ATT: jetdv

jkb242 wrote on 8/19/2004, 7:22 PM
jetdv,

Someone posted a comment to me that this was caused by the edit on the original file. Somehow Vegas knows that the first piece of the original file which was edited to take out some trash and the second piece are one in the same. When I then tried to rejoin the two pieces with a transition between the two pieces, the transition did not work because the two pieces are not separate scenes or media files. That is quite interesting. What I did to experiment with this was to insert a new clip or separate scene which was not part of the original scene and the transistions then worked normally. So, what I need to know now is how do I separate the edits as I go along from the original media so that I can make the scene changing happen smoothly with transitions? There has to be a way to do this. The same user who pointed this out to me stated that separating the two edits could be done by setting the cursor at the end of the clip and tping an S. This did not work or I did not understand him. So maybe there is a way to do this.

I began the project with raw Hi 8 analog video then used a Dazzle model 150 to make the AVI file into a MPEG 2 to reduce rendering time to speed up the process. This is the first time I have attempted this and it seems to work fine except for this particular nasty glitch. There simply must be a way to make the edits and splice the MPGE 2 back with transitions. I am really stumped at this point so any assistance you can offer is greatly appreciated.

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jetdv wrote on 8/19/2004, 8:22 PM
Let me see if I understand what you are doing:

You have ONE clip that has MULTIPLE scenes
You are splitting at those scenes
You then want to dissolve between those scenes

Is this correct?

If yes, it sounds like you may be resizing the clips to create the overlaps instead of MOVING the clips to create the overlaps. If you resize the clip, the original footage (i.e. the previous or next segment) will return making it dissolve into itself. Try moving the clip to create the overlap.