still video montage and VV3 feature request

Summersond wrote on 9/29/2002, 8:46 PM
If this is available, please excuse the post. I just haven't stumbled across it yet. I would like to see a feature on adding still pictures where you could tell VV3 how many pictures you had, how many seconds you wanted for the transistion, how much total time you needed and it would automatically set the duration for you. I know you can do it longhand, but it sure would save me a lot of time!

thanks,
dave

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sonicboom wrote on 9/30/2002, 12:20 AM
go to the preferences--it is all there
to bring up all pictures at once
there are a few different ways
the one i use---assuming all pictures are in order---
left click on the first picture---press and hold down the shift key---click on the last picture you want---then press enter..viola they all go to timeline

to change transition, picture length, etc--go to

options/prefences/editing tab--adjust as you wish
sb
Tyler.Durden wrote on 9/30/2002, 8:13 AM
Hi Dave,

VV won't do the math for you. Sounds like a great idea tho.

I like to do the long-division in my head... keeps the grey-matter exercised.

(ok, I'm a freak.)

MPH
Tyler.Durden wrote on 9/30/2002, 9:39 AM
OK Dave, I have an idea...

I have tried it and it may be a timesaver, you be the judge.

I made a tool. It is a video clip of just colorBG with a TC burn showing 100 "seconds" (not SMPTE). (I rendered it as DV.)

Let's say I have 44 images. I put the rendered clip in the TL and trim the end down to the 44 seconds indication in the burn.

Let's say I want the 44 images to run 1 min. I Ctrl-drag the trimmed clip and stretch it to 1 min.

I then mark an inpoint at the beginning of any second in the burn-window, then an outpoint at the next second in the burn-window.

The duration of the highlighted loop-region (TL lower-right corner) is the duration each image needs to be. It can be entered into the prefs with your crossfade duration.

(If you regularly have more than 100 images, make your burn-in clip 200sec or whatever you need.)

HTH, MPH





dmcmeans wrote on 9/30/2002, 4:46 PM

What if you want to take your events from a clip in the Trimmer? Say you have a 10 minute video in the Trimmer and you want to take 7 sec clips from it, perhaps 50 of them, and you want each of these to be overlapped a certain amount (you've set that in your Preferences / Edit tab).

Obviously, you can do this from the Media Pool. But how would you do this from a single clip?
Tyler.Durden wrote on 9/30/2002, 6:06 PM
Hi David,

"how would you do this from a single clip?"...

You might try marking them as regions in the trimmer, then use "region-view" in Vegas explorer.

You can select a group in the region table and drag them into the timeline with auto-overlaps.

Caveat: You may need to name or number them in order of use... I can't seem to Ctrl-click to select the order in which they are inserted.


HTH, MPH
Control_Z wrote on 9/30/2002, 6:53 PM
Note also that you can select all your pics on the timeline, G(group) them, then ctrl-left drag the end to match your music.
Tyler.Durden wrote on 9/30/2002, 7:11 PM
Cooool...

I didn't know about that. That is great.

Thanks!

MPH
Summersond wrote on 10/1/2002, 9:00 AM
Yes, that IS cool! That is waht I was wanting to do. Unfortunately, it changes the transistion period also, but if I come close with the basics, that will let me correct the rest. Thanks to Marty and Sonic also for your input.

Thanks again!.

dave