Vegas Video discussions from 2004 (Q1Q2)

[Edward Troxel]

Yep, if you close the project, you loose the clipboard contents.

[Walter McElroy, Jr.]

Are there any tutorials for audio mixing with Vegas Video 4.0. I made a decent lil short but the audio is terrible.

[David Mintzer]

This might be helpful:

http://www.sundancemediagroup.com/tu...s/mixaudio.htm

[Jeff Toogood]

I am trying to edit something I shot this weekend. I had my GL2 set to widescreen mode and I forgot to set my Sony to widescreen as well. So now I have 16:9 and 4:3 footage I want to mix together. The problem I am having is that if bring the 4:3 footage into Vegas first it is fine, but as soon as I bring the 16:9 footage in, I can't see the 16:9 footage. If I bring the 16:9 footage in first, same thing. I can see it and can't see the 4:3 when I bring that in.

I was planning to just mask the 4:3 (letterbox) so it matches the GL2 16:9.

Thanks

PS, I am using Vegas 4.0

Thanks

[Steve Crisdale]

<<<-- Originally posted by Doug Turner : Great info - thanks Edward.

The MPEG2 result will not be lossless, am I right? I'm a newbie to HD, and was just expected to be able to render out to an HD 720p avi file.

...I need to go to college for this sort of thing?! -->>>

MPEG is motion JPEG. JPEG is a lossy format, so every time you re-encode MPEG you will lose data....
Resampling of lossy formats requires high quality algorithms to sub-sample the data in order to retain image quality (bi-cubic subsample). If you were to render the edited footage only once, you may not notice degradation if rendering to MPEG2, however a re-render of said footage would degrade....how much depends on a number of factors, but is best avoided.
Throw interlacing into this mix and things can get very murky....
I'd suggest - upsample to 720p first, then render out to lossless AVI (though the file could be huge, then edit the AVI (add titles, effects, etc.) then render to either WMV9 or MPEG2 depending on final display method.
You'll only discover the best method for yourself through a bit of experimentation, but this has worked for me up-sampling HD10 720p footage to 1080....

[John Hudson]

Are you creating 2 Video Tracks separatley? If they are RIGHT ON TOP of each other you will not be able to see the other.

[Jeff Toogood]

No they weren't on top of each other. I think I might have figured it out though, the only problem is when I render the project to MPG2, it doesn't look right, it is all cropped in the center of the screen, not widescreen like it shoudl be.

Any ideas on that?

[Peter Moore]

Another annoying thing about groups is that when I turn on "ignore groups" in order to cut video without affecting audio, the video after the cut point is no longer part of the group and I have to totally re-form the group. Is there any way to prevent this behavior?

[Adi Head]

hi. i'm sort of new to vegas. i read through the manual, but like with most manuals, i forget most of it a minute after i finish reading it. i think i got the basics down and i'll just learn as i edit - a method which works best for me. from time to time, i'll post a question here on this message board, which has proven itself so helpful in the past.

today's question:
when i add an effect (saturization) to the video track i am working on, the preview suddenly becomes slow. is this expected behaviour? if not? what could be causing it?

[Edward Troxel]

It seems that if you split via scripting it does not lose it's group.

[Rob Lohman]

That's probably normal since it is trying to calculate the realtime
effect. Whether or not it needs to slowdown depends on:

1) speed of your computer

2) resolution of your media

3) resolution settings in your project (make sure they are the same as the footage! Both in size and in things like framerate and progressive / interlaced)

4) size of your preview windows

5) whether or not your going out over firewire for the preview (always slower than just on your monitor)

I haven't played with the saturation filter too much yet, but I
don't think it should do too much work.

[Michael Best]

This may be simple but when I export an audio clip to Sound Forge the meters go but there is no sound?

[Cosmin Rotaru]

"4) size of your preview windows"
just change it to the least CPU consuming rendering option (I think it is called "draft auto")

[Peter Jefferson]

thats bizarre..
the only time u may get a conflict lik this is if ur runnin asio drivers and using MIDI.. ASIO can only run 1 midi app (the rest must be virtual ports) but it shoudlnt affect audio..

what setting have u set ur preferences to?

[Michael Best]

I'm not there at the moment but I do think it is a settings issue.
What should the settings be? I am using a Terratec DMX/6 Fire