Add color border to a video

thomasw wrote on 6/14/2002, 3:35 PM

There is a video FX called 'Border', i can add a border to the video. But when i use the "Event Pan/Crop.." button to zoom out the video, the color border is still remain on the full screen's border. Any solution i can have the color border on the video even i resize the video?

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SonyDennis wrote on 6/14/2002, 4:03 PM

This might work for you: After you crop your video with pan/crop, and add a border, place it where you want using Track Motion.
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swarrine wrote on 6/14/2002, 5:40 PM

Try this:
Go to Text/Bacgrounds>Color Gradients> and drag "Rectangular Transparent to" to a higher video track. Adjust the color, border size, length, etc. You can now zoom in and out of your video without effecting the border.

thomasw wrote on 6/15/2002, 2:08 AM

thanks dennis.
your solution helps, but is little complicated... becuase i have many clips zooming from very small size to full size.

FadeToBlack wrote on 6/15/2002, 2:00 PM

SonyDennis wrote on 6/16/2002, 9:24 AM

Thanks, although I think swarrine's solution has merit as well, it's a different approach which may work better in some cases. That's what fun about Vegas, there are often multiple ways to solve the same problem.

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swarrine wrote on 6/16/2002, 10:09 AM

I shot a commercial and then the guy decided he wanted the 16 X 9 (Letterbox) effect. So, I used color gradient/rectangular transparent to...as my 16 x 9 mask, i.e. a constant border.

Then, I "cheated" the vertical clip borders a little to the NTSC safe line in order to include more of the video within the fake 16 X 9. Basically, I adjusted one clip in pan/crop with aspect ratio locked, then copy/pasted the size in to the other clips. I only had to do the copy paste about 30 times (ha-ha) a paste attributes function would have been nice here...

Gary is correct, I am one of those "too many" who constantly use pan/crop. Doing it on the track level does not fit my style of editing. I like to have as few tracks as possible. Luckily, there are often many ways to accomplish the same thing in VV3.