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Selective two-edge borders in Sony Vegas Pro 10?
Friendly greetings! This seems like a straightforward enough problem, but I suspect I’m missing something simple:
I’d like to effect a clip and show a border on only TWO sides. For example, the right and the bottom edge. Vegas has a Border effect which applies a border around every edge. If I select the Beveled option, I can get somewhat nearer because with certain angles (like 225 degrees) and color set to white, it does look like a border only goes across two edges: https://screencast.com/t/aVqC39uhJ5vA
But it still seems kind of kludgy. Does anyone know a more elegant approach? Even better if there’s a way to make just the border glow. Thanks in advance.
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I would make the frame in Photoshop and put it on the top layer of your project.
Steve Mann
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You could also use event pan and crop to crop off the two sides you don’t want, and stay in Vegas.
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Thanks guys! My followup thoughts:
@Stephen That makes sense to me but here’s a tricky thing: I want each of the four “picture in picture” clips to originally encompass the entire canvas, then zoom out and slide into each corner. So with a Photoshop layer on the top layer, looks like I’d have to fade that in at the right time.
@Danny I’ll try some experimenting with that, although I was hoping for a more stylized and aesthetically striking approach (hence my mention of “glow”). I’ve also looked into existing tools like VideoWall, although I haven’t found the flexibility I’d like — is there a more advanced borders plugin with keyframing? (I’ve found various one for Photoshop, but seems to be a gap in the video market?)
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An idea to try:
In this test, border will show on bottom & right edges only.-In timeline, select desired event.
-In pan/crop make clip smaller to show black (background) on top & left edges only. (Width of black should be same as desired width of border.)
-Apply border.
-In Track Motion, move edited event up & left and increase dimensions until event with borders on bottom & right fill the frame.
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An intriguing suggestion. Thanks Jerry, I’ll give this a go!
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