version 8 question

[Yang Wen]

I'm getting frustrated with Vegas 7's handling of filter keyframes. If I have a clip that has several filters stacked and I have set a starting keyframe for everyfilter. Now I want to replicate this stack on another clip.. I have to manually add each filter and then copy the keyframe over one by one.. Does version 8 allow you to copy all the filters+keyframes from one clip and pasting it to another clip?


Any chance that Sony Vegas will be ported to OS X? MacPro+Sony Vegas. That'd be sweet.... The only reason I'm still using a PC desktop is for Vegas..

[Ian Stark]

Is it just one keyframe you have for each filter, ie the values don't change on the timeline? If so you could use a filter package which will save a chain (or stack) of filters along with their settings as a reusable group. Then simply apply that package to other clips, tracks etc as required. This exists in v7 already.

If it's multiple keyframes that animate the filter over time then I guess you're into copy and paste (although the filter packages will save time setting up all the plugins every time.)

Hope that's of use.

[James Hooey]

I'd have to check this but try copying the original stacked clip and then 'paste event attributes' to all the other clips. I think this should copy all the effects/settings. I'm not 100% on the keyframes if it does that too.

[John Rofrano]

Originally Posted by James Hooey

I'd have to check this but try copying the original stacked clip and then 'paste event attributes' to all the other clips. I think this should copy all the effects/settings. I'm not 100% on the keyframes if it does that too.

This is the easiest way to do it and it works fine in Vegas 7. Set up the first event. Right-click and select Copy. Then highlight any number of other events, right-click and select Paste Event Attributes. the whole FX stack, keyframes and all will be copied over.

~jr