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On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:22:12 +1000, "John"
<knight_js.nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>"Mike Kujbida" <kujfam-misleadingspam@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>news:2tdlm0F1u0mptU1@uni-berlin.de...
>>
>>
>> John wrote:
>> > "Mike Kujbida" <kujfam-misleadingspam@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>> > news:2td0nmF1tr27dU1@uni-berlin.de...
>> >> John wrote:
>> >>> Drag the video clips you want into different tracks. Select "Event
>> >>> Pan/Crop" for the top clip. Grab the corner of the rectangle and
>> >>> drag it larger. Now grab the whole rectangle to position it right
>> >>> where you want it.
>> >>>
>> >>> (watch the preview window as you do each step to see what's
>> >>> happening)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Event Pan/Crop" is the wrong tool for the job. "Pan/Crop" does
>> >> exactly what it says. "Panning" the image, if it's oversized, to add
>> >> motion to a still image and "Cropping" it to get rid of a portion of
>> >> it that you don't want/need.
>> >> As others have said, "Track Motion" is the correct tool for what the
>> >> OP wants to do.
>> >> Instructions are found on p. 218 in the Vegas 4 manual (and p. 250
>> >> in the Vegas 5 manual).
>> >>
>> >> Mike
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> "RSWilson" <SpamBeGone@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
>> >>> news:8mi1n094aq33e68f6gdjoidrkac5vvapmn@4ax.com...
>> >>>> How can this be done in Vegas Video 4? It's like when one is
>> >>>> watching sports. I think I've seen where they'll put video in a
>> >>>> corner of the main screen. I need to do that in a vid I'm
>> >>>> currently working on. I've searched and searched but it's
>> >>>> obvisouly a terminology problem for this newbie. I believe I
>> >>>> don't need step-by-step instructions at all, fortunately, just a
>> >>>> starting place. I've been managing to figure out things in VV4 as
>> >>>> I go along but this one is stumping me. I have the pdf manual,
>> >>>> too, so once I know what it's called, I can look up the procedure.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thanks!
>> >>
>> >
>> > Ok. Thanks.
>> >
>> > What would be the down side of using Event Pan/Crop to do this
>> > instead of using Track Motion?
>>
>>
>> I personally find Track Motion much easier to position images with. In
>> addition, you get X & Y rotation plus shadow & glow options, none of which
>> are in Pan/Crop.
>> Having said that, the main thing to be aware of about Track Motion is that
>> it affects the entire track. This means that whatever you do to the first
>> image/video clip is applied to all images/video clips on that track. You
>> can, of course, keyframe around it if desired - or simply create a new
>> track.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
>Ok. Thanks Mike
All excellent advice, thanks so much. I went back to use all this
info and got exactly what I needed. Cropping to make all the frames
the same without the unwanted info border on the side. Since there
were 2 borders of different sizes, I ended up splitting the video in
the spots where the border changes (because, _of_course, the border
has to slide out and can't just appear from one frame to the next
<vbg>). I found that sometimes, the quality was affected as the
resulting cut out portion is blown up because I didn't want black
borders so fixed the ratio, but other than that, this worked
perfectly!
The PIP works like a dream is I found it was so easy to do once I knew
what I was looking for. I did run into a synchronizing problem that I
wasn't aware of until I actually did this <lol>, but at least this is
very do-able.
Thanks so much, everyone!
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