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Sony Vegas Pro 11
I’m working on a video for work using Vegas Pro 11 and it is audio with mostly still images for visuals. I was hoping to post more than one picture or logo at once, like a slide on Powerpoint but can’t seem to figure that out. I feel like an entire video with just audio then pictures (regardless of cool transitions and FX) would be really boring. I’d really appreciate any help.
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Zoom in on the timeline on your video clips, and click the box shape on the right side. That’s the pan and crop tool. Play around with that and keyframing animations of zooming or panning across the still pictures, or you can even lay them side by side. Look up tutorials on how to use it, of which Youtube has many.
http://www.scenethroughglass.com
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[Shelby Coger] ” I feel like an entire video with just audio then pictures (regardless of cool transitions and FX) would be really boring. I’d really appreciate any help.”
It doesn’t have to be boring at all. But you have to learn to “animate” the still images. This is done via transitions, pans and zooms, and keyframing. You can certainly Google this for more information.
Simply put, key frames are fixed points of pan, zoom, color, whatever — in Vegas 11, you can keyframe practically anything. Why is it important? Vegas does the “tweening” for you. So let’s say I have a 20 photo panorama, and I’d like to “fly” though it. I can pan and zoom, set one keyframe, move ahead in time, set another keyframe, and Vegas will smoothly move from one to another.
Some example might help. You can, of course, look up the work of Ken Burns, who practically invented the art of making very interesting films with pans and zooms in photos — particularly for the historical documentaries he makes, there’s no video, no film, so the photos are what you have to work with.
I’ve used similar techniques, always done in Vegas, for dozens of videos. A few of these are online. This is one I did, using my Dad’s photographs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQGf7xjWc4E?hd=1This next was commercial. They wanted a video for a two year anniversary, but didn’t really even have much in the way of photos, much less video. So this was constructed mainly from press clips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYoszzMuaJE?hd=1
I spent less than two hours on the music, and got the whole video together in about six hours total… they forgot to actually tell me the schedule. Thought I had two days 🙂
-Dave
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