On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:47:26 GMT, "Mario" <murchone88@hotmail.com> wrote:

>We are are still running Premiere 5.1c with our Pinnacle DC1000DV card,

>mainly becasue Premiere 6.x crashed endlessly. Is there a way to make wipe

>edges soft, as with a real video switcher. I've looked through all the help

>files and can find squat. We still have the After Effects CD that came with

>the DC 50 card, maybe version 4.1? We don't usually use many effects but a

>commercial shot yesterday needs the soft Left->right wipe effect in order to

>"work". I can do it in Vegas Video 3 but have to print to tape so that the

>DC1000 can capture it as MPEG2, the Sofo AVIs being incompatible with

>5.1c/Pinnacle.

I used to keep MSPro around for its soft-edged wipe (and for

CG-Infinity), but Soft Explode solved this problem (and

LOTS, LOTS more!), though it is a Canopus product, and it

probably only works with the Canopus card and codec...