NewTek Virtual Set Editor - Manual (Page 21)

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Let’s notice another useful VSE attribute – item hinting.
19. Roll your cursor over the Brick Wall header in the Control Stack. The header brightens even before you
click it. Notice, too, that the item that is highlighted in the Control Stack is also highlighted in the Virtual
Set Canvas Figure 22.
Item hinting makes it easy to see what each group in the Control Stack affects, making it a breeze to
select the correct item for editing.
FIGURE 23
20. Until now, we’ve been viewing the default (first) Shot position for this set. Locate the Animation
Controls group at lower left, just beneath the Control Stack. Click the thumbnail icon to reveal the
expanded Shot selector (Figure 23), and pick a shot to edit.
(Note that the number of thumbnail icons shown in the Shot selector depends on the type of system
VSE is installed on; more on this in the Reference section of this manual.)
21. Expand the Background group now, and (using the same technique as for the logo image), replace the
default cityscape image with Jax Sunset.jpg file (located in NewTek>Stills).
FIGURE 24
22. That looks great, but we can do a little better yet. Let’s adjust the background image placement slightly.
Set Position X to -13% and Position Y to -35%.
23. We’ll work with Input A (the talent input) next. Expand the Input A header in the Control Stack, and use
the Scale and Position settings to modify the scene roughly as shown in Figure 24.