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Vegas Pan/Cropping help

Postby uchihaclan13 » Sat Jun 02, 2007 7:10 pm

If you look at the pic for a sec on how the pan/crop is positioned in the window and then look at in the preview screen...
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My question is, how can I make it so that guy's face (middle of his face) shows up in that exact spot in the preview screen and leaving that "F" zone right there?
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:17 pm

Could you, I don't know, move the clip to the left?
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Postby post-it » Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:43 pm

PAN is something you do with a TriPod so your Camera can take a wide-view of a background.
(( the oversized length will be a moving background for the Characters to be walking-past -- the movement / direction they will be walking. ))
The PAN will only display the background "section" of your location at THAT frame.

Are you trying to have the letter " F " be a black-out -or- second video see-thru ?

sorry, I guess I'm not understanding what you are trying to do!

umm, could you possibly show us what it should look like from your Picture Editor creation ?? -- if we can see what you want it to look like, then we can figure-out How To Do It 8-)
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Postby -Nfp » Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:45 pm

Try expanding the F frame back to its normal size then move the whole frame to the left making sure that the right side of the frame is where you want it to be, then cookie cutter the rest of the clip out, i hope that solves your problem. :up:
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Postby uchihaclan13 » Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:50 pm

@bashar: No I couldn't unless I moved that "f" window with it.

@post-it: I dunno if u were trinyg to make a joke or not, but the tool is called "Pan/Crop" tool and also I just wanted to move center the vid into that vertical strip on the left

@Souljah: It worked! Cookie cutter always does wonders =3
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Postby TaranT » Sun Jun 03, 2007 3:11 am

Another alternative: set the clip's pan-crop the way you want it; i.e. center that F-rectangle on the face. Then close the pan-crop screen, open the track motion window and move the blue rectangle to place the image where you want it. From the track motion window you can also add a glow or shadow. Something to play around with.
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Postby post-it » Sun Jun 03, 2007 11:36 am

uchihaclan13 wrote:@post-it: I dunno if u were trinyg to make a joke or not ...


:shock: a joke ? .. no specail affect/effect is a joke -- unless its done wrong ^_^ than, and only then can anybody say, "what in heck was that!?" 8-)

:wink: In the software that I purchase for Editing ( AiST now under a new name for Private sales only , Magix, Asymetrix now also under a new name for Private sales only , Virtual Dub ... ) they allow specail Filtering and Affects/Effects to be Written by the Owners if such a Transition/Affect/Effect was not supplied by the Company Itself. This is one of my Desired Qualities in the Purchase of my Video Editors. :wink:

soo if your Editor can Import Transitions and Affects I might have had it already made for you - that's all 8-)
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Postby Keeper of Hellfire » Sun Jun 03, 2007 1:21 pm

Sorry for getting OT, but
post-it wrote:In the software that I purchase for Editing ( AiST now under a new name for Private sales only , ...
What information do you have on this? I still use AIST. AFAIK AIST doesn't make any b2c business anymore, no sales, no support, only b2b business under the brand of their mother Cinegy (software is called eXtreme).
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Postby Kitsuner » Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:45 am

TaranT wrote:Another alternative: set the clip's pan-crop the way you want it; i.e. center that F-rectangle on the face. Then close the pan-crop screen, open the track motion window and move the blue rectangle to place the image where you want it. From the track motion window you can also add a glow or shadow. Something to play around with.

The downside to this technique is that it affects the entire track, so it's somewhat limited. :(
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Postby RIPmyprsoul » Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:04 pm

Kitsuner wrote:
TaranT wrote:Another alternative: set the clip's pan-crop the way you want it; i.e. center that F-rectangle on the face. Then close the pan-crop screen, open the track motion window and move the blue rectangle to place the image where you want it. From the track motion window you can also add a glow or shadow. Something to play around with.

The downside to this technique is that it affects the entire track, so it's somewhat limited. :(


Isn't there keyframes to choose when you want to start and stop the track motion? :)
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Postby TaranT » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:22 pm

Kitsuner wrote:The downside to this technique is that it affects the entire track, so it's somewhat limited. :(

Vegas allows you as many tracks as you want, so the only limit is how much work you want to spend keeping track of your tracks.

RIPmyprsoul wrote:Isn't there keyframes to choose when you want to start and stop the track motion? :)

Motion requires number of keyframes > 1.
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Postby comorbid » Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:12 am

TaranT wrote:
Kitsuner wrote:The downside to this technique is that it affects the entire track, so it's somewhat limited. :(

Vegas allows you as many tracks as you want, so the only limit is how much work you want to spend keeping track of your tracks.

RIPmyprsoul wrote:Isn't there keyframes to choose when you want to start and stop the track motion? :)

Motion requires number of keyframes > 1.


When you set the position with Track Motion, and it adds the keyframe, right-click the previous keyframe on the timeline and choose "Hold," assuming you don't want the track to move before it gets to the frame with the repositioned clip.
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Postby Kitsuner » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:33 pm

TaranT wrote:
Kitsuner wrote:The downside to this technique is that it affects the entire track, so it's somewhat limited. :(

Vegas allows you as many tracks as you want, so the only limit is how much work you want to spend keeping track of your tracks.

Sure, the full version does. :x
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Postby comorbid » Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:33 pm

Kitsuner wrote:
TaranT wrote:
Kitsuner wrote:The downside to this technique is that it affects the entire track, so it's somewhat limited. :(

Vegas allows you as many tracks as you want, so the only limit is how much work you want to spend keeping track of your tracks.

Sure, the full version does. :x

Something you might wanna try as a workaround - I'm not sure if only the full version does this, but you might be able to import Vegas projects into other Vegas projects, kinda like how you can import an .avs script into another .avs script. I think that was implemented in Vegas 6. You just have to drag the .veg onto the timeline, and it'll show up like a normal video clip.

So if you're only working with a few tracks for composite effects, or whatever, that might be the solution. I'd say give it a shot by just putting 2 video tracks on top of each other and lowering the opacity of the top one so the bottom one shows through. Then save that, and import the .veg file into your main project.

The main problem, I would think, is timing it to the music if you need more tracks than you have available, but if it works, it's something you can use.
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Postby Bluffmaster » Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:33 am

well u could do the long way and resize the pic in photoshop import the clip in virtualdubmod and export it into pics and edit in photoshop
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