[Jamie Carsten]

Thanks Todd. I tried that but unfortunately it also causes the image to increase/decrease in size, rather than zoom into the image without the image position changing. See here: https://youtu.be/aOSXl_lVSeQ

Is there a simple step-by-step to follow to perform the traditional mask approach referred to? I’m a total newbie to Premiere Pro so any simple instructions are massively appreciated! ☺ What I’m guessing is I create a new video track above the image track. Then say for each image I make a copy of the image and place it into the track above, and add a gaussian blur. From there I’m then lost as to how I crop and mask!

[Jamie Carsten]

So there’s no simple way to do this? ☹ I wanted to do a blurry background behind each image individually rather than the black. Would this be the same process? I’m not sure how to do any of what you’ve said. Would there be any tutorials that could help me?

This would surely be a common problem for people needing to zoom into photos/videos where there is letterboxing or pillarboxing? I hoped there might be a zoom effect rather than a scale effect that would allow me to zoom into the image without causing the image to grow or shrink on the screen, however I can’t see anything. 🙁

[Jamie Carsten]

Hey John,

Thanks a lot for the workflow advice. I’ve started a new master file project with each scene imported as an image sequence rather than separate .veg file.

This already seems to have made a difference with the project now running smoothly and no crashing on start-up!

In the interests of trying to isolate the problem, I did still import the JPEG’s as 4000×3000 and they are sitting on the timeline as 4000×3000. In the next couple of days, I’ll pan crop the events on the timeline to 16:9. If it starts crashing, I’ll know the root of the problem is – as you say – Vegas trying to re-size so many images per second. If it doesn’t crash upon doing that, I’ll know the problem was the multiple .veg files. 🙂

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My one concern about re-sizing in Photoshop prior to importing to Vegas is the loss in quality. My understanding is that the benefit of importing a large resolution image to Vegas is you can zoom into that image during the time lapse with no loss in quality to the final product.

For example, when I change a 4000×3000 image to 16:9 in event pan crop, the image becomes 4000×2250. As my final video resolution is 1920×1080, I can zoom into this image until I reach a resolution of 1920×1080, with no loss in quality to the final video. Is this reasoning correct?

[Jamie Carsten]

Hi John,

Thanks for the response and apologies, I should have put more information on my workflow. I follow a very similar workflow to this – https://youtu.be/gI_vrfiLc2w. So:

1. Add the images (4000×3000 resolution) of a particular time lapse scene to a .veg file
2. Match the Media Video Settings of the project to the size of one of the images. This creates a 4000×3000 project
3. Save that time lapse scene as a .veg file
4. Add that .veg file to my 1920×1080 time lapse master file, creating a single event for that particular time lapse scene
5. Use event pan crop on that .veg event and set the preset to 16:9 wide-screen

Are you suggesting I make the files 16:9 before I add to my master project?

Thanks a lot
Jamie

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[Jamie Carsten]

Thanks JR. Very helpful indeed! I shall follow your footsteps and abandon 1080P for YouTube. 🙂

Cheers
Jamie

[Jamie Carsten]

Thanks JR. I’ll experiment with different bit rates and see how I go.

What bit rate do you generally render at for 1080P on YouTube? I did try Vegas’ default for 1080P (24mbps max, 12mbps avg) but found that did give me quite a lot of grain when playing back on my comp full-screen. As you say though, on YouTube when most people watch on mobile devices it would probably be sufficient.

Do you do constant bit rate mainly or variable bit rate? My problem with variable is I never know what to change one to if I change the other. For example if I change the average bps to 50mbps, I never know what I should make the max mbps. :s

Anyhoo, thanks again for your valuable insight.

Cheers
Jamie

[Jamie Carsten]

Thanks John. Your answers are much appreciated and as helpful as always. I did pan reasonably slowly, I think my shaky skills exacerbated matters though! I think right now my best bet is to stick with 30fps, as I’m struggling to watch 60 fps online (Australian internet is terrible!) and even play-back smoothly on my 16GB, i7-4790 custom computer. 🙁

Whilst I have you, could I trouble you for a final few questions?

1. I used my GoPro to film two seperate clips, one at 1080p and one at 2.7k. Putting each of the clips into MediaInfo, it tells me both have the same bit rate (45mbps). Is that right? I would have thought 2.7k would have a higher bitrate due to being a higher resolution?

2. For the same reasons as creating 30fps videos, I’ll probably stick to 1080p right now. My internet and computer just can’t handle 2.7k sadly. Will I experience a better quality video however if I film in 2.7k, then drop into a 1080p Vegas project? Or alternatively, film in 2.7k, drop into a 2.7k Vegas project, then render at 1080P? I just want the best 1080P quality I can get. I’m not sure filming/editing in 2.7k makes a difference though if I’m ultimately rendering out at 1080P?

3. With GoPro producing 45 mbps bit rates, would you recommend I set the bitrate when rendering to match this? I do want to have the best quality video possible. Would the video be better quality if I rendered at 50-100mbps, or will this not make a difference if the recording quality was not there to begin with?

4. Lastly, I am doing a time lapse video right now using the best quality GoPro images I can. The resolution is 12MB with a screen resolution of 4000×3000. How do I work out the optimum bitrate to render this at? Again, I’d like to keep maximum quality whilst keeping the file size as low as I can.

Thanks so much again for your help.
Jamie

[Jamie Carsten]

OK thanks, I think I get that. I haven’t come from any technical background whatsoever and am completely self-teaching myself Vegas Pro so that stuff goes over my head a lot of the time.

[Jamie Carsten]

Thank you Jorma/Phil. Much appreciated and sorry for the late reply. This worked and will save me a lot of time moving forward!

[Jamie Carsten]

Great, thanks.