Grazie: that star is a sneak preview of transitions pack 02, which hopefully will be released this weekend ;)

Kells: 2 BIG STARS for Chienworks - YEAH . . * *

Grazie

If your files are overlapped on the track you won't get the opacity tool in the top corner. Also, If you set the opacity curve and then overlap the event with another, the overlap will override that opacity setting. The opacity setting comes back if you move theclip out again and stop overlapping them.

Maybe you have the program set to automatically overlap events when you drag a bunch to the timeline. That will essentially disable the opacity tool at the edges of the event.

Rob Mack

Rob Mack knows what I'm talking about. It was because the clips were overlapped, not because of anything else. I know I didn't know that, but why didn't any of you (other than Rob Mack) know it either?

Why did no one know what you now know you didn't know????

Well, you see, we could not see what you see, you see. Give more info to me, ZG
and easier it will be to see what you see, you see.


now off to read "Green Eggs and Ham"

" ... but why didn't any of you (other than Rob Mack) know it either?"

Cut it out Zippy - if you'd have clearly described your situation in your first post you would be much more likely to get an answer earlier.

And, critisisng the community in general instead of simply thanking your benefactor is bad etiquette, as is using capitals for Subject.

Zip,

It's just because I'm not worn out yet. Occasionally people (and not just you) get a bit confrontational here and wear each other out.

Ursula K Leguin wrote a great short story called "Vaster than Empires and More Slow" (it's in The Wind's Twelve Quarters). A great parable on antagonism. The main point was that when you give it people always give it back in spades. It always gets worse unless someone finally just accepts it.

In other words, you catch more flies with honey.

Rob

Hah!

Rob

I'm no longer a newbie! yeah! woohoo! Labatt have granted me oldbie status! Do a little dance... make a little love.. get down tonight... get down tonight... No longer will I be plagued with asking stupid vegas questions! I've been promoted to (drumrole here) posting even more stupid quesions! :)

So... How come on Vegas when I set my temp folder to A:\ it has a fit?
:)

It was because the clips were overlapped, not because of anything else.

If the clips are overlapped, and you touch ANYWHERE on the right side of the overlap (i.e. the END of the clip you are talking about), then it turns into a quarter moon icon. All that was said before still applies. You have to be on the END of the clip (while you were, apparently, looking at the BEGINNING of the next clip instead)

Since overlapping automatically dissolves, and you said you wanted a fade to black, we were assuming there WAS no overlap. Now, if you want them to fade down to black and then back up on the next clip, simply don't overlap them!

Okay jet, I was ignoring that. Yep, when you go to the right edge of the transition you get a quarter moon labeled "Fade offset" When you drag it you move the edge of the transition. It's different from the opacity ramp you'd get when the events don't overlap.

If you "expand track layers" you get this icon on either the A or B track but it seems that with the track collapsed you get just the trailing edge of the transition.

I'm not sure what the icon is meant to mean in this case. It's good to be aware of it but it didn't really seem to bear on zip's question. The truth is that if you drag the opacity ramp icon in this case you are just dragging out the edge of the event. Vegas behaves as if you were dragging the edge of an opacity ramp regardless of the transition you're using.

I think it's an oversight.

Looking back at Zip's initial post I'm not too sure where his problem started but it seems that it lay in the difference in behavior between overlapped events and isolated events. I think if he'd been paying less attention he would have found the process pretty easy and intuitive

Rob Mack

Judging from Grazie's 2nd post above, it looks like Zippy is well on the way to winning the ""Ignore this user" award for September 2003.