vegas 6 help

[wingfan]

Using Vegas 6 (newbie), great program btw.. smokes Pinnacle 11, anyways .. I have been through some good tutorials specifically Lynda.com 12 hr tutorial.

Now one thing it doesn't explain is once you have done a masking effect or a picture in picture effect, how do you continue working on the project by added another video clip that wont be masked or picture in picture? Not sure if I'm explaining this right, but whenever I try and continue the project by adding another video clip to the timeline whether I put it on video track 1 or create a new one, it does not show up at all in playback.

What am I doing wrong? Any ideas?

[guns1inger]

If you add a new video track at the top of the stack, anything you put in it should be visible.

Another cool feature to look at, especially when stacks get complicated, is embedded projects. Just load a project into the timeline like any other video. Scrubbing can slow down a bit if you haven't pre-rendered, but it can make life easier.

[wingfan]

If you add a new video track at the top of the stack, anything you put in it should be visible.

Another cool feature to look at, especially when stacks get complicated, is embedded projects. Just load a project into the timeline like any other video. Scrubbing can slow down a bit if you haven't pre-rendered, but it can make life easier.

top of the stack, ok i will try that .. so any masking/pnp should be below video 1 track then? is that a rule of thumb? you would that this would have been mentioned in Vegas tut from Lynda.com .. i find this a very important editing feature.

[guns1inger]

You have to be careful when you are masking.

Think of the timeline stack as bing like a pile of glass sheets. When you look at the preview window, you are looking down at the stack from above. Any video you put on the stack is like painting on the glass. Paint on the bottom layer, with nothing above it, and you can see through to it. Paint on the layer above, and where there is still glass, you can see through to the bottom below.

When you put a video clip on the timeline, it is like painting across the whole sheet of glass. You cannot see through it to the layers below. Masking is like wiping some of the paint away, permitting you to see some of the layer(s) underneath.

You have to work out where, in all these layers, a clip needs to go so that you can see what you need of it, without blocking the rest out.

If you just put a new clip at the top of the stack, you will not see anything under it unless you mask it in some way.

Without knowing the specifics of your project and structure, I can't give any specific advice. However hopefully what I have written makes some sort of sense and can be followed.