HD Picture in Picture (PiP) using Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9, Eye catching and artistic.

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I'm sure you will agree that "Picture in Picture" certainly is an eye catching artistic effect, there is so much to look at in this video that you have to watch it a few times to take it all in.
I hope you enjoy this little test video of mine.

This is a test video to show how its possible to use Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9 (The £74 version) to create fancy picture in picture (PiP) effects using several vidoes.

A problem I find with most of the Sony Vegas tutorials is that they seem to be created on the top of the range version (£525) of Sony Vegas
i.e. The PRO version, this means that when you try and follow them you find that your version does not have the feature you are trying to use.
One such issue is how many video tracks you can have, in the non-Pro version you can only have a maximum of 4 video tracks and ONLY if you sacrifice other tracks
such as text and music. This is a real limitation but I have found away around this by making your video in two or more phases.
This does require some thought before you do it.
What I did in this video was create phase 1 and used a main background video of time-lapse clouds, I then added 3 other video tracks with various videos clips on them that fly around.
I then rendered this as phase 1. I then re-ran Vegas and imported the phase 1 video onto one video track this meant that I could then add another 3 videos to this video.
As you can see by repeating this method several times its possible to keep adding more and more PiP videos to your presentation. Obviously you must render the videos at high quality otherwise each time you import your video for the next stage it
will reduce the quality thus making it worse and worse each time.

If you don't know how to create a Picture in Picture video in Sony Vegas then please FIRST watch this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjuopVHeTcE
Then give that a go and then try my instructions to take it to the next level.

Tips :
This video is HD widescreen 16:9 format. When you are using the Event Pan/Crop tool you may find that it will not let you move the videos to the very edge of the video area, this
is because the default format is wrong. To correct this click on the the dropdown list to the far right of where it says "Preset:(untitled)" and
select "16:9 Widescreen TV aspect ratio", this will now allow you to drag videos to the very edges.

In the Event Pan/Crop window its very hard to resize videos for PiP, so the fist thing to do is to click on the magnify icon (Zoom edit tool)
then go over your video and right click a few times, this will zoom out and allow you to move things around better.
Once you have clicked to make it smaller click on the "Normal edit tool" icon. You can now resize the video and move it around etc.

For reference, this video was encoded using Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0b.
Running on Windows XP SP3
My video is @1280 x 720 25FPS
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"YouTube HD" template created as follows :
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Save as type "Windows Media Video V11.wmv"
Audio Tab : CBR, windows Media Audio 9.2
128 Kbps, 44KHz, Stereo (A/V) CBR
Video Tab : Windows Media Video 9
High Definition (1280 x 720)
Bit Rate tab : 6 M

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I have used several of my videos in this presentation, all taken by me using a Canon Ixus 430.
The Videos are..
Derby Guild Hall rooftop during restoration
Piglets at Whitepost Farm, Nottingham.
Chickens at Home Farm, Markeaton.
Geese at Alvaston Park lake
Edinburgh Fringe festival streets
Friar Gate driving
Catapillar
View from the London Eye
piccadilly circus
London Aqaurium
Matlock Bath cable cars
Matlock driving.
Feeding pelicans at Blackbrook Zoo
Birmingham
The main background video is just some time-lapse of clouds out of my window. I did this by recording 25 mins of clouds then imported it into Sony Vegas and
increased the playback X4, then rendered it and re-imported it and repeated this again a few more times until the 25 mins was reduced to just 45 seconds!
This is a long winded way of doing time-lapse as its better to capture less frames to start with! I did this just to see how the quality compared with doing it
the way I normally capture time-lapse using a camera and an intervalometer, see my other videos on time-lapse for details.

See my latest projects on my blog :
http://derbyphotoscouk.blogspot.com/

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[Guerrillablackdog]

Wow, All of the video shown here were shot by you? O_O Even the clouds!

They all look like stock footage or something. :P I'm only kidding dude. This is really nice though. I think I might buy it. 50 dollars isn't much.

[comedyhunter]

@Guerrillablackdog Yes all by me.

[101AOK]

So you showed some pips....why didn't you say how you did it? ANYONE can see pips as soon as they turn ANY VIDEO feed anywhere.

[comedyhunter]

@101AOK I did, read the description.

[1xxxCrazyDudexxx1]

yea you can do this in sony vegas movie studio it doesn't have to be pro

[comedyhunter]

@1xxxCrazyDudexxx1 Yes I did this video with the movie Studio version NOT the Pro version.

[XenoAlbedo]

It doesnt stay where its supposed to when I render the movie. I put a picture to make it look like a screen on a computer model in gmod. When I rendered the movie, the screen was floating away from the computer, where as it wasnt before. Please help!

[osku995]

HELP How do you do this i try to found the way but havent find the way to do a time laspe help! :D

[bymacorg]

You can make Time-Lapse Photography with ANY camera with this device: tempus.bymac.org

[101AOK]

Stylin!

[101AOK]

@comedyhunter WOW...yep...OK....looked at it....will do...It would have been nice to know that at the time. Most people don't have EXTENSIVE INFO where you wrote it. Most DON'T provide jack. I thank you for the offering.

[Yamaguchi1494]

I can do pip in sony vegas movie studio 9.0 but if I want to do another clip in a different position in pip it affects all of the oeveraly videos, how do I prevent this? thank you in advance