[Gilles Gagnon]

Hi Dimitri, thanks for responding.
This post is not moot as I worked around it.

The question, in simplified form was:
With the Glint effect assigned to a track effect, how can you automate turning the entire effect on or off on that track?

I wasn’t looking for multi-track solutions to the problem. I was perplexed as to why I couldn’t find a way to do this as I would say for the Black/White effect using Threshold.

I just revisited it and found a solution by adjusting the Streaks parameter from it’s current value (ON) to 0/zero (OFF)

I hope this helps others.
Cheers!

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Tyson, very clever approach. I’ll keep it in mind.

In my case, I really was looking for something simple… as I thought something simple would/should exist ☺
Like animating an on/off effect parameter. No dice though.

Thanks again for sharing it.
Cheers!
Gilles

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Hahaha! np at all Francois,
Maybe it’s something Vegas will add in the future.
or…
maybe a missing on/off parameter within the glint plugin was an oversight by de devs.

Cheers!

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks so much for your help Francois.
As you discovered ☺ there isn’t an on/off for this effect…. and in this case, I can’t use the split trick because the effect was a track effect not a clip effect.

I really thought there would be an easy way to control the effect at the track level.
Any other ideas? (other than duplicating the track)

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

No problems at all Shinra, it’s nice that you’re trying to help 🙂

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Hi Shinra,
Thanks for piping in.

Peeps did respond. We know it’s deprecated. It’s in the post’s title ☺

The issue is that depracated=”on its way out”… meaning many of us don’t want to rely on it for our projects because it will “soon” disappear and no longer be supported. Many believe it’s unwise to use deprecated features for new projects.

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Ole,
BINGO!
I much appreciate you suggesting this solution.
Cheers!
Gilles

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Steve,
Good to hear your vote of confidence. Perhaps it’s because I haven’t delved into those new features yet.
You’ve revived my interest 🙂

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

How sad, Steve.

I jumped from VP12 to VP17 and was shocked to witness this backward leap. The remaining “supported” Titler doesn’t seem to have evolved much. I could see deprecating one if the remaining Titler was more or less equivalent, but evidently it’s not.

Hmmm… makes me question the future of Vegas. I must say, for a 5 version jump I was stunned as to how little change there was. Leaves me very much questioning the growth/future and development of this product.

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks for your input Steve. You guys are really making me take a second look at it.
Good to see you’re also still here Steve ☺ … ahhhhh… so many Vegas veterans here ☺
Cheers!

Gilles