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[riay_night]

maniping scenes, specifically something like putting another clip in a tv screen? I know I can ask Paul or Sassy to do it, but i'd really like to learn it for myself.
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[Fan4Lost]

You need to use Track Motion. One tutorial I know of is a video one:

http://www.expertvillage.com/video/23679_sony-vegas-editing-video-track-motion-key-frame.htm

Try that one and if you still don't understand, let me know.

[Aislynn]

Aislynn's Quick "Put Something Else In The TV Screen" Tutorial (for Vegas)

1. Take a screencap of the scene with the TV (or monitor screen or whatever) in it that you want to change the image on.

2. Use a graphics program like Paintshop, Photoshop or even good ol' Paint to cover the TV screen with either solid blue, red or green. A good rule of thumb is that if you have a lot of blue, red or green in the other parts of your screencap, then pick a color that there's not a lot of or preferably any in that scene because you're going to have Vegas remove that color and so if you choose blue and have a lot of blue around the TV screen, then all of that will disappear as well.

3. Save your new screencap with the blue, red or green screen and import it into Vegas. Put it on the timeline above the clip you're going to want to play in the TV screen.

4. Go to your Effects tab, choose Chroma Keyer. Pick whichever color you chose for your TV screen, blue, red or green. When the dialogue box opens, you'll see a little eyedropper (with handy red arrow pointing at it on the cap below ).



Your cursor will turn into the eyedropper. Go to your clip and put the eyedropper onto your blue/red/green masked screen and click it. That should cause only the screen on your TV to become transparent. If other parts of the clip become transparent as well, try adjusting the Low and High threshold sliders and that should do the trick.

5. Use the pan/crop tool on the clip you want to play in the TV screen to resize and move it so that it fits in the screen. You can use the TV Simulator effect to get scan lines, distortion or whatever if you think it needs it if you don't want to leave it plain.

6. Dance party! (Sorry, that's something Warren usually adds at the bottom of his lists and I love it so much I've started adding it to mine, lol!

If you don't want to use the screencap/Chroma keyer method, you can also use the cookie cutter on the TV screen, choose "Cut away section" and line your video clip up underneath it with the pan/crop tool in the same way as above. I like using the screencap/Chroma keyer because you can pick precisely what shape of the screen you're removing and the cookie cutter may not be able to be that precise depending on the shape and angle of the TV screen. But it's whatever works best for you!

Hope that all makes sense. And, uh, sorry that you were actually asking for a link to a tutorial, not a tutorial itself. I just couldn't help myself!

[wolffootball37]

Also what i do is cut out the TV screen using pan and crop then overlay that over the clip you want inside the screen.

[riay_night]

Thanks so much everyone!!!! I'm at school now but as soon as i'm home i'll start playing around with it! Thanks again!


And Ais, thanks so much for writing out a whole tutorial!!! You should sticky it and put it in the technical guides or something... you're amazing! *high fives you*
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[Aislynn]

riay_night wrote:

And Ais, thanks so much for writing out a whole tutorial!!! You should sticky it and put it in the technical guides or something... you're amazing! *high fives you*

Aw, thank you! Glad if I could be of help!