MS Word Table as Scrolling Text [and Stills]

[solarblast]

I have a rather complicated looking table from MS Word that I would like to use in Vegas 6. I just tried copy and pasting it into the the text media generator, but only the text was preserved, and not the table borders. A possibility is that I capture the screen and put it into a video track as a still. However, if that works, then I would like to scroll the material. Any ideas on if there's another way to do it, and if I can scroll an image? Possibly this would be called a pan. Something to ponder after the post, as I have not yet considered pans.

[mats.hogberg]

PhotoStory 3 can do that kind of pan effect:
scroll.wmv

/Mats

[solarblast]

Thanks, but at this stage of my learning, I'd rather stick with what's in Vegas. It looks like pan will work, but it's my first time out with pan. I'm getting the hang of keyframes, but not quite. There always seems to be one keyframe, and I guess that's supposed to be at 0 sec. If I place the cursor at 6 sec, then manipulate the position of the size box upward, then stop it apparently will emulate that motion between 0 and 6 sec. However, it looks like it catches some of my horizontal motion. That is, it's not directly up.

[mats.hogberg]

Save the sequence out as DV AVI and import it in Vegas. To create the pan in PhotoStory is really very simple.

/Mats

[guns1inger]

If you use Even Pan/Crop in Vegas, you can lock the movement into a single axis with the bottom box (I think) in the menu down the left of the Pan/Crop windows. By default it is 4 way. Click it once to lock to horizontal, again to lock to vertical, and again to go free. It just toggles through.

[solarblast]

Morloc, I'm intrigued by your comment about saving the sequence. Are you saying that if I create a still sequence in Vegas, then export it as an avi file, then bring it in to PhotoStory? I haven't explored the world of "export' yet, but is it possible to export an event into a specific format? (I'm certainly getting familiar with Render.)

I touched up this in another thread. I had 'expected' to find some facility in Vegas that might do the following. I suspect it doesn't really exist. Bring in a wma clip 25 seconds long, and say delete the first 10 seconds. Now I want to send it back to the world outside of Vegas as a wma file. Is that possible without telling Vegas it came is in as an wma file, so send it out that way. It seems to me that if Vegas recognizes the file as a wma when it is put on the track, then it should output it somehow as a wma without the user having to set the file type. Perhaps this is better left to audio edirots.

[solarblast]

I went off in a different direction with the scroll (pan). I printed out the table and scanned it as a file. That was turned into a clip, but I could see under magnifcation the borders looked a little hairy. Since the video I'm working on will probably end up on a 8x12' or so screen that concerned me. Would this blown up image hold up. So I decided to just put the page on a table and shoot it with my camera (Sony TRV48) for an arbitrary time, 10 sec. It may work better then the scanned image, but I'm having a problem with the video projector at the moment, and can't put the image on our wall to see how they compare. Actually, the problem is with the lap top. Any opinons on which approach (scan or shoot) will give me the best image.

The above essentially, for the moment, abandons the scroll/pan idea. I'd break up the table into, say, thirds, and present it as three stills. It's a little different than that, but is sort of the idea. As it turns out it, for the audicences sake, a non-scroll/pan approach is probably better.

[guns1inger]

Normally for this type of thing I would create a long image file in photoshop, put the text on it, save it as .tga and scroll it in Vegas.

[mats.hogberg]

Morloc, I'm intrigued by your comment about saving the sequence. Are you saying that if I create a still sequence in Vegas, then export it as an avi file, then bring it in to PhotoStory?

No, I was creating a still in PhotoShop, imported it in PhotoStory 3, made the pan, which can be exported as DV AVI (even if my example is exported as low q wmv) for import in most other editors.
Regarding your other q, I think the scan is the best way. Even if you can see errors in your scan (at what resolution?) it will be reduced/resized to 720 px wide, probably making small flaws disappear.

/Mats

[solarblast]

300dpi b/w.

I may get to test it on the big screen today. I do a lot of work for our local small science museum and they have something a 12 by 18' screen.

[mats.hogberg]

300 dpi is (of course depending on how big what you scan is) vast overkill if you're using the image as DVD material.
At 300 DPI, an image of 2.4 by 1.6 inches would fill the screen.
Of course, you don't lose anything by resizing a too high res image down (if you use a good resize filter), but...

/Mats