Help in Vegas Pro 8

Gamergirl89 · Post by **Gamergirl89** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:11 am

Ok, in this I was wondering how I could make moving bars (0:08-0:24)?
I think I should the cookie cutter, but I'm not totally sure.

Also, though this may be a dumb question, but is there a way to make stills in Vegas.
(something like at 1:43?) Everytime I want to do stills, I do them in wmm and then import to Vegas, though they look like crap.

DayWalker B. · Post by **DayWalker B.** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:08 pm

Yeah, for the moving bars you can use cookie cutter and animate the position of the 'square' effect via keyframes. Or you could create masking shapes and move those around on the screen with the pan/crop feature.

To make stills in Vegas you just have to set the velocity of a clip to 0% (right-click > insert/remove envelop > velocity). You can also change the speed of a clip in its properties, but I prefer the other method.

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:06 pm

Alternatively, for the still, you can just click that little floppy disk looking icon on the top of the video preview window. That'll take a screenshot of the frame that you're on and put the resulting file in your project media tab. And it can save in nice, lossless PNG format, too.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:17 am

if you are going to screenshot anything make sure the preview screen is set to "full quality"

another way to make a still frame is to cut your video down to one frame and right click and choose "create subclip" and stretch it out as long as you want it.

AaronAMV · Post by **AaronAMV** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:20 am

JaddziaDax wrote:another way to make a still frame is to cut your video down to one frame and right click and choose "create subclip" and stretch it out as long as you want it.

And here I thought I knew all the ways to get a 'screenshot' in Vegas. Well ya learn something new everyday. ;O Thank you! ^_^

AngelicFury · Post by **AngelicFury** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:11 pm

Since what I'm asking is related to an effect used in the same video, I'll just post this here.

The flashing rectangular bars in the begining part how could I make them? Is it still cookie cutter ?

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:55 pm

you can still use cookie cutter yes, or any of the other techniques listed in this thread.

pyrolord · Post by **pyrolord** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:07 am

Has anyone had this problem. While working on Vegas, I am getting this cowbell sound and I cannot figure out why it is happening. Can someone tell me what up?

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:08 am

in your rendered audio? or like there's an error box but it's not showing up?

needs more cowbell?

pyrolord · Post by **pyrolord** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:00 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:in your rendered audio? or like there's an error box but it's not showing up?

needs more cowbell?

Like there is an error box but it's not showing up. It's not rendering with the audio at all. Hell it still happens when mute all audio is muted.

I have a fever!