The Idiots Guide to Vegas

FullmetalBG · Post by **FullmetalBG** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:40 pm

I bet it's true .And i'm amazed at how you have the time and nervs to do the tutorial

amvwizard · Post by **amvwizard** » Tue May 23, 2006 9:03 am

Ladymercury wrote:
Minion wrote:gonna do that double sreen tutorial for vegas 4?
I've been meaning too, but I've been hella busy. Tutorial making is a long, painstaking process.

are you talkin about a double screen like cookie cutter double screen?

Ladymercury · Post by **Ladymercury** » Tue May 23, 2006 9:06 am

Yes, the process isnt' 'painstakingly long', its doing each set, screen capping, pasting it in photoshop, resizing, saving, uploading on to photobucket, posted the images on here, write out a whole tutorial and then have some idiot ask the same question in another thread.

amvwizard · Post by **amvwizard** » Tue May 23, 2006 9:09 am

Ladymercury wrote:Yes, the process isnt' 'painstakingly long', its doing each set, screen capping, pasting it in photoshop, resizing, saving, uploading on to photobucket, posted the images on here, write out a whole tutorial and then have some idiot ask the same question in another thread.

that must piss you off too... i know it would me... BUT THATS WHY ITS STIKIED!! so that when people ask those questions we can do this

Here Noob

p2njJJ · Post by **p2njJJ** » Sat May 27, 2006 9:04 am

yo thnx for putting the effort into making this, i just sent it to my cuz, Anime Addict DBZ who just got vegas and has no clue how to use it so i just sent him this instead of having to explain it 20 times to him lol

Anime Addict DBZ · Post by **Anime Addict DBZ** » Sat May 27, 2006 9:50 am

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! i like your totorial it was very informitable and p2njJJ didn't explain it 20 times!

!!!!!!!!!!! anyway thanks for making this

oh and 2 must now DIE

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

Ladymercury · Post by **Ladymercury** » Tue May 30, 2006 12:32 am

Anime Addict DBZ wrote:grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! i like your totorial it was very informitable and p2njJJ didn't explain it 20 times! !!!!!!!!!!! anyway thanks for making this oh and 2 must now DIE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

... you're welcome (?)

Section IX: Double The Footage = Double the Fun

So now I'm gonna teach you more special tricks... this is how to perform double footage, aka, having two different scenes playing at the same time.

As you can see, I have some double footage, screenage, w/e. Let's see how I did that...

First, layer the footage you're using. What I did is that I had the footage I'm using for the 'top' on the first layer and the bottom footage on the second. It doesn't make a difference but I do it for 'that's bottom and that's top so it's easier to remember' sake.

This is another pan/crop deal so open your pan crop options in your first footage

and second

Then you go in and you mess with the settings I circled. X and Y axis is its position on the video.

THE SOURCE MUST BE THE WAY THAT I HAVE IT or it will NOT WORK.

chronicdevil · Post by **chronicdevil** » Tue May 30, 2006 9:15 am

Ladymercury wrote: Your welcome.

Section VIII: READ

DO NOT USE XVID/DIVX FILES IN VEGAS VIDEO OR ANY VIDEO EDITING PROGRAM.

You will, in a 99.9% chance, HAVE A PLAYBACK ISSUE. So, instead, either re-encode the file in something over that xvid/divx or NOT USE THE FILE AT ALL.

Thanks for this great guide, I've learnt a lot from it. But I have a question: How do you know if a file is a divx/xvid file? And if it is, how and what do you encode it to?

Ladymercury · Post by **Ladymercury** » Tue May 30, 2006 9:20 am

chronicdevil wrote:
Ladymercury wrote: Your welcome.

Section VIII: READ

DO NOT USE XVID/DIVX FILES IN VEGAS VIDEO OR ANY VIDEO EDITING PROGRAM.

You will, in a 99.9% chance, HAVE A PLAYBACK ISSUE. So, instead, either re-encode the file in something over that xvid/divx or NOT USE THE FILE AT ALL.

Thanks for this great guide, I've learnt a lot from it. But I have a question: How do you know if a file is a divx/xvid file? And if it is, how and what do you encode it to?

You're very welcome

Actually, in your media pool tab, in the top right hand corner it lists the video's codec. It'll say " video codec: divx/audio codec: mp4 " etc. I know in Vegas 4 it says that. Usually, though, you can find out a codec by the way the program responds to the footage. Almost instantanously Vegas will fag out the footage by making blocky if its divx/xvid. You can also find out the codec if you play it in like winamp and load the properties.

chronicdevil · Post by **chronicdevil** » Tue May 30, 2006 9:34 am

Ladymercury wrote:You're very welcome

Actually, in your media pool tab, in the top right hand corner it lists the video's codec. It'll say " video codec: divx/audio codec: mp4 " etc. I know in Vegas 4 it says that. Usually, though, you can find out a codec by the way the program responds to the footage. Almost instantanously Vegas will fag out the footage by making blocky if its divx/xvid. You can also find out the codec if you play it in like winamp and load the properties.

Thanks, I was wondering why one of my AMVs had blocky parts in it. Is there a quick and easy way to change a file from divx to something that works in Vegas?