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  • How do they do that?

    Posted by Raquel Burton on August 13, 2011 at 1:56 am

    I’ve seen that famous intro to MI5.
    Or lets go way back to that famous intro of The Brady Bunch.

    Why am I having a difficult time doing it in Vegas video?
    You know, that checkerboard like effect of sliding video frames or two different video footage/frames splitting the screen.

    I’ve checked out “ScatterShot 3D for Sony Vegas Pro software, from VASST” Cool stuff… for 100 bucks. Then I checked out “DavisTools-Video Wall for Sony Vegas” but its only compatible for Vegas 9 or later.

    I think its called “panel scattering” or “Video walling”? Not sure. It was suggested to me that I put each video/image on a separate track and using Track Motion to reduce the size and position it where desired. I just spent nearly 4 hours doing a split screen of 2 footages. My eyes are killing me!

    There’s got to be a easier way to do this! Yes?

    -Fiesta Design & Ane Driod

    John Rofrano replied 14 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • John Rofrano

    August 13, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    [Raquel Burton] “There’s got to be a easier way to do this! Yes?”

    Yes. (well not easier than a one button push with a plug-in but not that hard I should say)

    To make a 9 x 9 matrix:

    Step 1: Place 9 pieces of video media on 9 tracks above each other.

    Step 2: Open Track Motion on the first track and scale the frame down to 1/9 it’s original size and move it to the upper left corner.

    Step 3: Open Track Motion on the second track and scale the frame down to 1/9 it’s original size and move it to the upper middle area.

    Step 4: Open Track Motion on the third track and scale the frame down to 1/9 it’s original size and move it to the upper right corner.

    Step 5: repeat steps 2 – 4 for the remaining tracks for the middle row and bottom row.

    You can even use a little “math” and place the images extremely accurately by typing their size and position. 😉

    ~jr

    http://www.johnrofrano.com
    http://www.vasst.com

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