[Steve Rhoden]

After you import the footage in vegas….you go to the
“project media” tab and right click the particular footage
and select “properties”. When that comes up you see at the
bottom, “alpha channel” you then change it from “none” to
“straight (unmatted)”.
Now when you drag the footage to the timeline, the alpha
channel will be present.
Also to import the tga files that you probably downloaded
from ribbit films or any footage in image sequence….you click
on import media and highlight the first image in the list and
at the bottom you tick “open still image sequence” and then
press open….thats it.

The rain clip you have isn’t embedded with an alph channel…
you have to key out the black with the chroma key video filter
or toggle with the “composting mode” on the timeline the rain
clip is on.

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[Steve Rhoden]

You can also use your velocity envelope.

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[Steve Rhoden]

Here you will find a good amount of free green-screen and
alpha channel shot footages you can download and use or
experiment with royalty free…Just freely sign up first:
https://secure.ribbitfilms.com/RibbitFilms/content.display.jsp?pid=1&aid=4&action=demo_register&lid=

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[Steve Rhoden]

Ohhhh….Prodad Heroglyph is my all time favorite titling
plugin. It’s so versatile and can do so much more than it seems to
be capable of.
Wayne, you need to go over all the settings carefully,along with
having the desired resolution already set in vegas and checking
your final render from vegas…..Heroglyph and Vegas 8 Pro
handles all resolutions very well, from SD/DV right up to 2k.

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[Steve Rhoden]

You need to have a very powerful computer to playback
HDV in the avi or quicktume formats fluently (real-time).

Steve Rhoden
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[Steve Rhoden]

Since you are going to reformat and reinstall your system,
I don’t think its possible to reinstall Media Manager with
all previous information and Meta-data intact.

But if all your media that are tagged or on external drives,
you can follow this method suggested in this previous post:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/887548

Steve Rhoden
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[Steve Rhoden]

Your editing software applications should all be
installed and running on the designated computer system drive…
External drives can be used for any other task.

Steve Rhoden
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Portfolio at:
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[Steve Rhoden]

You’re welcome David.

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[Steve Rhoden]

No Omar,
Most of their footages are not pre-keyed,
only a few,You have to do your own keying…including
the rain stocks Jon is mentioning.
That is why i recommended the above solutions.
But with footages with an alpha channel, the method
you described is the correct one.

Steve Rhoden
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Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Portfolio at:
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[Steve Rhoden]

Yes thats what i recommended first, you need to resize them.
Also since you are gonna want to use the ken burns effect you
should resize them just a little bit bigger than the video
resolution you will be working with (DV OR HD) to give you some
space for movement/panning …and when you are rendering images
on the timeline set the “resolution rendering quality” to Best.
from within the “project properties”.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Portfolio at:
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