Bezier Masking - Yellow aspect ratio control points not working

AlanH wrote on 3/27/2024, 6:26 AM

Using the Bezier Masking effect, I find that while the white control nodes on the corners of a rectangular mask work as expected to resize the mask about its centre, the yellow control nodes in the middle of the sides are dead - I do not get a 'stretchy arrow' cursor, and they do not allow control of width/height.

The Width and Height sliders in the effect details box do work, but this is inconvenient.

I have the same problem with VP21 on two PCs, each with a different make of video card (nvidia and AMD), so I can't think that is relevant.

All video tutorials and the built-in help indicate that the yellow control points should be operational.

Am I missing some setting somewhere?

I would be glad of any suggestions!

Comments

Former user wrote on 3/27/2024, 6:43 AM

@AlanH No you're not missing anything, the white corner dots work but the yellow ones don't,

AlanH wrote on 3/27/2024, 5:04 PM

@Former user Thanks, at least you confirm what I am seeing - so it's not just me!

However, in the official Vegas tutorial video for Bezier Masking (admittedly in VP16, dated 2019), we see the yellow control points in use:

And in the VP21 help file, we see this, which clearly states that they should work:

So I would still like to know why it supposedly did work in 2019, but doesn't now, even though the help file says it should.

I'm baffled!

MikeS wrote on 3/28/2024, 4:50 AM

Yep. Confirmed here as well.

Carey-Clanton wrote on 5/23/2024, 6:47 AM

I can't get them to work right also.

bitman wrote on 5/24/2024, 2:59 AM

@AlanH confirmed here as well, does not work on Vegas 21, I took the liberty to try it out on the previous Vegas versions:

Vegas 19: working fine

Vegas 20: NOK

Vegas 21: NOK

@VEGASDerek to put on the backlog to fix...

VEGASDerek wrote on 5/24/2024, 7:27 AM

We are working on a fix for this. Thank you for the report.