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satish wrote on 3/11/2003, 1:21 AM
If you have such an option, where would you want to have the visualized video to go? Another track as a video event??
PDB wrote on 3/11/2003, 3:02 AM
I'm jumping on this boat....

Actually I would be interested to know too!!! I just composed my first piece of music in Acid and thought the freaky "vid" playback in Windows Media with all the shapes, lines, waves etc moving to the music beat looked quite good to this particualr piece. I was going to try to replicate it in Vegas to make a "pop art" kinda video out of it but I fear that may take a lifetime! so anyway to reproduce/save/record those images to make a vid would be cool...

Any help or suggestions???

Thanks!

Paul.
jsernik wrote on 3/11/2003, 5:42 PM
Yes! I want to make a composite using the visualizations as one of my events? Any thoughts satish?

jsernik
satish wrote on 3/11/2003, 8:47 PM
Still thinking about it... since i am doing the Plugin adapter, it would be possible for me to add support for windows media visualizations too. But the problem is you have an audio event and you want to create a video event which "virtually" is linked to the audio event. Any change in the audio event should actually reflect in the video event too because it is the rendered viz of the audio... Currently Vegas does not support such a feature with plugins... i'm still thinking if there is a roundabout way to achieve this, like doing a "render to new track" and create a video event from the audio event. Thoughts are welcome.
PDB wrote on 3/12/2003, 3:34 AM
Satish,

I am a total neophite (sp?) as regards programming..however, how about this as a thought process ....and I do apologise in advance if its ludicrous!!!

Say you have the visuals as a kind of effect: each of the different screen form options available in windows media would be an effect in itself...Come to think of it, these effects may only have to be designed in B&W similar to spicemaster 2 spices. Then you could apply one to a solid colour or gradient in a track and that would give you the basis of the video. The tricky bit would be to relate it to the music: couldn't that be done by reading the waveform from the music? as though the effect (say an expand/rotate/spiral...) would automatically apply an expansion of sorts each time the wave became wider sort of thing...? Actually the fact that Vegas creates a file for the waveform might be the starting point, maybe....

well I did say I had no clue about programming!!

Thanks for giving this a thought!

Paul.
satish wrote on 3/12/2003, 10:05 AM
> The tricky bit would be to relate it to the music: couldn't that
> be done by reading the waveform from the music?

Vegas currently does not allow plugins to directly read waveform music from the timeline... this is the problem i have with my WinMorph plugin too... thats why i'm hesitating.