PIP Tips in Vegas? Scripts helpful?

ken c wrote on 10/4/2004, 1:11 PM

Any tips for doing picture in picture successfully in Vegas 4? The "if I had all to do over again, I'd ____ " ?

I need to go back and re-watch Spot's DVDs, also are there any scripts that are good at PIP, or help out? I have Tsunami, haven't tried Excalibur/Neon or others.. appreciate it..

What I want to do is have a small picture of me talking, embedded inside a larger seminar wide-angle shot, and cutaways to powerpoint slides..

ken

Comments

jetdv wrote on 10/4/2004, 1:26 PM

Tsunami can create the PIPs for you. It uses Pan/Crop to create them. If done manually, I would use Track Motion.

Liam_Vegas wrote on 10/4/2004, 2:02 PM

Tsunami is a great product.. but I would say in your situation it will be VERY easy to do it manually.

The critical part is "Track Motion". Get that nailed down and it will all seem entirely too easy! You can basically re-size and re-position your PIP track to the exact position where you want it to be over the top of your other track (the powerpoint slides?).

I do this all the time with a cable show I put together. You can see a sample of the cable show with PIP note: the PIP starts about 2 minutes in.

ken c wrote on 10/4/2004, 3:54 PM

Thanks much, appreciate it ... I'll try that. Next is doing "sliding PIPs", sounds like track motion will make it easy..

ken

jetdv wrote on 10/4/2004, 7:17 PM

Ken, I have PIPs and sliding PIPs explained over the first three issues of my newsletter