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  Can Vegas do this effect?

  Posted by Jon Smith on August 20, 2009 at 10:25 pm

  I was watching a video that had a cool effect.. Can this be done in Vegas 8.0 Pro, and if so, HOW?

  Theo Van laar replied 16 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
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  Tyson Onaga

  August 20, 2009 at 10:29 pm

  You need to use Pan/Crop and Track Motion events on each track.
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  Theo Van laar

  August 20, 2009 at 10:42 pm

  Do you mean the black frame at the end of the video with different events in it? Simply make a black and white mask in e.g. photoshop. Black are the black bars and white will become transparant in Vegas.
  Open Vegas.
  Place the black/white mask on the top track.
  Place the inserts (video’s) on the tracks below the mask and Resize/reposition these videos with the track-motion tool.
  Set the composition mode of the mask-containing track to MULTIPLY (MASK) and enjoy your effect.
  Any black/white shape you can think off can serve as a mask for this effect.

  An example of a mask may be downloaded here:
  218_9blokken.psd.zip

  Theo
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  Jon Smith

  August 21, 2009 at 12:18 am

  Thank you for the tips… I can’t seem to make the white part alpha so that I can see the video under it! Also, do you have any other templates like this one?
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  Danny Hays

  August 21, 2009 at 1:12 am

  Use media generator to make a black track, put it on the bottom track, and track motion all the other tracks. Hope this helps, Danny Hays
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  Theo Van laar

  August 21, 2009 at 7:03 am

  ‘I can’t seem to make the white part alpha so that I can see the video under it!‘

  Set the composition mode of the mask-containing track to MULTIPLY (MASK)

  ‘Also, do you have any other templates like this one?’

  squares etc can be made with Vegas generated media. But all other form can be easilly made in e.g. photoshop. What do you need?

  Theo
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  Jon Smith

  August 21, 2009 at 4:15 pm

  Thank you, I got the alpha going. I just used chromakey to alpha out the white. Was that the right way to do it?

  I was looking for a template that was 3 shapes, a square on the left with two stacked rectangles (or squares) on the right. I know it’s simple, but can I build that with Vegas (I suck at Photoshop)? Or can I search on the web for templates? What are they officially called, video masks?
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  Theo Van laar

  August 21, 2009 at 7:52 pm

  If you only want to have straight shapes like squares, rectangles and circles, you can make everything you like in Vegas. Even the methot suggested by Danny will do. If you like to have special shapes (e.g. an erlemeyer for a video shot in a laboratory), other programs can be very usefull.
  But you can make any creative idea you can think of. What about a waterfall that starts in a square or a circel but where the water comes over the border and falls over other clips?

  Theo

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