[Ernest Rosado]

Thanks Dave, this works fine on a mask, but not on the path of a shape layer.

[Ernest Rosado]

Thanks, I was able to fix this using the method you described. But I don’t understand why it’s not seen as pure white.

If I load the matte clip into After Effects and hover over the white area, you can see it’s R: 32768, G: 32768, B: 32768, which is pure white as far as I know. What gives?

[Ernest Rosado]

Sure – The lower third itself is at 11908_lower3rd1.mp4.zip
The matte file is at 11907_lower3rdalpha1.mp4.zip

Let me know if you need it on a different host.

Thanks for your help!

[Ernest Rosado]

It’s tough to see the transparency problem in that jpg. The image compression creativecow put on the image hides it.

Here’s a link to the PNG: https://images2.imgbox.com/d8/5f/a2tVY1YY_o.png

[Ernest Rosado]

The alpha is a matte in a different file. Here’s a screenshot. You can see how the alpha for the lower-third is in a separate movie, allowing it to animate in over the clip. But you can also see in the preview that the lower-third is semitransparent for some reason.

Any ideas?

[Ernest Rosado]

Would love to, alas the place that I’m working on this project only has v8. I’ve used subsequent versions at home and in other workplaces. But my projects will be edited by other editors here after I leave so I need to stick with what they’ve got. I appreciate your help though, thanks!

[Ernest Rosado]

Thanks for that answer. However the artifacts that are created by quickfades are FAR more intrusive than what I find here. What’s weird is I don’t have this issue on other versions of Vegas. Is this something unique to v8?

Thanks

[Ernest Rosado]

Hi Aleksey,

The problem is that the other team of 10+ editors see the .sfk on the drive and have complained that it clutters the folder. As I am using Vegas all day, deleting them at the end of the day doesn’t solve the problem. They shouldn’t be created on the media drive to begin with, and I wish Sony would give us that option as it’s not necessary for them to be alongside the media file for any technical reason whatsoever.

Thanks to everyone for your responses.

[Ernest Rosado]

The solution I’ve found is to have them take away my write permissions from the media folders. Seems to work fine.

[Ernest Rosado]

I’ve discovered that if I have write permissions removed from the folder that contains the media then SFK files are not created there and Vegas still operates normally, it just has to rebuild visualizations every time you load a project.

This proves that Vegas CAN operate without SFK files, Sony just doesn’t give you the option. Booooo. 🙁