What Opacity Method to use?

Sigtech wrote on 11/11/2004, 8:54 AM
I am relatively new to Vegas Video, and would like to have some advice from some of you old-timers. I am putting together a video, which is in essence a composite of 15 stills, a book called "The Spyglass", audio narration and a music bed. What I have seen done is as the story is being told, you can see fading through the stills, video clips that help to accentuate the story being told. What I need to do is to accurately control the opacity of the "stills" track so that say, 10 seconds into the still, I start to let the video show through, then, I gradually return to full opacity on the stills before fading to the next still. I am fairly familiar with track envelopes in audio. Would this be the way to do this? Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.

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Chienworks wrote on 11/11/2004, 8:58 AM
You could try doing it with a fade. Move the mouse pointer to the upper right corner of the still's event on the timeline. It will change to a quarter-circle icon. Drag this to the left to create a fade. The picture will fade from solid to nothing over that time period.

However, if you want more control, use an opacity envelope. This will do for opacity exactly what a volume envelope does in an audio track. You'll be able to add additional control points so that you can fade back in, fade partially, etc.