@set I'm not sure how @john_dennis has created the split screen effect? but are you saying you can reduce an image & have the border fit that reduced image?

This prob was discussed a while ago, swapping the Border around with a Bezier should resize the border to fit the Bezier but it doesn't

Um, If I understand the problem correctly ...

Here I've added two solids and used the Track Motion to pan each to the left and right of screen and used the clips' Pan&Crop to resize them (just the horizontal margins) and then applied the FX "Border" to the clips.

That's my trouble as well with borderFX since first time I tried it, where 'fixed' to project resolution's area, and event pan crop mask, cropping fx etc has no effect. Size only affect if I scale down via Track pan crop.

Edit: @Selina: eh? hmmm...I need to try again.

Sorry, forgot to add I'm using Vegas 19 (Build 458)

@Selina Hi, i can do this if the border is applied the the event & controlled with Track Motion, i can see your border getting smaller as it moves, have you tried this on a video without it squishing the video,

@john_dennis - Doesn't appear to be using Track Motion. Purely MASKS. Here's what I see as the issue, although Border is an FX, it doesn't behave like "other" FXs. Other FXs can be contained to the Mask.

@set

The Vegas Pro 17 project and some of the smaller media can be downloaded here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y6vxv4oB2tYbb1cfZ5jJ_ALpMVivgKRJ/view?usp=sharing

@Ehemaliger User

"...are you saying you can reduce an image & have the border fit that reduced image?"

That was the way it worked in the original Vegas 17 project. Now, it doesn't, but 18 gets it done properly.

@Selina

The issue is not how to do it. I've gotten it done in seven versions of Vegas. The issue is continuity from one version to another. Some day we're going to get old and our offspring are going to want to open our old Vegas Projects in Vegas Pro version 47- 938 to prepare our eulogy. They'll probably fail under the time constraint.

@john_dennis - Are you using TM? No MASKS?

John, can you share the project file (no need for media) ? I can't repro the issue...

@john_dennis sorry my comment was directed at set, yeah I remember this working in 18 as you mention n show, but it doesn't now & i wanted to know what set meant 🤔👍

@Ehemaliger User the text on the left isn't getting squished and it's applied before Pan&Crop 😁

@john_dennis - Got your Veg up . . . Got me beat. AND I don't have Grass to Mow.

Well - it's working for me...

What's probably different about my system is that I have all GPU stuff turned off. I have an old Nvidia Card, which V19 won't recognise.

@Selina That makes sense, this post was similar but looking at it i couldn't get a full solution by turning off GPU https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/problem-with-borderfx-on-a-cropped-videoscene--133066/#write-comment

Being generally loathe to borders or frames on video, when I need one I choose not to fiddle with FX. Instead, I export an image sequence, apply an Action in Photoshop, and reimport.

The link indicates GPU OFF for success.

ok, in VP19, I must turn off GPU in order to work correct, while in VP18, no prob with GPU.

@set @Selina @Ehemaliger User

Turning off GPU allowed Vegas Pro 19-458 to draw the borders properly with a hit to preview performance. This is not the first time in my life that I have seen this. I used the Vegas option to update video drivers and that did not fix the problem.

Vegas Pro 17 was fixed by disabling the Split Screen View / fX Bypassed switch.

@Ehemaliger User the text on the left isn't getting squished and it's applied before Pan&Crop but I'm happy to add 'live action' so you can see.

Video used for demo purpose is by john_dennis - hope he doesn't mind?

As stated earlier, my screenshots and uploaded videos have no copyright, but when used please mention the correct source. Thank you.

@john_dennis glad you found the cause.

The fix to GPU acceleration that is the root cause of this issue is not included in Vegas Pro 19-532.

My laptop:

My Desktop:

I have just tried this too - and confirm that the GPU acceleration must be turned off for the border FX to work in a logical way (VP19-643). I sure wish this was not required! Perhaps a tick-box in the Border control properties to disable GPU FX... though I guess this is not possible.
And if there could be other places with a simple border adding feature - like directly in the pan/crop - mask (in addition to the mask feathering) or in the pip FX (though that would require it's shape to reflect the video after any cropping and not fixed to the project's aspect ratio). There is the cookie-cutter, but you cant alter the dimensions of the rectangle (that control could really do with a makeover to make it more flexible).

The use of a plain colour layer and a mask to cut out the required parts through which the video shows works ok - and that supports feathering - as required by this request.

Putting the border fx before the pan/crop can be helpful. And in any case it must be applied before the PIP fx.

The effort needed to use photoshop to apply such border or similar effects seems way too complex - particularly if the effect needs to be changed a number of times. And should you be using VEGAS Image or VEGAS Effects?

Yet it all seems rather fiddly or obscure.

What other ways are there to add effects/borders to the edge of a cropped video?

What other ways are there to add effects/borders to the edge of a cropped video?

Just copy/paste the crop/pip settings of the video/picture event to a colored background event on a track just below and change those settings slightly to create the border.