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Sony Vegas: Time Stretch

Robert Carreno — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:14:09 +0000

You can change the duration of an event without changing its contents. Simply hold “Ctrl” while dragging the right or left edge of an event. Stretching the event inwards will speed up the clip while stretching it outwards will slow it down. To preserve the audio while stretching, right click the audio clip and choose” Properties”. From there, you can adjust the audio’s Time stretch/pitch shift.

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Sony Vegas: Masking

Robert Carreno — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:10:37 +0000

The other day, I was inspired by the movie, “Chronicle” to reproduce the titles shown at the end of the movie in Sony Vegas. It’s a very simple effect yet adds a nice little pop to titles and credits. In a nutshell, you’ll learn how to mask media events to make them transparent so that we can add any image or video behind them. Be sure to watch the video tutorial above to fully understand the power of masking.

In this written tutorial, we’ll mainly focus on how to mask text to reproduce the effect from the movie, “Chronicle“.

Step 1: Add Background Elements

Before we add any text, lets add what we want in the background.

You can use anything you want here like some digital glitch footage or even a still image. I provided a short clip of digital glitch from which you can download below.

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[highlight1 variation=”green”]Windows Media Audio/Video file (.wmv) 1280 x 720 42.9MB Length: 00:01:00[/highlight1]

If you added a still image, you can make it move by adding the TV Simulator and Film Grain effects using the following settings.

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Step 2: Add Text

Under Media Generators in Vegas, add your preferred text preset whether it’s the ProType Titler or the standard Titles & Text. I found the standard Titles & Text Default preset worked best since I didn’t need anything too fancy.

Be sure to keep your text “White”.

Step 3: Composite Mode

Change the Composite Mode for the track with the text media to, “Multiply (Mask)”. Your text should now be transparent and should show the background footage.

You’re free to animate the text however you’d like. I made it zoom in a bit for each title.

Note: Everything under the Masked track won’t be visible unless there’s footage to mask. Place any other media in a track above the Masked track.

Change Mask Background Color

To change the masks background color we need to add some media in an entirely new video track below everything else.

Once added you may not see the color or video clip appear right away. This is because we need to parent the glitch footage with the text. You can do this by clicking Make Compositing Child on the glitch video track.

Now you should be able to see the background color you added.

Alternate Way of Masking Text

If you want to make the area behind the text a different color, change the text color in the Generated Text Media to transparent and the background to any color of your choice. You don’t need to change the composite mode for this method. Just leave it at, “Source Alpha”.

That’s it! You’ve just learned a few masking techniques in Sony Vegas. You can do this to anything as long as the area to be masked is white.

This written tutorial was mainly focused on masking text. What are some things you’ve done to make text stand out more? Leave your response in the comments below!

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Sony Vegas: Sequence Editing

Robert Carreno — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 05:56:52 +0000

Did you know you can combine multiple tracks in Vegas Pro? Instead of having a bunch of tracks stacked up on top of each other cluttering your timeline, open a new window of Vegas. Place all your edits, titles, tracks, etc. how you want in there. Save the project as you would any other project and drag that newly saved .veg file into your final project. This means you can drag any .veg file directly into your timeline. Best part, if you make edits to those .veg files they’ll automatically update in the timeline when you save them. (See Video Tutorial)

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Premiere Pro – Easy Film Countdown

Robert Carreno — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:22:52 +0000

Learn how to create a Film Countdown with the built in feature in Premiere Pro CS5.

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Vegas Pro 11: Getting Started Part 2

Robert Carreno — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:15:48 +0000

In this second episode of the Vegas Pro 11 Getting Started series, I’ll show you more of the basics and how to get Vegas to set up correctly for the footage that you’re using. More features will be shown in the next episode so be sure to stay tuned!

Get Vegas Pro 11: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro
GPU Acceleration Info: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro/gpuacceleration

If you come across any questions, feel free to ask! ask@robertsproductions.net or use the contact form at the site (link below).

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Sony Vegas Pro 11: What’s New

Robert Carreno — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:00:43 +0000

Vegas Pro 11 provides an efficient, intuitive and integrated content creation environment for video and broadcast professionals. Now featuring GPU-accelerated performance with OpenCL supported devices, Vegas Pro 11 powers through video processing and rendering tasks with ease. With innovative stereoscopic 3D tools, broad format support, unparalleled audio control, and GPU-ignited effects processing and rendering, the Vegas Pro 11 collection streamlines your workflow like never before.

Vegas Pro 11 Site: http://goo.gl/xGxCm
GPU Acceleration Info: http://goo.gl/7yMVw

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Sony Vegas – Adding Effects Quickly

Robert Carreno — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:16:33 +0000

In this tutorial, I show you how to add transitions and video FX quicker without getting the options pop-up window as well as how to add transitions/FX to mulitiple clips at once using the powere of the SHIFT key.

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Sony Vegas – Make Pictures Talk

Robert Carreno — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:24:07 +0000

In this tutorial, I show you how to bring pictures to life by making them move their mouths as if they were talking in which then you could make them say anything!

If you have any Sony Vegas tutorial requests, feel free to leave a comment below and I will try my best to fulfill those requests.

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Sony Vegas – Chroma Key (aka Green Screen)

Robert Carreno — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:27:12 +0000

In this tutorial, I will show you how to chroma key in Sony Vegas Pro 9.

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