Crossfade or Transition Events

jeo wrote on 1/26/2008, 3:21 PM

VERY new to Vegas Movie Studio. I am creating slideshow with music, and I want the slides to transition - just fade - from one to the next. I originally tried inserting a dissolve between all slides, but could not manage to slow down the transition enough (I want about 1 sec). Now I am inserting crossfades, but this is horrid! I have 215 slides. There has Got to be a better way. Any suggestions?? Please??
J.

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Chienworks wrote on 1/26/2008, 4:01 PM

The length of the crossfade/transition is determined by how far the slides overlap on the timeline. The longer the overlap, the slower the transition.

Check under Options / Preferences / Editing. You can specify a default length for the slides there as well as the overlap amount. This won't affect slides already on the timeline, but it will affect anything new you add to the project. That's probably ok in this case because i have a feeling you haven't gotten very far along yet.

jeo wrote on 1/26/2008, 4:31 PM

Thanks! I'll give that a try.
I did go through and edit each of 215 by hand! Ugh! but I knew there would be a better way, and I can keep that in my notes for next time.
Appreciate the help!
J.

ekez wrote on 2/5/2008, 3:31 PM

Kelly,
As I understand it .... Options / Preferences should be mulipulated before any project media is introduced to the timeline in order to control the transistions overlaps, thanks to your reply.
Any way to select or window a collection of transitions already on the timeline and expand them?

Chienworks wrote on 2/5/2008, 6:22 PM

There are lots of scripts that can handle this. Unfortunately scripts only work in Vegas full/Pro.

gpsmikey wrote on 2/6/2008, 5:36 PM

Actually, what I have found works best for me is I also have Photodex
Proshow Producer - specifically for slide shows. Nice features, does everything you want with captions etc in general. Then, I export
the slideshow (only the full Producer will do this) as an
uncompressed AVI (talk about a disk hog) and use Vegas to put the
big chunks together, add various video transitions etc. Then use
DVDA to build the DVD and menu. Sort of the best of both worlds
(I also do the reverse - edit video and do things to it before importing
into Proshow Producer). Gives a pretty good result and makes life
much simpler for things like slideshows.

mikey

Chienworks wrote on 2/6/2008, 6:55 PM

Yep, that's a good plan. There are lots of things that Vegas is wonderful at. Slideshows isn't one of them. Yes, you can accomplish anything you can imagine for a slideshow in Vegas ... somehow. But it's a whole lot easier to use a program intended for slideshows.

There's certainly nothing wrong with using multiple pieces of software. For a typical video project i might pull together pieces from Sound Forge, ACID, a photo editor, a drawing/sketching program, a 3D animator, a title generator, my own software, maybe even a word processor, and toss them all into Vegas to assemble the project. Why use all those programs? Because Vegas edits video and mixes audio very very well. The other programs don't, but they do what they are made for very well too, much better, faster, and easier than Vegas would.