How to Create a Horizintally Moving PIP series in V4 ...?

ken c wrote on 11/1/2004, 3:27 PM

Hey Vegasfolks... I'm putting together an informercial-type testimonial video clip, about 2 mins, and I'd like to integrate moving PIPs, eg 6 different testimonials that slide horizontally across the screen...any tips on how to do that with event pan/crop ?

I have both the excalibur and tsunami scripts, if either of those would help..

hey I'll even post a fullscreen mpg of the render once it's done here for your folks' review..

I want it to be a high-energy "hey wow I want that" type of professional presentation, I'm using DJ jump backs and want it to be broadcast-quality almost... :p

appreciate any help, re how to get say horizontally moving picture-in-picture scrolling PIP windows, which would have video clips in them, (against a moving background/video clip) for a slick informercial-type look ...

Ken

Comments

Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/1/2004, 3:35 PM

Moving PIPS are best done (IMO) with the track motion - not the pan/ crop. I suggest you mess around with that first.

johnmeyer wrote on 11/1/2004, 3:51 PM

Here's a VEG that may give you some ideas. VASST has many other samples that you may find useful.

+MasksMoving.veg

ken c wrote on 11/1/2004, 3:52 PM

thanks, appreciate it!

ken

Chanimal wrote on 11/1/2004, 9:56 PM

Here is a sample 3 minute infomercial I created for a video, "How to Finance a High-Tech Start-Up," at http://www.chanimal.com/html/video_samples.html

It uses Jumpbacks and it has a few seconds showing several of the speakers flying across using PIP. It may provide some ideas.

There's another example of flying PIP within the introduction for a video I produced for our piano teacher of 6 years at www.coolpianoteacher.com (click on video sample).

Hope this helps.

Ted

philpw99 wrote on 11/1/2004, 10:18 PM

I would say this can be easily done by debugmode's 3D LE. Remember to set each clip to be exactly the same length. Then just copy and paste all the keyframes.
Event Pan/Crop sucks in Vegas. Their timing is not accurate.

TorS wrote on 11/2/2004, 1:04 AM

Philpw99 wrote:
"Event Pan/Crop sucks in Vegas. Their timing is not accurate."

Neither is your reading. Pan/crop is NOT the way to go here, as has been said above.
Start a separate thread on the accuracy of pan/crop if you want to dig into it.
Tor

jetdv wrote on 11/2/2004, 7:05 AM

Event Pan/Crop sucks in Vegas. Their timing is not accurate.

If you want more precise timing, just make sure the keyframes are set to the correct type (i.e. linear) AND "Smoothness" is changed to 0 (zero) for each keyframe.

Jay Gladwell wrote on 11/2/2004, 9:58 AM

Isn't there an old saying that goes something like, "It's a poor artist who blames his tools"?

Jay