[Gary Kleiner]

Either right-click and choose Insert/Remove Envelop > volume, or select the track and hit the v key.

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

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[Gary Kleiner]

Yes, you must always render. A one-hour DV project with no changes to the footage except a few dissolves should only take a few minutes.
A different video card won’t help.

Gary Kleiner

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[Gary Kleiner]

[marmels] “is there anything that can avoid the rendering process and export in REAL TIME from Timeline???????”

No, Vegas is not a real-time system.

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[Gary Kleiner]

You do it with keyframes.

Open the Pan/Crop tool (button on the right of the timeline event) for your cloud pic.

Turn on the sync cursor on the bottom left, next to the keyframe controller. To create a left to right motion, zoom in a bit on the left side your pic. Scroll the cursor on the keyframe controller to your end position, then move the ‘viewfinder’ box over to the right side of the pic. You should now have clouds moving across your screen.

Gary Kleiner

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[Gary Kleiner]

[raiderneal] “What I should “render as”? Do I need to do anything to my audio before I render?”

Render as Mpeg 2 using one of the DVD Architect templates (use Custom settings to tweak bit rates, etc).

Render audio as AC-3.

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Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

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[Gary Kleiner]

[Allen Zagel] “Using the track motion, wouldn’t I have to lay them all out again in the new project?”

I’mnot sure exactly what you are doing, but if you wanted to reuse your track motion set up, just drop in different media on that track or a duplicate of that track.

Gary Kleiner

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[Gary Kleiner]

Right-click the menu and choose either insert Menu or insert Page.

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[Gary Kleiner]

[Allen Zagel] “if I insert a hold keyframe I can set different events on that timeline to move seperate of any other?”

To have motion separate from other motions on that track, just add another keyframe that is a copy of the previous keyframe right before you want the new motion to start. This is not using hold keyframes which make changes instantly with no transition.

For example
0:00 Keyframe 1 image is full screen
2:00 Keyframe 2 image rotated 90 degrees, half size, in upper left corner
4:00 Keyframe 3 image rotated 90 degrees, half size, in upper right corner

In this scenario, the image immediately starts to shrink, rotate, and move to the upper left over 2 seconds, then immediately moves to the right over the next 2 seconds.

If you were to add a keyframe at 3:00 that was a copy of the 2:00 keyframe, there would be a 1 second delay before the image moved from left to right because there is no change during the time between the two identical keyframes.

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

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[Gary Kleiner]

[Allen Zagel] ” I thought of that but they’re not in the same place all the time and using track motion the way I understand it, if I moved one, they’d all move.”

No, not with Hold keyframes.

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

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[Gary Kleiner]

I just put a solid black generated media on a track and used track motion to resize it down to a speck.

You don’t really need lots of tracks if you use keyframes to control where and when they show up. For example, use ‘hold’ keyframes to make them appear suddenly.

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

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