[Mark Greenwood]

Ok Try This – I think this will give you what you want ?!?

On Video Track 2 – Put a solid color (say Yellow)

On Video Track 1 – Put a BLACK solid – then apply the CIRCLE cookie cutter FX to this track – adjust size of circle appropriately.

Now make VIDEO TRACK 2 the CHILD of track 1

Both TRACK 1 and TRACK 2 should have their COMPOSITE modes as SOURCE ALPHA

Put the PARENT COMPOSITE mode as DODGE

Now put the MOVIE you want under this on Track 3.

You can now “move” the circle by adjusting the X and Y poistions on the Cookie Cutter FX on track 1….

Does that do what you want?!?

[Mark Greenwood]

I’m not on my computer with Vegas installed so I might be wrong but I think you’ll find the presets actually in your VEGAS directory (e.g. c:\program files\sony\vegas pro 8.0 or c:\program files\sony\vegas Pro 9.0 etc…

Just Go to the Control Panel of the Contour and you should find a load presets button – I have the ShuttleExpress and that is where I found them…

[Mark Greenwood]

If you show the images in the Explorer window by DETAILS – this is the icon that looks like this

Then select DETAILS – now the explorer window looks like a normal windows explorer and you can view by NAME, DATE etc. Then select the images in the order you want.

Of course this relies on you having named the images appropriately – for example if you have images named

Image1
Image2
…
Image10
Imag11

and you order by name

Image2 will come AFTER Image10 and Image11 so you need to create the names with a way this will not happen.

Alternatively you can create a script to do this for you based on MetaData inside the image…

Mark.

[Mark Greenwood]

I must admit I have never seen this – does it happen with a specific FX or is it random – can you reproduce it?

Seems like a V. Strange bug if it is one – out of interest does it appear to happen on Very long events – if so then maybe it looks like the cursor is at the far left but actually it’s a few frames in or something ?!?

[Mark Greenwood]

Interesting to know – will try this tomorrow at work 🙂

[Mark Greenwood]

Slight ammendment to my earlier post

Check the TEMPORARY FILES FOLDER setting – under Options / Preferences / General – they should be in that location

By default it will be the folder I indicated above

[Mark Greenwood]

You might be able to try this

This will be the same for Windows 7 and Vista

Go to the folder

C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Sony\Vegas Pro\9.0

They might be in there – on XP – it will be under Document And Settings / user name / app data etc etc

Good luck

[Mark Greenwood]

Out of interest – is this on Version 9 and have you just installed 9.0d – because I have a similar issue sometimes which previously saved projects – I think personally Sony rushed this release out for the NAB conference and didn’t test it 100% because there seem to be a number of issues….

Grrrrr

[Mark Greenwood]

Highlight the clip or clips you want – move the cursor to the appropriate location and then click the ‘s’ key –

[Mark Greenwood]

…of course you’ll also need to UNGROUP the Sound and Video tracks of Video 1.

Click on the Video 1 Event and then click ‘U’ – or right click and choose Group / Remove From…

That way when you use the ‘S’ command on the Video Track – the audio track will remain untouched….