Thin All Points

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Working with track envelopes

Envelopes represent volume, audio panning, opacity, and fade to color automation settings in the timeline.

Track Type

Envelope type

Description

Color

Audio

Volume

Controls track volume.

Blue

 

 

 

 

Audio

Bus send volume

Controls track level sent to bus. Available only in the

Lilac

 

 

full version of Vegas software.

 

 

 

 

 

Audio

Assignable effects send volume

Controls track level sent to assignable effects control.

Green

 

 

Available only in the full version of Vegas software.

 

 

 

 

 

Audio

Pan

Controls the position of a track in the stereo field (pan).

Red

 

 

 

 

Video

Composite level

Controls track opacity/transparency.

Blue

 

 

 

 

Video

Fade to color

Controls fading of a track to color. Designate a top and

Red

 

 

bottom color by right-clicking the track, choosing Fade

 

 

 

Colors from the shortcut menu, and choosing Top or

 

 

 

Bottom from the submenu.

 

 

 

 

 

Video bus

Motion blur

Adds a motion-dependent blur to each frame to smooth

Lilac

 

 

computer-generated animation. Available only in the

 

 

 

full version of Vegas software.

 

 

 

 

 

Video bus

Video supersampling

Calculates intermediate frames between the project frame

Rust

 

 

rate to create smooth motion blurring. Available only in

 

 

 

the full version of Vegas software.

 

 

 

 

 

Adding envelope points

Once you add an envelope to a track, you may add points to it. These points are used to edit the envelope line in order to automate the control.

1.Place the mouse pointer on the envelope’s line. The pointer changes to a hand icon ().

2.Right-click and choose Add Point from the shortcut menu or double-click to add an envelope point. A square point appears on the envelope line.

Tip: You can use ripple editing to automatically move envelope points as you edit in the timeline. For more information, see Applying post-edit ripples on page 110.

Thinning envelope points

Thinning envelope points decreases the number of points on an envelope while retaining the envelope’s

overall settings. Right-click an envelope and choosefrom the shortcut menu to thin the entire envelope.

To apply thinning to a section of the envelope, create a time selection, right-click the envelope, and then choose Thin Selected Points from the shortcut menu.

Note: Thinning is intended to reduce the number of envelope points created through automation recording and will have little or no effect if you create envelopes by adding and editing points manually.

CHP. 7

USING AUTOMATION