The Idiots Guide to Vegas

Sayoria · Post by **Sayoria** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:45 am

Honestly, it is hard to explain like that as well. Best way of showing is in motion.

I will try again.

Everytime I crop the clip, the beginning of the clip starts out uncropped (So the video is still wide screen at this second), and after that second, it shrinks down to the correct size I set it to.

So basically, lets say the timeline is going on...I got clip 1 and 2.

Clip 1 is Uncropped and 2 is cropped.

When Clip 1 ends, Clip 2 starts off uncropped, and fades into the cropping in like...an instant.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:01 pm

actually, a screencap (or a series of such) would help me O: cause then i could see how your pan/crop is set up...

you said you "messed with the diamonds at the bottom" i think this might be a problem with keyframes...

if you want a pan/crop to remain constant through the whole length of the clip

you gotta have that first diamond at the beginning of that timeline there, and no other diamonds on the line..
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OR:
if you want it to start out uncropped then shrink down smaller...

you have that first diamond there at the beginning with no changes to the crop, and create a second diamond farther down the timeline to the size you want it... Vegas will fill in all the in betweens for you (thats what I did for the screen resizes for Walking in the Butterflies)

Sayoria · Post by **Sayoria** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:44 pm

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45/Ry ... Vegas1.jpg

There is a picture of the set up. On this one, as it plays, it zooms out.

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:33 am

Make sure all the diamonds (keyframes) are set to "Linear". In order to do this, right-click on them and check Linear. I have a feeling one of them is set to "Hold".

Sayoria · Post by **Sayoria** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:46 pm

Nope, all are Linear.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:02 am

L'arc~en~ciel wrote:http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45/Ry ... Vegas1.jpg

There is a picture of the set up. On this one, as it plays, it zooms out.

do you want it to zoom out?
if no - then delete the second diamond - move the cursor back to the first diamond and make adjustments how you want them from there

JazzyDJ · Post by **JazzyDJ** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:06 am

I have a question: Can a newer version of vegas open/load a saved file (considering you have all the same footage) that was created by a previous/older version of vegas?

I ask because I am in the middle of a project on Vegas 5.0 but I just upgraded my machine and got 7.0 with it.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:39 am

it should be able to work i know that 5.0 could open 4.0 files but i havent bothered since then...

its just 4.0 could not open 5.0 files.

taifunbrowser · Post by **taifunbrowser** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:46 pm

(Thanks to other's disagreement with my former beliefs on how to set up a good quality vegas project, I finally realized I was doing it wrong. Here's the right way.)

Addition: How to use Best quality render mode without bringing about frame blending of doom!

In project properties:
- Render mode: Best
- Field order: none (Progressive)
- Deinterlace mode: Don't Deinterlace
In the preview window, preview in Preview (auto).
Edit.
Whenever you want to export, you have to make sure that every video event has "disable resample" set. So, highlight all video events (this is tricky and time consuming, I found that CTRL+A and then manually deselecting (ctrl+click) the audio events I could select all video). Make sure that you have ONLY video selected. Go to edit (top bar) > switches > click "Disable Resample". This is importante!
then render to avi (always, vegas just isn't good with anything else - if you want others, I reccomend debugmode's frameserver out of vegas - it's made of win) and go to custom...
- In the first tab, choose best if it's not selected.
- In the second tab, make sure it says again none (progressive) frame order and anything else before you may see.

If you did it right, you should get all the benefits of Good and Best export mode (the most notable being higher quality resizes in track motion), without the temporal smoothing they like to slap on (what I found was that this was actually a lame attempt at trying to deinterlace - the "disable resample" here is really the crucial change).

So, hopefully the rest of you can make use of this knowledge!

gandy · Post by **gandy** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:15 pm

OOoookay, I just read through all 22 pages.

And I'm sure I'm going to make myself look like an absolute idiot with the questions I'm about to ask. However I am one, so it's alright.

First question: When I go to the pan/crop feature on some clips I accidently seemed to have switched it to this part where it says position/path/workplace. I can not for the life of me, despite clicking on every button I can find, get it to change back to the one where it says position/rotation/keyframe interpolation/source/workspace. I'm assuming there's an incredibly easy answer to this question, so I implore you to be patient and read the first paragraph I wrote.

Second question: No matter how much I move down the playback the clip does not seem to slow down/get longer. The clip I'm using is sort of a still clip though...so I suppose it could just be that Vegas slows the clip without making it longer? I'm used to WMM, so yeah...used to it getting double the length when you slow it down.

Third question: Okay, because I can't get the pan/crop thing to change back -_-; I haven't been able to fool around with the layering footage much. But what I have tried, I can't seem to figure out how to have the movies where I need them. I don't know if I just need to mess around with them more though, that's probably it.

Oh, and thanks so much for doing this Ladymercury!!!

Hey, at least I didn't ask, how come my avi footage won't work?!?!?!?!

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