Cookie Cutter Glitch???

Hi all,

I am not new to video editing but I am new to Vegas Pro. I recently purchased VP 11 and I am admittedly at the low end of the learning curve.

I am attempting what I know is a basic video effects trick. I have two video tracks, one layered on top of the other and i am using the Cookie Cutter Video FX tool to show just a little bit of the lower layer through on to the top layer of video. I used the Default Cookie Cutter selection and chose the oval shape. No problem, the effect worked fine.

Then I added two more similar video tracks, as tracks 3 and 4, to play after those first two tracks and tried to use the same Cookie Cutter effect. However, I couldn't select the oval shape. The default was Circle and although I selected Oval, only the Circle shaped mask would show. No other shaped mask would work either.

I restared the project from scratch to no avail. I uninstalled the software and re-installed it and started the project again from scratch and the Oval shape is still not available to me in the Default Cookie Cutter video fx.

I have contacted Sony's customer support about it but I haven't heard back from them (it's been 48 hours). Is this a glitch or am I doing something wrong?

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated since my project is completely on hold because of this issue.

Kamran
Dare to Dream to Escape the Cubicle!

Thanks for the reply but I just can't the feature to work on my computer. Sony's tech support was no help. Even though I bought a new computer just to handle this software, I think it's the fault of my computer. I also read countless reviews of VP11 and too often folk complained of the software crashing. Too bad I bought the software when it was first released. But get this, I got a version of VP10 and it works PERFECTLY.

thanks again!

Kamran
Dare to Dream to Escape the Cubicle!