How to glue events together in vegas video?

radiohead wrote on 12/12/2001, 12:26 AM

I've sequenced a many number of event clips in my timeline and I want to do global effects across the whole movie. How do I avoid having to apply effects to each and every event and instead be able to glue together as one event and apply the effect once? Unfortunately, grouping events together retains each individual clip status.. and while that might be useful in some cases, in my particular case it isn't. I guess rendering the video as one (resampling) would be an option, but wouldn't that be rather time-consuming? Or even degrade quality?

Other than that, I'm very pleased with what Video Vegas 3 offers over Premiere 6. Keep up the good work, guys.

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Cheesehole wrote on 12/12/2001, 3:32 AM

you can add a track level effect. click the 'Track FX' plugin button on the track header to left of mute.

just put isolate the clips you want on their own track and add the track level effect.

or to add an effect to the whole movie, use 'video output FX'. (plug in button at top of preview monitor window)

- ben (cheesehole)

dsanders wrote on 12/12/2001, 8:17 AM

Sonic shows you how to do this in one of their tutorals. I can't remember if its in the one that came with VV2 or if it was in the advanced one. As cheesehole said, you can add an FX to an event, to an entire track, or the the entire output.

radiohead wrote on 12/12/2001, 9:13 AM

Thanks for your replies. I am well aware, however, of the track fx and video output fx. But I guess the effect I really want to apply isn't an effect at all. I'm trying to do a global event pan/crop. And briefly overlooking my options in track fx and video output fx, I didn't see that option. Any ideas?

And still, there is no option to glue together events? Should it be put in as a feature request? It seems like something that many would use.

EW wrote on 12/12/2001, 9:38 AM

Try using Track Motion. It will apply the same pan/crop to an entire track, and can be adjusted to work only on a particular clip depending on where you have the keyframes set. If you want the effect for the whole track, select a clip on the track, adjust the pan/crop, then move the keyframe to the beginning of the timeline. I haven't checked to see if this can be globally applied to all tracks at once. It might be possible to save your custom settings for the track motion, then apply it to the other tracks. Again, I haven't checked this. Good luck.

bcbarnes wrote on 12/12/2001, 9:59 AM

While there are ways around what you are trying to do, I would still like to see a "glue these events together" capability - the opposite of the "split". I don't have a lot of video experience, but I have done a fair amount of audio, and sometimes it just makes things easier to deal with.

yirm wrote on 12/12/2001, 1:42 PM

I'm not sure this makes sense. Since events can be seen as "windows" into a clip, the idea of glueing them together doesn't seem to fit the model.

-Jeremy

bcbarnes wrote on 12/12/2001, 1:46 PM

I don't disagree with you at all, but I do have certain "quirks" with the way I like to do things. It is simply a matter of either A) I change my style to fit the software, or B) The software changes to fit my style. Not really a big deal in this case, and since VV3 seems to fit my style in most respects, I'm willing to give in a little :)

db wrote on 12/12/2001, 2:27 PM

track motion has some presets ..when i tried the preset 16x9 it just sqashed the image down -when viewed on 16x9( 1:66) monitor it is now 2:33 sqashed ....

SHTUNOT wrote on 12/12/2001, 3:43 PM

In acid they have a join[j] button to connect 2 events. I guess in vegas they just thought that you would "group" [g] 2 clips/events together and there ya go.

I guess another answer to your question would be to just create another video track by itself and move the video clips to be processed on this separate track.

Later.

radiohead wrote on 12/12/2001, 3:59 PM

windows into a clip, sure. but what if they were windows into a many number of clips? again.. there are some things (like pan/crop) that can only be done to a specific event. if i have many events, i dont want to have to click on every single one of them. i'll do it in the meantime, i just hope they implement a glue feature in the future.

SHTUNOT wrote on 12/12/2001, 5:05 PM

I'm confused at what you are trying to achieve. The amount of work that I specified in my last post is no more than what you are asking to do.

You have a video clip with say 8 events...you want to apply effects to events 1,3,4,7,8 only. Create a video track[ctrl+shift+q] then drag the events up one level to the new video track. Click on the track motion button on this new track and apply any new settings you wish...am I missing something?

Besides when your working with many different scenes in a movie/video/etc...the settings you make for one event might not work so good for another. Though this is where you could add keyframes to the new video track, at specified points in the timeline for new effect parameters to take place.

Does this help?

radiohead wrote on 12/12/2001, 7:16 PM

So you're saying it's possible to crop at the track level?