Any Advice/Help Please? (Sony Vegas)

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Any Advice/Help Please? (Sony Vegas)

Post by V o c o L o i d o » Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:44 am

Hello there, I'm new firstly so pleased to meet everyone. I have Sony Vegas, Photoshop CS3 and Particle Illusion. At the moment I can only just manage to use Sony Vegas. What I am wanting to know is how to accomplish this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9cHTosv7KM

Basically, able to use images and attempt them to move, or in other words the camera to follow them. How can I accomplish this? >.<;; Any help will be appreciated, greatly. x

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Re: Any Advice/Help Please? (Sony Vegas)

Post by CodeZTM » Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:51 am

Oh that's not all that "hard" to accomplish as it is time consuming. Basically, it looked like the editor took scans of the manga, colored them in Photoshop and imported them into Vegas. They created "motion tracks" for each of those pictures to make them move round and matched them up with the beats of the music. The words were also probably photoshopped as transparent PNG's, because I don't recognize that font as a default in Vegas or Premier.

Hope that helps. I actually edit using premier, but I'm nearly 80% sure that's how vegas would do it too.

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Re: Any Advice/Help Please? (Sony Vegas)

Post by V o c o L o i d o » Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:56 am

Motion tracks? Is that an effect then? (I'm very unskilled at Vegas ;;) And thank you very much, I'm just really confused >.<;

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Re: Any Advice/Help Please? (Sony Vegas)

Post by CodeZTM » Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:03 am

V o c o L o i d o wrote:Motion tracks? Is that an effect then? (I'm very unskilled at Vegas ;;) And thank you very much, I'm just really confused >.<;
It's kind of an effect... But I wouldn't consider it one.

Here's a tutorial [you'll need to replace WEBSITE with u-tube [spelled correctly], since our site filters the word] on it, that probably explains it better than I can, since I'm not all that familiar with Vegas [Premier does motion tracks SOOOO much easier IMHO]. This also assumes you know how to keyframe.

http://www.WEBSITE.com/watch?v=p-TWmGW-yzY

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Post by V o c o L o i d o » Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:05 am

Thank you very very much. (: That will be of big help, thank you. ^.^

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Re: Any Advice/Help Please? (Sony Vegas)

Post by Mastamind » Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:54 am

It's actually pretty easy, but as Code mentioned, time consuming if you want to make an effect similar to the ones used in that video. You CAN do the camera movement thing with track motion (it'll be one of the buttons on a video track, to the left) but it'd be easier by simply panning in "event pan/crop" ( right click on a video clip or click on the crop sign on the right side of the clip). Masking will be necessary, too, if you want to make it look like characters are in the same scene. You can do that also in the event pan/crop window, just check the box at the bottom left where it says "mask".
Hope this helps, good luck :up:
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