Replacing pictures in a grid

John10Yes wrote on 9/8/2006, 12:08 PM
I have been asked to come up with a video of peoples pictures that does the following:
1. It will start with one picutre in the top left corner
2. Will add a second picture etc until there are 2 rows of 4 pictures.
3. When picture 8 comes up then picture 1 will be replaced with pciture 9. Then 2 gets replaced with picture 10 etc.
4. There are 400 pictures total.
5. The client first asked for a black background then said, could they have a cloud video playing in the background.

I know that I could create 400 slides in photoshop and turn that into a movie but am wondering of anyone has an idea for doing it directly within Vegas 6.

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J_Mac wrote on 9/8/2006, 12:45 PM
Use Track Motion to independently size and place your 8 track picture locations.
Assume your Pics are on screen for 5 seconds.
The first track picture will be in view from 00 to 40 seconds, (8 pics times b5 seconds each). Immediately follwed by pic 9, on track 1.
Track 2, Pic 2 starts at 5 seconds mark, goes 40 seconds and ends at 45 seconds on the timeline, immediately followed by pic 10., Etc.
Each picture track starts 5 seconds ( in my example) after the pic track above it., and the replacement pic is butted up to the end with or without transitions. Transitions will effect the overall length of each pic. Use the project properties to set up the exact still picture length you want when adding to the Timeline.
Put the cloud video on track 9 then music and voice Good Luck, John.
Jonathan Neal wrote on 9/8/2006, 1:39 PM
http://www.madison.thewikies.com/8CUBES.veg

There, I just made it, in regular NTSC DV 24p (720x480, 23.976 fps) -- ignore everything after this, it's lame but useful possibly to others.

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Since I'm launching a tutorial site for Vegas and other Madison software, I thought I would take a crack at your question. Disclaimer part 1: 8 even boxes will not produce even footage, you will need to play with cropping. Disclaimer part 2: This isn't the format I'll be using for the tutorials there, and I wouldn't want a tutorial that produces stretched footage, but it's been a while so here goes...

I'm going to create 8 boxes evenly on the screen; 4 across, 2 down. I started my project NTSC DV 24p Widescreen (720x480, 23.976 fps)

1. Create a new Video Track on the timeline.

2. Go to the top menu, select Insert > Generated Media, and select Sony Solid Color. This will place a solid white color on the track which fills the entire frame.

3. On that video track, go to Track Motion.... Now, at the top of this window, unclick Lock Aspect Ratio.

4. Change the Width to 180.00 and Height to 240.00. If this was done correctly, you should now see that the solid white color appears to be 1/4 the width of the screen and 1/2 height.

5. Duplicate this track 8 times.

6. Now you have 8 solid boxes. Enter the following points in each Track's Track Motion to align them all appropriately:

1st Track:
X axis to -270.00 and Y axis to 120
2nd Track:
X axis to -90.00 and Y axis to 120.
3rd Track:
X axis to 90.00 and Y axis to 120.
4th Track:
X axis to 270.00 and Y axis to 120.
5th Track:
X axis to -270.00 and Y axis to -120.00.
6th Track:
X axis to -90.00 and Y axis to -120.00.
7th Track:
X axis to 90.00 and Y axis to -120.00.
8th Track:
X axis to 270.00 and Y axis to -120.00.

7. If all these steps were done correctly you will now have 8 evenly spaced boxes; 4 across, and 4 down. Replace the Solid Color on each track with whatever you like. Since these 8 boxes are completely even, whatever you put in them may appear stretched, be warned.

The site, Madison Library, is still very-much in progress.
Jonathan Neal wrote on 9/8/2006, 3:32 PM
I just went into Vegas again to see what it would look like to make the grid, with the rotating images, with the correct aspect ratio. I just made one and uploaded it to my website.

http://www.madison.thewikies.com/8CUBES.veg
John10Yes wrote on 9/10/2006, 1:39 PM
You guys are amazing!! I will check this out and try to figure it out!!