Animating and automatically syncing audio to timeline

[scolew]

Can anyone please help....

1. How do you animate with photos? For example, if you have a graphic of a mirror flowing across the screen and a photo of someone comes in from the other side and lands in the inside of the mirror. I would like this to go in the front of a slide presentation with menus and maybe one at the end.

2. In either Adobe or Vegas is there a way to automatically set the duration of the frames to fit the audio selections.

[guns1inger]

If you are using vegas, look as masks and motion in the help files and/or manual.

Not sure what you are trying to do when you say you want the video to match the length of the audio. If this newly created video made from your photos ? If so, the length is entirely up to you. If it is for video you have shot or aquired elsehwere then you can cut it if it is too long, or stretch it if it is too short. If youstretch it, you will change the playback speed.

[thecoalman]

2. In either Adobe or Vegas is there a way to automatically set the duration of the frames to fit the audio selections.

If your trying to fit a specific video clip to an audio length depending on the situation it's probably better to adjust the length of the audio. I'm unsure on how to do this in either program but they should do it, probably as simple as right clicking the audio clip and selecting properties. The same is probaly true for adjusting the video.

[scolew]

I am mostly doing still images in the DVD with transitions. Some of the consumer apps that I have tried will automatically sync the timeline of photos with the audio...i.e., change the duration of each photo to match up with the length of the audio track. I just could not find this feature in Vegas or Premiere. Does this make more sense?

When you use masks and motion....do you use two seperate photos on the timeline to mesh them together with motion?

Thanks so much for all your help!!!!!!

[EGrier]

Using Premiere, I just cut the audio at the end of my video then I fade it out. Works great for me.