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Adding simple animation to Vegas Pro video
Dear Forum,
Help requested on choosing a program for making simple animations for Vegas Pro Videos. It cannot be done in Vegas Pro itself, right?
Simple geometric shapes fx.
(i) Cube spinning
(ii) Bar growing (make ‘line’ below fx. a 45 degree inclined text. that starts in a dot and grows longer over time)
etc.Regards,
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[Søren Sørensen] “It cannot be done in Vegas Pro itself, right?”
Wrong! 😉 You can do quite a bit of animation in Vegas Pro using generated media, masking, and track motion.
[Søren Sørensen] “(i) Cube spinning”
You can set up a spinning cube with 6 tracks of media and 3D Track Motion in Vegas Pro. My plug-in VASST Scattershot 3D can help you do this in a just few clicks but it can be done manually. 3D Track Motion will allow you to arrange the tracks in 3D space. A 7th parent track with Parent Track Motion will allow you to rotate the cube as a whole.
[Søren Sørensen] “(ii) Bar growing (make ‘line’ below fx. a 45 degree inclined text. that starts in a dot and grows longer over time) etc.”
This can be done with Generated Media and Masking. Check out our VASST Title Strips. They are animated and were all created entirely within Vegas Pro with no other tools.
The secret to animation in Vegas Pro is the right combination of masking and track motion. You must keyframe the mask points to make them move and reveal the media that you want to animate. Since masks are Bezier curves, they can be any shape you want.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Cool – That’s great news. I will dive into it right away.
Thanks for a more than competent answer!!! 🙂
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[Søren Sørensen] “Thanks for a more than competent answer!!!”
You’re welcome. If you have any questions after reading up on 3D Track Motion and Masking feel free to ask questions. I think after you play with it a bit you’ll get the hang of it.
One important point about making a cube… since the sides must be square, you might want to create a project that is 512×512 so that all of the media has the same width and height. Then use that project as a nested project in your master project.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Hello Soren. This is an example I did a couple of years ago for a National Trust Location. This is done with just using Vegas and Parent / Child tracks set to 3D. This example uses 42 track but as John R mentioned, once you have cracked the first cube it all starts to make sense. Hope this gives you some confidence. Regards JB
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jpm0mw71de1eu9u/Spring.mpg
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Hi John,
That is very impressive work – thank you for the display, and yes, that will most certainly help me in my “quest”. Cool to see what Vegas can actually accomplish. (I’m a little intimidated also…).The problem is – like you both state – to crack the first cube. In other words. Where to start.
/Søren
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Would it be possible for you to throw me a screendump of a few of the track-lines in Vegas for a good start? -
Hello SC8ren
I have attached a screen picture of what part of the time line looks like ( two cubes ) As you can see each cube usually consist of One parent track and then six child tracks for the images on each side. The Parent track controls all the movement of all the child tracks so you can rotate and position is where you wish on the screen but you will notice that I have used more child tracks so that as the cube rotates where the rear of the cube is out of sight I change the picture for that side to make is more interesting. I can’t show all 49 tracks that make this video as you would never be able to see any detail 🙂
Now sure if this help Regards John
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Søren, I don’t know if it will be any help but here’s a veg file that I had in my collection. It works in Pro 8, 9 and 10. Have fun with it.
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Hi John (x2) & Mike,
Thank you! It helps a lot already 🙂
What a fantastic helpful, and competent, forum!
BR
Søren
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