Here's a listing of the tools available in Tsunami. I personally use Select Events, Extract Good Clips, and Rotating Picture the most but the rest are handy to have around.



The tools included in Tsunami fall into two categories: Helping tools and Artistic tools.


Helping Tools
1. Select Events is designed to simplify the process of selecting events on the timeline. While Vegas offers many selection options including Select All, and Select Events to end of track (which only affects ONE track), it is still difficult to perform some selection tasks - such as select ALL events after the cursor no matter which track contains the event. With a wide variety of options such as All before cursor, All after cursor, Only selected tracks, and Split at cursor, Select Events will select only the events you want with a click of a button and without requiring the current zoom level of the timeline to be changed.


2. Extract Good Clips will take the good segments of a larger clip and separate them from the main clip. Start by placing a large clip on the timeline and make regions around the good segments. This tool will extract those segments to a new track and, if desired, remove the gaps left by the bad clips.


3. Delete Markers allows a flexible method of deleting markers, command markers, CD track markers or regions. While Vegas will let you delete all or one, this tool allows selecting which markers and which types of markers are to be deleted.


4. Reset Pan/Crop will remove all Pan/Crop keyframes from all selected events. This will effectively remove any Pan/Crop changes from all selected clips.


5. Remove All Effects will delete all effects from all selected events. This is a quick way to reset a series of clips back to having no effects applied.



Artistic Tools
6. Video Wall will create a "wall" of video images of the size requested. For example, if you have 9 clips on 9 tracks, select those 9 clips, tell Video Wall to build a 3 x 3 wall, and instant "Brady Bunch." This example show 16 video segments arranged on a 4 x 4 wall.


7. Rotating Picture takes a clip, makes a background using the same clip, and then resizes and rotates the clip over time. Several options allow the background to be Black and White and/or Blurred as well as beginning and ending angles and sizes. When played, the clip will begin at the beginning angle and size and slowly rotate and resize until reaching the ending angle and size.


8. Picture-In-Picture will take a clip, resize it as specified, and place it in the chosen position creating an instant PIP. No more messing with Track Motion or Pan/Crop - let this tool do the work for you.


9. Stuttering Video will take a clip and produce a Time-Delay/Time Phasing effect. This effect gives best results when shot from a tripod providing a static background while the main characters move in the foreground.

Thanks Jet! I apologize for not leaving a link. Duh me!!!
There is a video (kind hard to see too clearly) demonstration as well....(scroll down to bottom of page)

http://thetroxels.com/tts/

I may buy it now.

td

That's the link to the newsletter. The proper link to the newsletter is:

www.jetdv.com/tts (if anyone knows how to get the URL to read correctly once you get there, I'd gladly change it)

If you want a direct link to tsunami, it is:
www.jetdv.com/tsunami

Thanks,...I just copied the address that I saw up top when I was on the Tsunami page. They can click on the Tsunami logo though still and get there too.

I have both Tsunami and Excalibur, both written by Edward Troxel. I use the selection tools very frequently, and have found the picture in picture feature very helpful, too. The documentation is excellent, and I've yet to find a bug in either.

Highly recommended.