Vegas 4 Picture-In-Picture ... How?

_H_omer wrote on 9/2/2003, 12:43 AM

Total Newbie question.

I've got some video and rendered some scrolling titles at the end.

Now I want to overlay (solid) a small video onto the bottom right of the screen during the title playback. The titles are white text on a black background, and need to be solid while scrolling over the overlaid video. I want the PIP video overlay to be offset from the sides of the screen (not hugging the side) and (as a bonus) it would be nice if I could "tilt" the overlaid video at a small angle (postcard style).

I have messed about with the cookie cutter and linking parent and child tracks etc, but I'm afraid I'm well out of my depth on this one. I'm really new to this so I'll need step by step instructions. I'm getting nowhere with this at all.

I've only been testing Vegas for two days, and I've been pleasantly surprised at how easy it is and what a small learning curve it has (especially compared to Pinnacle Edition - which I simply couldn't figure out at all), but I'm sorry to say ths one task has me beat.

TIA,

[H]omer

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Grazie wrote on 9/2/2003, 1:39 AM

Lots of info in our Forum about this.

Use the Search facility here. Experiment with the Search options. Try one of these at a time

1 - "Picture in Picture"

2 - "PiP" or "PIP" or "P 'n P"

one at a time in the Subject box - and you'll get masses of stuff.

I've taken sometime out to get you started. Have fun! . . Welcome to the Forum and V4.

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=181770

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=185550

Hope this helps,

Grazie

johnmeyer wrote on 9/2/2003, 1:43 AM

The cookie cutter will work, but I agree that its effects are far from intuitive.

You might have better luck (i.e., faster, more intuitive results) putting the inset picture on a track above your main video, and then using the top track's "Track Motion" icon (located in the track header at the left of the screen) to make the inset smaller and move it where you want. When you do this, also make sure that the keyframe diamond that gets created gets moved to the exact frame where you want the inset to first appear. Otherwise nothing will happen until the timeline cursor gets to the keyframe.

Grazie wrote on 9/2/2003, 2:03 AM

Ho . . Just come across this one! CRazy Pants Video . . .

http://www.crazypants.com/vegastutorials/vvmenuone.htm

PiPs tutorials - excellent!

Grazie

jetdv wrote on 9/2/2003, 8:20 AM

Also, look at the newsletters at www.jetdv.com/tts and download issues 2, 3, and 4 which talk about PIPs in some detail.

_H_omer wrote on 9/2/2003, 4:43 PM

Thanks to all that replied ... I'm off to try this stuff out now.

I've heard from many sources that Vegas users are religiously devoted to it, and having now used it - I can understand why.

Not only does it seem to have all of the power of the other contenders, but this is presented in a sensible and very intuitive interface.

I am particularly impressed at how rock solid stable this product is.

I do not exactly have a NLE power system - only an old 440BX 850Mhz P3 - but compared to the other products I've tried (and I use a hell of a lot of different multimedia products) Vegas is by far the fastest and most stable in every respect.

Corrupt AVI's, huge projects, weird formats, low system resources, and potentially destructive interference from other multimedia tools, codecs and things like virus checkers, seems to bring most Multimedia Authoring tools to their knees, but Vegas just sails right through it, totally unphased. I may have only been using it for three days, but in that time I must have done the equivalent of a Quality Labs Burn-In with the size and complexity of material I've thrown at it.

Right now, for example, I'm scrubbing through a two hour video of the Macworld 2003 SF Keynote speech by Steve Jobs, which I ripped and compressed to MJPEG. I'm going to add some music and titles (including the PIP stuff at the end - if I can figure it out), clean up the colour and audio, then transcode to MPEG2 for DVD.

Man I love this stuff.

[H}omer

_H_omer wrote on 9/2/2003, 5:02 PM

Well the first link I tried:

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=181679&Page=0

was enough!

Wow, that was easy. That was like ... way too easy.

I love Vegas.

[H]omer