Vegas Video discussions from 2006 (Q1Q2)

[Emre Safak]

Maybe that's because it was originally captured at 48Khz and setting the project's audio setting to 44.1Khz required a conversion, and hence extra space.

[Kim Kinser]

I have a clip where someone walks accross the screen and I want to mask that persons movement.

It seems that even when I mask the first and last frames and set keyframes for those two points that Vegas does not seem to interpolate any keyframe movement.

What happens is I get the first frame masked as I expect and the mask stays still until the last frame when it jumps to the second mask I created.

Does Vegas not really do keyframed bezier masks or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,

KIM

[Edward Troxel]

It seems to interpolate between two positions for me. Is it possible that your keyframe type is "Hold"?

[Kim Kinser]

nope. they are set to linear. I was hoping it was something goofy like that though.

the keyframes appear on the "mask" line within the event pan/crop.

This is the right place isn't it?

Maybe I need to post an example to show what I am doing?

[Edward Troxel]

I was talking about the keyframes on the timeline at the bottom of the Pan/Crop box (to the right of the checkbox and the word "mask"). I wasn't referring the the mask points of the mask itself.

[Graham Jones]

Anybody ever outputted PAL from Vegas when the original source was 30p?

I would appreciate knowing how Vegas handles such a job.

Thanks.

Graham

[Glen Real]

I have 3 tracks

1) Generated Text
2) Generated Media (black screen)
3) Gif file

So what I'm doing is the generated black color and text is using the 16:9 crop so that the Gif file background shows up as the borders on the top and bottom. The problem is that when I do a transition such as Fade Through Black on the generated text, the whole screen fades to black including my borders. I've tried to make parent/childs but I can't seem to figure it out where the transitions only affect the generated text and not mess with the borders.

[David Jimerson]

Originally Posted by Glen Real

I have 3 tracks

1) Generated Text
2) Generated Media (black screen)
3) Gif file

So what I'm doing is the generated black color and text is using the 16:9 crop so that the Gif file background shows up as the borders on the top and bottom. The problem is that when I do a transition such as Fade Through Black on the generated text, the whole screen fades to black including my borders. I've tried to make parent/childs but I can't seem to figure it out where the transitions only affect the generated text and not mess with the borders.

Why do you have the black card? Are you using it as background for your transparent text?

Unless you want the text to show over something else, you can use text with a black background instead of transparent. Will save you a track.

No way around the fade through black, but you can cross-dissolve with a black card (on the same track, cropped to 16:9), and it should give you the same effect.

[Jack Smith]

Sounds like you may have a double keyframe at the end.Try next and previous to see,then delete the previous one.

[Andy Gordon]

Try deleting the last keyframe and then re-insert it with the plus key, then move it where you want it. It won't interpolate between keyframes if the Bezier path is not a modification of an existing one, e.g. if you delete the path on the second kyframe and then re-create it, it won't work.

[Yi Fong Yu]

halo,

anyone know of plugins other than deshake and boris that will stabilize a shaky .m2t?

[Emre Safak]

At the high end, 2D3 Steadymove.

http://www.2d3.com/jsp/products/prod...jsp?product=11

[Kim Kinser]

Thanks all. ANDY - that appears to be exactly the problem I have caused myself.

Thanks!!!!

The reason I created a new one is that I found it faster to do than modifying the one I had. Bad shortcut huh? Guess I better RTFM again.

LOL.

KIM

[Fred Foronda]

I posted it here also and still looking for answers http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...707#post439707

After eding in Vegas with the Cineform intermeidate codec do I convert it back to the original m2t file prior to printing to hdv tape??

Thanks

[Douglas Spotted Eagle]

If you are printing back to tape, then the file format on output must match what the camera requires. In other words, yes; it must be rendered to m2t to print back to HDV tape.