[John Rofrano]

Change your project properties to widscreen (you didn’t say what the resolution that the AVI file would be but choose DV Widescreen or HD if the resolution is there). Then drop the file on the timeline, go into Pan/Crop and right-click the frame and select Match Output Aspect. This will cut off the top and bottom of the 4:3 to give you 16:9. You should now adjust the Pan/Crop to make sure you don’t cut off anyone’s head by moving the 16:9 crop up or down as needed.

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[John Rofrano]

Use the Pan/Crop tool on each event and right-click on the frame and select Match Output Aspect to make the video fill the frame.

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[John Rofrano]

It sounds like you are rendering to a drive that is formatted as FAT32 which has a file size limit of 4GB. You need to convert that drive to NTFS or render to an NTFS drive to get one big file at the same quality.

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[John Rofrano]

If you are using the 64-bit version of Vegas you will need the 64-bit version of Quicktime.

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[John Rofrano]

Right-click on the event that holds the PNG and select Properties and then Media Tab and make sure the Alpha channel is set to something other than none. Using straight (unmatted) is usually best for PNG’s. If this is the case, then are you sure you save the PNG with a transparent background in Illustrator? If yes, then are you sure the white isn’t part of the file? Go back to Illustrator and remove the white so that only the Logo and transparent background remains and then export that as a PNG with transparency.

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[John Rofrano]

No, there is no way to export individual tracks. 🙁

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[John Rofrano]

> They are all 3d source alpha tracks (for the z-axis rotation)… The only way I’ve found to do this is to use a parent/child relationship, thereby using the parent track 2d shadow.

Your problem is that you have thrown away the 3D information by adding a 2D shadow because you placed the parent track into 2D mode. You can’t do this. Both the Parent Track Motion and the Parent Composite Mode must remain in 3D mode for this to work (which eliminates using a 2D shadow) 🙁

BTW, Awesome use of 3D Track Motion and reflection. If you didn’t tell people you made this in Vegas, I’d bet that most of them would guess that was done in After Effects. Vegas is a powerful compositing application that not many people take advantage of… Bravo!

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[John Rofrano]

I use TechSmith Camtasia and it does a great job but it’s not free. TechSmuth also has a free recorder called Jing that is very nice. There is an open source screen recorder called CamStudio that is similar and free which I used before I bought Camtasia. Microsoft also has a free Windows Media Encoder that will capture to WMV files (of course). So there are lots of capture options to choose from.

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[John Rofrano]

Rob, Good point. I was going to mention that but after re-reading the post I felt that the OP was really trying to adjust things and not move them dynamically. But you are correct… the easiest way to move them in unison with with a parent track.

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[John Rofrano]

The advice you have been given is correct. Because video data is so large it must be compressed to store in a file and then decompressed to be played. The software that COmpresses and DECompresses is called a CODEC. Vegas does not support the Matroska (MKV) codec (because it uses DirectShow and Vegas only supports the older Video For Windows codecs) so you must use another program like Super(c) to convert the file into a format (using a different codec) that Vegas can edit. Two free lossless VFW codecs that are good for this are Huffyuv and Lagarith. You have to find these and download them and install them on your PC to use them. Then in Super(c) you can use them to convert your video file into that format.

This is not a detailed step-by-step but you want to:

(1) Download Super(c) and install it.
(2) Download the Lagarith codec and install it.
(3) Use Super(c) to convert your MKV file to AVI using the Lagarith codec.

Use Google to find this free software. Hope that helps,

~jr

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