Questions regarding the use of Sony Vegas

[Kraben]

Im not sure if this is the correct forum for asking these questions but im gonna give it a go anyways

Lately i've gotten my hands on the Sony Vegas 6.0 trial version and atm im compiling a movie. It was pretty confusing starting with and i've spended quite some hours fiddling around with various settings. I am however pretty frustrated with a few details and ideas I simply cant get to work.

1) How do you make Split Screens? Ex in the closure there will be some credit lines in the left side and a clip running on the right side.

2) When running a clip, how do I add in small texture lines on top of that clip while its running? Ex small remarks to certain incidents, music playing etc. Atm I can only get it to work by stopping the clip, show what I wrote on its own screen and then continue movie.

I hope above makes sense.. I've tried looking in the Help, but I havent been able to find anything yet. Also looked after online tutorials but that didnt work out so good either.
Atm im learning something new almost all the time and its becoming quite a cool toy to play around with. If anyone can add something, other than answering above questions, that would fluff up a potentiel movie then please do say.

Oh i've gotten a hold on Adobe Premiere also but thats even more confusing, imo, than Vegas and I would like to keep the whole project within 1 program + virtuel dub for compressing.

Thanks in advance.

PS. No RTFM remarks please.

 

[rure]

1) Make two videochannels. On the upper channel click to the left of the timeline, there is a little icon with two blue rectangles, one bigger than the other. Click that one, a new screen will appear, resize the current videochannel to appropiate size.

2) Add a video channel, put the avi with the fights in the lower one. Add a text in the upper channel, make sure the text have transparent background.

A good idea is generally to add a couple of video channels before starting editing and naming them to something like "Text channel" "End credit channel" "Raw Fraps material channel", you'll always need more than expected. For example, for the intro of the next Rure's Minions movie I am using 15 channels as of now.

 

[Kraben]

1) Make two videochannels. On the upper channel click to the left of the timeline, there is a little icon with two blue rectangles, one bigger than the other. Click that one, a new screen will appear, resize the current videochannel to appropiate size.

2) Add a video channel, put the avi with the fights in the lower one. Add a text in the upper channel, make sure the text have transparent background.

A good idea is generally to add a couple of video channels before starting editing and naming them to something like "Text channel" "End credit channel" "Raw Fraps material channel", you'll always need more than expected. For example, for the intro of the next Rure's Minions movie I am using 15 channels as of now.

Thanks for the help, Rure.

One thing though is that I cant find the text with the transparant background. Do I take a normal text and make it with transparant background from some sub-menu?

 

[rure]

Thanks for the help, Rure.

One thing though is that I cant find the text with the transparant background. Do I take a normal text and make it with transparant background from some sub-menu?

It is transparent by default so you dont have bother about that. You change the background color in the same window as you change color on the font.

 

[Kraben]

Perfect Again thanks for the help.

Another one for ya.. When im test rendering the result comes out with a file of approx 5.5 gig. Compressing with virtuel dub it comes down to about 437mb in DivX format and 550 Xvid. The movie is just ~26 min long.. Do I need to comprimize quality with size and any "optimal" settings if such?

This program is addictive tbh.. so many cool toys.

 

[ceixava]

is your audio packed?

its a mistake made in ALOT of game movies in general

1min pcm = 10MB
1min mp3 = 1MB