[Theo Van laar]

Uploading an image:

press the IMAGE UPLOAD button in the messagewindow

The upload window opens

Browse to your file

select UPLOAD IMAGE

wait till it is uploaded

select the file on the right side of thre upload window

A picture and two links will appear on the left side of the upload window

Select the link on the right side of EMBED

copy this link and paste it into your message at Creative Cow forum

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

‘I because Vegas does not support VOB’s’

There is no need to convert the VOB to MP4.

Just place the DVD in the DVD player of your PC, open Vegas and select FILE-IMPORT-DVD Camcorder disk. If the disk is not copy-protected, it will be imported into Vegas

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

‘Basically I have to edit many video for my business and the transition I use is the page peel. I use 4 different page peels to mix it up a bit. The question is: Is there a way to apply them to the clips in one go’

This could be done easily by using a scripts like Excalibur

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

Yes it is possible to add data files to your DVD

In DVD Architect:

FILE
PROPERTIES
tab DISC PROPERTIES
EXTRAS FOLDER
Browse to the folder with the data files
OK
OK

Create your SD-DVD as usual

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

YouTube has a lot of Vegas instruction videos. There are also lots of tutorials on the internet. And you can purchase instruction DVDs for Vegas from VASST:
https://www.vasst.com/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=31&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=66

And there is also the Vegas 9 editing book from Douglas Spotted Eagle:

https://www.amazon.com/Vegas-Pro-9-Editing-Workshop/dp/0240813057

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

You have to move the track with the background below all the other tracks. You can simply drag the track in the trackheader downwards.

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

OK, now I understand what is going wrong:

When you start, the area of the blood event is the same size as your video. When you zoom-in on the blood, the whole screen will be filled with the white event and the blood. So still no problem. But what you do is to zoom-out. And then the area of the blood-event is smaller than your video below. So you introduce a black area in the blood event. And that indeed masks the event below because of the multiply mode.

You better do what John already suggested:

Add your video on the lower track. Add the blood-event twice, on two tracks above the video. Add the secondary color correction tool to the upper blood event and set the saturation to zero. Also add the mask generator tool to the upper track, choose the luminance option and select INVERT. Set the uppertrack mode to multiply (MASK) and make the middle track (also with the blood event) a child of the upper track. That gave the best results to me. (see picture)

Unfortunately, the footage you downloaded does not contain an alpha channel. Introducing an alpha channel with the secondory color correction tool is possible, but it looked awfull. So the problem with zooming-out remains.

One possible solution to this problem is: Open a new project, set the event with the blood on track 1, and a white generated media event on track two below the blood. Perform the zooming-out on the blood event and render this project to a new file. Use this file in your main project in the way described above.

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

For your background you can use anything. Just add an extra video track below your other video tracks. You can add generated media to this track, with the length of the project. E.g.solid colors, gradients, noise textures etc. And you can give some motion to these generated media. But you can also use your own pictures as background. That can be the same pictures as in the slideshow, but in greyscale and/or blurred. Or other pictures. Or any type of motion background etc. Motion backgronds can be generated in Vegas, or in programs like after effects or particle illusion. Or you find them on the internet (Free and paid).
The slideshow is going to be as nice as your phantasy can give you..

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

I’m not sure what yu are doing wrong. When you place the blood-footage on track 1 and the video on track 2 and set the MODE for track 1 at MULTIPLY, the white background becomes transparant (the normal multiply function).

When you now crop track 1 with the event pan/crop tool, this does not affect the video at track 2. So maybe you can add a screenshot of your project to show what you are exactly doing

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

Is windows explorer showing the same problem?

Theo