Hi everyone,
I actually posted the following as a reply to a question in another thread, but I think the info is too good to miss, so hopefully a few more people will read this post and benefit from it!
(note: the original question was about saving event pan/crop info)
Follow these steps as a basic guide to the technique.
1) Open up Vegas.
2) Add video/picture media onto a track.
3) Select Event Pan/Crop for the media event. Add keyframes as required.
4) Left-Click once on the first keyframe 'triangle' in the Pan/Crop window.
5) Hold down Shift and left-click on the last keyframe triangle in the P/C
window. You will see that all of the Kframe triangles have now been highlighted.
6) Right click on the Keyframe timeline (in the Pan/Crop window) and select
'Copy' from the menu. (You can also use the Ctrl+C short cut)
7) Add another video/picture event anywhere in the project (it doesn't matter if
it's another or the same track or not).
8) Open the Pan/Crop window of the new event.
9) Left click once on the default first keyframe.
10) Right click on the keyframe timeline and select paste from the menu. (you
can also use Ctrl+V).
The whole thing is quicker when you do it than it is reading here. Note that in
the destination Pan/Crop window, you don't have to click on the first triangle -
wherever you place the vertical time marker (the brown line!) will be the point
from which the first keyframe of the copied kframe sequence is placed. The
spacing of the following kframes will stay the same.
If you don't have enough space (time) to fit the keyframe sequence in the
destination clip, the last key frames will get stacked up on each other at the
end of the clip. It might look like you've lost half of your kframes, but they
are just stacked up, and you can manually drag them apart one by one. (again,
this makes more sense when you try it).
The same techniqe detailed above can be used with other keyframe-able stuff -
filters, blurs, colour balance etc. So if you add, for example, a colour filter
to two tracks, you can set up a Kframe sequence in one track, copy the whole
sequence (or part of it) and then paste it into the other tracks' colour filter
plugin.
You can also cut and paste Kframe sequences between different projects.
This gives you a way of storing Kframe Sequence Presets.
1) Follow steps 1-6 from the instructions above.
2) open a new instance of Vegas (run the program again, so that you end up with
two copies running at the same time)
3) Create a blank video track.
4) Right click on the blank space and select "Insert Text Media"
5) Close the text window that pops up.
5) Open up the Pan/Crop window for the Text event.
6) Paste the Kframe sequence into it.
7) Name the Video track (eg. 'Zoom in Clockwise').
8) Save the project (Call it something like 'Pan Crop Presets')
9) Repeat as nessesary!
Now when you need to recall a preset, you load your Preset project in one copy of
Vegas, and copy the keyframe sequences from it into your current project. Ta-Da!
Notes:
Naming the track should remind you of the effect of the sequence in the Event,
but because you have used Generated Text, you can hit 'Play' to give you a rough
idea of the result in the Video Preview window (solo the track of the effect you
want to audition!).
Because you are using Generated media, the saved project will just be a Veg file,
with no bulky media files. You'd be wise to make a back up though.... :)
The default time of the text event may not be long enough for the KeyFrame
Sequence to are copying into it. You can either drag the edge of the clip to
make it longer (before you paste the Kframe seqence in), or set a longer default
length for generated media (Preferences>Editing>'new still image length').
You could keep seperate Veg. file projects for different presets - eg one for
pan/crop, one for colour presets, one for blurs etc.
If you have 'show active take names in events' enabled (Preferences>General), you
can right click on the event, select 'Properties' and change the name of the
event. This means you can have mulitple Presets on one track - so instead of
saving seperate Veg files for different effects, you could have seperate tracks
for different effects, each with multiple, named Events in.
You can Paste as many times as you want. So if you wanted to create the effect
of constantly zooming in and out, you only need to create two key frames (the
Zoomed In and Zoomed Out state), copy them and then paste them multiple times.
As with Events on the main editing timeline, you can use Ctrl+click'n'drag to instantly copy single/multiple keyframes on the keyframe timeline to a new position.
If you need to change the speed of a Keyframe sequence, you can do this:
1) select the key frames (they don't have to be contiuous - you could select
every other kframe, or whatever).
2) Hold down the Alt key and drag the last keyFrame (or indeed, any of the
keyframes for varying effect) left or right to speed up or slow down the
sequence.
This is the equivilent of time-stretching and event on the main timeline.
I really hope this helps!
Mike Keniger
I actually posted the following as a reply to a question in another thread, but I think the info is too good to miss, so hopefully a few more people will read this post and benefit from it!
(note: the original question was about saving event pan/crop info)
Follow these steps as a basic guide to the technique.
1) Open up Vegas.
2) Add video/picture media onto a track.
3) Select Event Pan/Crop for the media event. Add keyframes as required.
4) Left-Click once on the first keyframe 'triangle' in the Pan/Crop window.
5) Hold down Shift and left-click on the last keyframe triangle in the P/C
window. You will see that all of the Kframe triangles have now been highlighted.
6) Right click on the Keyframe timeline (in the Pan/Crop window) and select
'Copy' from the menu. (You can also use the Ctrl+C short cut)
7) Add another video/picture event anywhere in the project (it doesn't matter if
it's another or the same track or not).
8) Open the Pan/Crop window of the new event.
9) Left click once on the default first keyframe.
10) Right click on the keyframe timeline and select paste from the menu. (you
can also use Ctrl+V).
The whole thing is quicker when you do it than it is reading here. Note that in
the destination Pan/Crop window, you don't have to click on the first triangle -
wherever you place the vertical time marker (the brown line!) will be the point
from which the first keyframe of the copied kframe sequence is placed. The
spacing of the following kframes will stay the same.
If you don't have enough space (time) to fit the keyframe sequence in the
destination clip, the last key frames will get stacked up on each other at the
end of the clip. It might look like you've lost half of your kframes, but they
are just stacked up, and you can manually drag them apart one by one. (again,
this makes more sense when you try it).
The same techniqe detailed above can be used with other keyframe-able stuff -
filters, blurs, colour balance etc. So if you add, for example, a colour filter
to two tracks, you can set up a Kframe sequence in one track, copy the whole
sequence (or part of it) and then paste it into the other tracks' colour filter
plugin.
You can also cut and paste Kframe sequences between different projects.
This gives you a way of storing Kframe Sequence Presets.
1) Follow steps 1-6 from the instructions above.
2) open a new instance of Vegas (run the program again, so that you end up with
two copies running at the same time)
3) Create a blank video track.
4) Right click on the blank space and select "Insert Text Media"
5) Close the text window that pops up.
5) Open up the Pan/Crop window for the Text event.
6) Paste the Kframe sequence into it.
7) Name the Video track (eg. 'Zoom in Clockwise').
8) Save the project (Call it something like 'Pan Crop Presets')
9) Repeat as nessesary!
Now when you need to recall a preset, you load your Preset project in one copy of
Vegas, and copy the keyframe sequences from it into your current project. Ta-Da!
Notes:
Naming the track should remind you of the effect of the sequence in the Event,
but because you have used Generated Text, you can hit 'Play' to give you a rough
idea of the result in the Video Preview window (solo the track of the effect you
want to audition!).
Because you are using Generated media, the saved project will just be a Veg file,
with no bulky media files. You'd be wise to make a back up though.... :)
The default time of the text event may not be long enough for the KeyFrame
Sequence to are copying into it. You can either drag the edge of the clip to
make it longer (before you paste the Kframe seqence in), or set a longer default
length for generated media (Preferences>Editing>'new still image length').
You could keep seperate Veg. file projects for different presets - eg one for
pan/crop, one for colour presets, one for blurs etc.
If you have 'show active take names in events' enabled (Preferences>General), you
can right click on the event, select 'Properties' and change the name of the
event. This means you can have mulitple Presets on one track - so instead of
saving seperate Veg files for different effects, you could have seperate tracks
for different effects, each with multiple, named Events in.
You can Paste as many times as you want. So if you wanted to create the effect
of constantly zooming in and out, you only need to create two key frames (the
Zoomed In and Zoomed Out state), copy them and then paste them multiple times.
As with Events on the main editing timeline, you can use Ctrl+click'n'drag to instantly copy single/multiple keyframes on the keyframe timeline to a new position.
If you need to change the speed of a Keyframe sequence, you can do this:
1) select the key frames (they don't have to be contiuous - you could select
every other kframe, or whatever).
2) Hold down the Alt key and drag the last keyFrame (or indeed, any of the
keyframes for varying effect) left or right to speed up or slow down the
sequence.
This is the equivilent of time-stretching and event on the main timeline.
I really hope this helps!
Mike Keniger