[Valerie Lane]

Hi,

thanks, that makes sense. On the Track 1 Bezier mask, though…
When I tried to move the actual mask from left to right, it won’t move (I’m new to vegas). Do I need to make individual keyframes across to do that? And even when I do, it won’t be a smooth sweep, then. It’ll just be a mask here, then it’ll pop up in another area, and so on, across the timeline of the clip.

I tried to use other methods, like with a LINEAR wipe, and then put that resulting video onto this project. It’s decent, but NOT AT ALL how the video shows a larger desaturated/blue video sweeping across. Just wondered if there were some trick to getting that overall appearance/effect.

I also want to get a transition border like the one on the video link using Vegas (if that effect’s unique to another like Adobe, then nevermind).

Thanks so much for the help you’ve already given!

[Valerie Lane]

Thanks for that, but I’ve already tried the Bezier (iunless there’s a trick I don’t know)…I have more specific questions. The scene I refer to is midway in the video when the song lyrics is “I must be dreaming…” and the color transition occurs.

I want to know specifically how that video did the following:
1) transitioned from the entire video in black and white and had a “sweeping” transition that had the effect of putting in color into the screen from left hand side to the entire screen. If you notice, it’s NOT a simple effect of changing the entire video to B&W or sepia.
(I’ve figured out that there needs to be 2 identical videos, one pure black, one pure color, on separate tracks that have a lag in time so that you see the sweep).

2) In the “sweeping” transition, it is just a SLIVER/small PIECE of video, and that part is desaturated and colored. But the rest of the color that it sweeps in is normal color (not desat). How do I use that SLIVER of video? Like, if I use a video, how do I time it so that it exactly matches the smaller scene that’s occupying the entire screen? How do I make the sweep go faster/slower? I don’t want to use just some random scene as that SLIVER of transition.

Thanks!