Pausing Templates!

[Graham Bernard]

OK, in the TRACK HEADER click on the EXCLAMATION Mark of one of the tracks you want to experiment with. This will have the effect of isolating that track say that Track 25.

Now, click on the DIAMOND shape with the DOWN arrow next to it.This will OPEN up your TRACK Motion Control Track.

Do that first. This will make the Positional Control Diamonds real big.

Click on that FIRST DIAMOND and it will bring up the TRACK MOTION CONTROL. Now – hold tight! – see that “Source Alpha” option? Click on it. NOW Select 3D Source Alpha. You will be presented with 4 Screens. Each of which are controls in the X,Y and Z Planes. ANd each one can be used to Control the Movement OVER TIME of any Event on your Timeline. In this case you WANT an EVENT to STAY in place for longer than you already have. This means you need to INCREASE the distance between one of the Keyframes to the next – this will create a sustained or PAUSE.

I don’t know each and everyone of your positionals to tell you which to move – I can only invite you to experiment and for you to determine which one you want to control.

HTHs

Grazie

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[Graham Bernard]

Of course, you may very well have ADDITIONAL Track Motion Controls that override that TRACK25 – but you WILL discover that too.

These Multilayered 3D track, Track Motion projects can get out of control very quickly – the easiest thing you’ve done is to download the Template. That was the easiest! – The FUN starts now.

However, get this skill under yer belt and you will many hours of options available to you to be creative.

Grazie

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[Simon Law]

Thank you so much!

Now I have a direction to go in

But can you clarify on Increasing the distance between one of the keyframes to the next?

[Graham Bernard]

Sure. Click on one and DRAG it away from the other.

G

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[Stephen Mann]

Simon, first, thanks for pointing to a new templates source that I had not ever heard of.

But, as a Vegas user for 12+ years, trust me when I tell you that inserting delays like you describe is going to be a time-consuming world of hurt.

Here’s how I would do this.

Finish the Montage project as-is. Put your images and videos in the selected places then save the project, call this montage.veg then render it to an intermediate file. I used Sony MXF in my test.

Open a new project.
Add the montage.mxf file to the timeline.
Add a new video track above the montage track. Put your insert video here.
Add a “velocity envelope” to the montage event.
When the montage track gets to the video that you want to slow to a crawl, double-click on the velocity envelope. Don’t change anything yet. Move the playhead (timeline cursor) to the end of the inserted video and double click on the Velocity Envelope on the montage track.
Drag a fade-in/out of about 1-second on the inserted video.
On the montage event with the cursor in the middle of the inserted video, double click on the velocity envelope and now drag it down to 10%.

Hopefully, this image may help:

When you play this back you will see the montage frame with the video you want to slow down come into view, the full-screen of this video will fade in, then at it’s end it fades out and the montage below resumes it’s normal movements. Play with the amount of velocity slowdown to get the montage to be timed to resume its flow.

Good luck.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com