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FrigidNDEditing wrote on 6/14/2006, 10:09 PM
one way (may not be the best way) is to do a simple parent child track with a the parent track set to multiply mask and the child track set to be the media you want to come in, then drop the black/white media on the parent track, align where you want the transition to come in (you will need to have the media you want this to come in over (or transition with) below these two tracks but not as a child to the track with the transition). Then just put a solid white BG after that or cut the media and put it on an empty track on top of these. There may be a way to set something as a transition or something like that, however I don't know what it is, so I can't really help you in that respect. Sry.

Dave
mjroddy wrote on 6/14/2006, 10:58 PM
That worked. Seems simple enough too. Thanks very much!
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 6/14/2006, 11:55 PM
It's noteworthy enough to mention that if you have a long project and you have just a few transitions that it maybe worth while to take the "transition tracks and the bit you're transitioning with and drop that into a separate .veg file and just splice it where you have things in it. Why you ask? - Time, that all important time. The spliced veg means that only where that project is will Vegas process that masking, but if you have it going all the way through on a 2 hr project it saved me 3 hrs of rendering time by doing that. So just keep that in mind.

The 3 hrs saved was on a P4 3.2HT 800FSB 1 GB ram and separate drives to pull from to an MPEG 2 video stream only. anyway, just keep it in the back of your head when you're doing crazy composites or simple ones, it can make a big dif.

Dave
Chienworks wrote on 6/15/2006, 4:10 AM
Is the process something like what is shown here?

http://www.vegasusers.com/vidshare/textdisp?chienworks-transition-mask-tutorial

or here?

http://www.rchv.com/transitions/vegas-transition-screen-6.jpg
mjroddy wrote on 6/15/2006, 11:37 AM
DARN good point, Dave!!!
I remember that every once in a while, but didn't for this project.
That's a real drawback in Vegas, in my opinin. But hey, nothing is perfect and Vegas still ROX!
Thanks for the reminder!
And, yes, those links are perfect. Thanks for those!
Chienworks wrote on 6/15/2006, 11:44 AM
If you follow the example in the links i posted then there is negligable rendering time hit in the non-transition sections, since there is no compositing going on in other areas. However, that being said, if you have a complex project with more than two video tracks and other compositing going on, it may still be a logistical benefit to do the transitions in a separate nested .veg file or even render them separately and drop them on the timeline as completed clips. It's not easy to integrate this sort of transition in a complex project, and it's very easy to mess things up without realizing it.