Blur still pic borders in track motion

PDB wrote on 4/3/2003, 3:53 AM

Hi there everyone!

Hoping someone might be able to help me out on this one...I'm trying to blur the edges on stills in track motion but can't seem to blur the vertical edges on "vertical" stills. Basically I'm placing a number on stills on track 1, have a backround on track 2, reducing the size of stills on track 1 to allow backround to be seen and thus avoid the black (especially on vertical stills). I find that blurring the borders so as to "blend" the stills into the backround is a nice effect and works perfectly on horizontal stills; for some reason, the vertical borders on vertical stills remain sharp.

Any ideas??

Many thanks in advance!

Paul.

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FuTz wrote on 4/3/2003, 7:47 AM

mmm... this is a good one. Maybe check the kind of blur you're using? Cause if you use a vertical blur set to 90degrees, this will only blur vertically, thus making no difference on vertical lines. Be sure to choose "radial blur" or something like this.
I'm really guessing here (I figure out you already checked it before) but you know, sometimes we overlook these kind of little things...

PDB wrote on 4/3/2003, 9:23 AM

Thanks for the suggestion Futz!
I am actually using the frame border blur in track motion (I think, I'm not in front of Vegas at the mo'), which I would have thought would affect all borders - which it does if the still is horizontal but if they are vertical...Maybe I should dump the vertical stills on a new track and snoop around and see if I can find diff blur options or settings...I do find it strange though...

Thanks for the reply!

Paul.

DGrob wrote on 4/3/2003, 10:46 AM

I had the same problem. I think I found that by adding the blur in track fx that I was blurring to a default, horizontal view, pan/crop setting. Then when I rotated a pic into vertical format the side edges were "within, inside of" the track effect and remained sharp, while the top and bottom still were blurred. Had to go to each pic fx and blur the border of the individual image. Grob

PDB wrote on 4/3/2003, 10:48 AM

Thanks Grob...I will go the one-by-one route then.

Paul.

Grazie wrote on 4/3/2003, 10:53 AM

Errrmm... Try going to the event you like. Rest mouse cursor on the clip. Go Copy - yes Copy. Then move to the clip you want it to act in the same way . Right Click and select "Paste Attributes" - this should give the new clip the attributes of the old clip. However not all attributes will come along - hey give it a try. If it works you will save yourself a lot of angst -yeah?

Grazie

DGrob wrote on 4/3/2003, 11:50 AM

Howdy Grazie! Neat idea, do keyframes come along as well? Grob