Picture in Picture

Gimpyjayy wrote on 3/20/2019, 8:48 PM

Greetings,

I just started using Vegas Pro 15.0 after a few years of iMovie. Quick background: I have a weekly podcast. After recording, I download the video from YouTube, open iMovie, layer the video and the frame that was created and use picture in picture to have the video sit within the designated area. I cannot seem to recreate this in Vegas.

As you can see from the video, I was able to select picture in picture from the Fx but all I managed to do was resize the video. Where it is black around the video should be my frame which is currently loaded into the project in between the video and the audio track. Does that order matter? Am I going about this process entirely the wrong way? Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Comments

john_dennis wrote on 3/20/2019, 9:04 PM

Outside of PIP, the order does matter. If you have something like a picture or image (.png) with transparency, it should be above the video track. You can resize or relocate the video to place it better in the frame with Pan/Crop and/or Track Motion.

I haven't used PIP because I’ve done without it for so long, I just haven’t gotten a round tuit.

xberk wrote on 3/20/2019, 10:55 PM

From Vegas Pro Help.

There are two ways of creating a picture-in-picture effect; use Track Motion or use the Picture-in-Picture plug-in. To learn how to create this composite using Track Motion see "Editing track motion". Using the picture-in-picture plug-in is more flexible and has the added advantage of being able to apply it to a single event, rather than the whole timeline, and adjust the parameters, such as placement, size, and rotation, directly on the Preview window.

The video that you want to display as a picture over a background picture should be on the top track. The background picture should be on the lower track.

Dimitrios wrote on 3/21/2019, 12:31 AM

I don't like the PIP effect. It is more straight forward than using pan crop or track motion but it doesn't ignore aspect ratio like track motion does and it doesn't allow you to match aspect ratio like pan crop does so unless it's frame is the same you're usually gonna run into problems.

karma17 wrote on 3/23/2019, 5:19 AM

Agree with Dimitrios. I don't use PIP feature much either. I prefer to just pan and crop to get the picture the way I like. It is one of those preference adjustments.

3POINT wrote on 3/23/2019, 5:31 AM

Me too, agree with Dimitrios.

AVsupport wrote on 3/31/2019, 7:30 AM

however, you can copy a Bezier mask onto a PiP via the scripts. I found this interesting workaround when I tried to track a graphic on top of a background