Andrew Lenczycki
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WOW! I learn something new every day from you guys!
I wasn’t aware of this Snap Offset, but will use it a LOT. I frequently use some sort of short video clip (Digital Juice) to transition from one video clip to the next (A to B). If I want this transition clip to be centered (or little one way or the other) across the two clips, it normally tries to “snap” the start of the transition clip to the juncture of the two A & B clips. I then have to snap-override and slid the transition clip to the left or right to get it centered the way I want. With this Snap Offset, I can just set the snap point to be the middle (or a little one way or the other) of the A & B clip interfaces. I’m working on a lacrosse year end video for high school, with about 35 of these type of transitions (one for each player) and can see that this will be a HUGE timesaver.
Andrew Lenczycki
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Two quick things:
1) Vegas likes the PNG format better than most others from Photoshop.
2) You don’t say what your computer specs are. Is the “lag” being created by a slow computer? One way to find out is to render out a few seconds to a Quicktime or MPEG2 format and watch it. My computer is sometimes a little underpowered and will lag while editing (i.e. is not “real-time”), but when I view the rendered output on “loop”, it will eventually clear up completely.Andrew Lenczycki
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Michael,
You don’t say in your post what release (8, 9, 10, 11) or version (Movie Studio or Pro) of Vegas you are using. I believe in either version, you can drag one clip to overlap the other clip (usually by 1/2 to 1 second) and Vegas will automatically provide a fade from the first video clip to the second. NOTE: The two clips would be on the same track.
In Vegas Pro (I don’t know about Studio) on the Transitions tab there are literally hundreds of pre-set transition effects (3D Blinds, 3D Cascade, 3D Shuffle, Dissolve, Flash, Push, Slide, Spiral, Squeeze, etc.) you can use (and then further customize to your liking). To do this, overlap your two video clips like above, then select the particular transition you want to use and left-click on the transition and drag in onto the overlapped portion of videos. This is all very simple and I believe would be covered in the users manual. Do a search for “transition” or “transition effects”.
Andrew Lenczycki
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Another way to get to where you want to be is to save your current project, say as “FileA.veg”. This veg file has all the cuts you want, possibly multiple tracks used. Now open a new project, and INSERT the FileA.veg to your timeline (i.e. don’t just open the FileA.veg file in Vegas, acutally add it just like a clip to a new vegas project). When you do this, the file will be comprised of two tracks (1 video, 1 audio). So now your track that you say has multiple cuts in it every few seconds is one continuous track with no cuts. Add the “sphere” effect you want and as Mike Kujbida says in his post, you can keyframe the effect you want onto this one continuous clip.
Note that you can also copy and paste your keyframes. If you have the effect “on” in keyframe 1 and then “off” in keyframe 2, you can click the first keyframe, shift-click the second keyframe (selecting both), press CTRL-C (copy), then move your cursor to the next time you want your effect to turn “on” (say 4 seconds later) and press the CTRL-V (paste), which will paste BOTH keyframes (the first one at your cursor, the second one will be the same distance from the 1st keyframe as when you made the “copy”). Hopefully this helps.
Andrew Lenczycki
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Yes I do. At the 1:19 point, it appears as if you go “thru” the text. This looks like it was done by fading out the text and adding a little Gaussian Blur (FX) at the same time.
Andrew Lenczycki
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Not exactly sure what you’re asking, but Vegas doesn’t have any hardware (i.e. “editing card”) it comes with. You would just want your computer’s graphics card to be one that is capable of handling what it needs to for Vegas. If you search this forum, there are many threads that talk about what requirements are needed as far as computing power (CPU, memory, hard drive, graphics). I believe Sony also has what they consider to be the minimum requirements of computing power on their site as well. You could also list your computer specifications and tell the forum what type of editing you want to do (i.e. HD video requires a lot more “horsepower” than DVD video). Some of the more knowledgeable people on this forum could then give you specific recommendations.
Andrew Lenczycki
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Jeff,
“You can’t expand it to tracks in the host project, if that’s what you meant.”
If you right click the nested Vegas file to get a context sensitive menu, you can select Edit in Vegas (YourFilename.veg) and a new instance of Vegas will open with the file YourFilename.veg, that you CAN edit. When done editing, save it and close, and the updated file will be updated in the nested project.
Andrew Lenczycki
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If you’re talking about the white text that is superimposed on the scene, indicating what is being said, it can be done with text events (Media Generators tab, Text event) that are controlled with keyframes in Track Motion – 3D Source Alpha. There will be a lot of keyframing needed to give the illusion that the text is part of the scene. It can all be done from within Vegas.
Andrew Lenczycki
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If I understand what you’ve written correctly, you’ve taken the exact files generated by your “good” computer and put them on “another” computer and the resulting DVD burned doesn’t work exactly the same.
If so, have you looked at the problem being the DVD burner of the “other” computer. I’ve seen differences in how well and what players a DVD will play when burned by the two different DVD burners I’ve used. Sometimes there are firmware updates that can be downloaded and applied from the DVD manufacturer’s website that address issues like this.
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Depending on how realistic and detailed you need to get, I quickly played with the “Sony Wave” VFX, which I applied to a test video clip. As a starting place, every 5 seconds I put down a keyframe. All the odd (1st, 3rd, 5th, etc.) keyframes had all Wave controls set to 0.0. Every even (2nd, 4th, 6th, etc.) keyframe I set the Horizontal Waves = 10.0 and the Horizontal Amplitude to 0.003. All keyframes were set to the Smooth Fade transition type (right-click the keyframe for context menu). I then added a second “Sony Wave” VFX to the same clip and keyframed it exactly the same, except for this, I changed the Vertical rather than the Horizontal values. I think this could be tweaked a bit more to get a usable simulation of the heat wave you want.