Re: Tutorial on scripting

Brilliant Mike.
Thanks so much. I actually did go to the online help, but I am a bear of very little brain and sometimes need just the very hand-holding you gave me.
If I can beg your indulgence a little further, I am not finding Vegas very intuitive in the area of compositing and keying.
Is it my understanding (or rather lack thereof) or should I be reading up on some stuff that gives me a better idea of just how the program works?
I had been trying to work out a simple way of creating a glow or 'light sweep' effect over text. No matter what I tried (logically) I couldn't achieve the effect I wanted. I eventually found an explanation of the very effect on the VASST site by Gary Gowman (Thanks Gary). Unfortunately it was designed on Vegas 3 and I had some problems with the difference in interface, etc. But I eventually downloaded the veg file included with the explanation of the effect and managed to work it out from that. But I still have to say that nothing is really clear as to why one does what one has to do in order to do it...(if you know what I mean...) ;-)
I found the DFX compositing program (you remember it from the DPS days I'm sure) far more user friendly...if somewhat slow to render. But then DPS was also a very intuitive program and super quick for DV production. I'm just obviously missing something with Vegas on this front.
Don't get me wrong...I really enjoy Vegas, and am most impressed with what it can do. I just find it, well, unintuative...if there is such a word.
Your insight and understanding of this program would be invaluable. Please point me to the light!
Cheers for now,
Bruce


Bruce Quayle