Sony Movie Studio 9

[PhotoFranz]

I am using Sony Movie Studio 9 to edit slide shows of shots from my SX10 IS. I like to pan every shot to make the DVD more interesting, but in a 1/2 hour DVD with 400 shots or more, this can become tedious.

Does anyone know of any plug-ins or easier ways of doing this? Right now, I open the Pan window, reduce the frame size and position it for the start of the 7 seconds that I have all still run at, then go to the end of the 7 seconds and insert a key frame and reposition the frame to where I want it to be at the last key frame. LOL, that is even tedious to explain, I hope I got that right. Oh well, anyone know an easy way or shortcut?

Here is a link to a short segment of a fishing trip I took last week to Canada. The entire DVD was just under 1/2 hour

Click here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photofranz/3595387928/

[Chopper Al]

Hi PhotoFranz,

Your video clip looks pretty good.

I started with Movie Studio 4, and am now up to Vegas Pro 7. Unfortunately, there is no way to automate this 'Bob Burns' effect. It can be tedious, but the effect is more than worth the effort. I used to have a side business called Sentimental Journeys, where I would transfer peoples photos and slides to DVD. I have scanned litteraly thousands of photos and slides, cleaned them up by removing scratches, rips, dust, color correction, then put the images together into a slide show presentation complete with music. Very rewarding, but lots of work.

Al

[RandallC]

I recently finished a project just like that (except much shorter) and went through it the same way you did. Afterwards I discovered that it's possible to copy/paste settings from one clip and apply it to another.

You can create a few different clips (e.g., pan right, zoom in) and then copy the settings and paste them to the new clips. It's not exactly automated, but it does speed things up a little bit.

[PhotoFranz]

Randy, you are a GENIUS! I have been working with Vegas Video for 4 years and never thought of trying that. After reading your post I went into the program and tried this technique and it works great.

Because the content of each picture is different and you want to pan in a unique manner with each, I tried something to at least save me a bit of work.

I opened the "Event Pan/Crop" box on the first picture. I resized the frame (dashe line box) to what I want for all pictures. Then, I "right clicked" the next frame and then clicked on "Select events to end" from the drop down box. Finally, I righ clicked the second picture again and selected "Paste event attributes" from the drop down box.

This transfered the frame size to all pictures. Worked great! I can see that if I put in eaven a few more attributes into the first picture - ie. start and end key frames - i could save even more work.

WONDERFUL!

[RandallC]

Well, don't give me too much credit. I actually found out about this by accident. I was watching an online Vegas tutorial about something completely unrelated and the presenter did the copy/paste attribute thing just as a matter of course -- like no big deal.

I had just spent hours manually adjusting this for 80+ different photos, so it was a shock to see it done so quickly.

I really like Sony Vegas, but it can be cpmplicated at times. I'm sure there are a ton of shortcuts just like that waiting to be discovered. I'm trying to get up to speed on Vegas, Sound Forge, Lightroom -- arghhh! There just aren't enough hours in the day :)

[PhotoFranz]

Well, don't give me too much credit. I actually found out about this by accident. I was watching an online Vegas tutorial about something completely unrelated and the presenter did the copy/paste attribute thing just as a matter of course -- like no big deal.

I had just spent hours manually adjusting this for 80+ different photos, so it was a shock to see it done so quickly.

I really like Sony Vegas, but it can be cpmplicated at times. I'm sure there are a ton of shortcuts just like that waiting to be discovered. I'm trying to get up to speed on Vegas, Sound Forge, Lightroom -- arghhh! There just aren't enough hours in the day :)

I think you are right. Just finding that I can copy and paste to a range of photos was enlightening. I will keep my subscription to this thread active and if I find anything new, I will post it here.

Have you used Cinescore Studio Plug-In and scored a DVD using "Generated Media"? I used it for my Canada fishing trip movie and I am quite impressed with it. I really don't know much about it and have no musical talent (I have trouble playing the radio) but I was able to goof around and come up with pretty good background music.

[RandallC]

I've played around with the Cinescore plugin and thought it was great. I haven't actually had the chance to use it in a movie yet though.

Keep the tips and tricks coming if you think of anything!

[PhotoFranz]

I've played around with the Cinescore plugin and thought it was great. I haven't actually had the chance to use it in a movie yet though.

Keep the tips and tricks coming if you think of anything!


LOL, I am 63 and don't think of a lot, but I'll keep trying.