[Norman Black]

I’ll be interested in hearing what others might have to say, but I don’t think it can be done on video effects.

AFAIK only video and audio track envelopes support this and audio effects can support automation but not video effects.

[Norman Black]

I can see something at about 42 seconds but I have no idea what effect is being used. Is it a Push transition? If so, I have intermittently seen a thin green line on this transition when GPU is enabled in video prefs.

[Norman Black]

Only a guess, but if you applied the effect as Media FX then all events from that media will have the effect. Likewise, if you applied the effect as Track FX, then anything on the track will have the effect.

[Norman Black]

[Graham Bernard] “I’m glad you spoke with NewBlue, great support chap Mr. Edward Troxel!”

+1,000 on that. Any poor support experiences we have with all other products, do not apply to NewBlue.

NewBlue is the polar opposite and sets the standard that other companies should aspire to.

[Norman Black]

I look at text in Vegas as a two plug-in operation.

I use Legacy text for simple plain text. For everything else I use NewBlue Protype titler. 3D, texture mapping, gradients and animations.

Sony Protype titler does have lots of features and serious power in keyframing. No 3D or texture mapping.

Newblue has its weak points but what tool does not. I’ve submitted plenty of feature suggestions.

[Norman Black]

Zoom in on a problem spot in question. You will probably see an overlap of the events of that frame or two you speak of.

If you don’t have snapping turned on, this happens easily as it is hard to perfectly align one edge with another. Even with snapping on, one can twitch the mouse a little and get this. Rare but it can happen.

[Norman Black]

[Matthew Beke] “I dont really want to convert the video because it is almost 2gbs”

The screen shot John showed you does not convert the Video. It simply remuxes the video into a new file. The video and audio data is copied, as is, into a new fresh file container with fresh meta data.

If there is a problem in the file meta data of that particular file, this would fix that problem.

[Norman Black]

In Vegas 13, if you want to move something and have it ripple, the new shuffle tool in the bottom toolbar can give you that with no possibility of forgetting that ripple is turned on after your move.

[Norman Black]

[jenny gold] “So was not really able to use it and know what to even do with it to other than see you applied to some text slow letterbox reveal – but did not teach me HOW to actually go about and do what I wanted -):”

I assume you opened the pan/crop window for the event as previously described. Masking is controlled in the pan crop window. You should see “mask” in the keyframe timeline of the pan crop window. IN the keyframe timeline you should see the keyframes I created. Click them. Then you will see the masks associated with the keyframes and how the two mask shapes are different and how that is giving the effect desired. If it is not obvious enough how you create mask elements then…

Here is a link to some masking help topics in the Vegas help file. This is a web link, but it is the same as the Vegas help file installed on your machine and available via the Help menu (F1).

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/webhelp/vegaspro/13/ENU/index.htm#PanCropWindow.htm#kanchor281

I found this topic by entering “mask” into the help index and looking at the topics it lists.

The Vegas help is quite good. Learn to use it to learn how to do things.

Chapter 12 in the Vegas manual also has information. Mostly the same as the help file but there are differences.

[Norman Black]

Grazie,

I forgot to mention that with Handbrake and AAC output, you should use the FDK AAC encoder. It is much better, as they document. I output LAME MP3.

With all this talk about frameserving to Handbrake, I just played around with a little frame serving to ffmpeg (same x264 encoder) playing with settings for online upload.

I came up with CRF 28 at high profile for 720p30. I got about 4.5Mbps average bitrate. I tried Fast, Medium and Slow presets. Slow took twice as long as Fast but came in at about the same bitrate and looked the same. 2:50 versus 4:50 encode time.

That was with my source material. A GoPro mounted to a mountain bike. Unlike most other peoples source material. If I had to guess, with more common source material, you could probably use a lower CRF value for a similar bitrate. My material does not compress very well.

For what it’s worth here is my ffmpeg script I use to frameserve.
cd d:\renders
d:

echo AviSource("server.avi") > server.avs

c:\systools\ffmpeg32\bin\ffmpeg.exe -i server.avs -threads 0 -c:vcodec libx264 -vf scale=w=-1:h=720:flags=lanczos -preset fast -profile:v high -crf 28 -pix_fmt yuvj420p -c:a libmp3lame -qscale:a 2 output.mp4

del server.avs

pause