The Idiots Guide to Vegas

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Post by Anime Addict DBZ » Sat May 27, 2006 9:50 am

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! i like your totorial it was very informitable and p2njJJ didn't explain it 20 times! :x !!!!!!!!!!! anyway thanks for making this :) oh and 2 must now DIE :twisted: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

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Post by Ladymercury » Tue May 30, 2006 12:32 am

Anime Addict DBZ wrote:grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! i like your totorial it was very informitable and p2njJJ didn't explain it 20 times! :x !!!!!!!!!!! anyway thanks for making this :) oh and 2 must now DIE :twisted: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
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Section IX: Double The Footage = Double the Fun

So now I'm gonna teach you more special tricks... this is how to perform double footage, aka, having two different scenes playing at the same time.

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As you can see, I have some double footage, screenage, w/e. Let's see how I did that...

First, layer the footage you're using. What I did is that I had the footage I'm using for the 'top' on the first layer and the bottom footage on the second. It doesn't make a difference but I do it for 'that's bottom and that's top so it's easier to remember' sake.

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This is another pan/crop deal so open your pan crop options in your first footage

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and second

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Then you go in and you mess with the settings I circled. X and Y axis is its position on the video.

THE SOURCE MUST BE THE WAY THAT I HAVE IT or it will NOT WORK.
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Post by chronicdevil » Tue May 30, 2006 9:15 am

Ladymercury wrote::) Your welcome.


Section VIII: READ

DO NOT USE XVID/DIVX FILES IN VEGAS VIDEO OR ANY VIDEO EDITING PROGRAM.

You will, in a 99.9% chance, HAVE A PLAYBACK ISSUE. So, instead, either re-encode the file in something over that xvid/divx or NOT USE THE FILE AT ALL.

:)
Thanks for this great guide, I've learnt a lot from it. But I have a question: How do you know if a file is a divx/xvid file? And if it is, how and what do you encode it to?

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Post by Ladymercury » Tue May 30, 2006 9:20 am

chronicdevil wrote:
Ladymercury wrote::) Your welcome.


Section VIII: READ

DO NOT USE XVID/DIVX FILES IN VEGAS VIDEO OR ANY VIDEO EDITING PROGRAM.

You will, in a 99.9% chance, HAVE A PLAYBACK ISSUE. So, instead, either re-encode the file in something over that xvid/divx or NOT USE THE FILE AT ALL.

:)
Thanks for this great guide, I've learnt a lot from it. But I have a question: How do you know if a file is a divx/xvid file? And if it is, how and what do you encode it to?
You're very welcome :)

Actually, in your media pool tab, in the top right hand corner it lists the video's codec. It'll say " video codec: divx/audio codec: mp4 " etc. I know in Vegas 4 it says that. Usually, though, you can find out a codec by the way the program responds to the footage. Almost instantanously Vegas will fag out the footage by making blocky if its divx/xvid. You can also find out the codec if you play it in like winamp and load the properties.
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Post by chronicdevil » Tue May 30, 2006 9:34 am

Ladymercury wrote:You're very welcome :)

Actually, in your media pool tab, in the top right hand corner it lists the video's codec. It'll say " video codec: divx/audio codec: mp4 " etc. I know in Vegas 4 it says that. Usually, though, you can find out a codec by the way the program responds to the footage. Almost instantanously Vegas will fag out the footage by making blocky if its divx/xvid. You can also find out the codec if you play it in like winamp and load the properties.
Thanks, I was wondering why one of my AMVs had blocky parts in it. Is there a quick and easy way to change a file from divx to something that works in Vegas?

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Post by Ladymercury » Tue May 30, 2006 9:36 am

chronicdevil wrote:
Ladymercury wrote:You're very welcome :)

Actually, in your media pool tab, in the top right hand corner it lists the video's codec. It'll say " video codec: divx/audio codec: mp4 " etc. I know in Vegas 4 it says that. Usually, though, you can find out a codec by the way the program responds to the footage. Almost instantanously Vegas will fag out the footage by making blocky if its divx/xvid. You can also find out the codec if you play it in like winamp and load the properties.
Thanks, I was wondering why one of my AMVs had blocky parts in it. Is there a quick and easy way to change a file from divx to something that works in Vegas?
What I usually do is open the divx file in VirtualDub and re-encode it into something different :)
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Post by Ladymercury » Tue May 30, 2006 9:37 am

Ladymercury wrote:
chronicdevil wrote:
Ladymercury wrote:You're very welcome :)

Actually, in your media pool tab, in the top right hand corner it lists the video's codec. It'll say " video codec: divx/audio codec: mp4 " etc. I know in Vegas 4 it says that. Usually, though, you can find out a codec by the way the program responds to the footage. Almost instantanously Vegas will fag out the footage by making blocky if its divx/xvid. You can also find out the codec if you play it in like winamp and load the properties.
Thanks, I was wondering why one of my AMVs had blocky parts in it. Is there a quick and easy way to change a file from divx to something that works in Vegas?
What I usually do is open the divx file in VirtualDub and re-encode it into something different :)
Though, I may warn you that some depression in the quality of footage may happen.
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Post by chronicdevil » Tue May 30, 2006 9:50 am

Ladymercury wrote:Though, I may warn you that some depression in the quality of footage may happen.
That can't be worse than having blocky parts... :)

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Post by Ladymercury » Tue May 30, 2006 10:06 am

chronicdevil wrote:
Ladymercury wrote:Though, I may warn you that some depression in the quality of footage may happen.
That can't be worse than having blocky parts... :)
Very true :)
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Post by Ladymercury » Wed May 31, 2006 9:07 am

HEY HEY HEY

I complied the tutorial into a website form: http://vegas.aoi-tori.org/

Go ahead, browse. Look at how pretty it is. :) Hopefully it'll get listed on the org! :o
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