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Vegas Pro 8 Transitions
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Thank you John. Its a bit still technical for my skill level but I think it will give me a good start and be able to figure it out.
The one thing is the mask shouldn’t be solid but transparent. Not sure how to do that. If I used the already solid colors in the selection part and then get them 1/3 in size and then put the name on I don’t know how to make it transparent.
Bill
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> Its a bit still technical for my skill level but I think it will give me a good start and be able to figure it out.
Don’t be afraid to come back and ask questions here as you do.
> The one thing is the mask shouldn’t be solid but transparent. Not sure how to do that.
Each event has a transparency associated with it. Hover your mouse at the top of any video event and the cursor will change to a hand with an up/down arrow and the tool tip “Opacity is 100%”. If you click and drag down, you can change the opacity from 100 all the way down to 0%. Also if you use generated media, the color of each media includes transparency as one of it’s settings. Either way will work.
~jr
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Thank you again John. I know what you mean about pulling down the window to make it transparent. I didn’t know you could do that with generated media.
Thank you for letting me know that it’s alright to ask questions a lot. A guy I know said to ask only once in awhile because he said that’s the way things are done.
I’m going to try everything that you mentioned and find out if I can get it all. It’s difficult making the transition from analog to digital but it sure is a great way to edit. Very quick and you don’t have any generation loss or need to re-record raw footage like you would with analog.
Bill
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John, it was very simple to do. I also noticed about the event/crop on how to crop the video. I dd it to the entire video clip but I’m some what sure that when you divide up the piece you want to crop then it will only effective that area.
I was able to change the percentage of the solid background and put the text in. The text pan works easy to move the text to the right place but I am having a problem of not being able to place the mask area above the bottom of the monitor.
On the news they have the name and mask above the bottom of the television. I probably have to get use to moving it around.
I read your profile and appreciate your willingness to help others. I also shoot videos and I’m working to tape lots of the indie bands in Chicago.
The website that I am working on to get it know is called https://www.Chicago3Media.com It’s fun to do and get around the city to cover events.
It helps the bands get their music out and I don’t charge them at all for covering them. None of the bands have any money to hire a production crew so this is the next best thing.
I’m sure I will have more questions for you. For now I can start working what you taught me. Just to mention, I’m assuming that I can make another video track and place a logo in the bottom right corner that will identify who created the video.
Then with putting in names I suppose that would be put on the next video track and then the following raw video footage would be put on the third video line.
Bill
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yes, all correct, Bill
🙂
Onward!
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> Thank you for letting me know that it’s alright to ask questions a lot. A guy I know said to ask only once in awhile because he said that’s the way things are done.
You know… he may have been talking about asking co-workers questions in which case I could see his point of not wanting to bug people too much… but in a support forum like the Cow… if you don’t ask lots of questions, we won’t having anyone to talk to. 😉
> Just to mention, I’m assuming that I can make another video track and place a logo in the bottom right corner that will identify who created the video.
Yes. The important thing to remember is that the tracks are seen from the top down. So the topmost track will hide the track below it, and that one will hide the next one. If you want your network bug to always be on top, then make it the top track. since the name should always be above the lower third, keep it on the track just above. You can layer as many tracks as you want this way.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Hi John, understand now about the order of putting things first, second, etc.. It’s great to have this forum on Vegas Pro 8. I know it must be able to do a lot of things and the help part of it doesn’t seem to be very helpful in finding exactly what I want to do.
Also, the terminology when entering questions for it to search doesn’t match to what we called things in analog editing.
There are lots of things to learn about Vegas Pro 8 and having the COW forum is the next best thing to having a personal instructor.
Bill
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Hello John,
I have been trying different ways of moving around the logo to place it on the bottom right hand side of the screen.
I am using the pan and crop tool and when I move the logo to the right or down to low it starts to hide under the video footage.
I noticed that if I increase the size of the square in the pan tool then it will not disappear.
I have not got it very close to the right hand side towards the bottom. I try to click on the logo while it event/pan thinking it will just go where I want it to if I grabbed it and move it. It doesn’t allow me to do that.
Anything that I should know about why the crop/event part is difficult to move around images?
Bill
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When you’re in Pan/Crop for the logo, right-click, select Match Output Aspect and resize as desired.
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