restricting the fade to colour envelope (vegas)

bum · Post by **bum** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:15 am

is their any way that i can instert a fade to colour envelope in vegas4 and have it only affect the timeline its in, rather than every other timeline ? im trying to do some complex piano keys and it involves alot of them slowly fading to nothing, with multiple on keys on screen at a time. anyone got any idea's ? is their another way to do such complex piano keys without having a seperate timeline for each key while its on screen (as in, having 4 timelines for use in a scene with 4 piano keys on screen at one time. i could do it that way but im allready using 5 video timelines as it is and its starting to get messy).

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:53 pm

I put all of my key masks on a single timeline. I suppose it only matters if you want two or more showing at the same time.

To fade out the keys, here's what I just tried. First off, you don't want the video bus track: click View and uncheck Video Bus Track if it's enabled. Then right-click the track that has the key masks and select Insert/Remove Envelope-Composite Level (not Fade to Color). Then set your keys and drag the envelope line down to the bottom of the track.

The Fade to Color envelope only changes the mask track to all-black or all-white. And it wipes out the whole screen, not just the track that's being masked. That's either a bug or some kind of feature that I don't understand.

But the Composite Level envelope gets it done.

Angry Angel · Post by **Angry Angel** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:58 pm

Sorry for just butting in, but I've heard people talk about "piano keys" a bunch of times now... just what exactly do you mean by that?

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 3:02 pm

Angry Angel wrote:Sorry for just butting in, but I've heard people talk about "piano keys" a bunch of times now... just what exactly do you mean by that?

It's a visual effect using vertical bars. There are many different ways of implementing it, but you can view some examples in these AMVs (and several others that I don't know of):

dwchang's "pointless action video" (at 0:30)
mckeed's Belldandy Is a God (at 0:45)

bum · Post by **bum** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 6:26 pm

thaks for the help TaranT . il try that out when i get home (not like i expected anyone els to give me an answer

) .

anyway, here's a 3 second clip i made for someone yesterday to show them what piano keys are

Angry Angel · Post by **Angry Angel** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:01 pm

Thanks, both of you

I'll go and check it out.

bum · Post by **bum** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 10:43 pm

ah shit i linked the wrong vid. thats a masking example. damn i forgot what the link was to the piano key vid. ah, il find it when i get home. sory for that (oh and, if your using vegas, i can give ya the .veg files for both vids)

Angry Angel · Post by **Angry Angel** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:48 pm

Yes, I'm using Vegas

I just messed around with some image masks, and it took me forever to get it to work... but it feels *so* good when you finally get the effect you want.

Anyway, yeah... I downloaded one video that Taran linked to, so I have a pretty good idea now... but I'd love to see the example you made, especially since you use Vegas, too

That would be nice.

bum · Post by **bum** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:00 am

ah, finaly got home, dropped dead asleep, missed dinner and woke up a few hours later. anyway, here's the piano key example

Angry Angel · Post by **Angry Angel** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:53 am

LOL *pokes snoozing bum* Well at least ya woke back up. I'm gonna check it out, thank you!