Graham Bernard
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When you say you have Vegas 8, is this Vegas Pro 8? ‘cos if you DO have this Pro version you sure do have the Bezier Masking feature. Within this you can set 4 points for your rectangular mask very accurately indeed. And this is WAY more flexible than Cookie Cutter too.
If you do have VP8 then click on the Pan/Crop Icon, it’s located at the right end of the Event. Once the Pan/Crop Window is revealed, look at the bottom Timeline and check the “MASK” then all the Bezier Mask drawing tools become available to you.
So, the workflow would be:
1] Place solid SONY colour on track 1
2] Place video on track 2
3] Go back to 1] and set up the masking session by accessing the Pan/Crop > Mask procedure.
4] Insert the 4 “Anchors” for each corner of the rectangle and then use the “Normal Edit tool” to accurately position each Anchor by either using the Grid Overlay in the Preview window and/or the actual X and Y positional tool to enter numbers directly or the slider.
Now, having said all the above, once we have created one or two or a series of rectangles we can save them as our own templates and recall them back through the Mask option.
So, do we have a plugin that MAKES masks? Well yes, I’d say so. Plus you get to keep your hard won work and recall it in the future too. Do we have a drawing plugin for VEgas? Not that I know of. But of course you could employ a Graphics package and work that way around? But a direct graphics package that creates “masks” for Vegas? Not that I know of . . ..
HTH
Grazie
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Are they appearing in the correct order within Media Manager?
If they are not, how about sorting them, by name, so that they are in the correct order and then dragging across?
Interesting . . .
Grazie
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NP, matey. Been there . . done that . ..
Grazie
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If I understand you correctly, try adding your window to another window from the left-hand edge of the existing window. For me I get tabs showing. I have this on my 2nd monitor.
Grazie
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Highlight your Text in ProType > Text Block > Effects > Ensure Opacity slider is 100
Grazie
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NP Rick! – Did that fix it for you?
Grazie
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What is “control slide” for adjusting velocity?
I know velocity Envelopes and Ctrl+Drag for accelerating? If it is the envelope then just delete the envelope. If it is the latter then Right click on the Video Event, select Properties and readjust Playback rate to 1.00.
HTH
Grazie
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“Auto Ripple” – Ctrl+L. Its icon is up there on the Toolbar.
And there are 3 options/ways to set up its default method of operation. There is a Drop-Down arrow newxt to the Icon which clearly explains your options.
Word of WARNING! It WILL drag all from beyond the cursor. Now you may think this a good thing, but if you have a track, which you cannot see and it is overlapping the point of delete, that too will be brought forward. Nasty business!
So yes, Auto Ripple is good, and at the same time is a very VERY powerful tool. As a result, I’ve got very quick with the UNDO or CTRL+Z salute.
Grazie
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How about creating a further Vegas project, doing your audio swapsies in that and then Nesting THIS new Vegas within your original Veg and putting THAT Nest into the Trimmer?
Only a thought.
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