[Steve Roberts]

Thanks Aleksey, The script listed did the job !

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Thanks again John,

That’s a pity. I’ll probably look for a progam that can read in time code (from Vegas) and then display text accordingly. I’d imagine there’s possibly some sort of karaoke software that may do this.

Cheers !

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Thanks for the reply John,

As for timing. I initially thought that using the Insert / Command menu item and then choosing TEXT from the Command pulldown menu. This is used for Windows Media format files according to the Vegas documentation. And on this item you can enter the time. It automatically sets the time to the current cursor location when you open the dialog.

So the plan would be to bring up a dialog box or preferably have a dialog box already positioned that changes it’s content based on these Commands. The text displayed would be that entered into the Parameter input box.

Any leads on scripts for this would be handy !

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[Steve Roberts]

Thanks for the reply Steve.

Only small problem is that I have no camera. I could probably buy one of those Pinnacle boxes that does something similar.

No leads on the scipting problem ??

Cheers,

Steve R.

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Cheers for that John,

I’ll work with the Calibration and Adjustment doc to see how things pan out.

I’ve also yet to try that last suggestion regarding the Mask issues I’ve been having. I’ll get back to you on that one soon.

Kind regards,

Steve Roberts.

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Hi John,

Thanks for putting me right on that one. But it’s confusing me.

The following paragraph should be read with the image of me confused and not shouting, which is the way I read it 🙂

I may not have been clear before when I talked about creating an alpha channel from the greyscale. You mentioned in your first reply that “You haven’t created an alpha channel at all. You have a gray scale mask.”. I find it a little confusing the talk of masks and alpha channels. Photoshop’s use of the two words for similar things also confuses me :-). On that confused note, I have created an alpha channel by using the Channel Blend plugin which allows me to assign the values of the R, G or B channels to the Alpha channel. Unless I am mistaken that video now has an alpha channel. I look at the alpha channel on the video preview screen and there it is. When I place this over the top of another video I see the lower layer of video and black where the white parts of the alpha channel exists. This is what I would expect. The question is how do I then replace those black parts with another video sequence. The problem now is that the top layer doesn’t have an alpha channel that reflects the inversion of the lower layers alpha channel which is how I would imagine I then over lay the top layer of video.

I understand the reasons you talk about masks now as you can’t really use alpha channels the way I would expect. Video editors work on a top down stacking system (that’s pretty obvious) whereas my previous working method is the node based one.

In Node based compositing I would just assign the alpha channel to that top layer of video and the jobs done.

So what I have now is vision where the clouds (masking vision) dark parts have blocked out the vision of the lower video layer. How do I get the final layer of vision to show up in the inverse areas of the final vision ? That’s were I’m stumped via this method. I can’t see how I can do it ?

Sorry for the rant and thanks again for the help.

Steve R.

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Hi John,

Thanks for the reply.

I’ve tried what you’ve suggested and it doesn’t solve my problem.

The issue with the method you’ve suggested is that it’s relying on the the video layer with the mask to also have the video that’s being overlayed. All I want from the mask video is it’s mask and using that mask to overlay another (3rd) video.

I’m starting to think this is not possible with Vegas – well not obviously easy anyway. I might try AviSynth and do some simple colour channel manipulations. Not idea as I will essentially need to have the exact segments pre edited which is a little time consuming.

Thanks again. I’ll keep playing !

Cheers,

Steve R.

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Howdy Grazie,

Well it’s more of a case of seeing what I get !

One shot I am thinking of doing would come out something like this. You would start by seeing a timelapsed dolly shot of an outback Australian landscape then clouds would start to appear from the left of screen and build up and eventually cover the whole frame to white. But what you see in the white part of the cloud is the next shot which may be a timelapsed sunrise over an island.

Essentially it’s a motion wipe. I hope that makes sense.

Like I said in the inital email I can do something like this in AE quite easily but I don’t have it. It also seems such a simple idea.

Whether the shot actually works visually is another thing.

Cheers,

Steve R.

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