Yep, there are MANY places the effect can be added - like the media pool/clip level. Glad you found it there. Just move it to the timeline event instead and all should be fine.

Film Burning Effect Transition
 

Can anyone explain to me how to come about with this effect?

It's been used alot... It's usually for transition where the video
looks like the clip is burning away. Not to be mistaken by where
you actually see film burning and dissolve into white.

I hope this helps whoever is willing to help I just can't really
explain more than that.

Thank you in advance.

-Ake

Yeah I know what you are talking about. I remeber using it once. It was a transition that was in the nle i was using. It was adobe premiere ummm two or three years ago... I forget which version that is. Hope that helps.

Oh no...help
 

I separated some events because I was going to add some filler stuff, before adding the filler I went ahead and added composite envelopes, adjusted levels between two video tracks up and down, adjusted audio as well, but now I need to close those gaps, if I move the event to the left I lose my envelope adjustments, how can I attach all these events together and keep the envelope changes? I basically want to delete the dead space between events without losing my envelope/editing changes. Simply, I need to move a number of events to the left in the timeline to attach to the previous event but don't want to lose the envelope changes...help - did I say envelope enough?

There should be button or option that says "lock envelopes to events." This'll make your envelopes. . .um. . .marry your events that they affect, rather than being. . .um. . .sort of floating. Now, when you move events with envelopes, the envelopes'll move or not move where they're supposed to.

Is that what you meant?

Thanks Josh, I'm thinking I have to lock the envelopes as you said, then move the event to end of the previous event. I'll give it a shot.

Cool. I don't know if the envelopes you're using are the same envelopes as that button affects--I've never done the stuff you've done! I use the occasional velocity envelope, and the volume envelope for audio, and that's what it works on. No clue as to whether it affects that compositing stuff.

Media Studio Pro has it as one of it's transitions.

You might want to look at the Adorage transitions. They have many interesting transitions including many "classic" transitions that most people would never use today unless duplicating the "old cheesy" look!

Can you assign short-cut keys for the multicamera script in Excalibur?
 

I'm really enjoying Excalibur 3- a must have when doing multi-cam edits. I'm utilizing the new camera scripts....ie the little colored 1, 2, 3 buttons that can be added to the tool bar.

What I felt would be much easier is to have a shortcut key to activate each of them rather than having to move my mouse to the top of the screen to select each one when I want a camera change. That way I can have my finger rest on the shortcut key and tap it each time I want a camera change without having to stop and move my mouse to the top of the screen.

I went into the preferences> keyboard...and even saw the camera scripts in there but couldn't, for the life of me, figure out how to assign key(s) for shortcuts for it.

Lastly I haven't seen the "tally" lights when using these scripts..I'm sure I'm missing something.

SPanish Vegas Forum
 

Colin,

As far as I'm aware, no manual has been translated either officially or "unofficially"....

However, this fairly active Spanish Vegas forum my be useful for Spanish speakers: quite a helpful bunch of people, and there are some tutorials up there which may flatten the learning curve.

Best regards

Paul.

To set a keystroke, open Prefs > Keyboard and find what you need in Available Commands, which does include the Excalibur camera scripts (if you have Excalibur 3 installed).

Ckick on the one you want to assign.

Click in the box whre it says 'Press new shortcut keys', then type the keyboard combo you want to assign it to.

Click on OK.


To use the tally light system, set up your PIP with the Sync Wizard.

Gary

Yeah I did that...well I thought I did- I hit the 1, 2, and 3 keys at the top of the keyboard. They aren't taken for anything else are they? Whenever I hit, say, the "1" key...nothing would happen....in other words it wouldn't show up in the box. Does it HAVE to be a key "combination"?


I synced my footage manually- then ran the sync tool simply to arrange the 3 cameras side by side with the numbering. However when I use the camera scripts to automatically switch cams I don't see a highlight around the current camera. Like I said I'm sure I missed something small.

Btw, saw you in WEV being inducted into the Hall of Fame- contrats.

Oh thank you everyone. I'll be looking into those programs. I never knew that you can just apply this transitions... I figured you would have to mess with the saturations and hues.

Actually, now I just need to remove about 25 seconds of dead space on the timeline so the two ends will match up - and it needs
to include about 5 tracks down. Tried markers, looping, anybody?

Turn on ripple editing, select it to ripple EVERYTHING, select the dead space, and press delete.

You cannot set individual keys for the individual tools within Excalibur in version 3. This is something that is being looked at for the next version.

1, 2, and 3 ARE used for jumping to markers. For example, to go to marker #3, you would press 3. To go to marker #23, you would press 23 on the top of the keyboard. So, yes, they ARE used. However, if you never used that functionality there's no reason why you can't use them for this. Personally, I used something like CTRL-ALT-1 which WASN'T assigned to something else.

Thanks Ed, won't that connect all the little scattered segments I have on tracks below? I need everything to move 'left' but all at their current position with respects to the main track?

That should move everything to the right of the gap by the exact same amount left. I won't "connect al the little scattered segments" - they'll simply be moved left.

Misfire-like plugins?
 

MB for Vegas doesn't (as far as I can tell) have the misfire plugin. Can anyone recommend any techniques or plugins for similar effects? Free plugins would be great, but any info would be great.

What's a "misfire" plugin?

From Red Giant's Website:
Misfire film damage back

Offers 13 different film characteristics, including popular tool like grain, splotches, and scratches—as well as projection artifacts like flicker and gate weave. Misfire’s use of custom damage resources accurately mimics damage of old film. In addition, to a master plug-in with 14 categories of control, individual plug-ins for all 14 effects are included in the package.

* Includes 14 different plug-ins for adding damage characteristics
* Enables users to quickly build old film looks with simple controls
* Works with both 8 and 16-bit/channel footage
* Supports After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and Premiere Pro.

The main Misfire plug-in offers controls for Fading, Funk, Splotches, Dust, Flicker, Vignette, Displacement, Grain, and 3 different types of scratches, Microscratches, Basic Scratches and Deep Scratches. Each category of effect can be turned off individually using the category switch. All of these effects are also offered as individual plug-ins.

The built-in film effects plugin can do a lot of those effects. There's also other possible tools such as Boris. I don't know exactly what effects it includes in this nature. Not sure if Pixelan offers anything of this nature.

rip video off DVD in Vegas 5
 

Does Vegas 5 have any tools for ripping video and audio off a DVD?

Thanks!

I've found that the built in Film Effects filter in Vegas gives all the damage effects you'll need. I don't even bother with FilmFX anymore within AE as a result.

Nothing specifically "built in". You can take the VOB files and drop then directly on the timeline. This may or may not give you audio as Vegas won't accept AC3 audio. If you don't get audio, you'll need to use some other program (such as besweet) to convert the audio back to WAV.

I like the scratches......thanks for the tip! What about doing vingetting? Any way to replicate light exposure type effects (film door light leak, beginning/end of magazime flashing) from within vegas?

Hmm, it was a no-go.

Any reccomendations for a dedicated program to rip the video and audio from a DVD? My budget is about $50.

water transition
 

Using Vegas 4- Is there any way to produce a wave/water transition? For instance- to go from one clip, one title, one logo to another with a water transition or dissolve. Hope I'm clear.

I would take a look at the Adorage transitions and see if there are of that nature. You might also check out Pixelan as well.

Do a web search for "DVD2AVI"

No audio when switching chapters
 

Hi all,

I burned m first menu-based DVD using DVD Architect.
When I just play it from the beginning, everything is fine.
However, as soon as I start skipping ahead chapter wise,
or use the menu to pick chapters randomly, I lose
all audio.

Can anybody help me please.

Thanks,
Isaac

I got that problem when my total bitrate was higher than the maximum allowed for DVD's. Not sure if that will help you, but if you are using high bitrate files, you may want to consider lowering your encoding settings (or using encoded audio, etc.)

ACID can take AUDIO off of CD's (FYI)

Pixelan Spicemaster 2 does this easily, however with spice1 , u can also get some grandient swirls happening..

<<<-- Originally posted by John Hudson : ACID can take AUDIO off of CD's (FYI) -->>>

So can Vegas. He's asking about DVDs, though.

Advise sought from knowledgable INTRO makers ! ! !
 

Well my project is almost finished; the last step to this learning experience is I want to make a cool/exciting intro for the wow factor and also the experience of doing it.

The intro i had in mind was similar to the ones "Queer eye for the Straight Guy", "Family Bonds (HBO)" and "American Casino" all share. These are just a few that came to mind from the top of my head.

If you are still confussed; its where i seperate the person from the background. On a freeze, i want the background to seperate, change color, and title coming flying in.

Now my only question is, How do i accomplish this with Vegas 5? If need be i also have P.S. 6 (on a different computer). I read a post regarding the wedding/3d fx, is this the same concept?

Thanks all for the help; once done i'd love to share it with the group for feedback

If it's on a snapshot, it should be fairly easy to accomplish. Just take a snapshot of the deisred frame, edit it in the photo program to eliminate the background, and then you're all set. You can put whatever new background you need there.

Vignetting might be possible to do with a black and white color
gradient in a paint program and then using that mask on your
footage?