Brian Tallant
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Thanks, John.
Do you happen to know how to convert 720×480 with a pixel aspect ratio of 0.9091 to an MP4 with square pixels for use on the internet, in such a way that there is no skewing of the original image? I thought it might be 640×480 but that didn’t turn out exactly right, either.
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Try using Track Motion to set the position of some of your PIP images slightly off screen or completely off screen (as you would need to do if the filmstrip was very long). Now try to use Parent Motion to bring those images on screen and see what happens. For me, the slightly off screen images have the off screen part cut off, and the completely off screen images never appear.
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Wait, I’m finding a weakness of this method now. The parent motion button only moves images that you can fit into the preview screen. Any other images or parts of images get cut off.
Any suggestions?
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Oh my goodness.
You would not believe the hours I have spent trying to do by hand what one simple button (Parent Motion) allows you to do in seconds.
Many, many thanks Mike for showing me that tutorial. Also thanks to John for making it. I feel foolish and relieved at the same time.
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No I didn’t miss it – as I mentioned in my original post, “it doesn’t seem that you can buy it direct from Sony”. In other words, I just found it strange that Sony is selling this one product only through retailers.
But I wasn’t asking how to purchase it. I’m wondering what it is and how it’s different from their other Vegas Pro software.
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Thanks for the encouragement, James. It means a lot to me!
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Thanks for the suggestion about After Effects, Steve. I think I am going to give Adobe’s subscription service a try.
However, in the meantime, I was able to get Match Move to work well enough. I simply selected the portion of the video that Match Move did the best job on (only about 2 seconds was needed). Actually, I’m rather proud of how it turned out. Being a video amateur (masquerading as a professional), the results are quite a step forward for me.
Here is a video showing the before and after:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fWb31JFIqk
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Steve,
Thanks so much! It worked great! Recently you mentioned I should try the Neat Video plug in and that worked great too…both of your suggestions have made my work a lot easier (and better)!
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After being reminded of the option to use a nested project and apply the fades to it, I have decided (at least at this point) of doing it that way. It’s not as fast a solution (and future renders take even longer) but one thing I do like is that I have the option of right-clicking on the nested project and editing it if I decide it needs adjustment.
And it should also be a lossless solution to the problem, which is also good. Still, future rendering time will be longer than if I had used a video clip, which is an annoyance.
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One more follow-up question:
My workaround involved rendering a m2t video clip and reinserting it into the timeline so I could do the fade on it. You called it an “interim combined media”…is there any loss of quality in doing this kind of thing?