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OK so i’m creating a trailer for a homemade movie about fairies. I’m gonna be acting as the fairy (haha) so how can i make myself look really small? There has to be an effect in Sony Vegas pro (what i use) to select an area in the video clip and make it smaller or bigger without changing the background. So in effect the trees could look like giants and i an a dot. Lol. Please if you know, tell me how? Thank you SO much.

Answer by Jon. J
You need to mask out the background you’re in front of. There is no magic way to get Vegas (or any other editing software) to automatically track your outline and isolate it from the background.

What you do is to film the background separately. Then you film yourself against a single colour background (aka a green screen) and use the Chrome Keyer tool to “key” out the single colour background and then allow the tree background to show through.

This isn’t hard to do. It just requires a bit of preparation and some manual work on your part. To do it on the cheap:

Get hold of a bunch of sheets of the same colour (and make sure you don’t wear that colour or something close to it in your fairy outfit) and use them to cover the wall and floor of a room.

Or paint the area of the room you’re going to use. This is less likely to be possible.

If you do go along with this approach, it’s important to get the lighting right. Make sure that the lights are facing towards the wall without creating a spotlight effect. You want the wall to be as evenly lit as possible so it will “key out” easily. Also, if you use the sheets approach, make sure that the sheets are pinned tightly with as little sagging of creasing as possible. Where the sheets reach the ground, don’t pin them tight to the bottom of the wall, but allow them to curve onto the floor so you don’t get a hard line where the wall meets the floor.

Look up the help file in Vegas under “Chroma Keyer” to get full details of how to apply the effect once you’ve done this. It’s as simple as placing the tree background on one video layer, the fairy footage on another video layer above it, opening the Chroma Keyer and using the eyedropper tool to select the green (or whatever) colour in the background of the fairy footage.

You may be a little disappointed that this is more work than you might have thought, but it’s the only way to do it. But there are great advantages to doing it this way that you may not have thought of. You can fly simply by adding a box covered in the same coloured material and lying on top of it. And there’s a hundred other fun tricks like that for you to discover when you do it this way.

Here are a couple of video tutorials to walk you through the process:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/369629/green_screen_effect_how_to/

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1487490/chroma_keying_in_sony_vegas_green_screen/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kdOanDvGrA

because the computer have a Verizon Wifi Program, but I can not Connect outside United States, so the Wifi is blocked!!! How can I disabling this option? How Sony obligated the persons to use Verizon? I am very disappointed with this!! Please help me to use my computer with the freedom of any Wifi place!

Answer by randy b
Try turning off that program any way you know how, then click start (windows logo on task bar) and then click “Connect to” on the right column. You should be able to use windows Wi-Fi connection that way, as long as you can turn off the Verizon program.

I have a Sony ericsson satio and i want to get msn on my phone or something like fring but fring also dont work , is there another program i can use that will have like skype and msn on it .

Answer by Lewis
No other program. Unless you go on the Internet and use Ebuddy.

Does anyone have a good, clear video tutorial on how to make a cool intro for Sony vegas 8? I would even be thankful for a text explanation.

Answer by elmarfil123
youtube has it all, type “Sony vegas 8 turorial” and i bet you ll find something

I have a problem where I can not view video on Sony Vegas? I have been told by many to download certain codecs, I have done this, but their is no change. Where I go to edit my video there is a black screen. Do I have to import these codecs to Sony Vegas? If so how?

Answer by Kaoru
when you buy japanese this is what happens, sucks to be you.

When I play DVD’s on my laptop the video and sound is very choppy. When my kid plays online kids games or streaming video from web sites the same thing happens.
It is a Sony Vaio PIII with 933mhz and 256 meg RAM.

Answer by BomBet
I guess you need to add more RAM, 512MB is good enough.

I need a laptop and I was thinking of a Sony Vaio. I have a lot of schoolwork and I also use the computer a lot for entertainment. Are they efficient? Good to use? Any problems? Any defects at all? Thank you(:

Answer by blackjoe77
I have had 3 Sony laptops without any problem. My new laptop is also Sony VGN-FZ. They are efficient and good to use, also stylish.
I recommend you to check Sony FZ and FW series laptops.

My sister got a Sony reader touch edition today for her birthday. I have lots of pdf files saved on my computer. How do I put them on the e-reader? Also, I’ve heard people complain about not being able to read pdf files on their Sony readers, is that true? and if so how can I fix it.

Thanks in advance

Answer by My Name-O is Brad-O
Try this:

http://www.ehow.com/how_5796269_put-pdf-files-Sony-reader.html

Barring that, you may need to convert the pdf to rich text format using an OCR program to make it work.

I try to download many different animes but everytime I try to put them on Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 it says that the file can not be found. Can someone plllzzz help me!!!

Answer by Lauren
Try youtube.

How do you take a screen shot on a Sony VAIO? Thanks in advance!!

Answer by lucky_charm
im using Sony vaio but i dont know,let me know if you get the right answer