[Stefan Schramm]

Excellent tutorial!

Thanks John,

Stefan

Vegas 12, Windows 7 Professional

[Stefan Schramm]

I’m back with my channel logo project. As it turns out, I was given an updated logo to use. Even though the logo is as small as it should be, the image size is 1920×1080 with transparency, so I can put it on its own track. Works ok, until I try animating it. I want to grow/shrink the logo, but the center of the animation, of course, is now the entire screen, rather than only the visible portion of the logo. The effect is that the entire logo moves around the screen when I resize it.

In the animation window, I can’t find a way to specify the center which I’d like to put in the middle of the logo. Can this be done or do I need to create a cropped version of the logo?

Thanks,
Stefan

Vegas 12, Windows 7 Professional

[Stefan Schramm]

Mike,

thanks for answering. Your suggestion works, but only if the regions are stacked. In my case, I was hoping to adapt consecutive regions. Even if they’re grouped, all regions except the one I’m clicking on while extending/shrinking are deselected.

Stefan

Vegas 12, Windows 7 Professional

[Stefan Schramm]

>>Just to clarify, by “multiple regions” do you mean a series of events in a Vegas defined region or a series of multiple but individual events?

I think it’s the latter. Boxes in the timeline.

Stefan

Vegas 12, Windows 7 Professional

[Stefan Schramm]

So it turns out that resetting everything is not appreciated around here, because of worries that custom settings will be lost!

I poked around some more and had some success with changing the project properties to 32bit floating point. For some reason, this can’t be changed back to 8-bit. It also throws off the white balance.

Next I did something more basic: dropped all images again into a new project – voila! Everything is ok now. I’ll make a mental mark of this as a one-off. No idea why this new project is different than the last new project!

Happy new year,
Stefan

Vegas 12, Windows 7 Professional

[Stefan Schramm]

John: Thanks so much for your input. I didn’t know what that duration box does. A while back I’ve tried adjusting clip durations *in the timeline* numerically with this and nothing happened, so I ignored this box completely. Now you answered two questions instead of one 🙂

Jorma: Thanks for pointing out the legacy text option. It’s quite strange they would omit the scrolling direction in the modern version. Anyway, that’s another problem fixed!

Thanks to all and happy new year!

Stefan

Vegas 12, Windows 7 Professional

[Stefan Schramm]

Thanks John, I’ll talk to our other team players here to see if they’ll allow me to reset everything. Could be that they do not want this. But yes, the difference is quite shocking. The images indeed only look normal when I step through the timeline with the keypad shortcuts 7, 9, etc. Very odd.

If the reset changes anything, I’ll report back (won’t happen until after the holidays).

Thanks and best wishes,
Stefan

Vegas 12, Windows 7 Professional

[Stefan Schramm]

Oh so I managed to overlook the preset ‘scrolling text’ – but this does the same thing. Why the default speed is so fast that it’s impossible to read is anyone’s guess. And this one even scrolls in the wrong direction.

Puzzled,
Stefan

Vegas 12, Windows 7 Professional

[Stefan Schramm]

Aahhh… thank you!! (That’s the problem with a shared work space)

Vegas 12, Windows 7 Professional

[Stefan Schramm]

John,

here’s a screen shot of teh project settings. My menus are in German, hope that’s not a problem.

I’m also including screen shots of the output in the viewer. This is what the image looks like and what I see when stepping through the images with the keypad:

This is what I get when playing the timeline or scrubbing:

Thanks,
Stefan

PS: My response times are sluggish, because I work here part time only!

Vegas 12, Windows 7 Professional