In this video, I’ll demonstrate how you can make portrait or standard video (most commonly taken from cell phones), look more appealing in Sony Vegas. You will notice this effect commonly used in news and daytime talk shows. Not only will it work for cell phone video but it can also be used for any standard video that you need to incorporate into your widescreen project. Get rid of those big anaconda side bars!

As an alternative, you could also crop the video. But, it may not always be ideal. Especially, if the video is so small like the video clip used in this tutorial.

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Here are the steps you can take to de-interlace an image in Photoshop:

Open the image in Photoshop.

Make sure the image layer is selected and go to Filter > Video > De-Interlace.

The default option usually provide great results but these can be adjusted as needed. Click OK.

There you have it! Use Gaussian Blur if necessary to help clean up rough areas.

Watch the video below if you’re interested in learning more about interlaced frame rates from our friends at Indy Mogul.

Interlaced and Progressive Frame Rates Explained!

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In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to disable the Smart Resample feature in Sony Vegas to prevent ghosting.

Have you ever noticed after you import certain clips in your timeline, there’s a ghosting effect much like the image above? This happens when you import footage into your timeline that has a different frame rate than the project. The “Smart Resample” feature of Sony Vegas, creates a crossfade effect between the original frames to match the source frames.

In this case, the project was set at 59.940 FPS (Frames Per Second) while this particular video clip had a slightly different fps of 59.949 fps. So, Sony Vegas automatically adjusted the clip with “Smart Resampling” to try and match the framerate of the project. As it may be useful in certain circumstances, you’ll usually get a much sharper look when turning it off.

‘Smart Resample‘ is always on by default and there’s currently no way to change that. Though, it only applies itself when the event’s frame rate does not match the source frames. Useful if you experience any interlacing problems or any other jittery output problems.

To turn off Smart Resampling, select all the clips you want to disable it from. Right-Click the first clip and then go to Switches > Disable Resample. This will apply that option to all of your selected clips.

If you would like a quicker way to disable Smart Resample for all clips, check out this script: http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/959394 You’ll be able to disable it for your entire project with a click of a button. Though, I found it to be just as fast doing it manually.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions in the comments below!

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In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to simply split two videos side by side in Sony Vegas. We’ll use the Event Pan/Crop tool to create a one-time preset which can be used for all videos. Works for 1080p and 720p video sizes + more.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions in the comments below!

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In this tutorial, we will be taking a look at how you can animate things with the use of gradient wipes in Sony Vegas Pro 12. This can be used for animating lines, writing text, etc. without the need to keyframe anything at all. This does require a photo editor, which for this I used Photoshop.

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Method 1:

Double-click the gap and press Delete then Ctrl + Shift + F to delete the gap and auto ripple the clips back in place.

Method 2:

With Auto Ripple turned on. Double-click the gaps and press Delete to get rid of them and auto ripple the clips back in place.

Method 3:

Use the following script to automate the process for multiple gaps. Keep in mind, scripts only work in Pro versions of Sony Vegas.

Script:

Download Script Here   … or

Copy and Paste the following code in Notepad and Save-As – preferredname.js

Remember to put “.js” at the end of the file name in order to initiate the jscript file.

/** 
* Program: 
* Description: This script will Delete Empty Space Between Events In Selected Tracks
* Author: Philip
* 
* Date: August 31, 2003 
**/ 

import Sony.Vegas; 
import System.Windows.Forms;
import Microsoft.Win32;

//time intervals for split events.

try
{

// step through all selected video events:
var FirstTrack : Track = Vegas.Project.Tracks.Item(0);

// step through all selected video events:
for (var track in Vegas.Project.Tracks) {
if( !track.Selected) continue;
var tracktime = new Timecode(0);
for (var evnt in track.Events) {
evnt.AdjustStartLength(tracktime,evnt.Length,true);
tracktime = tracktime + evnt.Length;
}
}
}

catch (errorMsg)
{
MessageBox.Show(errorMsg, "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation);
}

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Did you happen to capture all those fireworks this past Fourth of July? With the recent celebration of Independence Day here in America, we had a great chance to once again capture all those stunning fireworks in the sky. Unfortunately for me, as much as I wished to had captured them, I was the one lighting them! I definitely wish I had the chance to shoot them as they were pretty neat this year. I also would of had a great collection of firework footage to use in my projects all year round.

If you happened to capture the fireworks, here’s one way you could utilize them in any type of celebration video.

Assuming they were shot in the sky and the background’s entirely black, you’ll be able to make the black disappear leaving only the fireworks in a video. With that, you can overlay the clips on top of any birthday clip, wedding clip or to spruce up any type of celebration video.

Here’s how to do this in Sony Vegas Pro 12. Keep in mind that this technique will work in just about any video editor out there as long as you have control of the clips Blend(Compositing) Mode.

Source Firework Footage: http://j.mp/15uiVUt (newdepthmedia)

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In this tutorial, I show you how to enhance those slightly blurry photos and make them look sharper. Of course, with Photoshop there are many different ways of doing this and this is just one of them. This method will NOT work on EXTREMELY blurry photos.

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Step 1

Duplicate your background layer by clicking and dragging it down to the new layer icon.

Step 2

Go up to the menu bar in Photoshop and go to “Filter”, “Other”, “High Pass”.

Once your High Pass filter window comes up, go ahead and adjust the radius to where you think looks appropriate for the image type. You’re basically looking for the embossed lines to be just visible but not too visible otherwise it will turn out being way too sharp.

Step 3

Change the blending mode of that layer from normal to “Overlay”. If this comes out looking too strong, you can change the blend mode to “Soft Light” instead or “Hard Light” depending on what looks better to you.

Conclusion

There you have it! You’ve enhanced the blurriness of your photo in Photoshop! Remember that there are MANY ways of doing this single method in Photoshop and this is just one of them. Also remember that this will NOT work on EXTREMELY blurry photos.

Before

After

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