Resizing an event

craftech wrote on 3/16/2006, 2:38 PM
I guess this is basic, but I haven't run into it before. Using Vegas 4, I want a split screen on a video backgroud with events that change size. I have read the manual and Ed's newsletters regarding PIP.

I have Video 1 on Track 1
Video 2 on Track 2
Background video on Track 3

Track Motion on Track 1 is set to compositing mode (43%)and image is shrunk down into the upper left hand corner.

Track 2 is set to compositing mode (67%) and is full size until a certain point then I want it to get small and go in the upper right hand corner for around 20 seconds, then go back to normal size.

Track 3 doesn't change.

Event Pan and Crop won't shrink the image in the event. It will only crop, etc. no matter what I check or uncheck.

Do I have to move the section of the event I want to resize on Track 2 up to a NEW video track and use Track Motion to resize it, then move it back down again to restore it to it's original size.

John

Comments

busterkeaton wrote on 3/16/2006, 2:54 PM
Are you using Track Motion keyframes?
craftech wrote on 3/16/2006, 3:49 PM
Are you using Track Motion keyframes?
=========
No.
Am I correct that the Pan and Crop tool cannot resize what is contained WITHIN an event?
John
winrockpost wrote on 3/16/2006, 4:06 PM
........Am I correct that the Pan and Crop tool cannot resize what is contained WITHIN an event?

It can resize, I dont have 4 loaded on this computer ao cant help much,, in 5 there is a stretch to fill frame setting, I select that to yes and can resize, dont know if that is the only way but it works,
craftech wrote on 3/16/2006, 4:13 PM
........Am I correct that the Pan and Crop tool cannot resize what is contained WITHIN an event?

It can resize, I dont have 4 loaded on this computer ao cant help much,, in 5 there is a stretch to fill frame setting, I select that to yes and can resize, dont know if that is the only way but it works,
=========
I don't think the tool changed in version 5. I have tried checking that setting, but it doesn't get smaller. It's probably something simple that I am not doing. It doesn't say that it resizes in the manual. Let me try it again. Maybe I am grabbing the wrong thing when I do it.

John
craftech wrote on 3/16/2006, 4:17 PM
OK,
I figured it out. Everything is left checked and you have to pull the corner of the frame with the mouse diagonally outward BEYOND the viewable area of the frame to shrink it.

Thanks,

John
Chienworks wrote on 3/16/2006, 9:27 PM
Correct. While the dashed rectangle in the Track Motion window represents the media you are moving, in Pan/Crop the dashed rectangle represents the project frame. Making the frame larger will reduce the size of the video in proportion. The only thing you can't do with Pan/Crop alone is to crop to a smaller part of the source media and also reduce it's size within the project frame. To accomplish that you need to use Pan/Crop to crop and Track Motion to resize it.

You mentioned "compositing mode", but you didn't specify which mode or what you mean by this. In any case, this shouldn't be necessary for this operation. Leave all the tracks set to Source and it will still work fine.