Posted by Mike Kujbida on 10/23/05 21:51

seascape wrote:
> Is there a way in Sony's Vegas 5.0 or 6.0 to manipulate the video to
> skew it and/or render it to play within an isolated portion of the
> screen? Basically, creating a Picture in Picture sort of effect,
> where the main picture displaying is just a black background and the
> motion video clip is playing in a user set sized window?
>
> I want to play video on a transition to move it to a smaller skewing
> of it to play it in a "Door" look [slight angled depth], then mirror
> it to play side by side so it looks like the actor is talking to
> himself. Is this possible or anything even close to being possible?
>
> How can you isolate video to a windowed portion of the screen?
>
> Also, can Vegas 6.0 now let you see the 'safe-zone' area previewed
> while in edit mode without having to seutp an overlay channel [which
> is how I've done it in vegas 5]. Switching back-n-forth to the
> preview mode/Edit mode just to see if you're within the safe zone is
> annoyingly time consuming.
>
> One other question.. in Vegas 6.0a is there a way to prevent the new
> media manager feature from loading? Its causing an error and I'd
> prefer to just completely disable/remove the feature all-together.
>
> Thanks.



Use Track Motion to get the PIP effect. Edward Troxel explains it quite
well in Vol.1, Issues 2, 3 & 4 of his newsletter (pdf format). Get them at
http://tinyurl.com/8h6oa
I highly recommend getting all of them as they're a valuable resource.
You might also want to read up in the manual on 3D Track Motion as this
allows you to rotate your clips in a 3D plane.

Vegas has always had the safe zone option. Turn on "Safe Areas" in the
Preview WIndow overlay.

To disable Media Manager, turn it off in Options - Preferences - General.
It's 3rd from the bottom.

Mike

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