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Probably a dumb Sony Vegas question

Postby Weatherman2111 » Mon May 19, 2008 2:53 pm

Thanks in advance for any help.

I'm using an old copy of Sony Vegas, 5.0, and I'm trying to figure out how I would make a certain video effect. My idea is to have 4 boxes, one in each corner of the screen that would each cover about 10% of the screen. The rest of the screen would be a different clip from whatever is in the boxes. I don't have any other programs for editing other than Vegas, so if this can't be done using Vegas it's no big deal, I can work around it. I'm just kinda hoping someone might have an idea I could try out.

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Postby TaranT » Tue May 20, 2008 1:41 am

You want the Track Motion tool.
Details are in the Help menus.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Tue May 20, 2008 3:23 pm

actually pan/crop will work better than track motion because they might want to just move the clips around and not the whole track.

all you need is 5 layers one for each box, use the pan/crop to place them where you want them:

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and if you want to add borders to the boxes use the cookie cutter on each clip, and adjust the settings till it looks how you want it.
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Postby Weatherman2111 » Tue May 20, 2008 6:32 pm

Pan and crop sounds like the way to go. It won't make the stuff that gets cropped look weird and/or blocky? Just checking. Thanks. I'm planing to start on this part of my video tomorrow.
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Postby TaranT » Tue May 20, 2008 11:12 pm

If you want a single box to show many clips, you will need to apply the pan/crop to each one. Half a dozen isn't much; twenty or thirty gets to be a chore. Track motion is essentially just pan/crop for an entire track, meaning you only have to set it up once. Although you can still apply pan/crop over the track motion.
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Postby NS » Tue May 20, 2008 11:23 pm

and Btw, I use Vegas 5.0 and I know for a fact that it's able to do this, just FYI
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Postby JaddziaDax » Wed May 21, 2008 3:57 pm

TaranT wrote:If you want a single box to show many clips, you will need to apply the pan/crop to each one. Half a dozen isn't much; twenty or thirty gets to be a chore. Track motion is essentially just pan/crop for an entire track, meaning you only have to set it up once. Although you can still apply pan/crop over the track motion.


well if they are going to do the entire video or a good chunk of the video like that then yea track motion would be the easiest so would be using track FX, but if it's for a short segment of their video then pan/crop would be easier than having to "fix" the track farther down the road.
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Postby Weatherman2111 » Sat May 31, 2008 4:50 pm

Thanks for all the help. I got it all figured out.
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