Video Tutorials

3D Parent Motion

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A nice 3D effect is the ability to have two videos fly through space parallel to each other. The secret to controlling multiple tracks in unison is to use Pa...

3D Track Motion Pivot

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Changing the Pivot Point This tutorial shows you how to change the pivot point of a frame in 3D Track Motion using Sony Vegas Pro . Changing the pivot point ...

Avid DNxHD Template for Vegas Pro

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Quite often I’m asked what’s the best format to work with in Vegas Pro when you need to collaborate with Final Cut Pro editors on a Mac. The best codec I hav...

Axogon Composer Looping Backgrounds

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Axogon Composer beta 0.93 is the predecessor to Main Concept’s MainActor software. While MainActor has some additional features, Axogon Composer has most of ...

BCC Motion Tracking in Vegas Pro

less than 1 minute read

This tutorial shows you how to use the Motion Tracker and Pixel Chooser in Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) 7 with Vegas Pro 10 to map the Sparks effect to a m...

Creating a Split Screen using a Mask

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There are lots of ways of doing split screen in Sony Vegas. Probably the way most people do it is with the Pan/Crop tool. This makes sense if you don’t need ...

Creating Cineform Templates

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Versions of Sony Vegas 6, 7, & Pro 8 shipped with CineForm codec and render templates for Cineform, but starting with Vegas Pro 9, Sony stopped shipping ...

Editing Camtasia footage in Vegas Pro

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We are spoiled by our high resolution computer screens. They are so crisp and clear. When creating tutorials using screen capture with an application like Ca...

Floating Text on Water

less than 1 minute read

In this tutorial I show you how to use a displacement map and height map to have any layer conform to the texture of another layer. In this example, the text...

Hidden DVD Menu Buttons

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Sometimes in DVD Architect you want to create your own buttons and link them videos manually instead of always dropping media files on menus to create button...

Make a Pencil Sketch

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Sometimes a special effect can add that extra charm to a video piece. One that I like is the animated pencil sketch. This effect uses two video tracks contai...

Making Flash Titles with SWISHMax

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There are times when you need a quick animated title in Vegas but don’t have time to do a lot of keyframing. Luckily, Vegas supports Flash SWF files which me...

Multichannel Render Template in Vegas Pro

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Rendering multichannel tracks to multichannel files is easy once you understand how. Setting up a multichannel render template in Vegas Pro requires that you...

Parent Motion Filmstrip

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Sometimes you want to move multiple Picture-in-Picture tracks around a frame in unison. You might think this is a difficult compositing job but Vegas makes t...

Shuttle Pro Setup

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I have the Contour Designs ShuttlePRO v2 and I wouldn’t edit without it. Once you get use to the Jog and Shuttle wheels you’ll wonder how you ever edited w...

Turn Video into a Water Color Painting

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You know how water color paintings have nice defined black ink lines with color that splashes in and outside those lines. I though it would be nice if you co...

Using Boris Graffiti with Vegas Pro

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Here are just a few tutorials to get you started with Boris Graffiti LTD. These are not meant to be extensive. They are just to get you familiar with the bas...

Using Hollywood FX with Vegas Pro

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Wouldn’t it be nice if everything you needed was a plug-in to Vegas Pro? Unfortunately, there are lots of standalone packages that do great FX but don’t inte...