Adding a Transition to All Selected Events

InterceptPoint wrote on 8/26/2014, 10:56 AM

I've just upgraded from 9.0 to 13.0 and am trying to learn some new tricks.

Adding transitions to all clips at once is nice and works just fine. Select events to the end and then drop in a transition between any two clips and the transition is applied to all.

Splitting into A & B sub-tracks is also nice.

BUT ... The audio is not faded from one clip to the following one when you do this. That effect is the norm when adding in the transitions by dragging the clips but for some reason it doesn't happen when you mass produce the transitions.

If I can't solve this I guess I will just have to do it the old fashioned manual way - a clip at a time.

Am I missing something?
Is there a work-around?

IP

Comments

Gary James wrote on 8/26/2014, 11:10 AM

Are all your "Clips" (In Vegas the term is Events) overlapped before you apply the transition to the first selected Event?

InterceptPoint wrote on 8/26/2014, 11:23 AM

Are all your "Clips" (In Vegas the term is Events) overlapped before you apply the transition to the first selected Event?
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No they are not.

If that is the key then I would need to know if there is any way to "mass produce" all of the overlaps at a fixed length in some automated fashion.

e.g. Select events to the end and then push some magic button.

Is there a way to do that? What I'm trying to avoid is the manual overlap of all the events in the timeline.

altarvic wrote on 8/26/2014, 11:49 AM

You can easily do it with scripts.

InterceptPoint wrote on 8/26/2014, 12:05 PM

Actually I figured out how to do it without a script:

1. In Vegas 13 (and probably earlier versions) select Options-Preferences-Editing.
2. Check "Automatically overlap multiple selected media when added".
3. Set the "Cut-to-overlap conversion" to whatever you like.
4. Add the multiple clips
5. On the timeline right click and select events to end.
6. Choose your transition and drag it to the first transition.

You will get the same video transition between all clips and a standard audio fade for each as well.

NormanPCN wrote on 8/26/2014, 12:17 PM

I would need to know if there is any way to "mass produce" all of the overlaps at a fixed length in some automated fashion.

The only way in stock Vegas that I know of, is when dropping the media onto the timeline. Preferences can auto overlap the media.

Beyond that, bulk automation of many tasks is the bread and butter of tools like
Vegasaur, Timeline tools, Ultimate S and Excalibur. I have Vegasaur.

OldSmoke wrote on 8/26/2014, 3:20 PM

I know it works in multicam mode. I use it often because in multicam mode, I first make simple straight cuts and only later do I add transitions. I can simply select as many events as I want and just drop the transition between one event and all will have the same transitions. This should be made available for single track mode too but switchable as it is not always desirable.