SyF Rotator Pro – Free Vegas Pro Plugins

Description

A Free OFX Spin Transition That Turns Like a Wheel

The SyF Rotator Pro is a free OFX spin transition for Vegas Pro that treats your two clips as the two faces of one turning wheel. The outgoing clip rotates away around your chosen anchor point while the incoming clip follows right behind it on the same pivot, so the cut reads as one continuous spin instead of two separate clips. Rather than spinning a single clip against an empty background, the next shot is already swinging into place as the last one leaves.

Pick Your Pivot

An Anchor Point dropdown gives you eight pivots, and a Rotation Direction option sets whether the spin turns left or right:

• Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, Bottom Right: spin around a corner for a quarter turn.
• Top Middle, Bottom Middle, Left Middle, Right Middle: spin around the middle of an edge for a half turn.

Motion Blur That Looks Real

The blur is based on a simulated camera shutter and follows the rotation, so it stretches longer out where the motion is fastest and stays tighter near the pivot, the way a real spinning object blurs. Two independent sliders, Strength (how smooth) and Length (how long the trail), let you dial in a look without fighting one setting to fix another. Want a clean, crisp spin instead? Turn motion blur off.

Control the Feel

Three more controls shape how the spin behaves:

• Pull Back & Overshoot: a small wind-up before the spin and a settle after it, like a real wheel catching its stop. Turn it off for a single clean ease.
• Snappiness (0 to 100): at 0 the spin is perfectly linear. At 100 it eases in slowly, snaps fast through the middle, then eases out.
• Mirror Edges: when on, any area the spinning clips don’t cover is filled with mirrored image. When off, it stays fully transparent so the layer underneath shows through.

Works on Titles and Overlays

The transition keeps the transparency of your clips, so you can use it on text, titles, and PNG overlays without a solid black background showing up behind them.

GPU-Accelerated, With a Real Fallback Chain

The render tries an NVIDIA CUDA device first (RTX 20 series and newer, including the RTX 50 series), falls back to OpenCL for any other GPU, and only drops to the CPU if neither is available. One checkbox turns GPU acceleration off.

System Requirements

OS: Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit)

Host Software: Vegas Pro (a version with OFX transition support)

License: Free, yours forever. No license key or activation required.

Installation Guide

Download the installer.

Run the installer.
(Note for Windows Users: As an indie developer, you may see a blue SmartScreen warning upon installation. Click “More Info” -> “Run Anyway” to install.)

Open Vegas Pro and navigate to the Transitions tab. Under the Scrapyard Films Plugins! group, you’ll see:
~ SyF Rotator Pro ~

Drag the free OFX spin transition onto the cut between two clips and it’s ready to use immediately, no license key required. If you find it useful, there’s an optional Support button inside the plugin if you’d like to buy me a coffee!

Version Update History:
v1.0 – Launched the program with all base features
v1.1 – Added the Pull Back & Overshoot option
v1.2 – Added alpha channel support and the Mirror Edges option
v1.3 – Added the Snappiness slider, NVIDIA Blackwell (RTX 50 series) CUDA support, and a version button. Renamed to SyF Rotator Pro.