[Fien Leysen]

I know you weren’t expecting this (I certainly wasn’t), and by now you might no longer be interested, but I finally figured it out!!
It was way simpler than I ever imagined and it probably comes close to several suggestions you made.

Apparently, I did the first project without overlaying solids.
All I had to do was resize each clip using the event pan/crop button (not the resize option for the entire track). Then add an effect to the entire track; brightness/contrast and guassian/blur. This ensures that the blurring takes place outside of the frame. Make both effects happen over the course of only 3 or 4 keyframes, after which the image disappears.

Yes. It was that simple. No feathering, no solids, no nothing complex. I can’t believe it. Hours, days, and months of work and crashing projects. Quite educational. I’m sorry for dragging you along 🙂 Thanks for all your help!

https://reels.creativecow.net/film/final-intro

[Fien Leysen]

It’s been ages (some family stuff and starting a theater course). And yes, the frustration of not figuring it out :). But I’m trying to get back into it. Thanks for all your help already! Would completely understand if you’re over it by now, but I’ll be posting the veg file and trying to figure it out, once more 🙂

I don’t see any gaps on the timeline… And I’m wondering how I would have done the flashes on a separate track overlay. A solid white of the same size perhaps, feathered and low opacity to increased opacity along with an increasing brightness curve? I’ll be tinkering with it some more. I’ll keep you posted!

(Vegas Pro 12.0)

6650_framesintronewb.veg.zip

[Fien Leysen]

Haha, thanks for obsessing over it a little with me! I feel less silly, not being the only one who can’t figure it out.
Made something similar, which seems to be working out okay:

Similar Intro

I left the middle blank to maybe add the effect of having each new video pop in, while the old ones pop out.

I made an extra one with all PIPS, but of course, something went wrong. For some reason, Vegas has added these little underlying flashes of other PIPS or even the entire “all-PIPs” video. Difficult to explain, so here’s the video:

Failed at Something

I’ve been racking my brain about this one now.. Before moving on to perfect the flashes. I’ve checked all the FXs, and the motion tracking for each video track, all seems to be in order. The strange thing about it is that when I mute a videotrack of one of the four middle PIPs, the problem is gone. Could this have anything to do with framerate settings? Or is it a possible glitch?

[Fien Leysen]

Yes!! I remember using solids… 🙂
Thanks so much!! It makes sense now.
Quite a tedious job indeed, as long as Vegas doesn’t crash, I should be able to pull it off.

I’m giving it a go, will let you know when it’s finished.
Looks like I’m getting a similar effect using a solid white on top of each PIP, adding a blurred border to the solid, and have it fade in, while the PIP fades out, as well as increase in size a tad.

Still confused as to how I did the blurred effect originally – the original clip seems to have some kind of shutter effect on each solid.. And the solid also looks more vignette shaped than rectangular.

I hope the effect is similar 🙂

Thanks for the help! I’ll remember to write things down from now on!
Making a template file is a really good idea!

[Fien Leysen]

Very frustrating that I can’t figure it out… I know I made this years ago, when I wasn’t that good at editing – so I must have used workarounds and strange solutions that somehow magically looked good… 🙂