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Postby JaddziaDax » Sun May 27, 2007 1:00 pm

guitarissex wrote:strobe light is when theres a countiuise white flash its mostly used to sync with the drum beats of your song


JaddziaDax wrote:you manually put in media generators each time you want the "light" to flash

there is no "drop in strobe effect" as far as i know
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Postby JazzyDJ » Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:30 am

I got another question. What are all the other media Generators used for? I mean I see some like the Lightning bolt but all that does is cover up my clip or if I put it a layer below doesn't even show up at all. What are all the excessive media generators for? There's even a bunch of TV Test ones with all the different colors. What's the purpose?
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Postby JaddziaDax » Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:47 am

incase you want to use them?

some people do cut outs and masking and other kinds of effects, and the other media generators can come in handy in such cases...

you can also use them and play with the opacity on them and make them an overlay...
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Postby evenim » Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:33 pm

I got a good one this info is priceless GJ on the tutorial. I new nothing now have a full 15 min video of a fraps boss fight in world of warcraft. I might have missed it or my brain is racking from all the reading but i wanna save this to my computer as an avi er something did it say how to do that?
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Postby lynit » Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:28 am

evenim wrote:I got a good one this info is priceless GJ on the tutorial. I new nothing now have a full 15 min video of a fraps boss fight in world of warcraft. I might have missed it or my brain is racking from all the reading but i wanna save this to my computer as an avi er something did it say how to do that?

Open it in VirtualDubMod, then save it as avi.
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Postby Alucard15 » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:16 am

I recently switched to Vegas 7.0 from WMM2 and although I read the guide and can't wait to try all this program has to offer I've got one question: How do I select scenes from an anime I import to put into the movie I'm making? With WMM it was a simple play, pause, cut, play, pause and cut which made it a really easy. But with Vegas I see it's not as simple. I read the guide and I dunno, maybe it's from reading it too much or maybe the question was asked but if anyone can please tell me how to cut scenes from a movie and add em to the timeline I'd be greatly appreciated.
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Postby Jnzk » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:42 am

Under the Project Media tab, right-click the file and select Open in Trimmer. I and O are the shortcut keys for In and Out points, respectively. Then you can drag & drop the selected part onto your timeline (or use the shortcut key A). You can even create subclips that go to your Project Media folder with that little button in the top right corner of the Trimmer. :wink:
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Postby Alucard15 » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:56 am

Thank you. Now I can get to work on AMV, thxs a bunch.
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Postby comorbid » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:26 am

About strobing:

I have a lot of Vegas plug-ins, and not a one of them will automatically generate a strobe effect, but there are several ways to handle it. Unfortunately I'm not at my computer right now, but I'll try to explain one way as best as possible, off the top of my head, because I want to feel useful.

<ol><li>Zoom in on the area where you want the strobe effect.</li>
<li>On the left side of the Vegas window, where all the video and audio tracks are listed, find the video track where you want the effect to take place, and click the automation button - it should look like a little red cog/gear. Select "Show Automation Controls" (again, this is from memory, so it probably doesn't say that exactly, but there's only like 5 options, so it should be close enough).</li>
<li>Now you have an extra slider on your track options, which I believe is labled "Fade." You can use this or the Opacity slider to get the effect you want. For giggles, let's move on with the Fade slider.</li>
<li>Move the slider to some other position. I think moving it to the left will fade the clip to white, while moving it to the right will fade to black. When you let go, it will also add an envelope (a.k.a. "that line with all the little boxes on it") to the track itself. You'll wanna add points to the envelope and adjust them accordingly to get the desired effect, but make sure that the first point (all the way at the beginning of the video) is set to "No Color," by right-clicking it and choosing (surprise, surprise) "Set to No Color."</li>
<li>If you don't know how to add points to an envelope, right click on the envelope and choose "Add Point." You probably don't want to have them any closer than maybe 3 or 4 frames together, and 3 is really pushing it. The best way to do this (only in Vegas 7, AFAIK) is to first click on the clip where you want the effect to start - if you miss, you can use the arrow keys to get there. Add a point, and then drag it to the line - it should snap into place (assuming you have snapping enabled). Then right-click the point and choose "Set to No Color." This keeps the color level at its normal spot, in the middle. Right-Click it again, and choose "Fast Fade." IMO, this makes for the best strobing effect. but you can try other fade types.</li>
<li>Now use the arrow keys to move the position line ahead a few frames. Add another point, snap it in position, and set it to No Color. Add another point before that point, drag it to the bottom (for fade to black) and right up against the No Color point which you just added. Congratulations. You have one (1) whole strobe. You most likely want it to keep going for a while, so add more points in the same fashion until you've filled up the space.</li>
<li>You'll probably end up strobing past the end of the space that you want the effect to cover, so when you get to that point, place the position bar at the spot where you want the effect to end, zoom in as closely as possible, and add a point there. it'll probably end up a tiny bit higher than than it was before adding it, but not so much that it'll really make a difference. Now you have 2 extra points after that one, so delete one, drag the other point back, and set it to "No Color."</li></ol>

It's a bit tedious, but strobes are best in short bursts (unless you're just really trying to cause epileptic seizures), so it shouldn't take all that long.

Like I said, there's about a metric buttload of other ways to do it, this is just one. Also, the final result might be easier on the eyes than some other ways.
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Postby comorbid » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:31 am

Argh.

When you move the slider to get the envelope to show up, THAT'S when you should set the point at the beginning of the vid to "No Color." THEN you should zoom in on the area of effect, as it were.

I previewed that post like 12 times, and I still missed that. :x
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Postby guitarissex » Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:43 am

thanks that helps alot
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Postby L'arc~en~ciel » Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:45 am

Can anyone here solve this problem for me? My problem is that Vegas, i used to be able to highlight what portion of the video I wanted Rendered. Now, whenever I highlight the portion, it renders the whole video instead of that small spot I wanted. Anyone know how to make it go back to highlighting the portion of the video i want to be rendered instead of the whole thing, I hate waiting jsut to check and see if something lines right. =/
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Postby JaddziaDax » Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:30 am

check the box that says "render loop region only"
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Postby L'arc~en~ciel » Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:37 am

JaddziaDax wrote:check the box that says "render loop region only"


Wow, and i just saw that too, don't know how that just didn't jump out at me. Thanks a bunch. xD
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Postby freakinerd » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:03 pm

Hi there, I'm trying to mask movements but every time I save, it looks kinda messed up, I don't how to explain it so I just took a picture of it

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if there is a way to fix this, I would appreciate it
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