how to make an animated “circling”???

[Theo Van laar]

From Vegas 9, this has become very easy in Vegas.
Here is a tutorial how to do it with the Spicemaster plugin:
https://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=16465

For Vegas 9 (and 10) you can still follow this tutorial for the photoshop part. But instead of using the spicemaster plugin, you can use the GRADIENT WIPE from the transition tab.

Theo

[Seranya Myor]

Copy the photo you want on two tracks. Add the cookie cutter effect, in the circle shape, on the pic in the above track. Set it to “cut away all but section” method and make sure you increase the border to whatever size you want, or else the circle won’t be visible. Fix it to whatever point you want to focus on, then add a clock wipe transition to the above track and that’s it!

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks! I like this one, using the clock wipe… clever.

Theo, I like that solution as well, looks interesting but I’m not sure how to replace spicemaster with gradient wipe.

Gilles

[Bill Mash]

Clock Wipe with Chromakey to remove any background from circle, if there is one.

~Just because you can doesn’t mean you should~

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Bill,
I’ve never used chromakey… i’m not sure what you mean. I may just have to play with it.

Gilles