Thanks Ivan for the link to 'Wax'. Just was wondering if it can be used as a plugin for VMS, or Vegas only? I tried it as a stand alone, and it seemed like it had a pretty steep learning curve even after reading the 33 page manual. Is that your impression, or do I just need to stick with it? Thanks. Cin

Yes, a very steep learning curve indeed. I don't use it myself just because of that. The Vegas plugin doesn't work with recent versions of Vegas, only until Vegas 3 - I think - it is working as a plugin.

Thanks for the response Ivan. I will probably uninstall, as I have enough programs that I'm still trying to learn. :) Take care. Cin

"I don't know how to do it in Vegas Movie Studio (a cube has 6 sides, while VMS only has 4 video tracks)."


You can get around the 4-track limitation by compositing - place video on four tracks, render to an output file, then pull that file in as one track and do the remaining two tracks above it.

After reading your post and your mention of "playing with the numbers", you've got my curiosity as to how you would do this effect in VMS?

Is there a way to "skew" track motion or pan/crop so that you can achieve the cube effect you're talking about? If so, I've never done this before and would like to know how to do it!

If you're creative enough you can get around the 4 track limit by only using 3 tracks. If your cube is solid instead of see-through, you'll only ever be able to see 3 sides at a time anyway. So, if you start out with sides 1, 2, & 3 visible, as the cube turns and side 1 becomes hidden, change that track from video 1 to video 4 since side 4 will become visible at the same time.

It won't be easy, but it will be possible.

Now, what i don't know is if Vegas Studio has the same 3D track motion that Vegas Pro has. Without that the best you can do is use the Deform effect to fudge things and you'll probably be up for a month tweaking keyframes.

I didn't realize this stream was talking about a cube that turns while playing videos on each face - obviously that would be a virtual nightmare to try in native VMS.

I'm curious about how the questioner planned to make even a stationary cube with 3 faces showing, each playing a different video. How do you skew the frames in order to make them into a cube-like shape?? I didn't think there was a way to do that with track motion or pan/crop.