how to make a line between two points?

strobe wrote on 12/10/2003, 2:24 PM
I have this problem...

I have a image (JPG) of a map inserted to the video. In this video sequence , I want to make a thick red line between two points in the image. I want the line to be drawn from point 1 to point 2 in the video sequence that will last for about 3 seconds.

How do I do it?

Alex (Sweden)

Comments

vonhosen wrote on 12/10/2003, 2:30 PM
Check out one of Marty's "Maps & Lines" tutorial here

http://www.martyhedler.com/homepage/Vegas_Tutorials.html?Welcome_Visitor=1071095368
strobe wrote on 12/10/2003, 2:56 PM
Thanx!
But that I hade already figured out myself...

Isnt there any ways to get lines to map-images make multiple images and work with 'em in photoshop? why cant I just make a line in Vegas? Or can I? :P
BillyBoy wrote on 12/10/2003, 3:04 PM
Vegas doesn't support drawing raster or vector graphics, so you can't without using some plug-in third party application or by tricks "draw" in Vegas. Maybe next version.
Chienworks wrote on 12/10/2003, 3:18 PM
It's a bit of overkill for a single line, but you can use my "mapliner" program.

http://www.chienworks.com/software/mapliner/
strobe wrote on 12/11/2003, 11:19 AM
That program was AWESOME!!! =D

perfect.. now I'm done with this problem..

next one though :)

Instead of a simple line getting longer by time, I want a icon of a airplane in the beginning of the growing plane. I have this litte icon in a small JPG file.

how to? Or its maybe not possible to do this with Vegas :(

Thanks // Alex (Sweden)
Chienworks wrote on 12/11/2003, 11:59 AM
If that icon picture file has a solid background then it's pretty easy to do. Place the icon in a track above the map video track and use Chroma Key to eliminate the background around the icon. Then use track motion to size & move it from place to place on the map. You can use keyframes to mark each point on the line and position the plane at those points, then Vegas will create the movement for you. You'll probably want to set the Smoothness value to 0% so that you get constant motion.
Winterlover wrote on 12/11/2003, 12:00 PM
Have a look in this tread:

http://www.mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=143997

TorS have also has some nice examples how to move font over images in the tread:

http://www.mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=131427

Nice to see some other swedes here on the forum. /Lars
Chienworks wrote on 12/11/2003, 12:24 PM
Swedes unite!!!!

Put your pin in the world-wide Vegas users map!
Winterlover wrote on 12/11/2003, 1:19 PM
My pin is on the map!