[Jermaine Tonkes]

Yes well, I heard of boris fx/red, but does it export the motion track data to sony vegas as keyframes so you can apply the motion keyframes to different objects (like text) as after effects does?

Cause exporting an AVi file from boris and then re-adjust it and then render it again is kind of unconventional, not mentioning the need to keep switching between two programs…

Call me lazy, but it ‘would’ be handy if Sony vegas 10/11 would have integrated motion tracking right?

And btw, nice to meet a proffesional dutch video editor =D. (holland hollee!)

cheers!

Life’s good. yeah, I know. I’m not good in filosofy but er, life’s good.

[Jermaine Tonkes]

apart from velocity enveloppes, you can try this:

put your time line on the beginning of your time warp, then press S (shortcut for split track). Then put your timeline on the end of your warp time and press S again. now you have isolated your time warp track.

now press CTRL and drag your clip to your desired clip speed (your clip will have these triangle shaped lines now).

Connect the clip after your timewarp to the new warped clip. You can fade them in a little bit to add some smooth transitions.

hope it helps!

Life’s good. yeah, I know. I’m not good in filosofy but er, life’s good.

[Jermaine Tonkes]

Hey Joanne,

The most easiest and effective way (but also a time consuming one) to extract a person out of a picture is to work with the polygonal lasso tool (or pen tool).

Press “L” (shortcut for lasso tool) and add lines around your person by clicking on the edge of your object (the closer you click the smoother curves are, just like 3D objects). Once the person is selected, right click and choose “Layer via copy”. Now theres a new layer with your person. click the eye in your old layer so your person will have a tranparent background. Now use a soft brush not bigger than 15 px and smooth/remove excess edges. now you can drag the layer to your new background image.

hope it helps,

Jermaine

Life’s good. yeah, I know. I’m not good in filosofy but er, life’s good.

[Jermaine Tonkes]

hello Milton,

Just to clarify, I’m no master at photoshop so i can’t really give you a “save-memory” shortcut (won’t be surprised if there would really be one).

But what I need to answer your question is:

How many layers does you Bg have? How many text is there on your artwork? did you used a lot of blending modes / layer effects?

All these things play a big role in the CPU usage of your computer, even considering the fact you are working in a 48′ x 45′ workspace.

And 72 dpi isnt enough for good final print quality, you know it has to be at least 300 dpi? But as its going to be a news BG I assume its going to be a tv screen artwork so forget this paragraph if thats the point.

For now, all I can say is; try to shut down other programmes such as AE or InDesign, especially ‘common programmes’ like MSN or skype. Another thing is to go to edit > preferences > performance, and increase the available RAM memory, dicrease history states, and decrease cache levels.

The last solution would be: update your RAM memory and graphics card, but thats the most expensive one hehe.

hope it helps,

Jermaine

Life’s good. yeah, I know. I’m not good in filosofy but er, life’s good.

[Jermaine Tonkes]

Hey jason,

I see this is a fairly outdated topic but I’ll still give it a go.

The solution is fairly simple without messing around with alpha channels.

Once you choose file > save as in photoshop (CS2 or higher), you -obviously- select the PNG extension. After you did this it will ask to save as none or interlaced. If you choose interlaced it will remember the transparent layer in its final composition.

Now simply import the image to Vegas and drag it to the timeline and voila! But this trick gets more complicated when working in HD, you will have to work with a higher resolution in PS.

hope it works! happy editting!

cheers,
Jermaine