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CDM wrote on 11/27/2001, 10:22 AM
If what you're asking is whether Spice Filters work with Vegas 3, the answer is yes. I'm using them now.
Cheesehole wrote on 11/27/2001, 11:48 PM
Spice Filters are Video Effects (right click on a clip and choose video event fX, then choose a Pixelan FX filter), not transitions.

Spice Master is for transitions.

- ben (cheesehole)
HPV wrote on 11/29/2001, 8:26 PM
CAN SpiceFilters PLUG IN for VV3`S VIDEO TRANSITIONS ??
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They aren't going to be automatic transitions, but you can sure use them with keyframes as a transition from one clip to another. This is really the sweet spot of using any NLE, but it takes a bit more work. Vegas has to be the easiest of any NLE to use filters as transitions. The key is to use the split clip feature so you're not rendering the whole clip.

Craig H.
Cheesehole wrote on 12/2/2001, 11:26 PM
can you point me in the right direction for learning how to use the filters as transitions? thanks...

- ben (cheesehole)
FadeToBlack wrote on 12/2/2001, 11:47 PM
HPV wrote on 12/3/2001, 12:24 AM
I would take two events and overlap with auto dissolve for maybe a 30 frame dissolve. Then apply the spice filter to both events. Animate the ketframes from no effect to full and match the keyframes in event B from full to eventually none. Now it appears as a ripple transition from event A to B with a dissoleve in the middle. The trick is to match the filter keyframes in the middle over the dissolve.
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I'll add that the use of copy and paste of keyframes between clip fx windows makes it much faster. Also, if you split the clips right before and after the filter transition area, you won't be rendering the parts of the clip that don't need to be. Big time saver there if the clips are long.
You can also use filters for transtitions at the track level with track fx. Less work to set up, but it will force a render to the full length of the track, even where the filter is set to none (ugh). Same for video output fx in the preview window. Yep, three ways to add filters in Vegas.
Man, this is a deep program. Here's to helping everyone swim.

Craig (Fins on) H.