Applying an effect to a portion of a video

LaffeeTaffee wrote on 1/19/2017, 11:12 PM

Hello all,

I'm trying to create a video that is displaying a split screen of two let's plays (essentially my outro video). The first video has a white border and has audio until halfway, then the second video will have the white border and its audio will play, essentially switching from one video to the other.

At least, that's how it's supposed to look. I can't apply the border effect to only half the video to get this switching effect. The way I did this before was I cut the videos directly in half, then applied the border effect to the halves that I wanted to be bordered. This doesn't seem to work anymore. If I try to manually cut the video in half and apply the border to one half, it still wants to apply it to the whole video because it is applying it to the media, not just the separated segment.

Can I turn off the option to apply the media effect to the whole file so that it will only apply it to the video segments? At this rate, I'm resigned to cutting the video in half and rendering the separate halves as different files.

Here's some images to give you an idea of what I'm trying to achieve because I can be confusing =P (My parakeet is dancing to dubstep in the background)

Edit: This isn't just with a border effect. This is with any media effect. It will apply it to the whole media file, even if I break it up into segments and put them on separate video timelines.

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Grazie wrote on 1/20/2017, 12:22 AM

Not at PC right now, but from memory:

1/- Apply FX to Event

2/- Open Pan/Crop go to Masking and set up your parameters

3/- Check FX to Allow Fx

4/- Slide FX Link in FX Chain before Pan/Crop

Let's see if my memory is correct! Should take no more than 2 minutes to set up.

Grazie wrote on 1/20/2017, 1:17 AM

Ah, this is the Vegas Movie Studio Forum! My instruction pertain to Vegas Pro. I don't know if you have the same/equivalent Controls in VMS? Again, I've been poleaxed by our website.

Dr-Zen_aka-Derek wrote on 1/20/2017, 2:53 AM

I'm sure there are different ways you can approach this, but here is my method.

1. Add Markers on your timeline that show where each border needs to be turned ON/OFF. This helps because you can use the "snapping" to quickly sync key-frame points.

2. Add Border FX to each video on the timeline, so that you see the GREEN Event FX button highlighted for each video.
3. Select Video #1, press Event FX button and press Animate button at bottom Border FX window.
4. Drag cursor for keyframe timeline to zero, turn on Padlock to sync cursor and set border colour/thickness.
5. Locate Marker 1 on MAIN timeline and then press + Add Keyframe button.
6. Press CTRL + forward arrow to locate Marker 2, then press +Add Keyframe button - repeat for rest of Markers.
7. Repeat exact same process for Video #2.
8. Go back to Video #1, open Border FX window, right-click ALL keyframes and set to HOLD for ALL of them.
9. Now select all the keyframes where you want the border to disappear and drag the SIZE slider to Zero.
10. Go to Video #2 and repeat Step 8.
11. Now select all the opposite keyframes to Video #1 and drag SIZE slider to Zero.
12. Borders will now turn on/off and stay in sync.

3POINT wrote on 1/20/2017, 4:52 AM

If you don't want to work with keyframes, just split (with S-key) the videoevents at the choosen points and add the Border FX only to the splitted events which need the border.

Former user wrote on 1/20/2017, 8:10 AM

Create the border in an external graphics program (like Photoshop or Paint). Them import that as a graphic keyed over your split screen. You can reposition or even resize to some degree as needed.

Marco. wrote on 1/20/2017, 8:33 AM

Just to re-focus to this certain issue:

"If I try to manually cut the video in half and apply the border to one half, it still wants to apply it to the whole video because it is applying it to the media, not just the separated segment."

This seems like you applied the fx as "Media FX" instead of as "Event FX".

3POINT wrote on 1/20/2017, 2:07 PM

From the posted screenshots, I understood that LaffeeTaffee wants to make 2 PictureInPictures as an Overlay on a backgroundvideo and that those PIP's should have a Border at a given time.