how it is done for future projects.

Thanks

[Mike Kujbida]

Charles, the bottom line is that Vegas doesn’t have this specific transition so you have to learn to work around it.
The tutorial I linked to is pretty specific about the steps involved and I don’t see how I could explain it any better.
I had to go through it a few times before it sunk into my old brain so I suggest that you persevere with it 🙂
If you have a question about a specific step, please let me know and I’ll see if I can help to explain it any better than they did.

[Charles Lawrence]

Again, thanks Mike for your help.

The step I don’t quite understand in the Digital Juice tutorial is the first one. They say put your “overlay matte” on the first track. What is an overlay matte? Not having the Editor’s Toolkit from Digital Juice to work with, I assume that this overlay matte is created from the collection of png’s you provided. Do I understand that correct. If so, how do I do it? I can’t help but think that since you provided 31 images, that each one should represent one frame of a 1 second clip, to produce a one second transition.

Having an overlay matte on track 1, I think I can follow the other steps in the tutorial.

Also, just how did you create the 31 images? There may be others shapes that I might want to use in the future.

Thanks