Easy slide-show setup?

Simmer wrote on 3/14/2005, 5:10 AM

Hi:

I need to create a slide-show. I need each slide to be 9 seconds with a fade-to-from-black transition of 2 seconds between each slide (1 second fade from black at the beginning of each slide and a 1 second fade to black at the end of each slide with each slide displaying at full intensity for 7 seconds).
I could do this manually but with nearly 100 slides this gets very tedious.
I can go to Options/Preferences/Editing and specify "New Still Image Length (seonds)" to 9. But is there a way to now specify the fade-to-from-black transition for each slide automatically?

I'd like to be able to set this up so that when I drag my selected images from the media pool onto the timeline, all slides and transitions are composed automatically as specified above.

Can this be done in Vegas 5 and if so how?

Thanks so for any help... :-)

-Mike

Comments

DaB wrote on 3/14/2005, 8:51 AM

Buy ultimate s. Nice software, for what you want to do. I prefer more artistic looks so it saves very little time.

dB

GaryKleiner wrote on 3/14/2005, 9:04 AM

WIth Excalibur you could use several of the tools for complete control of these parameters:

Duration Wizard to set the duration of each image.
Gap Wizard to set the relationship between images.
Fade WIzard to set fades in and out.

In your example, you would set the duration, butt the events together, set a one second fade in and out to each. If the track below is empty or contains a black (or any other color) generated media, you can easily get where you're going.

There's a free trial version at www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com.

Gary

Simmer wrote on 3/17/2005, 3:29 AM

Thanks for you replies...

Is there a way to do what I need done within Vegas 5 ?

Thanks

-Mike

Spot|DSE wrote on 3/17/2005, 6:19 AM

There isn't a way to do it with existing Vegas tools, but there is a free script on the VASST site. (actually a couple) that will manage this for you for free. Go to the VASST site, type "FADE" in the search box, you'll get a few scripts, look at scripts from Edward Troxel and from John Rofrano.