Can anyone suggest a way to accomplish the effect in this video?

Gid wrote on 6/27/2025, 10:01 PM

@Len Kaufman Vegas has Venetian blinds & Barn door in the Transition options.

You could use Pan/Crop, turn Lock aspect off & Stretch to fill frame off, keyframe this

or it could be done with a mask, bezier or Pan/Crop mask.

Or use the Crop fx

There's prob more options...

3POINT wrote on 6/27/2025, 10:25 PM

@Len Kaufman Vegas has Venetian blinds & Barn door in the Transition options.

You could use Pan/Crop, turn Lock aspect off & Stretch to fill frame off, keyframe this

or it could be done with a mask, bezier or Pan/Crop mask.

Or use the Crop fx

There's prob more options...

Two more options I know: Cookie Cutter FX and Vignette in Soft Contrast FX:

and

Len Kaufman wrote on 6/27/2025, 11:18 PM

@3POINT , @Gid, Thank you. Will try those options tomorrow.

3POINT wrote on 6/28/2025, 1:05 AM

@Len Kaufman the easiest and quickest way is to use Barn Door transition, as shown by @Gid.

Mindmatter wrote on 6/28/2025, 5:03 AM

I'd simply keyframe a black positive rectangular mask opening fom zero in the middle to how much of the black bars you want.

Betovalle wrote on 6/28/2025, 10:18 AM

Hi,

For the specific video, separate the most important intervals and also in the transitions study and apply slow motion because that is where you will draw attention to the beauty of the nature involved!

Also, for the Vegas Pro developers, here is a suggestion: add "natively" to interpolations the functionality that involves "full frame" which would be beneficial in the sense of eliminating blurs when filling the frames and mainly because it handles smoothing very well, so that for example slow motion can be used in the transitions or in specific intervals!

Len Kaufman wrote on 6/28/2025, 10:45 AM

@Betovalle Thank you. I only plan to use it in the opening. That's why I hadn't thought to look in transitions.

vegas-edit-user wrote on 6/28/2025, 11:48 AM

Another possibility could be the "aspect ratio" effect from the NewBlueFX Essentials.

set wrote on 6/29/2025, 8:05 PM

Coming late,

Gradient Wipe > Vertical Open can do it too

john_dennis wrote on 6/29/2025, 8:49 PM

@Len Kaufman Coming later...

Or you could just drop this VEG project...

Intro Project and Asset Files

... on to a track above your video and add the included mask to the rest of the video if you like.

This project will be completely judder-free in a 29.97p project.

Len Kaufman wrote on 6/29/2025, 9:20 PM

@john_dennis Thank you, John. I'll try it, though I shot this is 23.976. And I need to slow it down, to make it more dramatic.

Len Kaufman wrote on 6/29/2025, 9:23 PM

Coming late,

Gradient Wipe > Vertical Open can do it too

@set Thank you, Set. I'll try this one too. So many options!

Len Kaufman wrote on 6/29/2025, 9:25 PM

Another possibility could be the "aspect ratio" effect from the NewBlueFX Essentials.

@vegas-edit-user Thank you. I have a lot of the NBFX Essentials. I'll check to see if I have that one.

Len Kaufman wrote on 6/29/2025, 9:26 PM

Coming late,

Gradient Wipe > Vertical Open can do it too

Thank you, @set.

john_dennis wrote on 6/30/2025, 4:57 PM

@Len Kaufman said: "I shot this is 23.976. And I need to slow it down, to make it more dramatic."

I redid the project in Vegas 13 to be more inclusive for those who are curious. There is an ~8.3 second version for 23.976 fps and a ~6.6 second version for 29.97 fps.

New Project Done in Vegas Pro 13

Hint

As each frame advances, the Y position in Track Motion moves to a whole integer position on the screen.

Such precision in video these days rises to the level of a FFIAWT.