The Blinking and/or Rapid Succession Effect...

newmediarules wrote on 3/9/2005, 8:48 AM
There's gotta be a simpler way.

I can "kinda sorta" emulate the effect by automating the fade to black controls, rapidly moving my mouse/cursor back and forth, but what's the CORRECT way to achieve this effect? So that the timing is exact and consistent?

Also, I'm still lost about the "rapid succession of shots" effect. Like the JPEG sequencing effect (I know how to do that)? Is there an "easy" "auto" way to pull it off with various video clips? Like they do at the end of those action/horror movie trailers?

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 3/9/2005, 8:55 AM
Not sure what effect you're trying to describe.

Try right-clicking on an event and setting the Undersample rate to 0.2.

Is that effect close to what you're looking for?
BillyBoy wrote on 3/9/2005, 9:20 AM
Fading in from, or out to black is very easy in Vegas. Just position cursor at top edge either front or back of a clip on the timeline until you see the quarter moon icon and drag the double headed arrow cursor into the vid. The further you drag, the longer the transition from black to whatever percentage of opacity you want. A simple timing method is just look at the timeline scale above the track, zoom in first if you want to get more precise.
busterkeaton wrote on 3/9/2005, 9:37 AM
yes, if you can explain in greater detail or point to a clip it would help.

I just did a test where I put a new video track above my clip and place solid black media on it. Then I cut the black clip into several tiny black clips and copy and pasted those clips a couple of times.

It may be what you were looking for, but the effect I got without much futzing was a film projector that hadn't reached the right speed yet. Actually it looked a bit like flipbook animation.
jkrepner wrote on 3/9/2005, 10:16 AM
I haven't found a simple way either to do what you want, either -- and I've been searching. Some NLE's have a strobe filter effect built in that allows you to decide how many frames of black and how many frames of video you want. I've been doing the automation thing by rapidly moving the mouse back and forth with a black event on track 1 and my video on track 2.

It's a common effect, too bad they don't include it a "Strobe" effect w/ Veg.