Stephen Mann
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Slow the audio or turn down the audio?
Do you just want to duck the audio, say reduce the volume of the background music to hear a narration better? First, turn on the track volume envelope. Next make a region where you want to duck the audio, then drag the volume envelope down. Instant duck.
Steve Mann
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First, you have to get a good shot. The screen has to be evenly lit and with no shadows. Then just apply the Sony Chromakey F/X to drop out the green. Insert a new video track under the greenscreen track. Right click on the track and Insert Generated Media. Select Sony Solid Color and select black. Then drag the ends of the black event to match the greenscreen track.
Or – there’s always more than one way to do anything in Vegas – After you insert the new blank video track, double-click on the greenscreen event to create a region, then in the blank new track, right-click and select Insert Generated Media, solid color, black (as above). The generated event will be the size of the region automatically.
Steve Mann
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If it is only a few seconds, then you could export the video as a series of image files, mask each frame individually, then import the sequence back to Vegas. I used Topaz ReMask on this image. (Topaz is half-priced this week)
The hair was particularly difficult. The white shirt on the white background was a problem. It took me about five minutes on the image in ReMask, so multiply that by your number of frames to mask. (I wonder if this could be called Rotoscoping?).
So, you need to decide what is more costly. A reshoot with a greenscreen background or mask each frame one at a time?
Steve Mann
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Add a new video track then copy the event to it, grab the end of the new event and drag until the change indicator says 3:00.
Remember, an event is only the in/out pointers to the media. You are not splitting anything.
Steve Mann
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I put a Sony Linear Wipe transition on the start of the arrow event.
Steve Mann
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I still can’t duplicate the problem. I did a “render as”, Main Concept MPEG using the DVDA template. The last frame is 09:24.
Steve Mann
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Post your veg file. (Use the File icon above).
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I can’t duplicate it. I get 09;29 on the last frame. I tried different Timecode formats and the result was always the same.
Steve Mann
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For a workaround, why not just add some black at the end?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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