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Sony Vegas advanced Stuff
So I made this video about A tribute to batman begins
I’m still new to sony vegas but any tips comments?But I really wanna do what ravenhpltc24 does in her Avatar Remember the name here is what i think is her best work
My question is how do you do the multi screen effects, that shows each of the characters overlaying their name, where she crops it in the beginning.
Or richardbfv’s Avatar – Illuminati
at 00:20 when it does it again and shows the picture but splits it into 6 different scenes.
Are these after effects or can I still do em with sony vegas 9.0
any tutorials? or the name of these effects?thanks!
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Everything I saw in those videos can be accomplished in Vegas using Track Motion, Pan/Crop, the Mask tool (inside Pan/Crop) and lots of keyframing. The trick is to turn off some of the default parameters in Pan/Crop that keep the aspect fixed so that you can do the vertical slices that are seen in those videos. It is a LOT of hard work but you see how cool it looks so it’s worth it in the end.
So yes, you can do this in Vegas. How to do them is far beyond a forum post. 😉 Look up Track Motion and Pan/Crop in the manual and read, read, read. Ask questions here on specifics as you go along are we’ll guide you in the right direction. Maybe I could even do a few tutorials to help you out. I haven’t place any new ones on my web site in a while. 😀
~jr
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Alright thanks, I checked out your guide and I learned a ton of new information.
So what I figured out lets say i just have 1 video for simplistic sake. and i want it to event pan/crop it vertical slices across the video. it is a 10 sec clip. Here are my steps:So if I take that whole 10 sec, and click on event pan/crop,
-I unclicked the default parameters
-made sure to unclick stretch to film frame in order to get the frame at the right instead of it being in the middle.
-go to the key time line on the bottom and just go from 1st at the right and last 10sec to the left.
-and play it.
-it works it goes from right to left,But there is nothing to control this the speed of it going right to left, because when I add music and beats to it, I want it to match it.
After playing around, I took the 10 sec clip and split it 1 sec each then I did my steps again and panned/croped it first 10% to the left, next clip another 10% to the left so that on the overall clip it is 20% to the left, repeat
You are right it is time consuming 😀
Is there an easier way? something that I over looked?
Thanks I wish I could send a test video for you can see, but its late.
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I forgot to add, (due to new member I can’t edit it)
The reason I want to know a new way, is because if I split the video 10 times and do each separate I have to make sure that each pan/crop is A)the same size and B) it is at 30% across the video from left to right and not at 35% which makes it look weird if my sequence goes 10% to 20% to 35% doesn’t look professional and that takes more time.
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AHHH FRIK Ignore my last two postings I right clicked the diamond key and learned that you can change how fast it is, or even make it HOLD!!! WHICH SOLVES EVERYTHING! hahaha
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> AHHH FRIK Ignore my last two postings I right clicked the diamond key and learned that you can change how fast it is, or even make it HOLD!!! WHICH SOLVES EVERYTHING! hahaha
BINGO! That’s exactly what I was thinking as I read this string of posts. Changing the keyframes to HOLD will make them jump to the new positions in time with the music so that you don’t have to cut up the clip. Don’t forget that you can save the Pan/Crop setting as a preset so that you can use it over and over and always get the same exact size.
Also there is a smoothness parameter that determines the curve that will be used to go from keyframe to keyframe. This will smooth out the start and end of the travel. For example, if you use linear with a smoothness of 0 the motion will start and stop abruptly. But if you increase the smoothness, the motion will easy in and out of the keyframes giving a more organic look. This is especially important when simulating a camera pan because no one can stop a camera abruptly so easing in makes the pan look more natural.
Sounds like you are off to a good start. 😉
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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