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newspaper clipping highlight
I’m still working on a piece the good folks here helped me with earlier. I have taken a video and replaced it’s poor-quality audio with a very good-quality audio by syncing the good to the video and muting the bad audio tracks. The content is a musical performance, and I am heartbroken now that I did not video-record the entire show. This “good” audio mix I obtained (of the entire show) is so good I want to run it out to the end, and now I’m thinking of what visuals I might fill the rest of the piece out with. I’ll probably collect some photos of the band and drop them in and out, but I was also thinking of this:
I’d scan a newspaper clipping I have of a review of this very performance, and bring that into the piece (following the end of the video) with a sort of moving highlight as the viewer reads the article. I don’t know what this is called but I’ve certainly seen it before–sort of a old-style retro technique (I believe I remember it from old b&w movies). I’m assuming I would create this effect in (or as) a separate project and then drop it in the video track of the performance project. Any ideas? Thanks again.
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The technique you’re referring to is called Pan & Scan (aka the Ken Burns effect) and is very easy to do in Vegas.
Before I tell you how, make sure that the scanner you’re using has an option called “De-screen” to deal with the dots that you get when you scan a newspaper.
If it doesn’t, then you’ll have to play with some Gaussian blur to try to reduce them.
If you can, scan the article at 200 dpi as this will give you some room to zoom in on it if you need to.
Also, save it out in PNG or TGA format (or PSD if you have Photoshop) as these are lossless formats (from a quality standpoint).Once it’s scanned, import it into your project and drop it on the timeline.
Figure out how long you want it to be on-screen for and drag it out to the appropriate length.
Click the Event Pan/Crop icon (middle of the right-hand side of the event) to open it.
Right-click in the middle of it and choose “Match Output Aspect”.
Don’t worry about what happens as you’ll be fixing it soon.
Place your cursor at any of the corners and drag it out so that you see both sides of the image.
Once that’s done, move this box so that the top of your image is displayed.
Something called a “keyframe” is automatically created for you while you’re doing this.
Making sure that the word “Position” remains highlighted, click at the end of the timeline at the bottom of the Pan/Crop window.
This creates and ending keyframe for you.
Now move the box so that it’s at the bottom of the image.
If all you want is a simple move from top to bottom, that’s all you have to do.
Exit Pan/Crop, double-click the event to highlight it and play it.
Adjust the beginning and end positions as needed. -
Thank you, Mike. I have not had time to yet to move forward and try this. I will soon and recap the experience.
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