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Chienworks wrote on 7/22/2006, 8:09 AM
Vegas loads .gif images, it just won't save them.

You could use the spotlight setting in the bump map to create a moving hightlight. Composite this with the original image and set the compositing mode to lighten. You'll now have a video of a hightlight moving over the image. Save this as .avi. There are probably lots of programs available free for downloading that can convert .avi to .gif.
TeeJay wrote on 7/22/2006, 8:18 AM
Hey there Kriz100,

Firstly, I have no trouble dragging a GIF onto the Vegas6 timeline so you should be able to.........

For the light effect you are after, you could duplicate the image on another track and drop the opacity to around 75 on the lower track.
Now, on the upper track, create a "light" with the mask and feather it (about 2 works well) and keyframe it to move across your image.
kriz100 wrote on 7/22/2006, 8:23 AM
If it works in Vegas6 like you did discribe, I don't need it as .gif file.
It should be small sized and run on a video with that light effects as some sort of "insert".
tv-networks using it all the time, that's why I was so sure to find presets/filters on the net, but I don't unfortunately. Even Heroglyph didn't got such a effect on its library. Do you know of a tutorial of the spotlight setting in the bump map?
kriz100 wrote on 7/22/2006, 8:35 AM
Yes, works.. if I adjust the speed of the timeline slower.
I appreciate you suggestions and I will try out all to see what will look best!
Tattoo wrote on 7/22/2006, 12:04 PM
Interesting that in the first example Kriz links to, only the red on the motorcycle is affected by the "spotlight." What would be the easiest way to duplicate that in Vegas? Chromakey out everything but the red for a mask, then apply the spotlight on the red (result of mask) and finally have the original image on the very bottom to fill in the rest of the picture? Is there an easier, more elegant solution?

Brian
kriz100 wrote on 7/25/2006, 6:13 AM
Hello!
Here I got a problem to insert a grapfic, take a look:
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/3303/zsamplefw8.jpg
When I move the picture up it does disappear somewhere, and I can't move it to the right side. Do you know of this problem?
JohnnyRoy wrote on 7/25/2006, 8:05 AM
> When I move the picture up it does disappear somewhere, and I can't move it to the right side. Do you know of this problem?

You have cropped the picture out of frame. Look at the bounding box with the big F in the middle (in your picture). Your logo is above the bounds of the box so Vegas is cropping that part off.

From your preview it looks like you also may have used Track Motion and Vegas is correctly masking the part of the logo that is outside the frame. It doesn’t matter that you made the frame smaller with Track Motion, Vegas will still honor your cropping.

What you need to do is move the logo inside the frame and then it will display properly.

~jr
kriz100 wrote on 7/25/2006, 9:46 AM
now since it does work with a .gif file, there are still a few problems:

a) that animation on the logo does play too fast, I already did slow down the videotrack/properties to the minimum playback rate 0,250. it did help a little but is not enough.
b) the colors are not that good looking, particular the border of the grapfic.

example: http://www.zshare.net/video/ztest-wmv.html
kriz100 wrote on 7/26/2006, 11:51 AM
Do you know how to resize a .png in vegas6 which is flying in (from far to the near)?
How do I set the keys?