damn it!

nocturnal_f wrote on 1/3/2005, 11:01 AM
u know i'm still having troulbe. i lay a track above another track and the above track i select different overlays and dodge burn and other stuff but it still affects the whole project instead of that certain specific spot. how do i just do that one part rather than the entire project. where do i go and what do i do. how do i lock it in place?

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Grazie wrote on 1/3/2005, 11:07 AM
... keep breathing . . .

Ok, just repeat the steps here . .I find it helps people hereabouts if I just number each, boring step, step by step:

1/- Step 1

2/- Step 2

. . .etc etc . . .

But that's me ..

Grazie
Chienworks wrote on 1/3/2005, 11:14 AM
When you use track level compositing modes, they affect the entire track beginning to end. You can't avoid that. What i do in these sorts of cases is put the majority of my video on tracks 3 and below, leaving tracks 1 & 2 empty. Then i'll move the few clips i want to composite up to tracks 1 & 2 and set the compositing mode appropriately. You could also have the main video elements on tracks 1, 2, 3, etc. and then leave empty holes in those tracks so that the special compositing on lower tracks shows through (upside-down of my method.)

If you need different compositing modes for different parts of the video then you may have to set aside multiple sets of tracks for this. This is why Vegas allows unlimited tracks. Use them.
apit34356 wrote on 1/3/2005, 1:44 PM
chienworks advice is good, also try naming the tracks to help get "track" of what happening on them, ie, main-noeffects, parent-child1.......