Vegas Video discussions from 2005 (Q1Q2)

[Edward Troxel]

If it is truly the LAST frame in the clip (not the event) then you can just drag it as long as needed with looping turned off and the last frame will be repeated.

If it's NOT the last frame, my preferred method is the velocity envelope.

[Edward Troxel]

Jon, if you're having to carry it back and forth between places, then I can see how it would be better than a deck. It should do you a good job.

[Kevin James]

I'm trying to have a video clip fall through the frame. I have movement in X axis locked, but after I set the begininng adn ending key frames, it still drifts out right after the start of movement. Any ideas why it might be doing this?

[Edward Troxel]

First of all, make sure the "smoothness" setting for all keyframes is set to 0 (default is 100).

Next, make sure you don't have any EXTRA keyframes.

[Kevin James]

I have already entered a number of keyframes, I need to change two tracks worth of keyframes to 0 smoothness, is there any quick way to force that for the duration of the whole track?

[Edward Troxel]

Unfortunately, you need to do them one at a time. Did you test it on a couple and did it work?

[Kevin James]

Helped much! Thanks again Ed!



Now for the hard part....I'm trying to fly cookie cutter squares from off screen, but they seem to not want to go all the way off. Is there another tool I can fly from off the screen ? I am tring to segue from moving images to moving masks over a full screen image (black with small moving masks showing through to the under image) following the same movement pattern as the track motions.

[Brian Handler]

I figured. I didn an install with it on a vegas version a few back and had some problems but 5 thus far seems very solid. I"m a user and fan of DVD architect so thought' i'd give it a shot.

Thanks.

[Bob Costa]

You may want to check your bios settings. A lot of times, computers are shipped with "boot from diskette" turned off. That would mean system is still trying to boot from c drive. Are you seeing/hearing diskette drive activity when you boot?

[Bryan Roberts]

Yes, when I was trying to boot, the 3.5 inch drive light came on and I heard disk activity.

[Brian Kennedy]

Thanks, Edward.

[Michael Best]

Any input would be great. I'm using an ATI 9600XT video card. DVI connection to primary monitor and VGA to secondary. When I employ the second monitor in Vegas the screen is real dark with a blue tint to it. I can't figure out why. Thank you

[Fred Foronda]

In my project I have scenes where it speeds up and slows down. When I render it the video looks good on windows media player but when I brun it to dvd it don't look smooth or clean ( the speeding part) same goes with scenes that fades in and out. I tried changing the field order also. The final render is on avi file and the recorder is a sony dvd recorder gx7. NLE on vegas 4.0 Any feed back is appreciated.

[Brian Kennedy]

Is it just in Vegas or on all programs? If it is that way in all programs, I don't think you can do much other than adjust the hardware color levels / brightness / contrast to taste. I don't think the PC allows for ICC color profiling of two monitors at the same time.

FWIW, my second monitor is not color corrected, while my "main" monitor is -- so the second monitor has a slightly different color balance to it. But since I use it only for tool palettes in programs like Vegas, Photoshop, etc., it doesn't really matter.

Also, just thinking -- you might see if your video "control panel" settings allow for different color curves. Mine doesn't.

[Emre Safak]

I don't think the PC allows for ICC color profiling of two monitors at the same time.

I think it is possible, but you need the right profiling suite. I know ColorVision does not ('coz that's what I have), but I think GretagMacbeth and MonacoVision do.