Parent/Child Relationship in Vegas 5

JaysonHolovacs wrote on 7/23/2004, 12:53 PM

Can anyone describe what the parent/child relationship in V5 does? Note that I am not a previous version user so don't go referencing "well, it's like v4 but..."

I've played with it and it doesn't make sense how it works, infact, I can't really figure out what it does at all. Logically, I would THINK that children composite up into their parents before the parents are composited into something else. For example, if I have 3 track A, B, C:
A: Vid1
B: Vid2
C: Vid3

I would expect, with no PC relationship, that C would be layed down first, then B composited on top of that obscuring portions of it, then A composited on top of the result, with A as the highest track being the most dominant. If B were a child of A, then I would EXPECT that C is layed down, but then B is composited with A, and the combined AB is then composited on top of C.

It doesn't seem to be that way. Perhaps it does something useful that I just am missing? Can someone explain this?

-Jayson

Comments

JaysonHolovacs wrote on 7/23/2004, 2:32 PM

What, noone wants to touch this one? Is it that bad?

-Jayson

JackHughs wrote on 7/23/2004, 4:20 PM

Perhaps rephrasing the question would stimulate some answers. I'll admit to not understanding the question as written.

As I understand the Parent/Child relationship, enabling P/C causes the upper track to function as a mask to the next lower track. When P/C is disabled, the upper track functions as an overlay to the next lower track. Is this comment responsive to your question?

Jan

bStro wrote on 7/23/2004, 5:14 PM

I imagine that any answer someone gives you will just be a regurgitation of what's in the manual. Why not go right to the source? :)

Rob

Grazie wrote on 7/23/2004, 11:28 PM

Here's a useful tip .. Use the KB here . .you can learn heaps from it without leaving this Forum too!

Here is a neat description of Parent & Child comparing V4 and V5 Any good?

Have fun ..

Grazie

Spot|DSE wrote on 7/24/2004, 2:09 AM

Jayson,
Log into the VASST site, http://www.vasst.com/login.htm, and download the Parent/Child veg. The way it's labeled, it will make sense to you, I think.

FuTz wrote on 7/24/2004, 4:55 AM

...Jason, I'm glad you asked this 'cause I too find it's not the most intuitive tool around. And it's not a bad critic towards folks at SFoundry. It's just that it's the first time I "run into a wall" at not getting to use a tool "by instinct" in Vegas. I guess it's one of those "try, re-try, miss and re-re try again" thingys that we have to go thru to get comfortable with.
I'm even more confused with it in V5, probably because I got a little discouraged at using it very much previously in V4...
This being said, I'll look at these links, Grazie and Spot, hoping it will clear a few things out.
Thanks again for your help guys...