Dissolving between stills

[solarblast]

I dropped 60 still images on the time line, and gave them a duration of 0.25 sec. The stills were taken of the sky every 15 or so seconds. It produces a reasonable animation. I'm told that using, perhaps, some entry under Tools->Preferences that the smoothness might be helped by using a dissolve. Is there some way to set a dissolve easily for all the stills rather than singly?

[guns1inger]

The only effect you can automatically apply across all clips easily is a simple cross fade. The following is from the Preferences dialogue in Vegas Pro 8



It will set the duration of still images to 2 seconds each, and if loaded as a group, will put them on a timeline with a 1 second cross fade between each image.

I don't know of any way to apply this type of effect across a timeline that already has images on it, other than through writing a custom script.

[jagabo]

AviSynth's ConvertFPS() will do what you want. I think Vegas will do it if you change the frame rate with resample enabled (that's the default).

Attached are a sample 4 fps time lapse video and the same video converted to 32 fps with ConvertFPS() (Vegas should be able to do something similar).

Borrowed from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwUhxDpt3nk

[solarblast]

It looks like I need to putter with the values in the Pref->Editor. We do seem to have different versions of Vegas. Mine is 9.0. See attached. (I might have added two that are the same. I can't see what is attached.) It seems that my duration is so small, 0.25, that there's little chance to see a dissolve.

I'll take a look at the avi files.