Please help a newbie with transitions

Dale7 wrote on 6/17/2003, 5:02 PM
Hi,

I'm trying to do a slideshow with around 200 still pix. In Pinnacle
Studio 8 it is easy to add crossfades to all the pix at once using
what Pinnacle calls "ripple transitions."

However in Vegas, the term "ripple transition" seems to have an entirely
different meaning. In Vegas I understand how to do "automatic
crossfades," by dragging one event to overlap another, but it has to
be done one at a time. I also know how to drag a transition to any
number of selected events to add the transition to all the events at
once...however in the Vegas transition window, I cannot find an
ordinary crossfade or dissolve that is equivalant to the crossfade
that you get by overlapping two events.

So how, in Vegas, can you create an ordinary crossfade between all the
events in the timeline at once? And, if it can be done, can the length
of the crossfade be adjusted all at once?

Thanks for your help!

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 6/17/2003, 5:57 PM
Yes to both.

Read "new features" in Vegas help for applying transations to more than one event at a time. If you want to change the cross fade paramater you can do that under Options/Preferences editing tab. You would want to change the default length of stills (default is 5 seconds) and the lenth of the cross fade under cut to overlap. Then if you select multiple stills at once (should be named in the order you wish them to appear first using Windows Explorer), then apply the new method explained under new features. So once you select the stills you want just drag and drop as a selected group on the timeline and watch Vegas do its thing and apply the same spaced cross fade to all of them in one step. Adding the transtitions is a seperate second step.
jetdv wrote on 6/17/2003, 6:35 PM
There are at least a couple of ways. The first is to use the "cut to overlap conversion" option on the editing tab in Options - Preferences. Set the overlap amount to be the length you want the dissolve. Read the Vegas Tips, Tricks, and Scripts Newsletter for more information on this option.

Secondly, you can use the Gap Wizard in Excalibur to place a specified dissolve between a series of images.