Combine Video

starzen wrote on 5/25/2015, 12:09 PM

I am trying to solve the following

I have a video that has four singing heads. They are to close to each other and too big. I want to resize the heads and move them farther apart.

I started by isolating each head and rendering separate videos for each head. that seemed to work fine.

then I created a new video with multiple tracks and resized and placed them were I wanted them but the result is bad. things are jumping around and it just completely messes up.

this is with sony vegas platinum 10

seems that vegas cant handle what I am trying to do. is there maybe a different better way to do this?

thanks

Mike

Comments

videoITguy wrote on 5/25/2015, 1:35 PM

Track motion on - zoom back on frame to keep all heads in view, provide appropriate background track to fill frame.

MSmart wrote on 5/25/2015, 6:12 PM

things are jumping around and it just completely messes up.

Please explain with more detail.

It sounds like you may have enabled animation when moving/placing the tracks.

starzen wrote on 5/26/2015, 5:35 AM

Here is what i did

i first loaded the original video and cropped head 1 and saved as video. cropped 2 and saved as video, then 3 and 4.

Created new project and loaded head1. used track motion to resize and place head 1
added 3 more tracks loaded 3 more heads and used track motion to place and resize heads.

when i render the video parts are ok but often pieces of one head appear in other places sometimes the same head appears in multiple locations.

But just now i tried again without creating the intermediate head video files. just used the full video 4 times cropped each head and moved and it works.

not sure why it doesnt work with the intermediate videos