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photo montage
Ok I get the award of the year for being the dumbest photo montage creator. How can the simplist program be so difficult for me….I’ve read and reread countless times instructions on how to do this…….. have vegas 5, excalibur 4….Edward has been so patient and kind with me and gave me personal instructions but I’m still not getting it. I have 50 pictures on vegas time line. I’m frustrated to the point where i’m now working with each picture individually/manually.
I’ve set the New still image length to 5 seconds which works with all just cuts at this point. I’ve went through half my pictures clicking on the pan/crop tool then choosing Match output aspect. Then I cropped the picture and added zooms in and out manually. Here’s where things go down hill………Do I have my preview montor on Good auto or Good full? I was using good full and everything looked good until I previewed it on my external 14inch tv by using the “PREVIEW ON EXTERNAL MONTOR option….The pictures on the tv were not framed right, not zoomed in enough to cover the full screen….On the Event pan/crop tool, I’ve set the preset to: 4:3 standard tv aspect ratio but even that keeps jumping between Default and Untitled. I’ve started over to crop them to my external tv monitor but can’t now stop/over ride the previous zooming settings that still exist on each picture. I guess I could deleate all the pictures again on my time line and start over again, but i’ve tried that once and ran into some of the same problems. anyway thanks for hearing me rante on about this. Regards, Gary -
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Oh and one more thing i forgot to add….Some of the zooms are really jerky when previewing on my external tv.
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First of all, I would leave the preview on Good (Auto). Secondly, when things look “jerky”, what is your framerate? I’m betting the playback rate is less that 29.97.
Finally, you might want to update to Excalibur 4.2, add the pictures to the timeline, and simply run the PBS Wizard and see the results. Tweak the handful that need it and you should be done.
Edward Troxel
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I’m beginning to realise that Vegas/5/6? isnt much good for photo montage projects involving large numbers of images.
I’m therefore tempted to do my image work in the awesome but simple Pro-Show Gold in future, and then export the finished video into Vegas, if need be, for rendering to WMV etc, and/or adding Vegas/Adorage refinements -
Why do you think it’s not good for photo montages with larger numbers of photos? I think it works great for that purpose.
Edward Troxel
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>Why do you think it’s not good for photo montages with larger numbers of photos? I think it works great for that purpose.
———Hi.
This is just my personal opinion – based on doing a mammoth 40 minute slideshow in ProShow Gold in March, which took me 2 weeks to do; but I reckon it would have taken twice as long in Vegas-5, since I find it more time consuming to set up each custon Pan and Zooms etc (scripts dont work for me).
But youd have to try ProShow Gold to know what I meant.Any, just my 2 cents worth.
I was trying to help you out.cheers
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I used the Excalibur PBS script on a photo montage of 120 images of various size and resolution, and in ten minutes, I had a good slideshow. Thirty minutes of tweaking the pan/crop of some of the larger images and I have a great slideshow.
Steve Mann
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