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Coaching needed… try to expand PIP
I’m putting together a news broadcast for my kids’ elementary school. It is to look just like a broadcast you would see on your local news channel.
What I would like to be able to do is embed a video in the top right corner of the screen while the anchor is introducing it. Once that is done, I would like to be able to expand that video into full screen.
I have already embedded everything, but am getting stuck with “expanding” the video to full screen.
FYI: I’m using Vegas 8, Custom machine with Dual Core 2.0Ghz, 8Gb RAM, 80Gb + 1Tb HDDs.
Any help would be much appreciated!
-Eric
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As you haqve probebly already done place your ‘small picture’ on a track above your announcers picture track and use event pan and crop to resize it and place it in the corner.
When you want to enlarge it to cover the whole screen place your time line curser (scrubber) at the point you want the expansion to start and open your event pan crop window for the PiP (top track). In the lower portion of the P/C window is a small time line where you might want to activate the ‘synch curser’ control. The curser in the keyframe timeline will now move in unison with the curser in your main time line. Move either curser to the point where you would like the expansion of the picture to complete its expanding. Then in the P/C window expand the event to fill and be centered in the screen. When you play this section your PiP will expand and fill the screen. Whether it expands fast or slow depends on on the length of time you give it to expand. Whether it expands linear;y or smoothly is also controllable. Linearly is a constant speed from start to stop. Smoothly is a slowly accelerating beginning, a constant speed in the middle and a slowly decelerating ending.
Have fun it is actually much easier than it sounds. -
Works like a charm! Thank you!
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