I’m Stumped! Help?

[Edward Troxel]

Make it the correct size in Photoshop. Now drag that to the timeline in Vegas and it will expand as large as possible. Go into Pan/Crop and reset the settings back to the original size (i.e. 720×480) and it will revert back to the original size. Then you can move it around via Pan/Crop or Track Motion.

Another option would be to make the Photoshop image 655×480 (assuming NTSC) and bring that in. Then it should retain it’s original size when placed on the timeline.

There are several other options available but those two are very easy to use.

Edward Troxel

[Gary Kleiner]

I just put a solid black generated media on a track and used track motion to resize it down to a speck.

You don’t really need lots of tracks if you use keyframes to control where and when they show up. For example, use ‘hold’ keyframes to make them appear suddenly.

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com

[Allen Zagel]

Hi, Thanks
Gary, I thought of that but they’re not in the same place all the time and using track motion the way I understand it, if I moved one, they’d all move.

Ed. Well almost! hehehe. I missed that one! What I wound up doing was to make a transparent background in Photoshop at 655 X 480. In the center of that I made my 27 X 17 pixel black box. Then I brought it into Vegas and was able to work with it using Pan/Crop, then generated media to put my numbers inside that box. Worked out really coool but there’s hundreds of boxes! ugh!

That guy who suggest we put track switch numbers on the video? I’d like to *(&^%$#$%%^^ oh well! As if I didn’t have enough to do labeling stations, mile posts, streets and signals! 😉

Thanks for getting my mind working again.

PS: will be retiring from the railroad August 3rd and going into my video business full time.
Allen

ASX Media Productions
https://www.asxvideo.com

[Gary Kleiner]

[Allen Zagel] ” I thought of that but they’re not in the same place all the time and using track motion the way I understand it, if I moved one, they’d all move.”

No, not with Hold keyframes.

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com

[Ralph Hajik]

Hi Allen,

Congratulations on your future retirement. If I remember right it’s the Burlington Northern, coorect? 🙂

Ralph Hajik
Westmont, IL

[Allen Zagel]

Thanks Gary
I didn’t realize that. I’ll have to try it. So if I insert a hold keyframe I can set different events on that timeline to move seperate of any other? IS this a new feature of V6-7? If I remember correctly it didn’t work that way in 5.

Ralph
I’m an engineer on the Elgin Line, the old Milwaukee Rd. But I do the video on all the Metra lines. We need to get together sometime Ralph.
Allen

ASX Media Productions
https://www.asxvideo.com

[Alan Lacey]

Gary,

If I make a generated solid and then try to resize using Pan/Crop, in a Pal DV sequence (720×576) I can only take it down to about 10% size.

My Vegas(7) wont zoom out any further than width=5760 height=4608

I posted something along these lines about a month ago when I was trying to overlay a small (png) arrow that’s 65×66 and Vegas insisted on scaling it up to full screen. Using pan/crop I reduced the size but still not to it’s original. All I wanted was pixel to pixel mapping.

The option ‘source: stretch to fill frame’ changed things but neither y/n helped. I would have thought ‘stretch to fill frame=n’ should have left the graphic at it’s original size.

Do you have any idea what’s going on here?

Thanks Alan

[Edward Troxel]

[Allen Zagel] “IS this a new feature of V6-7?”

No, hold keyframes have been there since at least version 2. As long as you don’t parent/child your tracks, you shouldn’t have to worry about Track Motion affecting anything other than that particular track.

Edward Troxel

[Gary Kleiner]

[Allen Zagel] “if I insert a hold keyframe I can set different events on that timeline to move seperate of any other?”

To have motion separate from other motions on that track, just add another keyframe that is a copy of the previous keyframe right before you want the new motion to start. This is not using hold keyframes which make changes instantly with no transition.

For example
0:00 Keyframe 1 image is full screen
2:00 Keyframe 2 image rotated 90 degrees, half size, in upper left corner
4:00 Keyframe 3 image rotated 90 degrees, half size, in upper right corner

In this scenario, the image immediately starts to shrink, rotate, and move to the upper left over 2 seconds, then immediately moves to the right over the next 2 seconds.

If you were to add a keyframe at 3:00 that was a copy of the 2:00 keyframe, there would be a 1 second delay before the image moved from left to right because there is no change during the time between the two identical keyframes.

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com

[Allen Zagel]

Thanks much Gary
I printed out your reply and will try it on a test timeline. For now I got this project finished. All I need to do for the East Bound run is bring up another instance of Vegas, get my E/B video up and copy / past from the west bound project.

I’m curious to see how my pan/crop sw numbers copy. They should be okay as they’re event and not track. Which is a main reason I’m not sure I want to use the track motion for this particular project.

Using the track motion, wouldn’t I have to lay them all out again in the new project?
Allen

ASX Media Productions
https://www.asxvideo.com