Recently a friend asked me to create a trailer for his Let's Play Gaming Channel.
So I got the idea to create a wall of TVs where each screen shows a different game he is playing with the camera moving around from one screen to another... Even though I'm quite familiar with Sony Vegas, I haven't done something like that before. That's why the whole process was so interesting and the result so satisfying. That's how the final version looks like:
Not too bad, right? So let's go step by step explaining on how to make such a trailer. 1) Creating a TV wall
For doing that you either look for a fitting image online or create your own one. Make sure you can it has about as many screens as video clips you want to use. Once you've chosen a picture you put at the bottom of your project.
2) Put the clips on the screens
I downloaded like 12 videos of different games from my friend's channel. Then I started one by one, putting a video file above the TV wall template and minimized them by clicking on the icon at the edge of the clip in the timeline to open a window. Then you can accurately adapt the size of the clip and move it around to match on one of the TVs of your template.
That step you do with every clip until your TV wall is finished. That wall full of screen may looks like this.
3) Rendering the TV wall video Following that I rendered like a 30 second clip of that wall. This new file I copied into my project. 4) Let the "virtual camera" run
Now you work with your newly created TV wall clip in your project. Click again on the small icon at the bottom of your clip (see first screenshot in Step 1). At the bottom of that menu you see a timeline where you can set time markers. Now you can decide where to place the "F" window at each second.
You can zoom in, zoom out. Experiment a bit which works the best for you. In my case it worked best not to leave the gaps too big as moved the "F" window slowly from right to left to show the channel logo at the end. And that way you can create this kind of trailer video. For music I chose to use a fitting track in the YouTube Audio Library. I hope I could help or inspire you to create a nice channel trailer. Btw. I also made a tutorial video about it, if you wanna see a deeper explanation:
Is there a proper way to create speech bubbles with Sony Vegas? Not really, but there's a quite simple way doing it in combination with GIMP.
Surely, you can also just download pictures from a Google image search, but if you wanna create a customized speech balloon, I'd recommend using the free GIMP software. So, step by step:
1) Open GIMP, and create a new project with an empty layer. Ensure that the layer is transparent. 2) Use the pencil to draw a speech bubble. Alternately, you can create by using the circle form.
3) Fill the inner part of the bubble with white color 4) Save the file as png to keep the background transparent.
5) Go back to your Sony Vegas project 6) Add the png file into the project 7) Adapt the file to the same ratio as the video you are making (e.g. 16:9)
8) Adjust the speech bubble to the size you need it 9) Add an extra text box with the text for the speech bubble And that's it. Also check out the corresponding video below:
In February 2020 the Windows 10 patch KB4532693 was deployed and caused on some PCs logins on temporary profiles instead of the normal one. Here's something from my experience!
These days I got a request and the client even thought that the computer reinstalled itself which obviously wasn't the case Therefore no data got lost in this case. I read about the patch problem before, so following making some research I tried suggested steps as well:
1) Starting in Safe Mode, reboot in Normal Mode
- Didn't help, same issue
2) Uninstalling KB4532693 - Despite being listed in downloaded updates, it didn't appear in the list "Installed Updates". So to be sure I deleted the update via cmd command:
wusa /uninstall /kb:4532693 /quiet
Following a restart the situation didn't change. The list of temporary profiles gets piled up even more. As several restarts didn't work either, I ended up helping myself by creating a new user as admin, logged off and logged in with the new user, copied all the data, configured the profile and restarted a few times to be sure. Additionally I changed some settings in the registry to ensure the new profile logs in automatically.
It was a private laptop anyway with no connection to a domain whatsoever. Not the most ideal solution, but seemingly there's yet no official solution for the patch out yet - only the suggestions I mentioned above. Sometimes they help, in my case they didn't, so luckily I could find a workaround by just creating a new user.
