Is this a known bug/feature?
Rotating a non-uniform shape causes it to get squished as it's rotating because they don't rotate the original bounding box.
I haven't found anything in the manual about this or a menu that would turn this off.
Oops, not yet I think. But I can repro. It's even worse if you try to do an animation of 180°. It won't rotate at all then just zooms out and in.
yeah, that's how I first ran into the problem. Can be worked around by rotating the entire view but given that snapping also doesn't seem to work and there are other mask controls (like grouping and centering and so on) that are missing, that's a major pain
But rotating the view is different because it not only rotates the mask but the mask including its background.
You could use Bézier Mask instead.
Looks like this was due to the way of each anchor points moving from first keyframe to the 2nd keyframe going straightforward, without seeing the shape.
in this case that would be fine since the background is a solid color. I'll see if bezier will work
In case you need a rotation of more than 180°, you just needn't get confused because there is no 360° setting at a first glance. The range is from -180° to +180°. So just start with a negative degree value.
Turns out bezier masks have the same problem. Also, good luck drawing a circle or rectangle with that tool, without ripping your own eyes out :-)
Strange. Rotating a Bézier Mask works fine for me.
Which Vegas Pro version do you use? I could try sharing a project file of a working rotation.
Drawing a circle or rectangle is a matter of ratio dependend on your source's ratio. For HD adjust the width, then multiply that value with 1.7777 and you got the same height. This works for both the rectangle (to square) and oval (to circle).
@Marco. using 17.452
No need to go into the math. I developed 3d visualization software for a living.
The problem isn't the math, it's trying to get evenly distributed bezier points without a grid to snap to. That's the other thing, snapping doesn't seem to work at all.
Here is the link for the project file.
And this is how rotating works for me:
ahh, I was referring to the bezier tool in pan/crop dialog as shown in my original video