• VEGAS Pro

  Twin tracks question

  Posted by Tinfish on March 25, 2007 at 12:45 pm

  Hi.

  I’m using Sony vegas 5 but have never found out how
  to properly get one track to show up in the one underneath.
  (yes, I should read the manual, but… 😉

  What I mean is, say the top track is a video of the sun, and
  the bottom track is a video of hills – and say I want to combine
  then into one video. What I’d currently do is to lower the blue line
  in the top video track until it shows through below.
  But is there a better way to do this?

  Thanks for any info.

  Tin

  Tinfish replied 19 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
• 3 Replies

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  Tinfish

  March 25, 2007 at 3:40 pm

  PS: Re-reading this post, I might have given the impression
  that I dont have the manual, when in fact I do.
  I just read chapter 13 (Video FX and Compositing) but I could still
  do with some advice how best to get top track to appear clearly
  in lower track.

  I’m actually looking to make a laser-type/lightsaber
  effect show up from track 1 into track 2)

  Thanks.

  Tin
• 

  Adam Rose esq.

  March 25, 2007 at 3:47 pm

  create the light sabre either in photoshop, on a transparent background, or in vegas as a blue solid, again with transparent background. I just did the latter recently, and it worked a treat. There are better ways of course, in a program like after effects, but vegas served the purpose.

  can send you a veg file if you need – mail aht fuddam dawt com
  🙂

  also, learn to MASK. check it out in the manual. creating bezier masks in your crop and pan will also allow you to cut out that sun reasonably well, without having to drop the opacity of your top layer.

  HTH
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  Tinfish

  March 25, 2007 at 6:46 pm

  Good tips, H.T. Thanks.

  I’ll contact you re Veg. file.

  Thanks again.

  Tin

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