Parent / Child

[jaket]

Is there any other way to setup parent-child relationships in SV besides with the tracks directly below a given video clip?

For example, just the opposite, the child can be above the parent, visually.

I'm trying to create a "Earth Zoom" effect, like this.

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/earth_zoom/

I can get it to look the same as his, except I have to do it backwards, instead of shrinking the top visual layer to match the next picture I have to zoom up the second layer to match the first layer and this causes 2 issues, first you can only zoom a clip up so much before the numbers max out, and second even if you didn't have the # restriction you don't have enough detail on the wider pictures to do a good alignment.

So I've been able to get the effect to work with 3 pictures, but I am using 8 pictures, (from The Andrew Kramer Tutorial).

I think I might just need to get After Effects, but am trying my hardest to do it all within Sony Vegas.

thanks
Jake

 

[David Jimerson]

He's not shrinking the "top" layer. He's shrinking the layer beneath each time. That's why he sets the opacity to 50% each time, else you wouldn't be able see the layer you're working with.

 

[jaket]

So I take that as a no regarding the parent child relationships.

 

[David Jimerson]

Well, no; parent tracks always go above child tracks.