I`m new to Vegas, and needs some help.

morslem wrote on 5/9/2002, 2:05 AM
I`m quite new to Vegas 3.0. Earlier I`ve used Pinnacle Studio 7, so now I have som questions.

1: When you have a project, is it possible to extend a clip in the middle of it.
I can do this now, but my problem is that I first have to move the clips behind the one I`m going to extend. Is it a way that Vegas just automaticly push the clips behind further down the timeline?
2: When you open a project from the timeline in the trimmers window, is it possible to replace the clip on the timeline, without first delete the clip on the timeleine and then insert the clip from the trimmer?
3: When I`m doing a zoom in in the "video event pan/crop", the quallity get often very bad. Is it any effects I can add to improve the quallity?
4: What is the best way to make slow motion?

M

Comments

theigloo wrote on 5/9/2002, 2:30 PM

You should blow the $30 or so on the tutorial CD. It's the best way to learn. They did a great job on it.

I'll answer #4 for you though... there's two ways to make slow mo... one is to add a velocity envelope (right click the event on the timeline). The interface is intuitive. But as you slow your stuff down, the event lenght does not change so you loose footage. For example if you slow it to 50%, you'll need the event to be twice as long... mouse over the end of the event and click and and drag right to elongate the duration.

The other way is to mouse over the end of the event and hit control (hold it down), you'll see the cursor change to a sqwigly line and then start dragging right. That'll slow it down and elongate the event.

As far as #3 goes, as you zoom in, you are looking at a smaller section of the footage. The quality will degrate and there's nothing you can do to change that. It's like zooming in on a digital image. It will pixelate because you're looking at it really close... just like looking really close at any printed image.

Hope this helps.

Matt.
SonyDennis wrote on 5/11/2002, 2:48 PM
And to answer the question about moving downstream clips while trimming / extending: currently, Vegas does not do this. Perhaps in a future version. A workaround is to right-click on the event to the right, select "Select events to end" and then drag the body of the event to the right, to make room. Make your trim / extend. Then repeat step one to drag the events back.
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