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pan video and slides – talking head with slides
I’m quite new to Sony Vegas.
I’ve got to produce about 12 hours of speakers (from DVD mini-disc) with their slides (from PPTs).
The speakers will fill the left half of the screen, the slides will fill the right half.
Couple of things:
1a] The 16:9 video has to fit into a 4:3 output format; it fills the screen horizontally, but not vertically, so I’ll need to scale it up about 10%.
1b] I want the speaker to take up the left half of the screen so I’ll have to pan.I see how to do these things individually, I just want to make sure I do it across the entire video, first to last frame.
2] I need to scale down every slide exactly the same (50%) and move it to the right. I see the tool to shrink and pan the slides, and I can even see that I can save that as a preset. Still, that’s going to take quite a while to do on every slide. Because this is all static, is there any way to simply bring in all 50 slides at the same size, or convert them in bulk?
Also, I guess I’ll need to put a white background behind the right half of the screen (since the video won’t fill the right half.)
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You can crop the speaker and then use Track Motion (2nd button after the track title) for the speaker+slides.
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Set your project properties to 4:3
Place your speaker on Track 1.
Open the Pan/Crop window, right-click in the middle of it and select “Match Output Aspect”. This will eliminate the need to resize it.
Pan as desired to get the speaker(s) on the left side if the screen.
Click the Mask button on the Pan/Crop timeline and create a simple box to eliminate the undesired material.
Save this as a preset in case you’ve already chopped the clips up.Place your slides on Track 2.
Open Track Motion and use it to place them in the desired position.Place the desired coloured background on Track 3.
I personally wouldn’t use white as the eye is normally drawn to the brightest area of the screen and you want them to be looking at the speaker or the slide.
Stick with plain black or a muted gray.That should do it for you.
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[Dave Collins] “The speakers will fill the left half of the screen, the slides will fill the right half.”
Check out my tutorial on Using a Mask to create a Split Screen effect. That will take care of #1. For #2 you can adjust one slide and then use Copy and then right-click on that event and choose Select All Events to End followed by Paste Attributes and the cropping will be pasted to every event.
~jr
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What will track motion accomplish? It sure soinds like something that would be helpful. Sometomes the speakers are all over the stage, which is gonig to make it very difficult when I reduced the video to half-screen.
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Thanks John, Mike, Dave. I will definitely try those things out.
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Thewre is also a script which can save you a lot of timewhen you have to make a compilation of the speakers with their slodes:
Prestohttps://www.singularsoftware.com/presto.html
Theo
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There is also a script which can save you a lot of time when you have to make a compilation of the speakers with their slides:
Prestohttps://www.singularsoftware.com/presto.html
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I tried to follow the tutorial. I couldn’t figure it out. None of the controls make sense. Every time I try to move a point, I get a spline.
You can’t just read the xy numbers to match them up because the numbers don’t appear until you’ve placed the point, at which point it’s too late to move.
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[Dave Collins] “I tried to follow the tutorial. I couldn’t figure it out. None of the controls make sense. Every time I try to move a point, I get a spline.”
It sounds like you need to get comfortable with the masking tool first. After drawing the mask you need to change to the arrow tool and click off of the mask to deselect it. Then you can select individual points and work with them. If you click a point with the mask tool it will toggle to a spline. You need to switch back to the arrow tool. Right-click on any point and select Reset Mask to start over.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Actually, it worked out for the better. Rather than an ugly split screen, I’ve decided to do the slide as a 1/4 screen inset over the fullscreen video.
This is both simpler to do and will look more elegant.
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