Track Motion w/ Border Plug-In?

briz_dad wrote on 4/21/2005, 11:46 AM
I used the Track Motion to size-down media in the piece I am working on. The effect is to have five different media pieces on the screen at once...

I wanted to add a border to them to help them "pop" from the background, but the border plug-in seems to be adding the border to the "normal" size of the event/media before using Track Motion.

Is there a work around that is simple? Am I looking at redoing the effect with croping or adding the border to the media before bringing it into my current project?

TIA,
Greg

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briz_dad wrote on 4/21/2005, 12:11 PM
I just learned via phone support that the border can not be added correctly to a resized media piece (regardless of track motion or cropping being the resizing tool).

So may I recommend this for a product suggestion?

TIA,
Greg
Jimmy_W wrote on 4/21/2005, 12:11 PM
Are you adding the border effect at the track level or event level?
Add the border at event level and crop as needed. I'm not sure what support told you but it works for me as long as I understanding you correctly.
Jimmy
briz_dad wrote on 4/21/2005, 12:11 PM
either one did not work - I'm now creating new media pieces with the border and then bringin them into my current project.
slr wrote on 4/21/2005, 12:42 PM
I tested this in Vegas 6 (and haven't had problems in V5 in the past). 2 cases work for what you want, two don't.

Working cases (border scales with media):
1 - Apply border to event, then do resize on track (using track motion button)
2 - Apply border to track, then do resize on track (using track motion button)

Cases that won't work for you (border will not scale with media):
1 - Apply border to event, then do resize on event (using event pan/crop button)
1 - Apply border to track, then do resize on event (using event pan/crop button)

Steve
briz_dad wrote on 4/21/2005, 4:02 PM
I was unable to do any of those senerios.

I had already done the resizing and the border was an after-thought.. which could be why it did not work.

Phone support had the same results with both track motion and pan crop, again with the resizing already done.

My work around was;
1. have 2 vegas projects opened
2. copy media from main project to temp project
3. place border and render as mediaTemp1 (etc.) "uncompressed"
4. add video (mediaTemp1) as take

Found this to be a quick work-around... (did 9 pieces, 3-5 secs. each, in about ten minutes).
frazerb wrote on 4/21/2005, 6:00 PM
Use the Video Event FX to apply the border to the event. There is a small arrow head next to the word "Border" at the bottom of the Video Event TX window. Click that so the arrow points toward the "B" in Border. Use the Track Motion to resize the event.

Or, set the arrowhead to point awary from the B and use the Event Pan/Crop window to resize.

That's the way it works in Vegas 5. I assume it is the same in 6.
slr wrote on 4/21/2005, 10:02 PM
Wow. I've been using Vegas since version 3 and never realized this was a control (just thought it was a static graphic). If this is set the wrong way, it definately won't work the way he wants. I wonder if there are any hidden preferences that set the default on this that would cause his to come up different by default...

Thanks for the pointer!

Steve