"Event" question, ANYONE PLEASE?!?!

laffytaff wrote on 1/23/2002, 11:26 AM
Ahh, thanks for clicking on MY thread. OK. Two question.

1. I'm fairly new to Vegas Video 3 -- the help section is a bit overwhelming. Is there any sort of tutorial books out there (like Adobe Premiere has)?

2. I'm confused about "events." Lets say I have a short 3 minute sequence of about 20 clips (which I do). Now, I want to add titles and mess with slowmotion and freeze frames. I received a tutorial from G.G. which was helpful but also confusing. I can create an event but then when I drag it over the video clip I want, that section just plays as black. I've messed with it for hours and I can't figure the da#n thing out! I know this is basic to a lot of people, but can you help me PLEASE?!?!?!

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Rednroll wrote on 1/23/2002, 1:30 PM
Read the manual, especially the tutorial section on video editing and how events are handled. This is very simple....even a non video person like myself can understand it. It depends on which track the video events are on...the top track is the "master" track and then other tracks you want to overlay go below it.
bcbarnes wrote on 1/23/2002, 1:30 PM
I would suggest that you read chapter 6, starting on page 151, of the manual. This gives a pretty good description of events, and may help clear up lots of questions.

I have done a lot of looking, but have found no books that use VV as the editor - tutorials or otherwise. It's unfortunate.
wvg wrote on 1/23/2002, 3:27 PM
If you've already purchased VV3 and have the CD, I strongly suggest you do the tutorial. Basic VV3 useage is covered in great detail in the 363 page manual, available in the PDF file found on the Sonic Foundry site (think the tutorial is there too) the tutorial goes from page 42-80. The rest of the manual goes into specific features.

In Sonic Foundy "speak" an 'EVENT' is anything that can be dragged to the timeline.

While you can drag an entire video of an hour or more to the timeline as an 'event' and act upon it as a unit, I find it much simpler to break events once they are on the timeline into sections or scenes by using the split event feature you can find under EDIT on the Menu Bar. Events on a higher track will block out events on lower tracks IF they share the same timeline reference UNLESS you change the opacity of tracks on top of lower tracks. Doing that creates an overlay effect.

I'm not sure what you mean by "black". Can you be more specific?

DavidW12 wrote on 1/23/2002, 4:06 PM
Are you using the "compostion" mode? Its not really necessary to use it. For "titles" (I'm from the old school and still call them "supers")insert a new video track, use the generated text thing.

Place your video that the text should super over in a video track below the generated text...it should automatically be "overlayed" in the output.

I think the reason you are seeing nothing but black is because you are using the compostion mode.