Vegas Pro MultiCam Crossfade Editing

Scot-Clayton wrote on 5/7/2022, 12:53 PM

How do you bloody select ALL of the Transitions AFTERwards to be crossfades? I realize you can do them one at a time, or in 'real time', using Control Z, etc. but if I want to select ALL cuts/transitions the Crossfade selection does NOT seem to work. I've tried selecting all events, copy and pasting attributes, etc. What am I MISSING? (NOT sure, if this is DIFFERENT in MultiCam Editing mode!)

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Former user wrote on 5/7/2022, 2:26 PM

@Scot-Clayton Hiya someone will give you more info & extras you can buy but Vegas does not have the option to select all transitions,, you can make a setting that adds a crossfade automatically to each event when it is imported, then if you select some or all, add a transition to one that then will be applied to all selected, but not the length, the length is determined by the orig crossfade you gave each event, & after that you have no choice but to edit each transition individually, 🤦‍♂️😒

I know because I used MEP for yrs, it will let you add the transition to all or all after the cursor & change the length of all transitions with just 2 clicks,

jetdv wrote on 5/7/2022, 2:37 PM

@Scot-Clayton, the simplest way is to use a script. You can design your own script using the tutorials on my YouTube channel (you can access them through www.jetdv.com) or you can use a pre-written script that will perform this task (such as the one I wrote - Excalibur - but there are others too).

Scot-Clayton wrote on 5/7/2022, 3:17 PM

@Scot-Clayton, the simplest way is to use a script. You can design your own script using the tutorials on my YouTube channel (you can access them through www.jetdv.com) or you can use a pre-written script that will perform this task (such as the one I wrote - Excalibur - but there are others too).

TNX, but I notice your scripts apply only up to 18. Will they work with Vegas Pro 19?

jetdv wrote on 5/7/2022, 3:43 PM

Excalibur works fine in 19. The latest version is "14+".

Scot-Clayton wrote on 5/7/2022, 4:48 PM

Excalibur works fine in 19. The latest version is "14+".

TNX

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 5/8/2022, 12:33 AM

How do you bloody select ALL of the Transitions AFTERwards to be crossfades? I realize you can do them one at a time, or in 'real time', using Control Z, etc. but if I want to select ALL cuts/transitions the Crossfade selection does NOT seem to work. I've tried selecting all events, copy and pasting attributes, etc. What am I MISSING? (NOT sure, if this is DIFFERENT in MultiCam Editing mode!)

@Scot-Clayton I have a way to do it that works for me. First I set the crossfade I like in Preferences, General, Cut to Overlap Conversion. I generally go with 1/2 to 1 second. I also prefer setting Alignment right below it to After Cut... I tend to make my cuts with an eye on the audio track right before a beat or word. When in multicam/multitrack mode, clicking on one of the camera screens while the ctrl key is down does the cut with a crossfade. When done I expand back to the original tracks. If you keep the unused muted clips on expansion, all the crossfades and overlaps will be there. I usually drop the muted clips, however, in which case the overlaps are there but the crossfades are gone... I consider that a bug. But it's easy enough to fix. I just group all the clips and then select them all. Then a crossfade applied manually to one clip gets applied identically to them all.

Gid wrote on 1/10/2026, 2:22 PM

@Howard-Vigorita Thanks 👍😊

How do you bloody select ALL of the Transitions AFTERwards to be crossfades? I realize you can do them one at a time, or in 'real time', using Control Z, etc. but if I want to select ALL cuts/transitions the Crossfade selection does NOT seem to work. I've tried selecting all events, copy and pasting attributes, etc. What am I MISSING? (NOT sure, if this is DIFFERENT in MultiCam Editing mode!)

@Scot-Clayton I have a way to do it that works for me. First I set the crossfade I like in Preferences, General, Cut to Overlap Conversion. I generally go with 1/2 to 1 second. I also prefer setting Alignment right below it to After Cut... I tend to make my cuts with an eye on the audio track right before a beat or word. When in multicam/multitrack mode, clicking on one of the camera screens while the ctrl key is down does the cut with a crossfade. When done I expand back to the original tracks. If you keep the unused muted clips on expansion, all the crossfades and overlaps will be there. I usually drop the muted clips, however, in which case the overlaps are there but the crossfades are gone... I consider that a bug. But it's easy enough to fix. I just group all the clips and then select them all. Then a crossfade applied manually to one clip gets applied identically to them all.

I saw this in a recent post 'The duration of the fade between cameras is controlled by the Cut to Overlap setting in Editing Preferences.' I noticed this because I remembered it being asked about in a post a little while ago, at the time I didn't really take much notice because I rarely do multicam filming/editing but recently I have been experimenting setting up two cameras. Prob is my videos get a 15fr crossfade between each event but simple multicam click on screen editing doesn't do that. It does now with +Ctrl 👍🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️😁 Thanks.