Making an "animated picture wall" in Vegas 10?

IanH wrote on 11/24/2011, 12:18 PM

Hi there, I have 9 pictures that I want to display in a basic grid form (see pic below) where pic 1 fades in and stays then 2 fades in, then 3 etc

www.ianhenshall.com/videoproblem.jpg

Is there any way of doing this other than having 9 video tracks (i per pic) and motion tracking each track?

Also are there any "Video/Picture walls" as a plug-in I can get which would allow me to do the above?

Many Thanks...........................IanH

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Markk655 wrote on 11/24/2011, 12:29 PM

Lots of choices....Do you have VMS or Vegas Pro?

Videowall from DaviTools works with Vegas Pro (I don't think it works with VMS)

Heroglyph from prodad has the capability

You can also use motion track 9 tracks (as you mentioned); use PIP FX (eg. NewBlue).

If they are photos, you can create your 3x3 wall in your photoeditor (such as Photoshop). You can then create 9 other pictures of the 3x3, each with pictures missing, depending on how you want your videowall. Then in VMS, you add each picture with a crossfade between them. So, on you first picture, you would have 1 x x; x x x; x x x and on your next slide you would have x 2 x; x x x ; x x x, etc...Picture 2 will come in as Picture 1 fades out. You could use any transition between them.

I'm sure that there are others too.

IanH wrote on 11/24/2011, 2:23 PM

Thanks for the reply Mark - I'm using VMS, although I've just picked up VMS 11 Plat in the Amazon sales so I'll see how that works out too.

The idea for the 3x3 grid is for each picture to fade in then stay so by the end all 9 pictures are displayed. The Motion track is quicker than my poor photoshop skills so I'll have a look at those links but if there's nothing else out there then using motion tracking isn't the end of the world.

***EDIT*** On the proDAD link is a picture of exaclty the sort of thing I'm after -

http://www.prodad.com/go/prodad/_ws/mediabase/_ts_1321375384000/generated/store/easyedit/home/products/videotiteling/heroglyph/300049059/sl_1280267609990/args.pic1/de_args.pic1_300x__a.jpg

Chienworks wrote on 11/24/2011, 3:28 PM

You can do this with one track somewhat easily.

Create a new image file with only picture #1 pasted in the upper left corner. Save this as image #1. Paste picture #2 into this same image and save the result as image #2. Continue until you have 9 new images, the last one of course containing all 9 images.

Drop all 9 of these new images onto the timeline in order and overlap them to generate crossfades.

IanH wrote on 11/25/2011, 8:24 AM

Well I'm using a trial of Heroglyph and it has a really REALLY bad user interface but the results are just what I wanted so thanks for your inputs.

Cheers!

Markk655 wrote on 11/25/2011, 1:18 PM

Agreed on the interface. Very powerful though. There are workshops available on the proDAD website to help. User manual and Workshops - including one for Videowalls.