effect in vegas 7

auggybendoggy wrote on 8/11/2007, 7:53 AM
Hi all,
I placed a text media clip on my track and added 2 effects
radial blur and light rays

the curve on the keyframes does not seem to be correct.
lets say the clip is 10 secs long
keyframe 1: set to 0 sec
fekframe 2: set to 10 sec

at 0 the radial blur has a strength of 100
at 10 the raidial blur has a strength of 0

when rendered back it looks fine until about 9 sec there is a SUDDEN drop off. It looks un-natural

the only current fix I know is to make keyframe 2 set at .05 instead of .000

Perhaps it's small things like this that make vegas not acceptable by pros?

if I was doing professional work I would dump it fast if it does not work well.

This is similar to the problem of the pan/crop keyfram problem that has steps in it. Rather than smooth keyframes (I'd say 2 out of 10) would have a jerky stepping motion rather than a smooth.

I would think Sony knows about this as many users do and would work hard on fixing such issues.

Perhaps I'm off my rocker and I'm being just too picky.

Any thoughts anyone?

Aug

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 8/11/2007, 8:17 AM
if you used a speed up/slow down that it could be curve is speeding up as it nears the end. i don't have issues with pan/crop & fx jumping around. try it on a new event just to make sure.

I just took a checker board generated media & applied radial + lightrays to it, @ 0 set radial to 1 (goes between 0-1) & at 10 set it to 0. Besides a cool looking 3d effect I didn't notice anything weird.
Tim L wrote on 8/11/2007, 8:46 AM
Right-click on each keyframe, and you can select how the effect changes from one keyframe to the next.

Linear = straight line from one keyframe value to the next.
Smooth = gradual acceleration to a straight line then gradual deceleration to final value as you near the second keyframe
Hold = keeps keyframe i's value until you hit keyframe i+1, etc.
etc.

The options are similar to the fade curves you can select on audio or video fades.

Tim L