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Postby AimoAio » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:57 pm

ah ok maybe I'll do that next time lol,it'll take a while.I got my clips from kh-vids.net since thats the only place I can find decent Kingdom Hearts clips.

I've got another question

Let's say there was 4 piano beats in the music.I have 4 pictures,cut to the shape I wanted.Now I want 1 in each corner to the beat of the music,how would I go about doing that?For just now I've been using the track motion tool to get it in the corners but that means I need 4 layers.Maybe panning it?I know this sounds silly but how do I pan an image to where I want it?I'm kinda confused.

I opened up the Event Pan/Crop window.Then started making the box with the "F" smaller but all it did was zoom in a certain part of the clip and when I moved it,it would only move side to side but not up and down or diagonal..am I using this tool wrong?
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Postby Kumatora » Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:31 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:
Kumatora wrote:I've finished my video, but for some reason, the video jerks a bit when the footage is slowed down from the original. This only happened when the video was finished and not in Vegas. Did I render it wrong or what? I followed the directions here:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... xport.html


no motion just ends up jerky when slowed down too much

Okay, at least I know what went wrong with the video. How slow would it have to be when it starts to jerk like that?

Also, if you haven't already seen my new video, I suggest you should since I give you a special thanks. Also, this is the video with the jerky footage, just to warn you.
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Postby AimoAio » Sun Apr 06, 2008 5:38 pm

um anyone help me on panning?I've been using the track motion tool to move clips to the part I want because that's the only way I could do it.How do you pan?
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Postby JaddziaDax » Sun Apr 06, 2008 5:53 pm

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then move the box with the F in it around and see how it effects the clip on the timeline
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Postby AimoAio » Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:44 pm

hmm I've been trying to use it but it either goes ONLY up and down or side to side but not up and down AND side to side.Like for the 1 event,I can pan it up and down but not side to side.And for another event it lets me pan it side to side but not up and down! :S help!

Um how'd you flip an event?I don't mean rotate because it turns the event upside down which isnt what I want,it's like a mirror image I want.
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Postby mueller7792 » Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:29 pm

is there a way to divide my bleach episode into clips? i imported a bleach episode into vegas 7.0e, and it's just a huge clip 24 minutes long.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:26 pm

squallxrinoa wrote:hmm I've been trying to use it but it either goes ONLY up and down or side to side but not up and down AND side to side.Like for the 1 event,I can pan it up and down but not side to side.And for another event it lets me pan it side to side but not up and down! :S help!

Um how'd you flip an event?I don't mean rotate because it turns the event upside down which isnt what I want,it's like a mirror image I want.


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Question 2: right click and choose flip horizontally
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Postby JaddziaDax » Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:28 pm

mueller7792 wrote:is there a way to divide my bleach episode into clips? i imported a bleach episode into vegas 7.0e, and it's just a huge clip 24 minutes long.


Vegas has no "make clips" like Windows Movie Maker does, so you are gonna have to do this:
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or make clips yourself by doing this:
JaddziaDax wrote:open the video file in virtualdub mod go to video->compression->Huffyuv or Lagarith

then go to file->save

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use those to mark the beginning and the end of the "clips" you want so you can save room
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Postby Ghet » Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:40 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:I'ma put together a Vegas guide one of these days: *sigh*

do eet, id be willing to help however i can o=
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Postby JaddziaDax » Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:53 pm

heh... maybe some day O.o
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Postby AimoAio » Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:55 am

oh right,thanks!it's been hard working with 20 layers because I had to use track motion to pan the images around :\

I have another question

Say I wanted a person running masked out and ontop another video with the person still running.Do I have to put a keyframe in and mask again everytime the person moves differently?I had a look at a video with something similar like that before but sometimes the person goes offscreen and you can see the background parts which isnt what I want.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:49 pm

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yes you would have to set up the key frames for each frame, but with the masking tool in vegas all you should have to do is move the anchors around on each new frame.
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Postby 76 » Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:20 am

Alright. I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

But I've just read the first nine pages and I haven't found an answer.


When I go to the pan crop window in vegas(6.0) I try to draw the bottom up to cut off subs, and the whole square resizes.


Is there a way to just cut off the bottom of the video? Without having to cut off of all the edges?


I am terribly sorry if this is dreadfully annoying. But I would like an answer before being called a noob. If that isn't too much trouble.
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Postby LivingFlame » Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:38 am

One of the icons on the left of the Pan/Crop window is the "Lock Aspect Ratio" icon. Click it and it will turn of that lock. The top and bottom will still move together, though. If there's a way to stop that, I don't know it, but Jaddzia will probably wander in with that answer. He seems to be our resident expert, lol. :P
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Postby AimoAio » Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:43 am

get to the pan event window and make sure the 2nd and 3rd last icons are UNSELECTED. should work after that,used to have this problem alot aswell
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