track motion on/off?

[Renton Maclachlan]

I have a series of nine screen grabs (earlier post) which I have layered and put in 3D space with track motion. Each image needs to be precisely placed to correlated with speech, however I find that having nine tracks all with with track motion stacked up on top of each other affects the play back speed, so I have no confidence that the transitions are in the correct place.

Is there a way to turn track motion on and off (as you can with FX) so that I can precisely locate the transitions in relation to the speech without having playback speed affected? If there is I can't see it.

[Ian Stark]

No way to turn it off to my knowledge. Have you lowered your preview quality right down (i.e. to draft)? Alternatively (or additionally), can you mute all but the track you are trying to line up and operate on one track at a time?

[Gerald Webb]

What Ian said...
and, Shift B for RAM preview if short enough.
or,
Sometimes I render a low res mpg just to see your motion in action. Twice to three times real time shouldn't take too long.

[Renton Maclachlan]

Thanks guys. It looks like knocking it back to 'Preview - Auto' does the trick but I will check it out more closely later on.

Maybe Sony should add an On/Off switch to track motion...

[Chris Hewitt]

Renton, how do you turn fx off in Vegas without turning them off individually? I know you can with audio fx but wasn't aware that you could with video fx.

[Gerald Webb]

Just right click on the green cross and select disable all.
😄

[Renton Maclachlan]

Originally Posted by Chris Hewitt

Renton, how do you turn fx off in Vegas without turning them off individually? I know you can with audio fx but wasn't aware that you could with video fx.

It depends whether your FX is on the event or on the track. I haven't ever tried to turn FX off globally (all FX on all tracks/events), only individually, mostly track FX...and that is what I would like to do in this case...turn the track motion off for the individual track...

So...I have four tracks of green screen stuff, but the GS stops the play back even though I have a real fast machine. Thus I have done my GS...got it right...then I've turned it off so I can get my cuts exact. Maybe I'll turn it back on now and again to see what my creation looks like, but I'll leave it off until I render. Too bad I can't see the image as it will be...during the editing, but I can live with that.

I've also found that I need to render each little section containing a camera angle (and all its GS stuff) because Vegas crashes if I try to do the whole lot at once.

[Renton Maclachlan]

Originally Posted by Gerald Webb

Just right click on the green cross and select disable all.
😄

Green cross?

[Gerald Webb]

Looks like a green cross to me
:)

[Renton Maclachlan]

Originally Posted by Gerald Webb

Looks like a green cross to me
:)

Nah..that's not a cross. Actually I don't know what it is but know it aen't a cross. A cross is like the 'red cross' in the top right hand corner of the Pan/Crop or Track Motion window...

However, I didn't know about that right click menu... :-)

[Edward Troxel]

You want to look at the "split screen view" button above the preview screen. Click the little arrow beside it to see the various options - one of which is to turn off all effects. Then just click that one button to toggle all effects on or off. You can also do 1/2 screen on 1/2 screen off so you can see how much your footage is really being adjusted.

[Chris Hewitt]

Edward, that is what I was looking for, great! Tell me, can you do the same sort of thing to compare two seperate tracks in order to color match?

[Graham Bernard]

Edward? You awake . . ? OK, I'll have a go.

OK, Colour Matching for Vegas has had, like most things in Vegas, a fairly rocky creative pathway to where we are now.

Yes you can compare 2 sets of samplings and utilise a mass of the SONY colour rectifiers to spend countless hours around the fireside, on long Winter's Nights, getting things just so. . . ugh . . . Now, here's the thing, some clever chappies have come up with their own one-shot colour matching tools. Yes SCS has now got its own, but being the total numb nuts and kluzt that I am, I just can't GUI the thing. However, I've had spectacular easy-peasy outcomes using the Frederic Baumann's Colour Match ( apologies Fred, I will NOT use that other spelling for "colour" - I just wont.) It just works and works well.

Scenario: I had that 3-Camera shoot where the back wall was Magnolia; the first of the singing soloists is a dark complexion Nigerian opera star; the next was a very pale skinned bass; and the 3rd singer, a baritone, was a rather handsome and swarthy chappy, not unlike myself - I wish!

The scene is set. WB throughout and then one of the overheads is dimmed by a "light-desk" operative - marvellous . . . . Oh yeah I forgot to the right of this jolly trio was the main orchestra and behind them a "The Choir Invisible". This Merry hoard were front lit from lit from above too. A total 'mare to balance both in terms of luminance and chroma. I had pink/bluish magnolia; tight CU's that had the Magnolia as . magnolia and then the wide 3rd Camera had greenish Mag . .

But Fred's CM s/w came through for me. FB C.Match . Check out that Link and experience how good it is.

OK, so yes you can but just consider another/alternative way or opportunity.

Compare Colour for matching for the purposes of WB-ing:

1] Use the Copy to Clipboard within the Preview Screen to "scrub" a section of the Source Event (SE)

2] Bring this back into the Preview Screen on the Target Event (TE).

. . or . .

Just Scrub over the ES and use that as your colour "pick" while operating the CC on the TE.

OR, you could try SONY's own CM offering.

Cheers

Grazie

[Edward Troxel]

Sorry, was gone over the weekend. Yes, you can compare to something else as well. Go to the video/frame you want to compare to and copy that frame to the clipboard (that's another one of the buttons above the preview screen). Then in the drop-down list, choose the clipboard options. Now when you click on that button, it will show half the video frame you're looking at and half the clipboard image.

Search on that "split screen" option in the help file. It really is a very powerful tool that virtually noone knows exists until they accidentally click on it an then lose all their effects.