The Idiots Guide to Vegas

AimoAio · Post by **AimoAio** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:29 am

Might have to then I'm afraid.Everytime I leave this website to go work on my video another problem pops up and I'm having trouble fixing it again.

I'm masking this part of a clip where it's moving,so I know to change the anchors around with the keyframes but the thing is I DONT want the image to keep moving about,I want it fixed in 1 spot,but the clip I'm masking has the image moving about,is there a way to stop it from moving about?

AimoAio · Post by **AimoAio** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:15 am

wait nevermind I think I've got it,just take a screenshot and use that!I'll try that out

Kumatora · Post by **Kumatora** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:53 am

I figured out to move a layer and shrink it and such, but I have a new problem as well.

I take one video layer(the top one), shrink it, and move it to the bottom left. That way, I can use it as a reference. The only problem is that layer sometimes will and will not appear, even when there is nothing on the second layer.

Is it because the video is a WMV?

I've also noticed that the video and any storyboard pictures that I've made will say they're offline when I restore the window from it being flattened.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:23 pm

the offline thing should go away after vegas processes it for a second...

as for the boards you cannot see, you have used the scroll function on the right, correct?

Kumatora · Post by **Kumatora** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:01 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:the offline thing should go away after vegas processes it for a second...

as for the boards you cannot see, you have used the scroll function on the right, correct?

That explains the offline thing.

I hate to sound like an idiot, but you mean the vertical scrolling, right? I don't have any issues with that. It's just that the top layer won't appear unless I play the video from the beginning.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:44 pm

you mean you can't see the track? or you can't see the layer in the preview screen?

Kumatora · Post by **Kumatora** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 4:59 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:you mean you can't see the track? or you can't see the layer in the preview screen?

I can't see the layer in the preview screen. Sometimes, I can see it, other times I can't.

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:09 pm

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's because the WMV format doesn't have keyframes at every frame. Try transcoding it to something like Huffyuv or Lagarith.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:12 pm

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:13 pm

and yea you should be editing with lossless avis in vegas...