Great stuff! I got lost at the point when you started adding curly frames, but overall I think pacing is good, I just need to watch it once again. The point of video versus live broadcast is that I can watch it again and again and again if I don't understand something. I totally support your idea of cutting boring stuff out, BUT: you must leave all important stuff in. Make it quick, but it should be there, so I could go one sentence forward, pause, analyze, go another sentence forward, pause, analyze. This would work for me as long as all key components are there, I don't mind to watch again if I did not get it from the first time.

Wow, there was a lot in there, but I thought it was probably followable even if it meant watching the video and pausing it while trying to do it. Not sure how much of that I can do on Vegas Platinum 8, maybe I'll try. Only comment, about the 'here's one I made earlier' ending is that some viewers may get frustrated if they can't reproduce exactly what you've made.

I use FCP (and would need Motion for this type of animation), but even so I found the instruction helpful in ways. Speed is OK for me. Thanks!

Great job, but Eric I am confused. I subscribed to your site's RSS feed but I never saw this video. Do I need to subscribe here too?

...oh, and I forgot to add, almost all of my videos (whether published by myself or by someone else) end up here:

videopia.org/index.php/watch/training.html

I love this tutorial. It's my second time watching it and it won't be my last! in full screen it looks amazingly super great. it's like perfect quality! wow!

really enjoy your tutorial as well as your other informative videos. really clean and polish. can't help but noticed the great audio recording quality and the pace of the video is just right. favorited!! great job!!

How can you do this same effect with a background image with a larger frame size? I've tried using the steps from this tutorial, however the photos/video get cut off once I zoom out past the extent of the postcard sized background image.

Here's an example of what I'm trying to accomplish in Sony Vegas: revostock.com/After-Effects-Project/83793/Deluxe-Contact-Sheet.htm

That was a great video! I'm a novice Vegas Pro 8 user and that made sense to me but I just need to follow your steps and try it out to really get to know the steps involved.

Please keep me updated on the status of these tutorials. I'd be really interested in them once they are published! I've always enjoyed your teaching style.

THANK YOU!
I never knew Vegas could do that. You made my life easier, I was just about to migrate to premiere because I thought Vegas couldn't handle motion effects properly.
Very well done, sir!

Thanks for sharing this! I was a TV photog for 10 years before going freelance, and Vegas Pro is my NLE of choice. I didn't have the money for the big Cahuna's of editing, but over the past year freelancing I have found that Vegas will do everything I can think of doing. I have done enough projects that following this "cooking show" tutorial was pretty easy, since I have done some limited green screen compositing and to do that you run into just about all the features you used. This video would be perfect for an intermediate to advanced Vegas user. A beginner would DEFINITELY need the 20 minute version. Great thing about Vimeo as opposed to YouTube is you can have that 20 minutes if you need it.

What I think would be really really helpful for a Vegas Pro beginner would be a series of 1-2 minute building block videos illustrating how to use each discrete element. You need a video on what a keyframe is and how they work in Vegas, a video on motion tracking with various examples of how to use it, a video on the whole "parent-child" concept and how it can be layered to do compositing, a video on alpha channels and mattes, a video on the cool simple things you can do in Vegas like auto-crossfades, corner fade-in buttons, dropping transparency, etc., and a video on using the video effects at the clip and track level and why you would want to do one or the other. If you put these together in a "beginners start here" section, then you would have the building blocks for a bunch of cool projects with the confidence that even a beginner would be able to purchase the product and if they don't catch everything as you're explaining it, you can color code each of the building block videos and put a little "indicator" somewhere in the cooking video style window to let the viewer know which building block video they would need to consult in case they don't know how to do the step you are referencing.

I love the way you do these educational videos. They are very clear and effective. I also buy a lot of Digital Juice stuff and rely on those tutorials as well. Hopefully these comments have been helpful; you're doing awesome work!