[Mike Kujbida]

kathreen, where do you live? I browse a pro audio forum with members from around the world who buy things like the Sony headphones all the time and if I knew your country, I could ask for recommendations for a place to buy the headphones.

[Mike Kujbida]

William, what version of Vegas are you using and is it Pro or Movie Studio?

[Mike Kujbida]

The most important step is to get the talent and your green screen lit properly.
Ideally you have at least 8 to 10 feet of separation between the two.
There are numerous lighting tutorials on the net for doing this so take a look around.

For keying in Vegas, have a look at these three for a start.
Solving tough keying problems in Vegas softwarea>
Chroma Keying DV in Sony’s Vegas
Vegas Chroma Key Tutorial

[Mike Kujbida]

Another vote for the Sony 7506 headphones. I’ve had mine for quite a while and love them.

[Mike Kujbida]

[Rick Longworth] “It would be nice if Vegas had a way of seeing what media fx is contained in your project.”

Timeline Tools (it’s free and a great utility!!) will show you.
https://www.nfatoys.com/moasoftwarellc/

[Mike Kujbida]

Roger, I can’t remember if you have Photoshop but if you do you can export your segment as a series of frames, bring them into Photoshop and use a custom brush to do what you want.
You’ll find a whole bunch of free ones here.
https://www.creativebloq.com/photoshop/free-photoshop-brushes-11121140

[Mike Kujbida]

Those dips mean that the events (what Vegas calls clips) are repeating themselves. That usually happens when you drag the event to the left, in your case repeatedly. To confirm the speed of an event, right click on, select Properties and see what’s in the Playback Rate box. Anything over or under a value of 1.000 means that it’s been sped up or slowed down. It can be reset to normal by entering a value of 1.0 in that box.

[Mike Kujbida]

Start a new project, import the two veg files (for example, veg-1 and veg-2) and drop them on the timeline. Be patient when you do this as Vegas builds a separate file for this purpose (sfap0 as I recall).
You can still edit each file by right-clicking on it and selecting “open veg-1 in Vegas”. Make you changes, save it and it will be instantly updated in the project you’re working on.

[Mike Kujbida]

My pleasure Grazie 🙂
I collect scripts and found it in my collection of useful tools to be shared!!

[Mike Kujbida]

Hopefully this works and the formatting doesn’t get messed up.
If it does, I’ve attached the script.
8197_changealphachannel.js.zip

//ChangeAlphaChannel.js by Roger Magnusson (roger_74 at home dot se)
import Sony.Vegas;

var ChangeAlphaTo : VideoAlphaType = VideoAlphaType.Premultiplied; //Set this to the type you want
/*
VideoAlphaType.Undefined
VideoAlphaType.None
VideoAlphaType.Straight
VideoAlphaType.Premultiplied
VideoAlphaType.PremultipliedDirty
*/

for (var currentTrack : Track in Vegas.Project.Tracks)
{
if (currentTrack.IsVideo() == true)
{
for (var currentEvent : VideoEvent in currentTrack.Events)
{
if (currentEvent.Selected == true)
{
VideoStream(new Media(currentEvent.ActiveTake.MediaPath).Streams.GetItemByMediaType(currentEvent.MediaType, currentEvent.ActiveTake.StreamIndex)).AlphaChannel = ChangeAlphaTo;
}
}
}
}