The Idiots Guide to Vegas

AimoAio · Post by **AimoAio** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:09 pm

ok I've masked out the first part of the clip.but see with the second clip?I've been using the Event Pan/Crop window to get the part I want.But it only does it in rectangles and the image looks a bit pixelated as if it's been zoomed too much in.The edges are sharp too,any way I could trim and feather them?And for moving it to the masked out part,do I use the track motion tool?

AimoAio · Post by **AimoAio** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:43 am

!!!When I add the cookie cutter to a clip,the timeline at the bottom has disappeared!And so I can't do that expanding circle thing!How'd i fix this?

AimoAio · Post by **AimoAio** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:12 pm

ah nevermind been mad clicking and somehow moved it from the bottom part of the screen back up

lol

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:28 pm

squallxrinoa wrote:ok I've masked out the first part of the clip.but see with the second clip?I've been using the Event Pan/Crop window to get the part I want.But it only does it in rectangles and the image looks a bit pixelated as if it's been zoomed too much in.The edges are sharp too,any way I could trim and feather them?And for moving it to the masked out part,do I use the track motion tool?

you can feather the edges of a mask by changing the feather options in the mask menu

as for the image looking blurry or pixelated, that sounds like you don't have a good source for your footage... I'd just use pan/crop to slide it over Track Motion is more for moving everything on the track.

AimoAio · Post by **AimoAio** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:10 pm

hmm say in your screenshot,I wanted to cut out that guy and put him elsewhere,what would I do?Do I set anchors around the whole shape?

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:40 pm

pretty much you set anchors outlining the entire character (which will take a while), and for the length of the video you would have to change the anchors on each frame

UlquiorraXSchiffer · Post by **UlquiorraXSchiffer** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:21 pm

help me please when I put a video into the vid slot, it just appears as music, and doesn't display the video.

Dragon/Roy · Post by **Dragon/Roy** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:26 pm

UlquiorraXSchiffer wrote:help me please when I put a video into the vid slot, it just appears as music, and doesn't display the video.

U have to change the Codec to like DIVX

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:32 pm

Are you using downloaded source? It's sounds like it to me, as this is a typical result of that. Vegas doesn't like XviD. Buy some DVDs or go learn to use VirtualDubMod and the like to transcode the video.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:29 pm

Dragon/Roy wrote:U have to change the Codec to like DIVX

u fail roy. >:[ shoo!

you should be using lossless sources to make your videos from, if a file doesn't show up it means its a codec that vegas doesn't accept... do the vdub mod thing and recompress it with a lossless codec, that will work