Sony Vegas 6 Manual

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Adding Video 
Transitions and 
Motion
Want something other than a cut or crossfade between video events? Vegas® software provides a wide 
variety of transitions you can add to your project. This chapter also covers track motion and keyframe 
animation, which allows you to automate video effects, media generators, cropping, panning, and more.
Understanding basic transitions
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Using transition effects
Transition effects are more complex than a simple cut or crossfade. You can replace a crossfade with a 
transition and then customize the transition to meet your needs.
Tip: Select the Event Fade Lengths option on the View menu 
to display fade lengths between selected and nonselected 
events in the timeline. You can use this display as a quick 
indicator of a transition’s length.
Adding a transition
1.Insert a video event onto the...

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Adding a transition to the end of an event
Typically, a transition occurs between two events on a track, but you can also use 
transitions to fade to and from the background, whether that is an underlying 
image, video, or background color. For example, you can drag a Clock Wipe 
transition to the end of a video event and have the wipe go from the video event to 
black.
Adding a transition to all selected events
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Adding a transition progress envelope
This feature is available only in the full version of Vegas software.
Normally, a transition progresses from 0 to 100% in a linear fashion over the length of the transition. A 
transition progress envelope gives you complete control over a transition: you can hold, reverse, and repeat 
individual transitions. 
1.Right-click a transition.
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Converting a cut to a transition
The transition between two events that are adjacent to each other on the same track is instantaneous and is 
called a cut. However, if the first event is trimmed back from the end and the second event is trimmed back 
from the beginning (in other words, both have enough media to overlap), you can transform the cut into a 
transition effect using this extra media.
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Previewing a transition
The easiest way to preview a transition is to set the loop region to the duration of the transition and then 
loop the playback. This allows you to adjust the transition while it is playing and make changes in real time.
1.Double-click the transition. This automatically creates a time selection equal to 
the length of the transition.
2.Click the Loop Playback button () to turn loop playback on. The selection area 
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Using keyframe animation
Keyframe animation is a technique that computer artists 
use to quickly make complex animated sequences. 
Instead of drawing every frame of a title scrolling in from 
top to bottom by hand, an animator simply has to set a 
starting and ending position for the animation and let the 
computer interpolate the intermediate frames. The 
animation pictured on the right has three keyframes: a 
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Adding keyframes
Every effect has a starting keyframe at the beginning (left side) of the keyframe controller. This sets the 
initial parameters for the effect. In order to animate the effect, you must add another keyframe to the effect 
and change some of the parameters. When you first add a new keyframe, it has the same settings (for the 
transition, effect, pan/crop, etc.) as the first keyframe. You can then modify the settings of the new keyframe 
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Changing the interpolation curve
The interpolation curve determines the rate at which Vegas software animates between two keyframe 
settings. You can right-click a keyframe to choose a different shape for the interpolation curve. The shortcut 
menu provides six options: 
Linear, Fast, Slow, Smooth, Sharp, and Hold. Selecting Hold from the shortcut 
menu prevents any animation from being interpolated between two keyframes. The color of the keyframe 
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Note: Presets for 2D and 3D track motion are saved 
separately: presets you create in the 2D Track Motion 
window will not be available in the 3D Track Motion 
window.
Recalling a preset
1.Click in the Po s i t i o n, 2D Shadow, and 2D Glow keyframe row to select a row and position the cursor where 
you want to apply the preset.
2.Choose a setting from the Preset drop-down list. 
If no keyframe exists at the cursor position, one is created using the settings...