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video over video
Excuse the newbie quality of this question but I’ve just graduated from the old Sony MovieStudio software to Vegas Pro10. The transition has been easy enough since many actions are the same.
I’m trying something new and I’m having trouble finding info about it. Please help if you can.
I have a video clip and I want to add a clip of a clock face to a corner of the main video to show how much time elapses. I figured out how to make the clock face semi-transparent and the figure in the background is visible but that really isn’t the effect I’m after.
Can someone explain to me how to shrink a superimposed video image so it appears in a corner while leaving the main underlying video untouched?
Thanks for any help you can render.
Jon R. -
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At the left corner of your timeline, you will see several icons.
click on Track Motion and a window will pop up, just click and drag
on the corners to resize your superimposed video and move it anywhere
on the screen.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Maker
Filmex Creative Media.
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On your timeline, click on Event Pan/Crop of your footage of the clock face, like so:
A window will open and you will see a raw still of your clock face footage. It will have a dotted lined rectangular square the size of your video output frame on it, with points at the midpoints and corners for you to manipulate it. There are icons on the left column of this window. Mouse-over them and make sure you have checked ‘Lock Aspect Ratio’.
Now roll your mouse back so that your image of the clock face is smaller and click and drag one of the bottom corners of the footage (take the opposite side of the side you want to clock face to be on) and drag to expand it. The dotted outline of the frame will become larger but the clock face image will remain the same size. This will then appear smaller and smaller into the corner of your output frame.Your dotted line rectangle represents the output frame so you can position it in relation to the clock face footage until it is sized and positioned as you desire.
If it is an analogue clock and/or is circular and you don’t want the background of the footage (I.E the square of excess footage around it), you can mask it away.
To mask, select the beginning of the timeline in the Event Pan/Crop window. You’ll notice there are two timelines:
Make sure you have checked the ‘Anchor Creation Tool’ in the left column sidebar, and you can begin just simply clicking around the clock to outline it. You can add curve to these lines and fiddle around with them, and feather them so they are less of a harsh solid edge.
Hope this helped!
Daniel Hughes
Amateur Writer, Director,
Director of Photography
United Kingdom -
What Steve said is fine also, there are a couple of ways to do it. I tend to prefer my way because you can see the outline of the frame and where it’s going to be without having to use the preview as reference for getting it perfectly in the corner etc.
But we all have our preferences!
Just choose which way you like best and stick to it 🙂
There are two ways because you will find yourself in situations where you require both.
Daniel Hughes
Amateur Writer, Director,
Director of Photography
United Kingdom -
Guys,
Thanks so much. I appreciate the help and I’m glad you’re around because I’m sure I’ll have future questions. One is, does anyone know a classroom training session for Vegas? If not, how about a good video training class?Thanks again.
Jon -
Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Maker
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956 -
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This worked perfectly. I got just what I needed. I didn’t see how to feather the edge but it looked good without it.
Jon -
If you’re not in a big hurry to learn for a project or anything, I’d check out some tutorials but I do recommend trying to work some of it out for yourself. You will be able to make more sense of things.
I’m in my late teens and Vegas is something that’s just always been ‘there’. I started teaching myself when I was around 13, editing stick figure animations and such, and now I know Vegas better than I know how to operate a fridge. You can pick it up very easily, it’s really simple and logical.
Training videos are good I guess, but for me it’s like learning French in your British school; you would pick it up a lot better if you just moved to France to work it out for yourself.
So yeah, check out tutorials but afterwards you should really try to just sit and get used to it. Grab some footage and play around with it, see what you can do, and you’ll pick it up in no time!
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Daniel Hughes
Amateur Writer, Director,
Director of Photography
United Kingdom
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