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AlanC wrote on 5/21/2004, 7:33 AM
Only way I know is to render the section as AVI in Vegas.
Import into Pinnacle.
Apply FX.
Re-render in Pinnacle.
Import back into Vegas.
monteolsen1 wrote on 5/26/2004, 10:34 PM
Thanks for the info, Alan. Hollywood FX has some terrific transitions that I hate to lose moving over to Vegas. Wish there were an easier way, but what the heck. Is there a reasonably priced alternative for Vegas?

Regards
AlanC wrote on 5/27/2004, 1:43 AM
Sony ScreenBlast Movie Studio is a cut down version of Vegas I believe. I have never used it but I doubt if you can import Hollywood FX into it.

I, like a few other posters to this forum, are ex-Pinnacle guinea-pig's. I am prepared to live with the hassle of rendering short clips in Studio and importing into Vegas.

No more Pinnacle nightmares!
Cheno wrote on 5/27/2004, 7:26 AM
aside from the more cheesy fx that Hollywood fx would do, with the Spicemaster filters and Vegas 5, there's not much you can't do natively now. May force you to be creative in other ways, but thats not such a bad thing is it?
kentwolf wrote on 5/27/2004, 8:27 PM
While I have very little actual info, I would do a forum search on this subject because someone claimed at one time that they had imported the Hollywood FX into Vegas somehow. I am virtually certain of this.

I've done the import to Studio, apply the FX/transition, then back to Vegas thing before and that worked OK.

While they are generally pretty "cheesy" transitions, every now and then that have just the one you need for that special clip...
JohnnyRoy wrote on 5/27/2004, 9:02 PM
I use Hollywood FX from time to time because it has some nice sports transitions and wedding transitions that spice up event videos. One thing that’s great is that it will save multi-keyframed motion as a single FX. In Vegas you can only save one keyframe as a preset so it’s impossible to save FX with multiple keyframes. I agree that Vegas can do a lot of it natively now, but you have to do it from scratch each and every time you need it. I would love to see the ability to save everything about a transition or effect in a preset in Vegas.

~jr