Still Motion stopped inserting transitions

Jim H wrote on 11/26/2007, 6:46 PM

I can't get stillmotion to insert event transitions of any kind no matter what combo of options I select. I use V7 had never had this problem before. I can't figure out what changed. It simply won't overlap events. Any ideas?

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Chienworks wrote on 11/26/2007, 6:55 PM

Is it just with stillmotion or with all events? Look at Options / Automatic crossfades. If that's turned off then events won't fade into each other.

Jim H wrote on 11/26/2007, 7:16 PM

It's just Stillmotion. the auto crossfade button is depressed or ON. I usually keep the "autocross fade when multiple events are inserted" off, but I turned that on and tried dragging a few photos on the timeline and they cross faded as they should. Then tried stillmotion again and nothing. I experimented with transition lengths and the few effects but no love there either.

Jim H wrote on 11/27/2007, 6:47 PM

bump

Jim H wrote on 11/28/2007, 2:48 PM

I guess Spot and Johnny are traveling?

JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/28/2007, 7:31 PM

> I guess Spot and Johnny are traveling?

Sorry must have missed this one. Are the events locked by any chance? Does the project timeline ruler start at something other that 00:00:00?

If you send you project file (.veg) to our ultimatesupport email at vasst.com I will take a look at it.

~jr

Jim H wrote on 11/28/2007, 7:58 PM

Under properties for each event the lock box is not checked. These events are a dir of jpgs. The time line starts at 0 but the region I'm trying to fill in with crossfaded jps is a minute into the timeline. You'll see that.

I couldn't find an "ultimate" support email address so I sent the veg to support at vasst.com. I hope you can figure it out.

Thanks.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/29/2007, 4:11 AM

The support email does not come to me. It is a general support email. You need to send it to the software support email which us ultimatesupport [at] vasst (dot) com.

In Windows go to: Start -> All Programs -> VASST -> StillMotion -> Read Me

and click on the email link at the bottom of the Read Me.

Also please remove the actual email from your post above because we get a LOT of spam from spam bots that crawl forums like this looking for email addresses. Thanks,

~jr

Jim H wrote on 12/1/2007, 11:05 PM

Thanks John, just resent email.

Jim H wrote on 12/6/2007, 6:19 AM

Johhny thanks much for your help solving this problem! For the sake of others who may run into this simple fix I'll repeat the words you provided from the user guide:

Ruler Format and how it affects Event Length:
You specify the duration in Event Length and Transition Length with the time ruler format like 00:00:07.00 (which is seven (7) seconds and zero frames using the Time & Frames). Note that the way in which you specify these timecodes is dependent on the Vegas Ruler Format.
By default, the Vegas ruler format is Time & Frames and StillMotion ships with this as the default. But if you change your Ruler Format to another format such as Absolute Frames, you must enter 209.790 instead of 00:00:07.00 to get your durations to be interpreted correctly by Vegas. If events are not the length you think they should be, check your ruler format and be sure you are specifying the length of the event in the correct format.