Your description of what you want to see is a little difficult to understand.

John, thanks for those links and yes, I did search the forum (I'm not that wet behind the ears) but as you'll see when you read those threads, most do not provide solutions.

The most promising is the VEG on the VASST site, something I'd already tried. I was going to attempt to modify the vertical orientation but can't get that far, it's an old file and reliably hangs my install of Vegas whenever I try to open it.

DSF, I'll try to describe the effect more succinctly. Imagine a film strip where the area for each exposure is a video clip. The sort of thing you'd see with four or five PIP boxes. I can create it using a PNG with alpha transparency for the background, then position each clip above it. Then what I'd like to do, is scroll the whole thing slowly to the left, so the sum of the film strip and the clips above it all move in synchronisation.

i downloaded the "VASST Fillmstrip VEG": It is 6 video tracks of the same test pattern.. When i ran it all i saw was the test pattern. There was a position-keyframe track but no keyframes.

If you want PIP then you would have your 4 or 5 video clips on video tracks above the background track and use pan/crop to make and position the PIPs of each track. And you would use the pan/crop to move them to the left. I don't get how an alpha channel (.PNG) is involved. You say you've done it with one clip. Maybe you could run another copy of Vegas, plug in the new material you want, then copy it back to your main Vegas program. But I think you know all this and i am probably in over my head. Actually, i am still not sure what you want to see (damned aluminum cookware).

Check out the Parent Motion tutorial on John Rofrano's site.
He's got a zipped project file at the end of it.

Mike

> Check out the Parent Motion tutorial on John Rofrano's site.

You beat me to it Mike. ;-) Yup, I explain exactly how to do this in my tutorial. Feel free to ask questions.

~jr

nice script Johnny... I played with it and was able to easily substitute video clips for the text events. Note when doing this - after you replace the first event (for example the "E") copy and paste the attributes of the lower set of events "E" and you save time positioning the video event.

Actually if you want to save time. just right-click on the event and choose Select in project media list. Then right-click on the media in the media pool and choose Replace.... That's It! No fussing with attributes or copy and pasting. Just replace the original media with your own media and you're done.

~jr

Mike, thanks for the initial pointer and John, thanks for a great tutorial and VEG example. That's exactly what I was trying to describe and exactly what I was trying to achieve.

It's easy to expand and adapt too, I'm working with a 16:9 PAL project so had to tweak a bit to correct some of the sizes, but didn't have any problems with that either.

Thanks again!