Mirror Effect & Mask

Amrik-Kerketta wrote on 10/10/2023, 10:26 PM

I'm trying to do what I thought would be a simple quick effect but I can't figure it out.

I have a logo with a Mirror Reflect Right effect. I've keyframed the center to move - the mirror moves to left to reveal the unreflected logo.

I want the mirror to disappear as it reaches the beginning of the logo. I thought masking the logo would achieve this but it does not. The reflection center moves the reflection all the way to the left of the screen.

Thanks in advance if you can tell me what I'm doing wrong.

Vegas 21 on Windows 11.

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Former user wrote on 10/11/2023, 12:49 AM

@Amrik-Kerketta Hi, it's not what you're doing wrong, it's that Mirror Reflect Right effect doesn't have an opacity control to fade it out,

Here i have the Mirror Reflect Right effect on the top track, the clip fades out to reveal / to be replaced with the unaffected lower image.

There's maybe a couple of other ways to do this,

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PS, they don't need to be on separate tracks.

Amrik-Kerketta wrote on 10/11/2023, 6:28 PM

Thanks for the idea @Former user. It didn't quite achieve what I was trying because the scrolling lasted longer than the fade out. What I did instead was duplicate the video track, put it as the top track, and then masked it, so that only the very left section was overlaid. And then the scroll disappeared at the overlay.