Thank you for the reply I really appreciate it but what I am after more than being able to adjust keyframes is to have multiple pictures in different places on the screen. Maybe if I overlap them all, I haven't tried that for fear things would get too messy if I have them all on top of each other on one track. I was using track motion as a video overlay and that works great to have one picture on top of a big picture but what I would like is more than one smaller picture on top of a bigger one and have them in different places on the screen.

In VMS this could be a problem because of limited tracks.
In Vegas Pro you have unlimited tracks and the common approach would be to put each still on its own track. Very easy this way!

Thanks I am beginning to see the advantage of having more tracks available. OH well, I will work with what I have and come up with maybe something like multiple pictures in different spots.

Check out this tutorial website:

http://onthelinemedia.com/tutorials/vegas.html

specifically the tutorial named "dropping photos into a scene." I believe it may be what you are looking for. I've reproduced it for one of my slideshows, and it's really cool.

THAT IS WHAT I WANT! But unfortunately the page is coming up as unavailable when I click on the tutorial for how to do it. So I still don't know how. So close......yet so far.........

Hi Iwill,
At the end of each event on Track Motion, you will need to right click on the box in the Track Motion viewer and choose 'Restore Box'. That puts in a key frame, setting things back to original, so you can then add another event on that track, and add it how and where you want without having to use one of the FEW (take note Sony) tracks that are available. If you want to have more than one Track Motion event at a time on the main event, then you will need to use multiple tracks. Hope this makes at least some sense to you. Let us know if it helps. Cin

I think I am getting closer and I so appreciate the help! Unfortunately I am not getting it to work. When I right click at the end of the event and restore box it changes everything in that track back to "normal" rather than just each event. So I must not be doing things in the correct order or place or I might not have a setting correct. When I move on to the next event and set it where I want it, then now everything on that track goes to that setting. So in essence I can make a change due to restore box but so far I am not changing individual events on that track.

UPDATE: More playing around and I see I need to be more precise iwith putting in keyframes and adjusting those more carefully to what I want via the track motion box. I think I got it now or I will have it after some more practice.

I've got the tutorial of how to drop photo's - it's a pdf file. Give me an email or FTP where I can post it, and i'll get it over to you.

Best part is, it uses pan/crop not track motion, so you don't have to worry about the annoying restore attributes on the track after every photo.

It's a great little tutorial. It also gives a precious little secret away to those users of VMS with limited video tracks, which they call 'frame capturing'. I've used that little secret to produce multi-video sequences that would've required 9 or more video tracks, but I did it all in VMS with a 4-track video limitation.

hi mick ...
can you send me the pdf to stevesharp@gmail.com
snd if you have the other tuutorials from that page i would love them too ..
i am thinkking of downgrading to VMS and would love to learn the "trick" of 9 tracks in 4

Mick,

Could you please send the drop photo tutorial to me too?

M_Matt9999
-AT-
yahoo.ca

Thanks

Thanks, Mickbadal! I just checked out those tutorials, and other than the one unavailable one, I'm downloading and reading each. They look like fun things to add to our quiver!