re: composites

sonicboom wrote on 7/24/2002, 10:37 PM

i just finished rereading the manuel cover to cover
i like the composite feature but i don't really know if i have a use for it
it's really cool feature and i would like to use it
how exactly do people use it?
2 videos?
still pix?
thanks kindly
sb

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 7/25/2002, 12:08 AM

Composites open a whole new door into what's possible with Vegas. Best advice, experiment and have fun. Did you read the full PDF manual? Page 255 starts the basic how-to.

Composities are mostly for setting up and controlling parent/child relationships for multiple tracks but you can use composites on a single track with interesting results too. Then you move into masks and open another door for more possibilites.

Tyler.Durden wrote on 7/25/2002, 8:18 AM

Hi sb,

Composites are really powerful... Vegas' ability to perform composites with preview to NTSC set it apart from most everything under a hundred-grand-plus $$$.

FX like the transporter, the light sabres, secret-wall are good examples of compositing. Also fx like moving images inside text.

Perhaps you might like an image moving in slo-mo as a background with a logo and picture-in-picture... compositing is your friend.

Maybe you have a city shot you want storm-clouds in... you might key-out the sky on the city-shot to show the storm clouds...

Or you might have a computer monitor or TV-set you want moving video in...

Hope this is what you're asking for...

Regards, MPH