Yes, I am using the envelope. I did it globally through the preferences, but I'll go back and try to do it for a single track and see if that works.

I gave up and made a work-around by creating some media of the color I needed and used opacity to create teh fades. It works for what I needed but I'm now curious why I couldn't get the other to work.

Thanks, Rob.

Are you certain you're using a Fade to Colour Envelope?

try normal transition 1 right click the trans 2 click trans prop add fade through colour add your color clip on track 2 this way you can also add colour animates or a video clip or an animated colour gradient

farss -- Yes. I'm reasonable certain.

bstro -- Thanks. I didnt' know you could do it just for the track line. I found that one would work, but still can't get it to do it for the entire project.

what the -- haven't tried it yet, but will.

Thanks all.

still can't get it to do it for the entire project.

The colors are entirely on a per-track basis. When you insert a track, Vegas simply looks up what you have in Options > Preferences and assigns those colors to the new track. So, if you've already got tracks in your project and then you change the colors in Options > Preferences, it will only affect any tracks you add after that. The tracks you've already got will use the colors already assigned to them.

Depending on exactly what you're trying to do, you could get rid of all the individual track Fade to Color envelopes and add one to the master video bus track (View > Video Bus Track). That lets you control the fade colors for the final output of the entire project.

Rob