Sony Vegas Quad Cam Effect Tutorial and Guide
Sony Vegas Quad Cam Effect Tutorial and Guide
Here I will show you how to do the cool quad cam effect in sony vegas without using any sort of external (paid) plugins or any other type of stuff besides your copy of sony vegas.
1. First what you are going to want to do is open up vegas and select the four clips (try to keep them approximately the same resolution size) you will be using for video. Add them to your project media tab. Now go to file > properties and select the 720×480 template this should be the second one.
2. Drag your clips onto your time line in seperate audio and video tracks. You want each clip to have it’s own individual audio and video track so basically just put them underneath eachother. It would be ideal to have each clip be relatively the same length as the others but it doesn’t really matter you can adjust the start and end points of each clip by dragging it along the timeline or triming it down.
3. After doing all the optional adjustments that you want to add such as fades, zooms, panning and all that select your top video clip. The clip that is on the track that is above all the other tracks. Right click on the video part > video event pan crop. Here is where you will ‘zoom out’ your clip into a little quarter square so that it will fit on your project.
Grab the handles on the one of the corners of the box and pull it out until your roughly see the box to be a quarter of your main project preview. This is the preview that is shown just above your timeline. It doesn’t have to be perfect straight away just make it approximate you can always adjust it later. After you have done that just close the box press the little x button on the top or by pressing esc.
4. You now have to do for your other 3 video clips, just repeat the exact same method.
Right click on video clip > video event pan/crop and then drag out the handles/box as before. You can click on the middle of the box to move your clip around in order to fit it into place next to or adjacent to your other clips in the project preview.
5. That is pretty much all there is to the quad cam side of things. It’s really all up to your personal preference you can tweak the things that you want to tweak. I suggest not making all your clips start at the same time as that makes it harder for the viewer to concentrate on the video as whole. I like to fade in 1 or 2 clips at a time and only use the audio of two clips for the whole project because it just makes all the less noiser and ‘cluttier’.
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If you have any more questions don’t hesistate to ask me by commenting below.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:58 am
I have Sony Vegas 7.0 and to move effects
E.g :”Bump map spot light”
I would click on the start of the clip and choose where wanted it and then click the end of the clip and chose were I want the spotlight to end. This has been working great and its made my videos much better! But unfortunately over the past few days when I do that it doesn’t work. Do you have any idea how to fix it? I have a feeling I clicked something by accident but I’m not sure. Can you help me?