I want to put in a silhouette. Help!

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rclayton17

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Hey all, I'm using sony vegas 5.0.

I'm trying to compare 2 almost identical captured videos.
I'm not sure if this is the best way but this was my idea.

I'm putting each video on its own track, but sync-ed up together as best i can. I'm just going to cut away from one track so that the other one shows, and vice versa. That way the viewer can see any differences in the video.

I had an idea that I could put in a little icon/silhouette or whatever (example: like the little 4 it displays on tv when watching channel 4) in the bottom right corner of each video so that the viewer would know which version of the video he was looking at. Can you do that in Vegas 5.0? If so, how please?

If you can't do it in vegas, how do you do it in premiere or after effects? My friend has those and i could just do it at his house. But first, tell me how to do it in vegas.

Thanks for the help.
 
Re: I want to put in a silhouette. Help!

There are a number of ways that you could do this, depending on your asthetic. You could use the opacity envelope on the top track and fade between the two clips. you could then place a text track that would change depending on which video you are watching. You could also do a split screen and have the two play side by side (you can do that with the track motion properties) you could also shrink both clips and play them side by side with black boarders on the top and bottom. You would also do this with track motion. hope this helps.
 
Re: I want to put in a silhouette. Help!

Oh, yeah. As scharky says, cake.

As Vegas gets better and better, there is less and less reason to go to After Effects at all.
 
Re: I want to put in a silhouette. Help!

I find myself using after effects to compile and export still frame sequences, and not much else. I use it occasionally for compositing, but just because I am more familiar with the compositing tools than those in vegas. I'm sure if I really tried, I could do the exact same thing in vegas.
 
Re: I want to put in a silhouette. Help!

This greenscreen composite was done entirely in Vegas, including the text and the addition of all hull lighting.

(If I had a place to host the clip, I'd do that.)

gs30vy.jpg
 
Re: I want to put in a silhouette. Help!

The link doesn't come up, but it's not really appropriate to post a question that way, anyway. Why don't you just repost it here?
 
Re: I want to put in a silhouette. Help!

Here is what the link was supposed to take you to:

Hey all, my sister made a dvd movie, probably using iMovie (she has a mac).

So as we are watching it on our standalone dvd player, when the still photos come up, it appears as if only 1 video field is displaying. The pictures look all jaggy.

But when the pictures are fading in or out, they look fine. It's just when they come to a stop, they look funny.

I have made some movies using Sony Vegas and it appears to have the same problem. Text and pictures look fine as they are fading in or out, but when they are still, it looks jaggy.

Is this just how it is when you make dvd movies? Or is there some kind of setting you have to use?
 
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