Well, that would have come in handy a few times over the last few years! I've been using Vegas since V3 and I had no idea that feature even existed.

Thanks for the tip Grazie :-)

Jim

thanks!!

This doesn't seem to work for me.

If I have the Pan/Crop link to the left of the Border FX, Vegas borders the screen. If I have it to the right of the Border FX, Vegas borders the uncropped still image.

What I want it to do is border the _cropped_ image - or even the masked image.

Actually, by cropping and then panning the crop, I can get portions of the border to appear and then disappear (popping up and then disappearing) as I move the crop over the image. I cannot believe this would be the intended behavior.

I'm on 64-bit WIndows 7, Vegas Pro 11 Build 883.

Actually, by cropping and then panning the crop, I can get portions of the border to appear and then disappear (popping up and then disappearing) as I move the crop over the image. I cannot believe this would be the intended behavior.

Are there unwanted keyframes somewhere?

Mike

No, there is only the initial keyframe - no others.

Try this. Pan and crop your clip go back to the timeline right click on that same clip and select media FX once that opens select Sony boarder. This works for me in Sony 10E

Jerry K

Use pan/crop on the track header, rather than event to set video window size. Use "glow" within header pan/crop to create glowing border, set "glow" value zero for solid border, choose desired color. Use "shadow" within header pan/crop to set border width. When you've got everything looking good, select "position" within header pan/crop to keep video window and border grouped together and movable around screen.
Cheers.

Thanks, JerryK, but the behavior was still the same, i.e. portions of borders popping up and disappearing while I move the crop area within the image. Again, I can't think this is intended behavior.

Fonkkster, your workaround does work the way I thought the Border FX would work.

The only thing I do not like about it is that the 2D Glow does not create a border; it creates a solid color cropped as the image, or mask (good!), is cropped, and layered behind the image. Consequently, if I fade the event, the 2D Glow in the background tends to bleed through the image. It is tolerable, but not what I wanted and not the way that border works.

Other than the fade issue, this is working just as I expected Border FX on the event to work. Thanks!

John,

For a Solid border:
Set 2D Glow to zero.
Select the border in the pan/crop window to resize border.

Eliminating glow transparency:
Keyframe the glow at beginning of clip.
Glow 0>100% over duration of fade-in.
Same at end, keyframing glow 100>0% over duration of fade out.

Cheers.

I guessed that, Fonkkster, I'm just having trouble deciding whether or not I want to expend that much effort! I have a lot of images and I have been using a different color border for each image to custom match each image.

Thanks, again!

For what's worth, I decided to go with a uniform gray for borders. It doesn't bleed through as much as a lighter color and so I am saved the work of custom matching border colors for each image and, with Fonkkster's method, of not having to border each image either.

Thanks for the help.