[Andrew Lenczycki]

” My only issue with nested sequences is that they are flatted down into single master clip which dis-allows further editing of the sequence”

Actually, you can still edit a nested sequence. If you right click on the sequence, select Edit in Vegas (EditFilename.veg) from the context sensitive menu. A new instance of Vegas will open with the EditFilename.veg file opened (with all its tracks expanded out). When you’re done editing EditFilename.veg, save the file and close that instance. The updated EditFilename.veg will be reflected in your nested project.

Now if you find you are repeatedly opening to edit one of your nested files, this may be more of an annoyance to you, but for the occassional few changes, it works quite well.

[Andrew Lenczycki]

You can certainly copy the contents of Part A into a new timeline (Combined), then copy Part B into the timeline as well. You would have two instances of Vegas running at the same time (your Project A and your Combined, then your Project B and your Combined).

I’m not sure what you have against nesting, but the EASIEST way to do this is to open Vegas, save as your Combined project, then drag the Project A.veg file onto the Combined timeline, then drag the Project B.veg file onto the Combined timeline.

If for some reason you need to change something in your Project A or Project B.veg file, you can open the file directly from your Combined project (a new instance of Vegas will open to edit the Project A.veg or Project B.veg file). When editing is done, it’s automatically saved back into the Combined project.

Nesting segments into a “Master” project can cut way back on the clutter, especially is you use many event tracks as I do. Once I get my “opening teaser” portion set, I save that and drag into my Master project. The entire .veg file will only take up two tracks (one video, and one audio). From there, I progress to the next segment I’m working on. When that’s done, I drag that .veg file onto my Master.veg timeline.

Hope this helps.

[Andrew Lenczycki]

You DON’T need to have one big file to play the entire seqence of smaller video events in DVD Architect. By using a Playlist, you can add (or remove) individual segments. If you have 10 individual video segments, you could add each to a playlist, in the order you want them to play. You could also create a playlist that only plays segments 1-4, or 1,3,5,7,9. You can link a button on the menu to each of your playlists. I frequently setup my DVD menu with a button to “Play All”, which is setup to play all segments once, then return to the main menu. I also have a “Play Loop” button that plays all segments then automatically loops and continues to play again until the DVD is stopped (this is great for high school sports year end banquets – the video just loops endlessly).

[Andrew Lenczycki]

John,

For the pictures (only), can’t he change the default length in the Options|Preferences|Editing tab and change the New Still Image Length (seconds) field to 1.24? This will only work with new images added to the timeline AFTER the change (i.e. he may have to delete pictures already on the timeline that are not 1.24 seconds long).

[Andrew Lenczycki]

I don’t care for the Credit Roll in Vegas, but you can essentially get what you want by putting a plain text event on track one which contains
all the text you want to have on the left side of the screen, and creating a second event on track two that has all the text you want to have
on the right side of your screen.

By using the Pan/Crop for each event, you can “move” the text you want to be on the left towards the left side of the screen, and the other text
event over towards the right side of the screen. Then by using a keyframe at the start of the event, set the “Y” position to make the pan crop
be ABOVE the top line of text (which would move the text event to just below the bottom of the screen when viewed), and set a keyframe at the end
of the text event to set the “Y” position to make the pan crop be BELOW the bottom line of text in the event (which would move the text event to
just above the top of the screen when viewed). In the example below, the “credits” will roll from top to bottom of the viewing screen.

If you set the same keyframe start value (and ending keyframe value) for “Y” for both events, they will move in perfect unision with each other.

Below are some screen shots of what I’m talking about.

You can have a LOT of lines of text for your credits and by changing the total length (of time) of the text events, it will change the “speed” at
which the credits will roll across the screen. You could have 3 lines that scroll across the screen in 5 seconds, or 20 lines that scroll in
50 seconds (whatever the length of the text event).

[Andrew Lenczycki]

I don’t care for the Credit Roll in Vegas, but you can essentially get what you want by putting a plain text event on track one which contains
all the text you want to have on the left side of the screen, and creating a second event on track two that has all the text you want to have
on the right side of your screen.

By using the Pan/Crop for each event, you can “move” the text you want to be on the left towards the left side of the screen, and the other text
event over towards the right side of the screen. Then by using a keyframe at the start of the event, set the “Y” position to make the pan crop
be ABOVE the top line of text (which would move the text event to just below the bottom of the screen when viewed), and set a keyframe at the end
of the text event to set the “Y” position to make the pan crop be BELOW the bottom line of text in the event (which would move the text event to
just above the top of the screen when viewed). In the example below, the “credits” will roll from top to bottom of the viewing screen.

If you set the same keyframe start value (and ending keyframe value) for “Y” for both events, they will move in perfect unision with each other.

Below are some screen shots of what I’m talking about.

You can have a LOT of lines of text for your credits and by changing the total length (of time) of the text events, it will change the “speed” at
which the credits will roll across the screen. You could have 3 lines that scroll across the screen in 5 seconds, or 20 lines that scroll in
50 seconds (whatever the length of the text event).

[Andrew Lenczycki]

I’m not sure what part of the “look” you’re trying to achieve. It looks to me like some sort of vignette was applied to darken the outer edges of the pics and possibly some sort of sepia color toning and possibly some Photoshop type filters. Again, not sure what exactly you are trying to duplicate but I took a picture and added a Sony Generated Media black gradient, then applied a Film Effects to that media. I put some grain, a yellow/green sepia tint, some dust and scratches (both at a level of 20.0). Below are before and after pictures, and the screen shots of the settings I used.

Hope that gives you some ideas.

[Andrew Lenczycki]

John,

I followed your link to tsMuxeR, but don’t see where you can download it (it’s just an information page telling what the program does).

[Andrew Lenczycki]

When you say you “ended up with several titles” are you referring to several individual rendered segments from Vegas, which when combined comprise your entire project, or is it ONE large project that is comprised of several “titles”? What are you referring to in “the “next” button won’t skip to the next title – only the next chapter within titles“? Is this from the DVD Architect final output? If I’m understanding your dilemma correctly, it can be resolved from within DVDA by either linking the end of one “segment” to the next or by using a playlist. As an example, for sports videos I produce for various high school sports, I create individual “segments” which is usually a game (or the player intro, or credits). I render each of these individually. Then in DVD Architect, I set up the DVDA menu to show each individual game (which is a separate Vegas 3-5 minute segment) – so users can jump to individual games in whatever order they want AND I have a “Play All” button that links to a playlist that plays all game segments in order.

[Andrew Lenczycki]

You can also copy MULTIPLE keyframes using the CTRL C and CTRL V shortcuts. This can come in handy when you have a series of keyframes tied to a picture and want to repeat those keyframes for multiple pictures. To select a continuous group of keyframes, left-click on the left keyframe you want, then SHIFT left-click on the last keyframe you want to copy. This “selects” that group of keyframes. Now do your CTRL C to copy them, then CTRL V to paste them into your timeline. You can also “group” move the just pasted keyframes as long as you haven’t clicked-off somewhere else. Just grab one of the keyframes and drag and the rest follow.