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mrpink89

I have a scene where a guy blacks out. it fades to black and then fades back into the picture of a POV shot of a guy waking him up.
Inbetween the fade out and fade in I want to have like 6 sec or so of just black. Is there a transition that just has black in the transition section of this software i am not seeing?

My other option was i was just not gonna up load any clips and it would natually cut to black but then i wonder how it will be when I burn this on to DVD. Would it even work? like when burning it would the computer be like
"oh hey check it. he didn't add any video files in this small section, scrunch this stuff together" and ruin my small black out
 
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Vegas is pretty forgiving, but if you need something in the 6 seconds, put a solid color on a timeline above the footage.

I'm pretty sure it will render out a blank space as black with no problem. I did a segment like that some time back but I did have audio in the non-video space so I'm not really helping much am I?
 
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Leave a gap for however many secs you want. If you're working in a 24fps timeline, and you want 5 seconds of black, just leave a gap of 120 frames. You can put a black solid in there if you really want to (I think you'll find that under "Generate", or something like that), but, if it's a black screen you're after, you'll just be wasting your time.
 
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Don't leave a gap. While a gap will work for black, there are commands and options that compress empty space in vegas (on purpose). This can screw up sound sync, and I've had it happen.

I think best practice is to always have something in the timeline with no gaps.
 
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stef said:
Don't leave a gap. While a gap will work for black, there are commands and options that compress empty space in vegas (on purpose). This can screw up sound sync, and I've had it happen.

I think best practice is to always have something in the timeline with no gaps.
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While I've never had it happen myself and I've never seen these options, it's good to know that that can happen. Certainly something to keep an eye out for.

Do you know what these options are and where I can find them in Vegas?
 
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mad_hatter said:
While I've never had it happen myself and I've never seen these options, it's good to know that that can happen. Certainly something to keep an eye out for.

Do you know what these options are and where I can find them in Vegas?
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Auto-ripple is the main one I'm thinking of, and all the post-edit ripple commands (like ctrl-shift-F) to collapse deleted areas. I use that frequently.

But I'm not positive how my footage got out of sync that one time... but it was a major pain. All of my volume settings were off, too, because it collapsed out the empty space but didn't shift the volume stuff with the sound.
 
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