Photo Montage problem

TeetimeNC wrote on 11/4/2010, 7:22 AM
JR, I've run into a problem with the Photo Montage tool in Vegas 10a. I see the problem with both PA1 and PA2 so it must be something that has changed in 10a, or possibly something with my settings. The placement on the timeline isn't adhering to the PA settings. Specifically, the photos aren't being fit to placement, and the transition time is incorrect. See the screen shots below.



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JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/4/2010, 8:49 PM
There is no change in behavior that I can see between Vegas Pro 10 and any other version. What is happening is it is placing at every 2nd marker but only for the duration of the one marker. It does this so that it leaves gaps where another track would show through. This is the intended behavior of skipping markers (i.e., leaving gaps). Maybe we can add an option to override this but that's how it was designed to work.

I assume you wanted the duration to be for both markers. It wasn't meant to work that way so I don't consider it a bug. It jut doesn't have the behavior you expected. To get what you want, just remove half of the markers and place at every marker.

The transition time is also correct. To create a transition you must extend the media on each side. What you are seeing is the extended media and the center of the transition is directly on the marker which is what should happen.

Overall it is working as designed. We can always add more design choices in the form of options.

~jr
TeetimeNC wrote on 11/5/2010, 6:14 AM
Aha, a PUE (probable user error). I could have sworn I had done this before in pre 10a versions but apparently not.

That said, I think the tool tip over "Fit to placement" is misleading. It says "Make the duration fill the area between placed photos". But as you noted, this ISN'T the intended action when placing photos at something other than every marker.

With your suggestion I can work around this. But here is one way this might be improved in a future release:

1. Have "Fit to placement" always fill the entire area between placed photos, and...
2. Add a "Fit to placement" override which would let you specify a gap amount.

/jerry
JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/13/2010, 10:11 AM
Hi Jerry,

I looked into this further and I now agree with you that most people will expect fit to placement to fill the entire interval between the markers. This will be changed to behave this way in the next maintenance update for PA 2.0. It you want to leave gaps, you can always not use fit to placement and specify the length.

~jr