Odd behaviour of cookie cutter?

Maverick wrote on 2/12/2004, 8:37 AM
Hi

I have two pics both on different tracks. The project setting are DV PAL Widescreen and I have set the pictures' properties to the same.

Each has a cookie cutter set to oval with some feathering and both centred (viz. both have the same settings).

What is happening is that one (it happens to be the first) shows as an oval as expected but the second is looking very circular - in fact there is no difference between the circle setting and the oval yet if I set it to 'Oval side' it is an oval!

If I swap positions/tracks the result is the same with one oval and one circular. I have even rebooted and started a new veg from scratch with the same results.

Both pics are PNGs with the first (oval) being W146 H246 59pix/cm and the second W295 H433 59pix/cm.

Can anyone offer any solution/reason for the above?

Cheers.

Comments

wethree wrote on 2/12/2004, 9:05 AM
check each clip's properties-- my guess is one is set to square pixel and the other for DV .9yadayadayda.? Make sure they are set to the same thing and then each cc will cut round or oval.

I think...

Maverick wrote on 2/12/2004, 9:21 AM
Both are set to 1.4568 DV PAL Widescreen
J_Mac wrote on 2/12/2004, 10:24 AM
Are your keyframes set to display the ovals at the current cursor position as it moves down the TL. If switching the pics from track 1 to track 2 you may have duplicated the KF positions on the TL and not adjusted them over time. John.
Maverick wrote on 2/12/2004, 11:30 AM
One of the first things I checked for.

As I said in the original post I started again from scratch so there were only the keyframes entered anew.

I have even Copied & Pasted the attributes from the pic displayed as oval to the other with no effect.

I am stumped
Maverick wrote on 2/12/2004, 12:13 PM
When doing my prerendering I couldn't understand why what was appearing OK on the time-line looked way wrong once prerendered. I then realsied that I was still pre-rendering as DV PAL and not widescreen.

This still hasn't solved my lacl of oval cutting, though.
AlistairLock wrote on 2/12/2004, 1:13 PM
I've noticed this too on several occasions.
I've told the cut out shape to be square and it remains a circle.
I save the file, exit Vegas and come in again, reload the file and the circle has changed to a square (or whatever shape and size I asked it to be).

This only seems to happen if I've been running a long-ish session, or have alt-tabbed to another program and back again one or more times (say to Forge to edit a Vegas sound file)
Maverick wrote on 2/12/2004, 1:32 PM
At least it doesn't seem to be something I have done. But I can't seem to track it down like you have. I do not have any other Vegas (Sony) products apart from DVDA. I do notice, though, that sometimes the time line stops playing after 9 frames. Always just the 9 frames play and that's it. All other functions continue to work perfectly (AFAICS) and only a reboot solves it.

It's a niggle rather than a pain but I'd rather it didfn't happen.
johnmeyer wrote on 2/12/2004, 2:54 PM
Check the alpha settings for the video that you are "cookie cutting." I found that this can change the way in which the video is allowed to "shine through."
Maverick wrote on 2/15/2004, 5:20 PM
Checked the alpha settings and all events are set to none. Still none the wiser:-(