Posted by seascape on 12/25/88 11:31

Thanks!! Great information source newsletter.

"Mike Kujbida" <kujfamNoSpam@xplornet.com> wrote in message
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> 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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