3D Track Motion – How to achieve “Smooth circular motion”? (Vegas Pro 11)

[Steve Rhoden]

You can take a look at this Vegas plugin:
https://vasst.com/store/sony-vegas-plug-ins/scattershot-3d-1.aspx
It will save you plenty of time creating your 3D movements.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-832-4956

[Søren Sørensen]

Thanks a lot Steve, for a fast answer & the excellent and very interesting link! I might invest in this plug-in, however, my academic background pushes me on to try and understand how smooth circular motion can be achieved in Vegas Pro.

Short of using A LOT of keyframes and calculating different points on the circumference of a circle I cannot see how one can accomplish it in Vegas Pro with using plug-ins. Is this correct?

Or is there somewhere in the program that allows for typing a basic equation for a circle – and allowing easy access to changing the different parameters?
/Søren

[Roger Bansemer]

I just watched John’s tutorial on that plugin and I think it is just incredible. What a great plugin for producing stunning openings. I’m about to shoot a short video for one of our museums here in St. Augustine, FL and it will make the video I think.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Steve Rhoden]

Creates in seconds what would normally takes hours really.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-832-4956

[Steve Rhoden]

No, it involves using lots and lots of keyframes, Parent
and Child tracks etc Søren, There is no easier shortcut in Vegas
for what you want to achieve….ive pointed you to the easiest
one.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-832-4956

[Søren Sørensen]

Thank you for the help 🙂 I will go with scattershot indeed
/Søren

[John Rofrano]

[Søren Sørensen] “Short of using A LOT of keyframes and calculating different points on the circumference of a circle I cannot see how one can accomplish it in Vegas Pro with using plug-ins. Is this correct?”

No, that’s not correct. I wrote VASST ScatterShot 3D using the Vegas Pro scripting language and the Script API cannot do anything that you can’t already do with the GUI in Vegas Pro; it just automated it.

So you can produce what I did with ScatterShot 3D right in Vegas Pro using lots of math. I used four formulas that involved the use of SIN, COS, Pi, Radians and Degrees. Let’s just say, it wasn’t easy… that’s why I wrote the plug-in. 😉

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Steve Rhoden]

Its worth it….

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-832-4956