How to change default transition back to crossfade

PeterWright wrote on 12/6/2014, 3:40 AM

I've wasted more than half an hour searching Help for this - I changed one transition to a spiral or something similar, and now, without me asking for it, Vegas is using this same transition every time I overlap two events.

Where do I change it back please?

Thanks for any help.

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Grazie wrote on 12/6/2014, 3:49 AM

If the trannie came from the Event you are Splitting then yes, you'd always get that happenning. Is that the case? Are you Splitting the same Event?

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Grazie wrote on 12/6/2014, 3:50 AM

If you are getting this with 2 NEW Events?

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PeterWright wrote on 12/6/2014, 4:00 AM

Good question Grazie - it's a 6 cam multicam job so the same event(s) will go on for a while ....

Is thewre no way to stop this?

(Sorry - got to go out - friends knocking on door!)

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Dexcon wrote on 12/6/2014, 4:05 AM

Check out pages 136 and 137 of the Vegas Pro manual which carry details about turning on or off automatic crossfades and, probably more specific to your situation, page 137 which covers 'Converting a cross fade to a transition'. Though I must stress that I've never used this procedure, you might be able to use this same process to revert to a default crossfade if this process was inadvertently initiated to create the problem.

Hope it works for you.

Edit: I've played around with the above and it doesn't after all change the default from a crossfade to a transition as far as I can see. Sorry.

Arthur.S wrote on 12/7/2014, 12:14 PM

Right click on the trans, then select to change it to a crossfade? Vegas should stick to that afterwards.

PeterWright wrote on 12/7/2014, 6:46 PM

Thanks Arthur - that's what I thought should happen, but it doesn't - I have to manually change each new overlap back to crossfade!

(by the way this is V13Pro Build 428)

Arthur.S wrote on 12/8/2014, 3:22 PM

I'm still on 12 Peter - surprised that's changed in 13!

OldSmoke wrote on 12/8/2014, 3:48 PM

Peter, have you tried selecting the events with the transitions and then drop the crossfade onto one event? This should change the transitions for all selected events.

PeterWright wrote on 12/8/2014, 6:08 PM

Thanks for the suggestions. Yesterday, after 24 hours of every overlap (in this particular project) becoming a "Spiral", it spontaneously reverted to being a crossfade. I checked the events either side of the overlap, and they were the same as the previous auto-spiral, so I don't know why, but I'm relieved I don't have to manually change every transition.

This project is a multicam, so each event is in fact a "pile" of 6 Takes - don't know if that makes a difference, but thankyou Vegas for behaving well again!