[Brad Miller]

Here’s an FYI for anyone also experiencing the same problem as I

I received the following answer regarding the Vegas Video limitation from D. Eric Franks, creator of multiple Vegas Video tutorials for Videopia and Digital Juice…

“Oh, yes, I see. Because of the video signal flow from clip > track > parent track > project, you are stuck with whatever the lowest resolution is in the chain, which will never exceed the project resolution. We can, however, kick the project resolution all the way up to 4k (4096×2304) and insert a 4k res project into a lower res one, so (using Vimeo as an example):

(1) Create your master contact sheet at 4k and save the project.
Within this project, you can resize (via Track Motion) the individual clips down to native res without losing anything. Since this is going to Vimeo (and assuming HD source), I’d use the Track Motion on the individual clips and resize to 1280×720. You can sqeeze 3×3 or 9 clips this way. With a little cropping to 4:3, you could do a 4×3 grid for 12. It’s tight! To imitate the RevoStock template, you could go even smaller, since the clips never fill the frame, maybe to 810×456 (just made that up). Now you can do 16-20 clips or so, esp. if some are off the edge and never get the real focus.

(2) Insert the 4k project into your 720p HD Vimeo project.
OK, now the trick. The signal flow means that at the track level, we are still only working with 720p pixels. At the clip level, however, we still have our full 4k: Use the Event Pan/Crop tool. I’d play it by the numbers here too. Set up your keyframe zoom pattern and enter width x height numbers at 1280×720 for the moves.

Weaknesses: This will make Vegas very cranky. Also, Vegas won’t do Motion Blur on Event level moves, so you’ll need to add in the blur manually. Honestly, AE is better suited to this task. Granted, AE costs $400 more, stinks at editing video and is miserable for audio, so… right tool for the right job and all that. Actually, Andrew Kramer’s SureTarget plugin (FREE!) for AE is ideal for this project and that’s definitely how I’d tackle this project (using the Wiggler to generate a little random motion on the holds between moves):”

Here’s the thread: https://www.digitaljuice.com/community_forums/tm.asp?m=139255&mpage=1

[Brad Miller]

Track Motion reduces the photo/video’s resolution to the project property’s resolution. So yes, I can create that effect, as I posted twice now, I already have.(https://www.vimeo.com/7014885). I used the excellent tutorial “Vegas Keyframe Interpolation Envelopes” by D. Eric Franks. It works fine if you keep the project small, as he did, just a small “postcard”

However the resolution of the individual photos becomes too low if you want to include many images and video because Sony Vegas limits you to the project property’s resolution for the parent track. So unless you can up the project property resolution to something like 4,000×4,000, I can see no way to achieve this same effect which the photos at a decent resolution.

[Brad Miller]

That would only seem to work if you wanted each track to move independently. I want all tracks to move releative a fixed point as in the example I linked to. Something similar to this: https://www.revostock.com/After-Effects-Project/83793/Deluxe-Contact-Sheet.htm

[Brad Miller]

You’re correct, there’s no problem panning across a single image…. I’m talking about tracking motion across multiple images and video as in the example I made and linked to.

[Brad Miller]

That’s quite a shame that Vegas limits you to the project setting with Track Motion. A simple work around would be to allow larger size projects, which Vegas 9 does, but it’s still only double the Vegas 8 2048×2048 resolution. For now I guess we’re stuck only being able to handle motion within the project setting’s boundaries like this: https://www.vimeo.com/5936542

[Brad Miller]

This person disagrees with you and states that there is a limitation:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/900236

[Brad Miller]

I am using track motion. I cannot extend the images and videos beyond the the frame size my project is set at. That’s the problem.

So if I want to pan between multiple images, they all have to be at resolutions smaller that whatever my project settings are, which Vegas 8 limits to a maximum of 2048×2048.

Here’s an example I made depicting the problem: https://www.vimeo.com/7014885

[Brad Miller]

The size of my monitor has nothing to do with what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the Vegas project settings. It limits you to 2,048×2,048.