Adding Talent

blitzgeist wrote on 6/15/2010, 8:45 AM
I am using Sony Vegas movie platinum 9.
Can anyone tell me how to place the talent Where I want it.
Every time that I place talent and try moving it to desired location part of the talent disappears behind background.
I have tried this with numerous virtual sets, video and still backgrounds. Each one (background) is split into three vertically.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am still waiting for a response from Sony support.

I have uploaded a sample to moveit if that helps

Comments

jetdv wrote on 6/15/2010, 9:00 AM
Put the background on a track BELOW the talent.
blitzgeist wrote on 6/22/2010, 12:12 PM
I have already tried that.
If fact I have tried putting talent on any track
It still splits every background into three vertical strips
This is well past urgent.
It looks like that I need to get new software
I cannot believe that Sony have not responded in almost two weeks
Less than useless
musicvid10 wrote on 6/22/2010, 12:29 PM
It still splits every background into three vertical strips

It's not the software, it is your understanding of the basics.
You need to study up on 'chromakey' and 'alpha channels' to do what you want to do properly. Here's a beginner's tut using Movie Studio.
jetdv wrote on 6/22/2010, 12:39 PM
Without seeing the actual files you are using, we cannot tell why you would be getting "strips". You have a setting wrong or you have footage that is causing the issue. We cannot help you fix it without seeing something to work with.
richard-amirault wrote on 6/22/2010, 5:29 PM
Every time that I place talent and try moving it to desired location part of the talent disappears behind background.

I think I may know what is happening (or not) ..

I suspect that the "talent" (whatever that is) is not set, in the PAN / CROP preset menu, to the same setting as his project. Thus when he moves it ... it appears to "dissappear behind the background". When it is only moving out of it's own frame settings.

For instance .. if your project is a standard 4x3 project .. then when you open the PAN/CROP window to move it around the frame .. before you start to move it .. go to the PRESET menu bar at the top and click on the down arrow ... select 4x3 Standard TV Aspect Ratio .. then you can move the image anywhere in the frame and it will not "dissapear" if you move it too far. It will only dissapear if you move if off the frame .. any position inside the frame will show you the entire image.

When you initially do this part of your image may not be showing in the frame. You can grab the corner of the box and zoom in or out to show what you want, or move it around inside the frame. You may need to increase the WORKSPACE setting (make the number smaler) so that you can see what you are doing.
jetdv wrote on 6/23/2010, 11:16 AM
That could be. An easy solution around that is to open Pan/Crop, right-click the image, and choose "Match Output Aspect".