Lost Video Island

Aislynn · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:10 am Post subject:

Hmmm... I just did a quick test and made a border with a transparent place, put it on the top timeline, tossed two clips under it with the flash transition and only the clip "inside" the border flashed, it didn't show over the top of the border. Is your border on the top timeline and the clip with the white flash underneath it?

Wildcat · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:03 pm Post subject:

yes, I have the border ontop and the clips under it. Maybe I didn't do it right all around?

What size do you have your border/image? and could you maybe do a screen shot of how it looks on yours, just so I can make sure I'm doing it right. I'm still getting used to vegas...

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Aislynn · Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:43 am Post subject:

Screencap, coming right up!

Spoilered because it's large.

Spoiler:

I made the border to the same size as my video footage and project, which was 428x240 in this case. When I'm in doubt, I change it from where it says Preview (auto) to Preview (full) right about the, uh, Preview window

and then click the button on the end of that row that kinda looks like an old floppy disc (it says Save Snapshot to File when you hover your cursor over it). That will take a screencap of whatever's on your timeline at the time. Then I send that over into Paintshop/whatever graphics program you have and use that as the base for my border, that way I'll be sure it's exactly the same size.

As long as the border's on the top line and the only transparent part about it is the "window" part of it, I don't know why your flash would be showing on top of it. :S

The only other thing that might be going on is that there's a disparity between your video footage size and the size of your project, so that Vegas is trying to widescreen everything onto a square frame. *ponders* Wait, let me try something...

Ah-hah! Is this what yours is doing (or something like it)?

Spoiler:

If that's the case, all you need to do is set your project properties to match your video footage size. Go to File - Properties and this dialog box opens...

The easiest way to match it is to click the thing that looks like a file folder (pointed to by the arrow there

), then navigate to the folder where your clips/episodes are and select one of them. That will set the project file to the same size as that footage.

Hope something in this helps! *fingers crossed*

Wildcat · Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:35 pm Post subject:

thanks! And yes that is exactly what happens on the second screen cap. I'm going to do what you said and I hope it works *crosses fingers* I'm still learning about SV even though I've been using it for about a year or two.
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Aislynn · Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:46 am Post subject:

I hope that does the trick for you!

I know what you mean, I've been using my Baby Vegas (Movie Studio

) for several years now and there are still a TON of things I'm not sure what they do or how they work!

Wildcat · Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:52 am Post subject:

YES! It worked! THANK YOU so much for the help!

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Aislynn · Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 7:50 pm Post subject:

You're very welcome! I'm so glad that worked!

Wildcat · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 7:03 pm Post subject:

I'm sad... my new video I'm trying to make is doing that issue again... but this time, I think it might have to do with the fact that the clips aren't wide screen, so the flash is going outside the border again, and I have done everything that I could think of (and following what you said in this thread) and nothing has worked.

I don't get it.

EDIT: never mind, I think I might have figured it out, I hope...

EDIT 2: Nope, it still is messed up.

It looks right (sometimes) in SV,) but when I try to render it, it messes up and goes outside of the border.
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Aislynn · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 5:15 am Post subject:

So sorry it's giving you trouble again!

Could you take a screencap of it? It's helpful a lot of times just to see what it looks like.

Also, if you have different clips than before are you sure that your project file is set to the size of these current clips? Are your clips in more than one size/ratio (some widescreen, some full frame or some of the widescreened ones in different ratios)?

Hopefully we'll be able to get this figured out ASAP!

Jamielost · Advanced Vidder Joined: 07 May 2008 Posts: 121

You could try rendering it and then rerendering the WMV file, but on the WMV make sure in Pan/Crop that the dashed box is just in line with the top and bottom of the border. Hang on, I'll take a screencap...

That way it sort of flashes on the border but not outside it... I did it on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5sfjSRgtkU&feature=channel_page

An example flash is at the beginning. Sorry if you've already tried this

oh and alternatively you could just render to fit Youtube's widescreen player, that way it's not an issue.

Wildcat · Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:44 pm Post subject:

here's what it looks like. Sorry it took me forever to reply lol...

It won't show the flash outside the border without rendering it. And when I render it, the video in the preview goes smaller as you will see... and when I watch the rendered video in VLC player or any other player, it shows the flash outside the border.

I'll try what you said Jamielost and see if that helps.

EDIT: Jamie, I think what you said might have helped. I'm re-rendering it right now and the flash (as it's rendering isn't going past the border) so hopefully when I watch it in a player, it'll look right.
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