DVE query

[deaddavey]

Hi there. I have just installed VT5 and I cant find in the DVE folder that many DVEs. there may be 100 or so, but the manual boasts "hundreds". for example, the "baaaad" sheep stampede isnt there. I dont care for it anyway but i am just worried I havent got all the files...

Also, is there a simple blur transition that defocuses a source, fades or cuts and refocuses?

[billmi]

VT[5] does not have as many DVEs as VT[4] did, among those not in VT[5] are some of the wacky rarely/never used DVEs like the sheep stampede and the green alien hand.

There isn't really a blur transition that can do a defocus/refocus because the DVE format can only manipulate one video stream at a time, while overlaying that on the second stream - you can have a DVE that defocuses and dissolves source A to reveal a fully focused source B, but it can't blur both sources at the same time.

If you want to do that while editing, it's not problem to make it happen with the blur controls in the SpeedEdit control tree, you just can't do it with a DVE.

[deaddavey]

i really think the manual needs to be looked at properly and revised.
not only do we have elements that promise things that arent available, which could be taken as false advertising/misrepresentation... we also have spelling errors, grammar and too many references to vt4 instead of vt5.

It is almost as bad as reading a chinglish manual.

i would have thought that newtek could pay a little more attention and give their customers some credit as being slightly intelligent to notice these errors.

While I'm on it, for the cost, you'd think they would include a $0.50 ring binder to keep them all together, or at least comb-bind them...

[deaddavey]

billmi, is this blurring dve yo mentioned something included or do I have to create one?

also, I assume you could do blurring of both sources but only as a straight cut.So by the time you see any blur on the second source, the first is gone?

are these created in aura?

[ScorpioProd]

There is no included blurring DVE. As billmi says, you can only create one for one side of it, which doesn't do what you want.

Instead you should just set up a crossfade between your two sources (or a cut) and keyframe the blurring you want on the ends of each clip in the control tree for the clips.

[Rich Deustachio]

Eugene,

I use that blur dissolve effect quite often and made a clip with key framed blurred beginning and one on the end, and saved them in toolshed. Then I just apply the toolshed and place in a dissolve DVE.

[ScorpioProd]

Yup, as Rich said, that would be the way to do it.

In Vegas Pro 8 I just drop in a blur transition, but that's Vegas. :hey:

[Rich Deustachio]

Can you say "feature request"?

[CreatvGnius]

Yup, as Rich said, that would be the way to do it.



But in Vegas Pro 8 I just drop in a blur transition, but that's Vegas. :hey:Or, to do so on both sides, I suppose one could set up a layer of elements involving Overlay, then applying a custom-made blur in one direction in one layer, then in the opposing direction in another layer (again, with overlay on). Yepper! Scorpioprod's right. In Pro 8, it's as simple as that.
:agree:
-PeterG