Showing multiple pics thru another pic

DRF wrote on 8/1/2006, 12:53 PM

I'm working on a photo montage project where the song talks about a guy spending time with his girlfriend. "Day after day after day..."

What I have is a still shot of a calendar hanging on the wall. What I want to do is have about 20-25 pictures of his girlfriend show through the different days of the calendar, timed to the drum beat of the song.

So I'd have the blank calendar, on a drum beat a picture appears on the 1st day of the calendar, on the next drum beat another picture appears on the 2nd day of the calendar, etc. When the song fades, there will be about 25 different pics of his girlfriend on the calendar.

The still shot of the calendar is angled slightly down and to the left so the boxes of the days are not true squares, they're slightly skewed.

I used the mask on pan/crop and it works just the way I want for the first day, but when I keyframe the next mask I can't put the next mask right next to the first one because the pen tip in the mask turns into an arrow and it puts curves on the shape I had for the first day - Vegas thinks I'm trying to edit the first shape rather than add another shape very close to it.

Is there a different way to do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!
DRF

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DRF wrote on 8/1/2006, 12:56 PM

I was just messing around with it again and figured out that I can draw a shape to the side and then move it over next to the previous shape.

So I think I'll be able to do what I want.

If anyone has a suggestion on how to do it differently I'd still be open to it though.

GGman wrote on 8/1/2006, 1:22 PM

Make everything flat and then make them all a child track to a parent track and then use 3D motion.
Bottom track is a calendar month pic, flat and full screen
28 to 30 tracks (depends on which month) are above the calendar track. Place all the girl pics on each of those tracks. Use Pan/Crop on each pic event to size and place each pic where it belongs on the calendar. Now make all of those tracks as a child to a new track on top that becomes the parent. You don't need an event on that parent track. Use 3D Source Alpha motion in the parent track header to size and rotate the whole group as one flat plane in 3D space.

Drag the left edge of each event pic on each track on the timeline so they all are staggered in time so they appear in time as needed. You can fade them in by using each event fade handle or pop on with just using cuts.

Many possibilities, but that's the basic plan to do what you asked for.

GG