ALL or Multiple crossfades

Scot-Clayton wrote on 2/17/2019, 7:08 PM

I've been using Vegas Video for years, and just upgraded to Movie Studio Platinum 16, and one thing I've NEVER been able to do in any of the versions.....I'm editing in MultiCam mode, sometimes, 4 to 6 or so cameras. I find myself having to manually click on EACH edit, and select crossfade! Select Events to end, or any other like option does NOT work, and can't imagine after ALL these years of development, that there is NOT a way to select ALL or some of the cuts, and do a crossfade!? Any ideas?

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OldSmoke wrote on 2/17/2019, 9:17 PM

It does work fine in Vegas Pro.

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Musicvid wrote on 2/17/2019, 10:17 PM

Can you simply grab (not stretch) and drag the whole event left to overlap the previous one by x seconds?

Does that create an automatic crossfade for you?

If that doesn't work there is a setting any of us can help you find.

Scot-Clayton wrote on 2/18/2019, 3:01 AM

Apparently I'm not explaining myself well enough......I edit alot of LIVE Music Shows, from 30 mins to an hour or more in length, with 4-8 cameras (MultiCam Modes). Apparently when I finish editing, as in picking the cameras, and creating the MultiCam Track, no matter what settings I use, or trying to use the 'select events to end, or all events, etc. all the camera transitions are simple cuts, and I have to manually click on each and EVER single one to tell it to crossfade (or whatever I want) . There is NO way, I can find, (and I've used Vegas for years) (currently using version 16) to select them ALL, or even MORE than one! It's VERY hard for me to believe after all these years, that function wasn't added!?

Marco. wrote on 2/18/2019, 3:06 AM

Selecting isn't the problem, is it (Strg+A to select all Events)? Crossfades are. And I doubt there is a way to do in Movie Studio. In Vegas Pro this is possible via scripting.

Scot-Clayton wrote on 2/18/2019, 3:16 AM

Yeah...just hard to believe a simple thing like that isn't, and hasn't ever been available. I can, of course, do it EACH time I select the Camera, when I'm in MultiCam Edit Mode, by using ALT and the Number of CAM, I believe, but guess I'll just have to do it the 'manual' way...TNX, anyway...

Former user wrote on 2/18/2019, 6:51 AM

The Vegasaur, Excalibur and Vasst Ultimate S Pro scripts do this easily in Vegas Pro. If you are interested download a trial copy and run the tests.

https://vegasaur.com/Vegasaur

http://vasstsoftware.com/product/ultimate-s-pro/

http://www.jetdv.com/excalibur/home.php

Marco. wrote on 2/18/2019, 2:15 PM

There are even some free scripts which does this, but all of these solutions are for Vegas Pro only, not for Movie Studio.

Marco. wrote on 2/18/2019, 2:22 PM

@Scot-Clayton

Don't know if this helps for a future workflow:
While you are in the multicam editing mode, if you keep "Ctrl" pressed while cutting into a certain take, each time you do this there will be a dissolve instead of a cut.
So say you have 4 cameras and you cut between them by pressing Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3, Ctrl+4 all your edits will be dissolves. But you need to use this while editing, not after.