Hi Mike,

Thanks for your suggestion. I tried that and it is not working. It just seems to "detect" any time that same clip is used again within the project.

OK . .

Excalibur 6 and UltimateS Pro 4 have multiple Event media<>Alpha "change" options.

I can do this very quickly in Excalibur 6:

Make Event Selection > Set Video Properties > Set Alpha Channel > DONE!

In US4 there is a a TAB for Visual Effects where you can pick up the an Events values too!

But, but but . . here is my real question: Why is it I can Copy and Paste attributes to multiple Audio Events - eg "Normalisation" - but I can't do this with the Event's Video Alpha channel? Anybody want to have a go at that one?

Grazie

"Anybody want to have a go at that one?"

I'll bite :)

I think you can copy and paste any of the "Video Event" properties but not the "Media" properties.
Even in the media pool selecting multiple video clips I find I cannot change say Field Order to None.
Possibly has something to do with the Apha Channel, Field Order etc coming from the media file itself whereas things like Normalise only apply to the media within that Vegas project.

Bob.

Yes, Bob, understood. One doesn't wanna muck about with the underlying Media profiling. Sure. There must be some very good reasons NOT to be able to do this. You'd think? Yes?

Then why is it Excalibur CAN get "close" to this, and THEN go ahead and then do it?

Grazie

Well as i suspected, it seems there isn't any native setting within Vegas to achieve this then......

Grazie, if you're sure this can be done in UltimateS4, it may well be worth my while to upgrade from my UltimateS2, been thinking about it for a while for some other features but this'll definately seal the deal.

Thanks guys!

T

I can understand why you'd want to be careful with the properties of the underlying media.
What concerns me a bit is that I don't ever recall seeing Vegas read the alpha flags from a file. This leaves us to guess what they should be. Combine that with the plethora of choices in compositing mode and it all becomes a bit much to wrangle getting a good looking outcome.

I don't know if:
a) Vegas just isn't doing it right.
b) There's no common standard for the flags in files anyway
c) Whatever wrote the file in the first place got it wrong.
d) All of the above.

Whichever I just wish the problem would get fixed.
Even a tool to manipulate the alpha channel flags in a file might be handy so we could fix the file(s) once and be done with it.

Bob.

"Grazie, if you're sure this can be done in UltimateS4 . . .

Is there a demo you can see if it fits the bill for you? Or ask the VASST guys if it will do it for you? Only takes an email - yeah? Up to you.

Regards

Grazie