[Andrew Lenczycki]

Roger,

Can you give a little more detail, which “blur” function are you referring to. What you are talking about sounds much easier than what I’ve been doing to get the look of a “Polaroid picture” moving on the screen, using a white solid media “box” sized to create about a 1/4″ border around a picture, which is on a separate track. I tie the two together with a Parent/Child relationship (white “border” is the parent, picture is the child). All this is done with 3D track motion. It sounds like from your description, I could do the picture and border all on one track.

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

You can go to the Sony Creative Software website and look at the info for Vegas Pro 11. It should list “what’s new” with this version (that you won’t have in previous versions like 10).

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

I have been using Vegas Pro V10 32 bit since it came out and am now on the 10e revision. This has been VERY stable for me. I purchased but haven’t yet installed the V11 based on all the varioius problems being reported by users on this forum.

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

I choose not to look at it as “moving the workspace around”, but think of it as moving the “camera lense” over the scene. I zoom in and/or pan with the “camera”, which is represented by the bounded selection box. Once I had set that in my mind, I had no problem figuring how I wanted to approach a scene.

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

I played with the Soft Contrast FX from the Sony Vegas Pro 10 Video FX tab. I was able to soften the image I had by playing with the slider controls. Sometimes experimentation is your friend.

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

Also note that if you want the pictures to be overlapped automatically so they fade out while the next picture fades in, you can change the OptionsPreferencesEditing then select the checkbox Automatically overlap multiple selected media when added, then change the Cut-to-overlap conversion (seconds) value to whatever you want the transition fadeout/in to be. Press the Apply button at the bottom of the dialog box, then the OK button.
Note that this won’t work on media currently on your timeline, only on media added after you make this change. You also will need to select the pictures to be added as a group (using the Shift-Left Click and/or Ctrl-Left Click) rather than individually one at a time.

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

Steve & John,

Thanks for both of your replies. It sounds like the “cure” is worse than the disease. I was only asking because I have several video tapes that I need to bring in to Vegas and cut out all the extraneous stuff from each. I would guess that for each 2 hour VHS tape there is actually only 5-10 minutes of “good” video worth actually keeping (i.e. how long do you really want to watch a 2 month old baby staring into a video camera before you ZZZZZzzzzz.)

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

Stephen,

Thanks for clarifying. Is there any way to “get the good stuff” from a large event, retaining the good parts and being able to discard the original large file? I believe you could edit out all the unwanted stuff and then render the remaining events to a file, but will it be of “1st generation quality” like the source media?

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

John, I’m no expert but I downloaded your sample file and applied a few Sony Vegas Pro 10 FX’s. First I applied the Secondary Color Corrector, and adjusted the Saturation & Gamma values (see Aberation1 photo). I then applied the Chroma Keyer effect and used the eyedropper tool to select the area with what I think was the worst CA (the blue around the treetops). I then tweaked those controls for best visual appeal (to me) – See Aberation2 photo for settings. I then took a screen shot of your clip, the top half with the above settings applied, the bottom half with the clip as supplied by you. Again, I am NO EXPERT, but I believe my output was better than the original. Good luck.

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

John, can you clarify for me please. When a subclip is created, is it still “referencing” the original media (i.e. if I delete the original media, will the subclip still have data?). I could see where this could be useful to trim a long (uneventful) clip down to subclips of just the “good stuff”, then get rid of the long clip.

Andrew Lenczycki