Sony Vegas Pro 12.0 Editing question

[intercooledgn]

I saw this in a video and want to do the same type of, for a lack of a better term, effect on a home video and am curious if anyone can give me a step by step process of how to create this effect. A gentleman in the afterdawn forum stated:

Those are basic opacity edits and dissolves. Vegas will default to a cross dissolve when you overlap two clips with each other on a single track. For a closer look to that clip, you will want to use two layers (or more). Play with the opacity of top layer to make the effect happen. When opacity is 100% the top layer will show. When 0% the bottom layer will show. In the in between is where you get the blending/dissolving effect. You would only need to animate the opacity by creating key frames where you want the change to occur. Getting it to look like that shouldn't be too tough.


So as I said if anyone can give me a step by step process of how to add layers and adjust the opacity and such as JaguarGod recomended using Sony Vegas Pro 12.0 to achieve the effect of someone dreaming about something as shown in the video clip it would be GREATLY appreciated!

As always thank you all in advance for helping! The link is to my youtube page of the video. The part im talking about is when he is lying on the couch and it fades to and from him flying.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXarKzdMU-I


Thank you all again!

[_Al_]

Have you actually tried to merge two clips together to create cross dissolve in Vegas? (small steps) In Vegas you just stick a clip into another on the same track and transition is created. Default transition is cross-dissolve. Split the first clip into two (guy sleeping on the couch). Put cloud clip in between and create two transitions at the beginning of the cloud and at the end. Add another track on the top of that first one, flying guy, and grab just top left corner of the clip an drag it to the right. That will make opacity from 0 to 100%. You can grab right hand top corner and drag it to the left also. You can drag opacity bar from top edge of the clip down to decrease opacity for the whole clip. You can combine all of these with splitting the clip (press "S" on keyboard) to get crazy transformations so it will suit what you want. See you do not need even to split clip with the guy on the couch if you create track for each clip (something you try to avoid, less tracks the better) and then just change opacity at the beginning and end for desired clips combining it with that splitting. These are just basics. opacity , transitions is in the manuals.

[budwzr]

It's just two cross-dissolves.

Is it the flying clip you want to recreate?

[intercooledgn]

Yeah essentially. I basically have a video of someone in their bed and have a clip of them playing a pro sport and want to do a similiar setup as that clip so it looks like they are dreaming of playing the sport.

[budwzr]

Use the cloud maker in Vegas.



Change the blue to gray. Animate the clouds to move with keyframes.

[intercooledgn]

I GOTTA SAY, Al and Budwzr splitting it into two clips and crossdisolving twice is perfect!! Thank you both again!!