Fusing 2 Events / Transition Extension?

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roland

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I need a 10 second event in transition. Problem is, the event I'm transitioning over is only 4 seconds. I fixed the length issue by copying the event, reversing it, and backing it up to the original. Because my event is a boy swinging, this technique worked surprisingly well. The problem is, I can't put one transition over top of the whole 10 second clip ( 3 events).

-Is there A, a way to fuse these events into one, without rendering to a new track?

-Or B, is there some way to extend transitions over multiple events?

I tried messing with the transition progress envelope to sync 2 transitions on each event, but that wasn't yielding satisfactory results.
 
If you've got Vegas 6, you can create a different project containing just the extended clip and then nest it in your main project timeline. The nested project will act as a single event that you can apply a transition to just like any other event.

Otherwise, rendering to a new track may be your best bet
 
When you have two events, and put a transition over them, just one of those would be an "event in transition" (or at least thats how I'm defining it). Technically both would be in transition, but I only needed to increase the length of one.
 
I *think* I get it now.

You want to make one of the events appear to fade in/out for longer than the other?

What you need to do is change the fade envelope. Right-click on the transition; choose "fade type." It will show you a bunch of curvy Xs.

Suppose you want the first clip to fade out quickly and the second to fade in slowly. You want to pick one with a sharp slope from the upper left to lower right and a shallow slope from the lower right to upper left.

The closer to vertical the slope is, the faster the fade happens. The closer to horizontal it is, the slower it happens.

Experiment. There are many choices.
 
Thanks for the reply David... but thats not exactly it. Let me try again. Basically, I have 2 clips/events next to each other. I am placing a subtractive disolve over them. Once you place the disolve transition on one event, creating the length of the disolve is merely a matter of dragging the 1st event over top of the 2nd. The more of the event you drag over the other, the longer the transition.

So... I have these two events, but each is only 4 seconds (8 in total). I want a 10 second transition. To have this, I would have to have at least a 10 second event. But since I don't, I created a THIRD by copying the first event, reversing it and editing it next to the original (This effectivly makes the second event of 10 seconds. But in reality I now have three clips/events). NOW here is the rub... I can't drag 1st event with the transition over BOTH the old 2nd event and the newly created 3rd one. Any transition, as far as I can tell, can only be between two events.

My question was, is there a way, without rendering to a new track, to transition over 3+ events.
 
I don't think so Roland cause a Transistion is a - transition - between events.

Have you tried using a velocity envelope to slow down the two events? Perhaps extending each one by a second?
 
Thats what I figured... But, would there be a way to fuse two events? Like the reverse of a split? If not, this would be a great feature for the future (at least for me).

I did try slowing down... but it came out to unnatural, and in the end wasn't long enough. I may just have to render the events to a new track, though I hate doing that.
 
Oh. I see.

Try a velocity envelope on the first clip. Slow it down to zero and then reverse it. You should be able to do what you did -- by copying the clip and reversing it -- all within the same clip.
 
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, that creates sync issues with dialogue, and if I'm not mistaken, the velocity envelope doesn't affect clip duration, only it's speed within the same duration. What I had been doing was time stretching it, but that looked bad.

I've gone ahead and rendered to a new track. I have the edits I want and the transition now, all be it, with slightly less quality. If anything this has taught me to shoot at least a 15 second tail on shots.
 
Well . . .

All this certainly wasn't worth the time it takes to render 8 seconds to a new track, that's for sure.
 
Ahh but David, there is nothing worth less than a question unasked...

I was secretly hoping for some feature of which I had yet to discover. I do appreciate your replies.
 
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