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Is it possible to "Blur a Transparent Background" in Adobe After Effects?
It's not possible. A generic blur effect relies on a function which smooths out pixel values within a specified radius. A mask combines the value of a pixel in the top layer with the pixel of the ...
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Is it possible to speed up footage by more than 4x in Sony Vegas Movie Studio?
The only workaround I know of is to:
Speed up the footage by the desired amount (in this case 4X)
Render the clip.
Import the clip
Repeat steps 1-3 until satisfied.
This isn't ideal as repetitively ...
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Are these beginner's paid-for programs comparable?
With consumer targeted software, there is less of a standard of how to do things. For professional software, there are pretty standardized workflows that editors follow and so tools are pretty ...
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What is this effect's name? And how would I be able to do it in Sony Vegas?
Search Google for "light leaks". Here's free collection: http://vegasaur.com/free-light-leaks
How to use: Place the desired light leak clip on the track above your video and set track's compositing ...
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How to make Sony Vegas Pro 13 work on a 4K display
There's apparently a hack which alters the Vegas executable to solve this problem. There's a setting of dpiAware in the application manifest which falsely tells Windows that Vegas is DPI aware and ...
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Sync Video to Audio in SonyVegasPro13 with multiple anchors
Short Answer
Split your Video track into separate Events;
Adjust the Events individually by dragging them along the timeline and stretching/expanding them;
Overlap the adjacent Events so that there ...
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Different luminosity between preview and render on Sony Vegas 13
I believe I have a solution. Render the video, put it into Vegas again and apply "Sony Levels" with "Computer RGB to Studio RGB". Worked for me.
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How to de-flicker (anti-flicker) video?
Wow, I have found interesting solution:
Method 1 (bad approach):
duplicate main video streams and put over the main stream, just off-seting them 1 frame after
change the opacity of the top video to ...
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How to copy markers and regions between projects in Vegas Pro
It's a little counter-intuitive that Vegas Pro will not copy/paste markers and regions, but this is doable and it's not too difficult.
Here are the following steps to merge project A with project B ...
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Different luminosity between preview and render on Sony Vegas 13
Vegas 15 has Finally fixed these issues with the new ACES 1.0 support. To render perfect colors for video AND stills you must ensure the following project project properties are as followed.
https://...
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How do I do this Text animation in Sony Vegas (..or AE)?
It's called Kinetic Type generally (that link is for Templates). Depending on what you're looking to do you either need to do it manually or can use scripting to auto-fill a list of words. If you auto-...
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Sony Vegas Media Generators not appearing
The track containing the "hidden" text appears to be muted in the screenshot. Unmute it. It's the icon in the track controls of a round circle with the diagonal.
Background
There are two ways for a ...
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How do youtube professionals record audio for their video?
If you are referring to tutorials or commentary then yes, you would record the original performance (perhaps with computer sound), while thinking of your audience. When I record tutorials for software,...
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What exactly does the video rendering quality option do in Sony Vegas Pro?
This is the explanation for the four quality modes, as provided by Vegas tech support long ago:
Quality: Best
Scaling: bi-cubic/integration
Field Handling: on
Field Rendering: on (...
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60fps and 30fps clips exported into one file?
Export to 30p. 29.97 to be exact if there is the option. Exporting at 60fps is only going to bloat the file size (twice as many frames) per second-- if it's 60p and not 60i of data to encode.
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Delete background, change color of video
You can also use DaVinci Resolve.
First node: You can use a qualifier to get the basic outline of Dr. Manhattan (not the glow around him, but the darker blue parts).
Second node: You can feed one ...
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How to open MP4 container video with mp42 codec in Vegas Pro?
mp42 is the container ID, which Mediainfo wrongly calls a codec id. It refers to MPEG-4 Part 14 spec for containers.
XDCAM is actually a Sony variant of MPEG-2 video. I've worked with XDCAM natively ...
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Render settings for DVD in Vegas Pro
Use variable bitrate to cut down on filesize
4 GB / 65 min = 8.2 Mb/s which is in the norm for DVD quality so fixed bitrate should be fine
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How to fix invisible image cropping in Vegas Pro
The easiest way to fix this is to right-click on the pan/crop area and select Match Output Aspect.
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Sony Vegas pro 15: Can not move Image in Pan/Crop
Use the track motion where you can move and resize images
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If I delete a video from my computer after I've imported it, will it delete from the video I'm editing?
According to the on-line manual page 57 of this commercial software this is only true if you:
have selected the Copy media with project checkbox and
Clicked the Save button
for all your projects!
If ...
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If I delete a video from my computer after I've imported it, will it delete from the video I'm editing?
Unlike some other editing tools, Vegas does not convert imported video into its own intermediate format, but works directly with what you have. Importing means Vegas knows about these clips and has ...
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Sony Vegas Pro 12 - 4/3 video wrongly considered as 16/9
I did not manage to solve the source problem, but I found how to overcome the consequences.
It is indeed possible to edit the aspect ratio of the rendered video using ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i <...
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Sony Vegas - render allowing source to adjust frame rate?
I just wrote a nice detailed answer but somehow I deleted the draft. To save time, the simple explanation (EDIT: I haven't gotten this from experience; I'm just going off what people have told me in ...
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Delete background, change color of video
One way to achieve cutting out the background is by using after effects and rotoscoping Dr. Manhattan out - there are many tutorials online on how to rotoscope. Adobe After Effects CS5- Rotoscope with ...
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Is it possible to "Blur a Transparent Background" in Adobe After Effects?
You won't be able to create a clip that can 'blur any layer underneath' when placed in other applications.
You can just blur assets from within AE and export them out.
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Is it possible to "Blur a Transparent Background" in Adobe After Effects?
This is not possible, because the blur effect needs the underlying video as input.
You can either create the blur effect in Sony Vegas without the need for After Effects, or you can (for more complex ...
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Change the duration of multiple images vegas
If you want to change the speed of multiple clips - find a script that does this. Vegas Pro supports scripting and there a lot of different scripts out there, both free and commercial. For example, ...
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Second a day video "counter"
In Sony Vegas you can use Text Wizard from Vegasaur Toolkit. It can easily create various counters. Vegasaur has free 30-day trial, so just install it and go to menu View > Extensions > Vegasaur > ...
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How to get a clip with the same aspect ratio and without losing quality
Check you pixel aspect ratio. Its in the video settings in premiere. My guess is its not matching the original file. Play around with the different settings. Usually square pixels do it for me.
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