Andrew Lenczycki
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If I understand correctly, your media that you create in Vegas Pro 13 comes into and works fine (sound) in DVDA, just no sound for any of the menu(s) in DVDA. By default, DVDA has no sound file attached to the (default) menus, so you just need to specify a sound file… On the Menu Page Properties, select the Background Media tab, then navigate to the sound file you want to use for your menu background. I normally make my own 30 second DVDA Background video and audio files, then load them here (video and audio). See picture below, hopefully to clarify.
Also, you reference the additional time it takes DVDA to render the output: If you use the correct Vegas Pro template (one with an ‘=’ in front of it), the files (audio and video) will be rendered to the correct format for DVDA so that it doesn’t have to RE-RENDER the files.
Andrew Lenczycki
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I viewed your slideshow… looks like you have figured it out fine. You can add a little more “zip” by using the Pan/Crop tool for each pic/clip and slowly pan across or zoom in or out on the pictures. This just helps the show to seem more cinematic than “just” a slideshow.
Andrew Lenczycki
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Not completely following what you are doing, but is it possible the events are being influenced by keyframes either in the Event Pan/Crop of the events, the Track Motion for the track, or the Parent Motion? I have run into something similar to this where I used some Digital Juice templates that had motion graphics (which consisted of literally hundreds of keyframes for a given event) that had to be individually changed.
Andrew Lenczycki
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Kathreen,
Forgive me, but I’m not clear at what level of understanding you are with Vegas. Your statement that you, “have tried to create some very smooth fade ins/out with my mouse” leads me to believe you are not aware that you can zoom in and out on the timeline. In the screen shot below, I have added a picture of duration of 5.00 seconds to Track 1 of the timeline. Notice how it only takes up a small portion of the viewable timeline.
In the picture below, I have grabbed the right end of the timeline zoom bar and moved it to the left to effectively zoom in on the event added to Track 1. Notice that the timeline scale has increased (and the event takes up more of the viewable timeline), but the event is still only 5.00 seconds long.
Then depending how you are doing your fadeout/fade in’s:
1) You can have your individual pic/vid events placed end to end (with NO overlap) and add fade in’s and out’s to the ends of each event. This will have the effect of each picture fading in from black, showing the event, then fading to black before the next event then fades in from black, views and fades out. See how this is done on the timeline picture below. This is DIFFERENT from the last screen shot, where
2) the pic/vid events are actually OVERLAPPED on each other, which will cause the first pic/vid to fade directly to the second pic/vid (with no intermittent fade to black). Either is OK (I’ve use both methods), but the overall presentation to the viewer is a little different. Hope this helps.
Andrew Lenczycki
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I’m not sure exactly what you are trying to accomplish, but if you zoom in on your timeline, you can adjust the length of fade in/out to the exact number of seconds/frames you want. Not saying it’s wrong, but 7.15 is a LOOOOOOONG fade in or out. If you could describe a little more what you’re trying to get as the end result, perhaps I (or someone else) could give you more direction.
Andrew Lenczycki
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Why are you not using the built-in fades in Vegas? If you hover over either end of your media event (clip), towards the top, you should see a pop-up message, “Fade offset 00:00:00:00”. If you grab the little blue triangle at the top (front or back) edge of the event, you can pull the fade out to whatever time you want.
If you right-click on the new fade area you create, you have choices of the “type” of fade that is employed.
Andrew Lenczycki
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John, you’re absolutely right. After Momo insisted that the wipe wasn’t doing what he wanted, I went back and compared the wipe to the push. I’d already figured that out the slight difference, and reposted to Momo (see my post above) for how to get what he wants (a true wipe) with a vertical colored bar.
Andrew Lenczycki
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Vegas is backwards compatible, meaning you should be able to open any previous version of Vegas (i.e. your Vegas 11 should open a Vegas 10 file). It’s not forward compatible, meaning you couldn’t open a Vegas 11 file with Vegas 10.
Andrew Lenczycki
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After carefully reviewing the difference between the Sony Vegas Transitions Linear Wipe and Push, I do see a slight difference. You CAN get what you want with Vegas (a linear wipe with a colored vertical bar in your choice of color and width, delineating the two video events), but you need to add in one additional track above the track with the two pictures that are being transitioned. This additional track if just a Generated Media Solid Color, that has been modified in size by using Track Motion to create the vertical “bar”. I have included two sample picture files, “VidOrPic1” and “VidOrPic2” along with a quickie Vegas 10 Pro file showing how to accomplish the linear wipe with a vertical bar (color and width your choice). Hope this helps you.
2 media files used in Vegas file below:
9478_vidorpic1.jpg.zip
9479_vidorpic2.jpg.zipVegas Pro 10 file:
9480_pic2wipespic1offver2.veg.zipAs far as the split or tri screen layout, you are on the right track with working with the x and y values for each piece of media. As an example, if you are making a video that’s NTSC DV Widescreen (720 x 480), each picture or video event should be made 1/3 of 720 pixels in width (720 / 3 = 240). I believe you will have to crop each of the three images to get events that are then 240 wide by 480 pixels tall. If you keep the aspect ratio, when you crop a video event to 240 wide, it will also crop the height to (480 / 3 = 160), which I believe you do not want. It will take some playing around with the cropping of the video events, then organizing and sizing them using Track Motion to get what you want, but it CAN be done.
Andrew Lenczycki
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But John, if you uncheck the “Push off previous image” checkbox in the “Push” transition, it really becomes a wipe. The new oncoming picture/video wipes over the old picture/video. At the leading edge of the “push” or “wipe” is a line whose color can be changed, along with the width and edge type (clear crisp line or feathered line edge – which gives the line a blurred look).
Momo, have you tried playing with the “Push” transition? Don’t get caught up in the name, just try it.
Andrew Lenczycki
