Or the mask tool of Pan/Crop which is individually adjustable in any ways.

+ Marco

Or the mask tool of Pan/Crop which is individually adjustable in any ways.

I can't get that one to show in the preview window what is shown in the masking window; there is always an "offset".

Be sure the preview is set to "Best/Full".

It always is.

Do you have a simple project to share?

Thanks guys! This is for a sign language interpreter in the lower right corner. I have that now - scaled and positioned and masked. But is there an easy way to add a border? The Sony Border tool put the border on the whole frame, not just the PIP window. I added a black box between these tracks and got a border, but wondering if there's an easier way.

You can place an fx before or after pan/crop. Try changing the current order for the border fx.

What Marco says...

Thanks, that does apply the border to the clip before the pan/zoom, but the masking is applied after that. So the border only appears at the bottom, which is the only part of the frame that is in the mask area.

Had the camera been framed well in the beginning, then this would work. But it's an unmanned Hero Session 5 set far enough back to get an extra wide shot to cover the interpreter moving around a little. I would normally use pan/zoom to zoom in, but the pan/zoom was used to zoom out to make the picture smaller. Don't suppose you can have multiple pan/zooms?

If you place your inset video in a nested project you can apply the border in the nested project and exert more control over the appearance. You could keyframe the pan/crop settings to follow the interpreter in the nested project.

You could also create a track with a rectangular shape that matches the shape of your inset. Then place this on a track below and make bigger to give the appearance of an outline.

A separate track with a black box is the best way like you found out. Any FX applied to the track/event can only happen in the track/event scope. You want a border that's outside that scope.

What will make it easier for you is to scale your PIP video with track motion, have the black box behind it, then make a blank track above both of those. Make your PIP video & black box tracks children to the blank one. Now

you can use the parent motion to scale/position the PIP + border wherever you want.

And for a more interesting look, turn on the Drop Shadow under track motion for the track that has the inset. Gives a nice 3d feel.

An adjustable rectangle mask can be made with mask tool in the Pan/Crop tool in VegasPro (as Marco stated) but also only with the Pan/Crop tool itself (for Movie Studio users) by disabling Lock Aspect Ratio and setting Stretching to fill frame to "No". A Border around this adjusted rectangle  can be easily created by changing the 2D Glow settings of the Trackmotion of the track where the masked event is set.