Cookie Cutter effect in Vegas

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:48 pm

I think this is a really cool effect but a few things I can't do or don't know how to do really piss me off. You could choose where you want the cut to be on the screen but you cant add an effect like make it move around and zoom the shape in or out.. i've seen this effect before but mainly in videos using AE.. is there a way to do this in vegas? I can't quite figure it out.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:55 pm

lol ok ignore this... or not

http://www.wideopenwest.com/~wvg/tutorial-4.htm

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:30 pm

actually this is the sonic foundry version.. i'm not getting the option shown on the bottom of this pic

can't select key frames... but I'm still reading maybe i can find some info as to how to edit key frames of the cookie cutter.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:17 am

I'm guessing that you are using Vegas Movie Studio (the cheap version), not Vegas (the expensive version). The expensive Vegas does have keyframes for cookie cutter effects just like in that picture you posted.

Vegas Movie Studio does not do keyframes, but it does have start and end settings (i.e. effectively, a limit of two keyframes for each event).

When the FX window for cookie cutter is open, look near the top to the side of the Preset box. There's a checkbox next to the word End. When that is unchecked, your settings apply to the whole event. When that box is checked, you need to further select either Begin or End and make settings for each one.

Check the Help menu index for this topic: Animating Video FX.

Remember this is for the start/end of an event, not a clip. If you want mutliple changes within a clip, split the clip ('S' key) into more events.

You can also do cookie cutter-like effects with the color gradients. Select the Text & Backdrops tab. Drag one of the black and white presets to the Overlay track above a clip.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:48 am

TaranT wrote:I'm guessing that you are using Vegas Movie Studio (the cheap version), not Vegas (the expensive version). The expensive Vegas does have keyframes for cookie cutter effects just like in that picture you posted.

No I have Vegas 6.0d

the expensive version.. I've mentioned on many occasions that I have Vegas 6.0... how odd maybe the update to 6.0d did something to mess that up.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:34 am

x_rex30 wrote:...the expensive version.. I've mentioned on many occasions that I have Vegas 6.0... how odd maybe the update to 6.0d did something to mess that up.

I remember you posted elsewhere about v6, but it didn't make sense that this was a problem. I'm still using version 4 and the keyframes work. In fact, I don't think there is any way to disable them.

You might check your keyframe settings to see if they haven't been set somehow to "Hold" - as unlikely as that sounds.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:42 am

I don't think them being set to hold is the case.. they're set on linear. WTF!?

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:47 am

OK seems I fixed it.. i can see the option now.. You know how there is an option to see how much of the timeline you see?? the keyframe option was pulled all the way down and there was a bar I dragged up that revealed it... quite odd I thought I would see it by using the scroll bar but that was not the case! All seems well now.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:04 am

I wish they had a "feather type" option like they have in the Mask option.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:17 pm

Feather type? Must be something new in v6.
You may get that option by masking with the color gradients under Media Generators. They're not as easy to use as the cookie cutter, but they are more flexible.