Andrew Lenczycki
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I’ve had the same problem as you describe, and if I remember correctly, I just resized the Vegas and Photoshop (Elements) program windows enough so I could see each at the same time on screen. I then used the Photoshop color picker tool and picked the color from the Vegas window. I’m at work and don’t have Vegas installed on this machine right now, or I would test to verify.
Andrew Lenczycki
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Well, if you provided the same level of information to Sony that you put into your post, it’s no wonder they didn’t respond. Think of the millions of combinations of computer hardware/software that could be possible on a given computer. Any two (or more) of these could be in conflict with another.
I understand your frustration, but in order for anyone on this forum (none of us work for Sony) to be able to help you, you must provide the information requested by persons like Graham Bernard (John Rofrano, Mike Kujbida, Stephen Mann, Steve Rhoden, Norman Black, etc.). I’ve seen lots of posts where people are slamming Sony and Vegas as a crappy product, but when the information is given as requested, it USUALLY turns out to be some sort of USER error, or a software/hardware conflict issue specific to YOUR computer setup. Please review Graham’s post asking for more information, then provide the information requested. No one on this forum is getting paid to provide the help they do. I have learned TONS of things from just perusing this site each day.
Take a deep breath, and provide all the information that has been requested by the more knowledgeable persons that grace this site. If you do, more than likely, they will be able to help you arrive at a logical conclusion as to your problem (i.e. Vegas bug, software conflict, hardware conflict, user error, etc.).
Andrew Lenczycki
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Easy! You need to put the video and sound events into a Group. Left-click on the video event, then shift-left-click on the sound event (which should select both of them), then press the G key (or alternatively, with the two events selected, right-click on them and select Group|Select New from the context sensitive menu that appears). Bam! Done!
Andrew Lenczycki
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I also use DV video. Not sure how you’ve done in the past, but I always acquire the video segments from the DV tape/recorder and save as files on my hard drive. You can then select these clips while in Vegas, using the Explorer tab to find the file(s) on your hard drive, then drag it onto your timeline.
Secondly, you could open two instances of Vegas, in the first, load the project that contains the events (you call clips) you want to use. Then you can right click on the event, select Copy, then go to your second instance of Vegas running (where you want to put the copied event), and then right-click and select Paste on the track you want to put this event.
Andrew Lenczycki
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Building a little on what John Rofrano says, if the barrel is just a static picture, I would deal with that in Photoshop Elements. You can erase the background of the picture of the barrel, then save the picture to a PNG format, which retains the alpha channel info, in this case the “invisibility” of the area you erased from the photo. You would then put this PNG photo on a track above the video you want to have in the “background” (i.e. Track 1 – PNG picture, Track 2 – underlying video).
If it’s not a static photo, then what John talks about with masking is the way to go.
Andrew Lenczycki
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I am NOT an expert on this, but the problem you are experiencing is your widescreen TV refreshes its screen at a certain frequency per second (possibly 60 Hz, 120 Hz or 240 Hz). I believe you would need to sync your camera frame rate to be the same as your TV screen refresh rate. I’m not sure that you would ever be able to sync up perfectly, or how far you could be off by and still have an acceptable piece of footage.
As another suggestion, could you film the TV segment separately, then using Track Motion in Vegas, resize and position the TV event into the live performer footage (i.e. superimpose it over the area in your footage where the TV is in the background)?
Andrew Lenczycki
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Just to clarify Steven, they’re not “posts” they’re called EVENTS!
As always, I appreciate and learn from the expertise you share on this site.
Andrew Lenczycki
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You can do both!
I am working off Vegas Pro V10 at work here. You would need to go to Options|Preferences then select the Editing tab. On this tab, set the New still image length (seconds) value to the amount of time you want each your pictures to display for. Next make sure the Automatically overlap multiple selected media when added checkbox is selected, then set the Cut-to-overlap conversion (seconds) to the amount of time you want your photos to overlap when going from one to the next. Keep in mind this will only work with media added after you make this preference change. Once back on your timeline, select groups of pictures by using the Shift+Click (for contiguous pictures) or the CTRL+Click (for non-contiguous files). Once you have selected a group of pictures selected (they will be highlighted in blue), left-click on the first picture filename and drag it to your timeline (which will bring all the other pictures you selected as well). The selected pictures will be the length of time you specified, and be overlapped by the amount of time you specified in the Editing preferences.
Now, adding your second question to this, if you added a quantity of pictures (say to Track 1) that you wanted to last the duration of a song on Track 2, if the pictures’ total time is too short, you would want to “stretch” their total duration to match that of your song. If the total time was too long, you would want to “shrink” their total duration to match the song length. To do this, left-click (select) the first picture you want included in this group, then Shift+Click the last picture you want in the group. Their outlines should all go from white to blue (indicating you have selected a group). Now press the G key, which creates a GROUP. Next, move your mouse over the right-most picture in your group, along it’s right side border. You mouse cursor should turn into a box with a double-ended arrow coming out of the box. Once you have this, hold down the CTRL key while holding down the left mouse button. You should be able to drag to the right and the entire group of selected pictures will “stretch” (proportionally) to the length you drag to, or move the mouse cursor left to (proportionally) “shrink” the group of pictures’ total length. When you get them to match the length of your song, let go of the left mouse button, then the CTRL key. BAM! Done.
Andrew Lenczycki
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I received an email with pricing here (Vegas Pro 13 – $149.95):
https://us-mg205.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.partner=sbc&.rand=6v8i65fpg8es6Andrew Lenczycki
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I’m at work, where I only have VP10, which is a little different than VP12 (on home computer). Look for the little button that either says “Animate” or a round clock face, which you press to get to the keyframes in VP12.
Andrew Lenczycki