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split screen and trac motion
I have set up several chapters for a DVD. I started with a master with several split screens one for a rolling credit, one for video and one for a static title, they all run concurrently in different tracts, then saved it as a project file. Then to create each individual chapter I added several clips and edited them, each one had a title and rolling credits in different split screens, then added voice over and saved each one as a project file .vf. Now I want to edit each one and make the split screen for the video portion larger. When I click on the track motion icon for that particular video trac it takes me to the window were I grab the corner of the video and enlarge the split screen. On most of my vf files it works fine and the split screen gets bigger. But on two of them when I try to enlarge the split screen it enlarges in the trac motion window but on the actual video it doesn’t change the size. If I click on the little crop pan icon for one specific clip I can change the cropping and move it around but cant enlarge it.
Is there is a reason why I can increase the size of the split screen on most of my project files but not on two of them? Are there some type of parameter or setting that I could have unknowingly changed for those project files
Bob Johnson
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It always helps if you supply some screen grabs of just exactly what you are doing. Is this possible?
Grazie
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Grazie,
I’m still learning SV and pretty new to this forum. Not sure of what you mean by screen grab. BUt I think you mean some video of what I’m doing on the computer screen. I saw on another thread that camtasia studio is a program that can do this. I am downloading it and when I figure out how to use it, I will upload a video. That is after I figure out how to do that also.
Thanks for the reply
Bob Johnson
San Diego -
Bob, by screen grabs, Grazie means a picture (snapshot) of your current Vegas/DVDA workspace (i.e. what’s happening on screen at a spcific moment).
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I did a video screen capture and will upload the video ASAP
Bob Johnson
San Diego -
Attached is a video screen capture to show the problem I am having with editing the size of one of the split screens. Also there is voice over that describes the problem
Here it the link
https://shorts.creativecow.net/film/video-screen-captureBob Johnson
San Diego -
Bob! I can honestly say I have not seen anything like this . . . which doesn’t help you, but really, I haven’t seen this.
I have spent the last 60 minutes flicking back and forth, comparing both your procedures and attempting to locate a hint of user error. I truly can not see one. It is as if the TM alteration process is NOT updated in the Preview. Almost as if you are still operating the previous Project’s TM but in this one?!? Which, of course, is unthinkable!!
What I would like to see is the TM Keyframes being, or NOT being, created on the Main Timeline. Do you see these being created on either Project 1 or Project 2?
Very odd indeed. And I understand your dilemma completely. If something has got broken, then a Factory Reset may be in order. But before that – and that isn’t a big deal – let’s see if anybody else has “stumbled” on something that could lead to an obvious remedy.
Tell me, when you scrub up and down the timeline, does your Preview Update?
Interesting . . . .
Grazie
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I only know a little about keyframes, from what I know they are like anchor points where you stop or start Trac Motion (I assume that you abbreviated it to TM) So I don’t know if I have them or not I Did not create them on purpose. And when you say scrub the timeline I assume that means moving the cursor along the timeline. And yes the video preview is updated as I scrub the timeline
Here is another video with two projects side by side and again I can change the size of one of the split screens but not in the other project
https://shorts.creativecow.net/film/193
Bob Johnson
San Diego -
Woah! This is a short long-shot, BUT, in the example of the one that isn’t responding, I can JUST see what looks like the appearance of a DOUBLE key frame just over the same point you are trying to adjust. E x p a n d the length of the K/F Timeline which is situated just under the adjustment box, or the MAIN timeline and see if you can identify a nearby “double” keyframe at the point where the “Cursor” is residing. If you CAN then delete it then come back with your results. My thoughts are that you are trying to adjust an overlying previously STATIC keyframe.
I’m hoping that this is the culprit. This is the problem with working on a very tiny area of timeline.
Grazie
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Good eye my friend,
I have attached another video. What is interesting it the extra keyframe is not there initially it only shows up when I try to change the size of the split screen layer. However the way to get it to not show up is to click on the trac motion and withing the trac motion window move the cursor and then I can adjust the size of the split screen layer, as you can see in the video.
I still do not understand why it only happens in this project and not in the others.
Either way thanks very much for your assistance. I still have more to learn about trac motion and all of its powers. Now I understand that instead of changing the size of the split screen across the whole trac I can change it at whatever points I want using multiple keyframes.
https://shorts.creativecow.net/film/more-video-trac-motion-screen-captures
Bob Johnson
San Diego -
Phew! Good . . .
When you CHANGE something then a K/F will be added. That is why they are called a key frame.
Glad you got it sorted.
Grazie
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