Fancy Page Peel Transition

jandkw99 wrote on 9/16/2003, 8:08 AM

Hi everybody,

I was wondering if one of you bright lads might know of or have written a Vegas Transition that is similar to a page peel, but the page splits at the middle and the two halves peel outward. The effect is as if you run a knife across the center of the page ie. from left to right.

Thanks,

Jason

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Chienworks wrote on 9/16/2003, 10:23 AM

Jason, i got something sort of working by using two duplicate video tracks, adding the "upper left" peel to one, the "lower left" peel to the other, and then using a mask to have one track show on the upper half of the screen and the other track on the lower half.

It's probably easier to see than to describe:
http://www.vegasusers.com/testbench/veggies/chienworks-split-page-peel.veg

This is a Vegas 4.0d .veg file. You can save it to your hard drive and then open it in Vegas to see what i did.

Grazie wrote on 9/17/2003, 2:42 AM

Clever, clever Kelly! Well done . . .. This package DOES open up some amazing possibilities.

I'm not versed in Premmi or FCP. But is this sought of option available to those using those packages? - If not then V4 really is a very creative tool indeed.

Again, nice one Kelly! Apart from anything else you've shown me the way forward with using the Parent/Child thing in this context - very valuable indeed.

Grazie

haywire wrote on 9/17/2003, 7:40 AM

Sort of on the same topic, does anyone know if you can reverse the page peel/roll, in other words, the new rolls out over the old, as in rolling out another map/chart/blueprint over another?

haywire

Chienworks wrote on 9/17/2003, 9:04 AM

Well, this would be a little round-about, but you could render the sections of the clips that will be transitioned into new clips backwards by using a -100% velocity envelope, load these clips overlapped into a new timeline and apply the page peel transition, render the result to a new file, then bring this new file back into the original project and apply -100% velocity to it. That would do the job, but it's not something i'd want to go through too many times.

johnmeyer wrote on 9/17/2003, 3:47 PM

Chienworks (Kelly): Very instructive and useful response. Thanks!