[Dave Petteruto]

“if all your tracks move to the same size and position, in the end, you would only see the one on top, right?”

I will try to explain what I have. The bottom track is a photo of a computer screen, the other tracks above are photos with transparent backgrounds of things like an arrow, a check mark, a slider button and a button highlight. What happens is that the opening view is of the computer screen, then into the picture comes an arrow (representing the computer mouse) which moves to a box where a check mark shows shows up. Then the arrow moves to another box where it hilights a button which starts a slider in motion. The bottom layer (computer screen) has a window in it in which a video will start when the slider stars moving. What I’m trying to do is when the video starts in the window, I want to slowly zoom in on that part of the screen. I tried what Edward said, but I couldn’t figure out how to do it. I was able to save the keyframe as a pre-set, but because the tracks don’t all start at the same place on the timeline I couldn’t get everything to stay in the correct position as the zoom in started. I’m sure I’m probably not going at this in the best manner so if anyone can help me figure this out I’d really appreciate it. It’s time I bear down and really start learning Vegas so as to use it to it’s potential!

Dave P.

[Dave Petteruto]

“Turn OFF “Theme Support” in the Vegas preferences”

Mr. Edward Troxel–YOU ARE THE MAN!!!

Thanks for the help.

Dave P.

[Dave Petteruto]

I got it to work. There are two firewire ports on the card and I tried the other port and the preview showed up. Any idea as to why this would be?

Thanks
Dave P.

[Dave Petteruto]

“How would they know if the wave file was right or not?”

I would think that if they went to play a wave sound file and a short and very obviously corrupt video file was what showed up that that should throw up a red flag of some sort. That was only one example of the many files I tried to open. I tried to open about 40 to 50 files (mp3, wav, avi, quicktime, etc) that should open on most windows equiped machines and only 3 or 4 actually opened, but were very obviously corrupt.

Dave P.

[Dave Petteruto]

Thanks to you all for all the great information.

Dave P.

[Dave Petteruto]

“Create a small partition on your main drive – say 10gig or so – and tell windows to put your page file there (‘D:’ drive) that will help keep fragmentation down and speed things up.

Also make sure to set the size of the page file – 10gig in this example – if you let windows set the size – that will slow things down as it first determines how much room it has to write its temp files. “

How is this done? Is it something that I can do fairly easily with some instruction?

Dave P.

[Dave Petteruto]

Are there any other settings anyone can think that I should be concerned about? What about memory allocation in Vegas itself?

Thanks
Dave P.

[Dave Petteruto]

Terry, thanks for all the information. Have a great day!

Dave P.

[Dave Petteruto]

The track was soloed! Thanks for your help Gary.

Dave P.

[Dave Petteruto]

Since we are on the “Creative Calf” basics forum you will need to explain what you mean by:
But is the other track soloed?
Sorry, but I’m learning!

Thanks
Dave P.