Rob Strobbe
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As of yet, there’s no such thing as Sony Vegas Pro 9.
There is Sony Vegas Pro 8, and there is Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 (which has a regular edition, a Platinum edition, and a Platinum Pro Pack edition…the “Pro Pack” is just the Platinum edition plus some extras like content and third-party plugins).
What does it say in the title bar? If you see Sony Vegas Pro, then the mask tool (assuming you’re referring to Bezier masking) is in the Pan / Crop window. Click the Pan / Crop button on any event to get there.
Rob
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Maybe I’m misreading you, Bill, but are you trying to use Fit-to-Fill in conjunction with three point editing — or are those two separate issues?
If you are, you can’t do that, dude. 😉 As I understand it (and I’m not a pro, so maybe I don’t), three point editing involves creating a selection on the timeline and a single point in the Trimmer. You add the media, and the NLE (here, Vegas) decides how much to add based on the selection timeline.
When you do this, Fit-to-Fill is disabled because it’s not applicable (not anything to do with the “Collapse Loop Region…” setting).
Fit-to-Fill looks at the selection on the timeline and the selection in the Trimmer (so you need both an In and Out point in the Trimmer, too) and stretches or compresses the media you’re adding in order to fit the timeline selection.
Rob
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“I just want to continue from last Out point when I hit play again (spacebar) to cue up next piece of narration. I found that even if I do Ctrl Q that it loops unless I hit play, then stop.”
I think I know what’s going on here. 🙂
Technically, it’s not “looping.” When I say loop, I mean this:
With a loop region selected and Looped Playback turned on, you start playback. Vegas gets to the end of the loop region of its own volition, and immediately returns to the beginning of the loop region to play it again. Rinse, lather, repeat until something intervenes.
What’s happening in your case, I believe, is that you’ve started playback, gone as far as you needed, and hit the spacebar. Default behavior (if I recall correctly) is for Vegas to STOP playback and return to whatever position you started playback from. This happens regardless of where the loop region starts or whether there even is one or if Looped Playback is On or Off.
To remedy this, you can change the behavior of the spacebar so that instead of Stopping, it Pauses. Go to Options > Preferences > General tab and check the box next to “Make Spacebar and F12 Play / Pause instead of Play / Stop.” It’s around 1/2 to 3/4 of the way down.
Rob
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Yup. Both the Trimmer and the timeline have three boxes in their bottom right corners. First box is the cursor position, second box is the selection end position (if a selection exists), third box is selection length. Double-click any of these to edit them, and Vegas will reflect your change on the timeline (or Trimmer, as the case may be). Just as you want, +25 moves ahead 25 frames; -25 moves back 25 frames. 25 moves to the 25th frame. Etc.
Rob
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“I think even if I did manage to resize the “seen” to the proper size, it would still get cut off because the parent track is a square right”
Okay, so resize the parent track’s media if that you think is the problem. 😉
Really, if you’re using Vegas Pro 8, you might want to take a look at the new Protype Titler instead of the standard Text tool. The Protype Titler would allow you to do all of your words (and be able to move / rotate each word — each letter, in fact, if you want to) individually — all on a single track instead of several.
Also, for what it’s worth, I’m not entirely sure you need “cameras” in order to do what that tutorial does. Vegas’ 3D Track Motion would do just fine. (I think. I plan on going through that tutorial a couple times and seeing how close I can get using Vegas and the Protype Titler.)
Rob
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Click the image event’s Pan / Crop button. Beneath the keyframe timeline (bottom of the Pan / Crop window), click the Last Keyframe button and then the Create Keyframe button. Then in the Rotation section (over on the left of the Pan / Crop window) change the Angle setting. 180 is half a turn, 360 is a full turn, etc. I think the limit is 36,000 (100 turns).
Rob
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As long as you have a selection (loop region) selected both in the Trimmer and on the timeline, Fit to Fill will be enabled regardless of the Collapse Loop Region setting.
Is there a reason you don’t want a loop region / selection? If you just don’t want that section looping, turn off Loop Playback (Ctrl+Shift+L or Q — be sure to do this both in the Trimmer and on the timeline).
Rob
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I just told you how: “Click the icon that looks like a circle with a line through it.”
On your video track — the one that is “darkened” — there is a track “header” to the left. It’s the area with all the buttons, a slider, and a large square with “1.” on it.
One of those buttons (the only one that you currently have pressed) has a circle with a line through it. This is the Mute button for that track. It turns that track on and off.
Click that button to UN-mute the track.
Rob
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Your track is muted. Click the icon that looks like a circle with a line through it.
Rob
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Not sure what you’re asking exactly — could you be more specific / give an example of what you’re trying to do?
That said, the Video FX tab has both a Levels FX and a Color Corrector FX — either or both of those probably do what you want.
Rob