Keyframing multiple effects to an event in Pro 11

Vegas Filmmaker wrote on 11/14/2011, 2:19 PM

What is this? I'm trying to keyframe a few effects in a single event-some moving colors, defocusing, and saturating color. Yet I only seem to have an option to click animate on the first effect I add to the clip, and after that, there's no option to keyframe anything else. I'm just stuck on being able to keyframe the first effect. This can't seriously be one of Sony's upgrades, can it?

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billwil wrote on 11/14/2011, 3:57 PM

I don't have 11 on the machine I have with me today, but I believe keyframing per effect has changed (to allow more control), so it'll be a little different than in the past. Check this (long) intro to VP11 video where I think this is covered. Someone else will likely chime in who knows the details, but I'm thinking this change is what is causing the confusion for you.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro11introwebinar

Vegas Filmmaker wrote on 11/14/2011, 6:21 PM

Good job all around by Sony in making a tool that's been around for years, that was very easy to use, completely obscured. I'll check out that webinar and see what its secrets are. Although, if Sony went out of their way to hide this useful feature, do you really think they'd deliberately tell people in a webinar how to use it?

Edit: Turns out you're supposed to click on the sundial looking button by all the effects options. Way to keep us updated, Sony.

rs170a wrote on 11/15/2011, 5:09 AM

Edit: Turns out you're supposed to click on the sundial looking button by all the effects options. Way to keep us updated, Sony.

How much hand-holding do you expect them to do for you?
The expectation is that the end user will do some reading on his/her own.

From the Pro 11 Readme:
New Features in Version 11.0
* Added per-parameter keyframes for many video plug-ins.

I'm sure that the manual goes into this in even greater detail.

Mike