John Rofrano
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> Its a bit still technical for my skill level but I think it will give me a good start and be able to figure it out.
Don’t be afraid to come back and ask questions here as you do.
> The one thing is the mask shouldn’t be solid but transparent. Not sure how to do that.
Each event has a transparency associated with it. Hover your mouse at the top of any video event and the cursor will change to a hand with an up/down arrow and the tool tip “Opacity is 100%”. If you click and drag down, you can change the opacity from 100 all the way down to 0%. Also if you use generated media, the color of each media includes transparency as one of it’s settings. Either way will work.
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Moving the mask is a bit tricky. What you do is select one of the points with the arrow tool and then right-click it and choose Select > All. Once all of the points are selected, you can click on any one of them and drag it to move the entire mask.
The animation can be accomplished with just two keyframes. Select the first keyframe and move the mask off the screen to the left. Move to the end of the keyframe timeline and add a keyframe at the end. Select it and move the mask all the way off the screen to the right. These two keyframes should make the mask flow smoothly from left to right. Do the same with the Bezier mask on the color video track to reveal the color over the B&W track. It will take a little playing to get the two masks to flow together.
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This is called a “Lower Third” because it usually takes up the lower third of the screen. The easiest way to make them is with Solid or Gradient Generated Media, or any animated or static media background of your choice. You can go into Pan/Crop and simply resize it with the Lock Aspect Ratio off to squish it into the bottom third, or use the Bezier Mask to make any shape you’d like. Use one track for the lower third and another on top of it for the name text. You can fade them on and off or push them on and off, etc. by adding a transition to each end of the events.
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> I doubt there is a way to specify within Vegas where to send the output, but I’ll ask in case someone knows a way to add that option to Vegas, or any non-Vegas way to do it.
Sure there is. You set this in the Options | Preferences | Audio Device. If the two audio out jacks are from the same audio device you will only be able to play one thing at a time since they are both sent the same signal from your computer. You need two physical audio devices to play two streams at once. I have an M-Audio Firewire 410 interface that I send all of my Vegas audio out and my Windows Media Player and the rest of the beeps from Windows uses the RealTek chip on my motherboard. If all you have is the motherboard audio chip, then you can only play one thing at once.
Get Dad an iPod. 😉
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The recommendation of using double resolution is really to reduce the size of 8 – 10 mega pixel images down to something reasonable that will still allow you to zoom in a bit if you need to. If your images are already smaller that 1x your resolution then do not enlarge them past 1x.
The decision to go with 720p is up to you. If you crop 1600×1200 pictures to 16:9 you’ll have 1600×900 which means you would have to enlarge them by 180 vertical pixels to reach 1920×1080. That still might not look too bad but I would definitely not try and zoom in too much on any of them. Since the images are progressive media, 720p might not be a bad way to go. Do some test renders and decide for yourself which looks better to you.
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> Unfortunately, there is no trial version of BIAS SoundSoap 2 available
Just use the 14-day trial for the original SoundSoap. If it works, I can assure you that SoundSoap 2 will only work better. The big difference is that SoundSoap 2 has a click & crackle remover and audio enhancer. Otherwise the two are the same.
Wind is particularly difficult to remove because it changes over time unlike tape hiss or and air conditioning unit which is a steady broadband noise. So don’t be surprised if you don’t get good results. It all depends on how much the wind sound changes during your recording. You may have to treat smaller parts with different settings to get acceptable results. Good luck.
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> The uninstaller on ccleaner doesnt work either :s any other ideas?
Contact Corel and ask them how to completely remove SnapFire from your system. This is their problem to solve.
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It looks like the sliver of video is on a third (top) track. To sweep from B&W to color: Track 1 has the sweep video with bezier mask applied to make the diagonal slice. Track 2 is color video track also uses an animated bezier mask to slowly reveal the video on a diagonal from left to right. Track 3 is just B&W video. You need to make sure that the keyframe animation on the bezier on track 2 reveals the color video at the same rate that the video on track 1 sweeps across.
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> Does a plugin exist that can do this?
Yup. Pixelan CreativEase StepTime 2.
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Wow that is strange! It almost looks like the fonts are bigger in the image that has the color wheels cut off. The fonts between the two computers are definitely different. On the computer that works the fonts look thinner. Nothing obvious comes to mind. Hopefully someone else can see something.
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