[Michael Leibson]

Grazie, Graham!

I’ve used a nested .veg before, but not like this, so thank-you — I’ll give it a try!

[Michael Leibson]

Thanks, James!

[Michael Leibson]

Thanks, Francois!

Unfortunately, Wayback says it hasn’t archived that article. Something tells me, however, that it would be WayOver my head! ; – )

For now, I’ll try for visual accuracy.

Thanks again!

[Michael Leibson]

Thanks for taking the time to help, Dean — I appreciate it!

It must be something like what you suggest, because — after vainly trying very simple attempts in a number of new, separate files — I’ve found that it is working now (for some reason that I don’t understand!), even tho’ I hadn’t yet read your reply. Something must have re-set. . .

Thanks again!

[Michael Leibson]

Thanks, Graham — you’ve been a great help! : – )

[Michael Leibson]

Thank-you, Graham, for giving of your time on this — I really appreciate it!

You’re completely correct — this is exactly what I’m trying to do.

Now for a really dumb question (I am a complete beginner at this, trying to figure things out on the fly): how does one create an empty event on that parent track (or, for that matter, on any track)?

Thanks!

[Michael Leibson]

Grazie, Grazie : – ) In fact, wasn’t that you who had also posted in that 2013 vegas post?

I’ve made a quick, rough video of what I’ve been trying to do — first in a more complicated way, and then according to the technique described in that 2013 post (ie, using only X-axis movement – via only track motion – in the main track, and then only Y-axis movement – via parent motion – in a parent track): https://ln.sync.com/dl/44baffab0/zv7k4y57-2r8v2n7g-zy67psqs-3ys7dp9g (This link will only be active for a few days.)

My apologies for my rough presentation!

Thanks for your offer to help!

[Michael Leibson]

Thanks, again, for taking the time to respond, Russ – I appreciate it!

>Click on this icon is twirling down. . .

Aha — yes, I do this all the time, so that I can create keyframes for panning and zooming, using BCC Pan & Zoom.

>One button says lane and to the right the button says curves. The curves will give you very precise control over the animation for that slider.

I have found that those “curves” apply to the velocities of the pans (eg, “smooth”, “fast”, “slow”, “hold”, etc), not to actual curves in the pans from keyframe to keyframe. (Please correct me if I’m wrong.) So far, only Vegas’ “keyframe interpolation smoothness” — found in Vegas’ own Pan & Crop feature — seems to be able to create any kind of curve between panning keyframes.

Thanks for looking into VASST for me, Russ!

[Michael Leibson]

Thank-you, Russ!

>Now just add track motion and this may yield the desired result.

Thanks for the tip! I will try this.

>If you do the effect often, try looking up Ultimate S By VASST It is a collection of useful scripts that really speed up Vegas workflow.

. . . and thanks for this tip! I will look into it. Is there one VASST script/app that is specific to creating curved paths for pan keyframes?

>There thing is that one needs to twirl down the timeline in the plugin to do custom animations. Is that what you are looking for? The animation controls in the plugin itself?

Forgive me, but I’m not sure what you mean by “twirl down the timeline”. When using BCC Pan & Zoom, I do use the BCC controls that are available in the Vegas “video event fx” window, and, yes, there are many controls! I tend to avoid the automated pans, and use “Transform A” to do manual keyframes, using the ‘position’, ‘anchor’, ‘scale’, and — occasionally – 3D controls, but none of the ‘cropping’, ‘motion blur’, etc., controls. However, none of the controls seem to address creating curved pan paths. As well, I suspect that BCC’s intense controls may be causing the huge slowdowns when playing back in the Vegas Video Preview window and when rendering.

[Michael Leibson]

Hi Paul;

(Just returning to this video after quite some time. )

I finally tried your suggestion, and rendered the original four tracks as a high resolution .mxf file, then imported that into a new vegas project, as before.

Unfortunately, in that new .veg project, the .mxf file does not play the original tracks’ masks, the way the imported .veg file does, but as a video clip — that is, not as masks but as complete with background.

I wonder if I’m doing this incorrectly, or if that’s just what .mxf files do.

Would there be any other way of doing this with some format other than the imported .veg file, so as to speed up any work I do with it?

Thanks!