Working with a FADE Transistion from one slide to another

jkb242 wrote on 6/29/2003, 9:31 PM

Can someeone tell me the eaisest way to add a uniform dissolve or fade from one slide to the other when working with up to 50 slides or images. When thesee are on the time line they are so small that it is not possible to see if the timing of the fade is equal on all slides and yet I do not want set each slide manually, what's the point. Surely, Vegas will do this but I have not had a lot of luck with it.

Can someone offer a simple suggestion as to how to adjust for a slow to medium fade time between slides and yet be consistant throughout all slides.

Please assist.

Much thanks....

Jerry

clearvu wrote on 6/29/2003, 9:36 PM

Can you repeat the question?

GaryKleiner wrote on 6/29/2003, 10:16 PM

>Can someone offer a simple suggestion as to how to adjust for a slow to medium fade time between slides and yet be consistant throughout all slides.<

The most effecient way is to go to Options>Editing and enable Automatically overlap multiple selected media when added. Also set Cut-to-overlap conversion to the length you want your dissolve to be. Set New still image length to determine the duration of the images.

Then, drag all your image files into the project... your done.

Gary Kleiner

GaryKleiner wrote on 6/29/2003, 10:18 PM

Oh yeah, The Gap Wizard in Excalibur could also do this mighty easily with clips already in your project. :)

Gary

24Peter wrote on 6/29/2003, 10:21 PM

Gary - that works for a cross-fade/dissolve. But I was wondering (and he may also be asking) about fading out one evet and then fading in the next all in a uniform manner without any overlap. Can I set the fades on my first event, copy and paste the event attributes? Do I select all events on a track ("select events to end") and then paste attributes?

jetdv wrote on 6/29/2003, 10:27 PM

Also doable using the Fade Wizard in Excalibur. However, seeing black between each picture gets mighty redundant.

jkb242 wrote on 6/30/2003, 8:32 PM

This is the best way to do what I was trying to do with over 75 slides I did not want to trim each one. Thanks for the tip and the statement about THEN DROP THE FILES IN THE PROJECT IS VERY KEY...THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE IF YOU ALREAD HAE SLIDES THERE I BELIEVE BECAUSE I TRIED THIS PREVIOUSLY AND IT DID NOT WORK.

MUCH THANKS FOR THE GREAT INFO!!