Sony vegas track motion movie#
Sony vegas track motion series#

As I mentioned I was part-way through a project in PE when I decided to change over so I just carried on working in the same manner. It was just how I was used to working and didn't realise that there was a different way. It was a hangover from Premier Elements days (and before that from Scala MM300/MM400 on the Amiga) where I adjusted each individual frame. I'll have a look at the video tutorials tomorrow to see if that will throw any light on the subject although I fear I may just end up re-adjusting everything I'd done before and leave it at that Sorry if I'm repeating what I've said before. I didn't use the Track Motion timeline at all, I simply built up the sequence as above, then when I wanted a different size I assumed the 'Track Motion' adjustments would do exactly what it says on the tin - alter the entire track. I didn't add any keyframes (indeed there weren't any appearing in the timeline at all, and still aren't) but it worked.

This altered everything on the track (all the individual frames) to the size I entered.

Sony vegas track motion movie#

Then when I burned the movie to DVD I found the logo was too large so I simply clicked onto the Track Motion link and altered the 'width and height' attributes in the 'Position' section in the window that opened.

Sony vegas track motion series#

Because the logo sequence was made up from a series of individual frames I also had to manually set the opacity for each frame - I couldn't simply fade it in. I added a TIFF image to the timeline in the main editing window and stretched it to the length I needed, then split it into individual frames, rotated and zoomed each frame as I required (it starts as a black screen then the logo rotates and zooms in from black, stops and dissolves into a similar image with the year underneath.) I didn't work in the Track Motion window at all, I purely selected each frame and rotated and zoomed according to a list of angles and sizes I had written down from my days in Premier Elements. What I did was the following: I bought Vegas to replace Premier Elements 2, halfway through a project so I'm a new user with regard to Vegas. I just don't understand why I could before but now can't when I appear to have changed nothing Now I don't appear to be able to do that although I can do that in older versions of the movie but not in the last few - I cannot change the entire group of individual frames to a smaller size using Track Motion as I used to be able to, and each frame has an individual size setting anyway to create a smooth and slowing down zoom effect. In previous versions of the movie I simply clicked on Track Motion for that track, adjusted the width and height in there and this affected the entire track ie made it smaller.

Maybe I'm thinking I could do something I probably can't.? The track is continous - if I understand your meaning to be there are no breaks between media. Long winded I know, but that was the only way I could do it in the past. In effect that was what I did (a legacy from Premier Elements 2 days) when I split the non moving TIFF file into individual frames and adjusted the size and rotation for each individual frame to create the effect. Has anybody any ideas? Many thanks in advance - John I did try copying a good working track from a previous version of the movie into the current version but Vegas doesn't appear to allow this, so at present I am stuck with loading the old version and rendering just the logo section then importing it as a clip into the new version of the movie. The line drawing layout in the Track Motion window adjusts to the changes but the preview window and the movie proper now don't reflect any of these changes. In other words, the effects on the individual frames work OK but the global track motion effects don't. No matter what I alter - rotation angle, size, position, flip, whatever - Vegas only plays the sequence as it is constructed along the timeline. I altered the 'Width' and 'Height' under Position in the Track Motion window to reduce the size of everything on that track. It's a series of still images that are rotated and zoomed to make a logo but it was too large in the screen. In previous versions of the movie I am working on I have been able to alter the Track Motion settings on one particular track. I have a minor niggle with Sony Vegas 10.