slide show and video

barbnewbie wrote on 10/7/2005, 10:53 AM
I have made videos using Screenblast Movie studio. I am just starting to play around with music and pictures. It seems that I can add pictures to the timeline, but only one at a time. I saw a presentation at my church where they would bring 4 separate pictures in and show all four on one screen. Am I missing something here or do I need to actually get another software package in order to do that?

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 10/7/2005, 11:48 AM
If you have the new Vegas Movie Studio 6 you can handle this because it has 4 video tracks. Place each picture in a separate track and use Track Motion to reduce and position them.

If you have previous versions with only 3 tracks, you can still accomplish this by using those tracks to create an initial video with 3 of the images, rendering it to a new file, then starting a new project with this new file and add the 4th image. You'll also have to use Pan/Crop to reduce and position the images because only version 6 has Track Motion.
drguitar001 wrote on 10/8/2005, 10:02 PM
Chienworks,

I have VMS 6 Platinum and I seem to have only 3 video tracks... am I missing something?
Gatman wrote on 10/9/2005, 2:52 AM
Right-click on one of your three video tracks, and you should get a menu that has an option to insert a video track. You can do the same to get another audio track. By default, VMS shows 3 video & audio tracks, but you can insert one more of each for up to 8 total.

Regards,

Gary
Tim L wrote on 10/9/2005, 6:57 AM
Hopefully four images (four tracks) is enough. If you need more -- ie want six photos or video clips on the screen -- you can do part of them, and render the result out to DV AVI. Then pull that AVI into another project, and add the additional clips.

If you needed a total of six, for example, do the first three photos in a temporary project, and then render the result out to a DV AVI clip. Now open the main project, give it four video tracks, and pull in the rendered AVI (with the first three photos) onto the first track. You still have three tracks left to add the remaining three photos.

(Or at least I think this is the proper approach -- I haven't actually done this myself...)

Tim L