You mean the .NET framework? It's at www.microsoft.com

Yeah i have net. framework but don't you also need scripts?

Scripts are part of Vegas 4. No installation required, once .NET framework is.

Dear Group,

I have some really great advance news that I would like to share with you - regarding Vegas and Vegas Group Activities at NAB.

First, I would like to say that I am proud to be a Loyal Vegas User and Supporter. And, I am also very proud of Sony Pictures Digital for Their committment to Vegas and the Product Line.

This year at NAB is going to be Extra Special for Vegas Users - Sony, is showing It's Support and Appreciation to Vegas Users by Hosting a Vegas Users Informal Meeting and Gettogether at the Paris Hotel on Monday Night April 19th from 7:30 to 9:30. There will be Coctails, Hors D'oeures and Great Vegas Conversation.

Everyone, will have a chance to meet Sony Electronics and Sony Pictures Digital Management Teams, including Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Training and Engineering Personnel.

Expect the formal announcement and rsvp info from Sony, shortly.

The Vegas Presentation Area on the Exhibit Show Floor is going to blow everyone's expectations away. Sony, is going all out to show off Vegas 5 and DVDA2. You can expect a very interactive and hands on learning experience.

I am glad to have had a small part in making this happen, for all of us. And, I am ecstatic with the marketing direction that Sony Pictures Digital is Taking!

--Jay Mitchell

Southern California Vegas Users Group

There's LOTS of scripts available. I have a large list of script sites at http://www.jetdv.com/tts/forums.htm. You will find the big scripts like Excalibur, Tsunami, and Neon as well many small free scripts.

Wow thanks for all the info guys… Edward what is "drive access speed"

Sorry for all the dumb questions but I am migrating to Vegas from the Casablanca Avio so I have a lot to learn, but I must say Vegas is very impressive.

Thanks to all this is a very helpful community

Vince

If you look at your hard drive specs, one of the parameters they list is "Drive Access Speed" It should be in milliseconds and relates to the time it takes the read head to travel across the platter to the address where the data your trying to read is stored

"Killer 3D Graphics and Lower Thirds" from VASST is just about ready to ship, and may be pre-ordered at a large discount for the DVInfo.net community. http://www.vasst.com/dvdproducts/cool3d.htm will get you to the site where you can watch a short stream of one of the training module sections.
With the release of Satish's brilliant WAX application, Vegas users can now import 3Ds models to the timeline without rendering, making this a great time to learn Cool 3D Production Studio.
The Sound Forge 7 DVD will also be shipping right after NAB, and we'll shortly announce another DVD we can't say much about right now.

Hi Guys,

I was wondering if I can somehow use my LCD FPD Monitor as an external monitor in Vegas (to replace the preview window on screen)

I have a conventional CRT monitor and an LCD Panel connected via the DVI output on my graphics card. I know that Vegas allows external monitor connection via a firewire link, but my LCD FPD doesn't have that and am currently using my Sony PC110E Camcorder to relay the firewire signal to my LCD FPD via an S-Video Connection.

Is there anyway I can connect my LCD FPD to use as an external monitor without having to use my camera to relay the signal.

I hope I'm making sense and would be grateful is somebody could offer some advice.

You should do external previews using a TV (preferably a NTSC monitor). There are many reasons for this, including:
A- overscan/underscan
B- a TV shows interlacing.
C- color accuracy- LCDs are not very accurate compared to just any TV. Any TV will be somewhat ok, but I wouldn't trust it.
D- different color schemes- LCDs use RGB and TVs YUV. Computer colors are really illegal for television.
E- a TV has crappy speakers to check if your mix translates ok. (but don't mix on crappy speakers)

A good setup would be:
dual monitors hooked up to your computer's video card
computer hooked up via firewire to your deck/camera, and a TV or NTSC monitor hooked up to your deck/camera.

You also need to look also at the speed in which the data is actually transferred to the computer. For example, compare the speed of data access when in PIO mode compared to DMA mode. PIO is MUCH slower - when using the SAME drive.

Something was just messed up. That can happen. It might even
be some installation that did it, or who knows. Most important
thing is that it works again now. Glad to hear this fixed it, and
much appreciated that you did a follow up. Thanks.

any news on an aussie get together?

Peter,

You might want to contact David Hague and Peter Wright. Peter, is a member of the SoCal Vegas Users Group and David Hague can be found on DMN Vegas. They both live in Austrailia and are active Vegas Users.

If you'll put another shrimp on the Bar B' - I'd be glad to come down.

Regards,

Jay Mitchell

im getting strange results...

i finished a clip which runs for 4 mins and due to not wanting to recompress again, i did a render (to go into steadyhand) using uncompressed format.

when i put this file in vegas, it plays fine..

when i put the same file in steadyhand it only gives me 26 seconds.

THEN when i attempt to play the fle using media player, again, 26 seconds...

now all my drives are NTFS, so i dont know what the issue is.. my captures direct from tape play fine as AVI at their true duration (these are raws from tape) but i cant play back a vegas clip...

i dont knwo if its the codec, but i doubt it.. i have no idea and its really frustrating...

Peter - you are probably thousands of miles away, but keep the OzVegas flag flying wherever you are.

We have a small monthly group here in Perth - about 20 each meeting, but numbers have nothing to do with how enjoyable it is to edit with Vegas.

Hey Pete and jay
thanks for the info, id love to set up a get together for sydney and canberra users!

Hey everyone,

A while back I made a football DVD with Vegas 4.0 and I was wondering if anyone wanted to review my footage and give me some feedback. There are so legality issues with the video that I am aware (music and logos) of and I'm trying to fix them in the future. I have about 5 extra DVD's if anyone is interested.

Send me a PM if you would like to review it. Thanks!
EDIT: I just realized this board does not have a PM feature... drop me an email at curt@<fighthespam>curtkay.com

(any comment is worth hearing in my opinion, only was I'll get better at this)

-Kay

For those following this thread:

Nope, starting Vegas with Control depressed DOESN"T reset the presets.

I also uninstalled and re-intalled, but that didn't do it either.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Andy

About the only other thing I could suggest is:

Uninstall again, delete any Vegas folders that might remain, delete any Vegas registry entries that might remain, and then reinstall. Otherwise, I suggest contacting Tech Support.

Any chance your not rendering to a type 2 (OpenDML) AVI file?
(you changed the settings). Look into the settings when saving
the uncompressed AVI as well. Does it also have sound? What
is the exact filesize of the rendered file?

Sounds like a good idea!

Is there any way I can use my LCD FPD as a second monitor to increase Vegas workspace? I have a ATI Radeon 9700 graphics card with dual monitor support and was wondering if this is adequate or would I need to change something.

Would I need to change settings in Vegas or in Windows XP (or both)?

Thanks

Did you download Hydravision from the ATI website? It enables the extended desktop mode and other modes for ATI cards.

2- Click on the little TV icon in video preview to get Vegas to send the previews to the DV device hooked up to your computer.

exact, came to 13 gb for a 5 minute uncompressed clip.. then on playback (mediaplayer) it would only play up to 26seconds..

i ran the same clip in "steady hand" to stabilise it, and it too only recognised 26 seconds of it.... and would only render 26secs of it

it is set to AVI2 and audio is included

funny thing is, from raw footage captured there is no limit as to how long the clip plays for.. but once its rendered with vegas
BRRRRRRRRRRRR i get a kick right up the backside....

I have a video of the Toronto skyline with the CN Tower and a few buildings in the foreground.

Now the scene lasts for about 5-6 seconds as the camera passes the buildings. During this time I would like to "animate" the buildings so it appears as though they are moving to the soundtrack.

What would be the easiest way to go about animating these frames? I would put up a pic, but I am at work unfortunately.

Grab a frame and put into Photoshop?

Ok, so recently I had a hard drive die, had to get a new one, install it and reinstall windows XP Pro and Vegas 4. Just tried to capture something, only to find out the audio wasn't capturing. I have "capture audio" checked under the capture preferences, and I know there's audio on the tape. When I look at the clip in the vegas timeline, there's nothing--no audio, no waveform, zip. Any ideas what's wrong?

What kind of animation?

How are you capturing? Via firewire? Or Analog?

Does it work with some other program? (such as Scenalyzer...)

I don't understand exactly what you're looking for. However, it should just be a matter of placing keyframes at the proper locations and adjusting the position of the frame using Pan/Crop or Track Motion at those points.

Ok I have a clip that is about 15-20 frames 5-6 seconds (not sure as I am not home) of 5 buildings. I have seen it in music videos where the buildings then begin to dance to the soundtrack.
This is what I am trying to achieve.

The photoshop idea is what I thought about first. Making these frames a .jpg sequence, importing into Photoshop and then....
I am not sure from here and I also wanted to try it in Vegas.

I also don't want the entire frame/image to move, just 2 or 3 buildings out of the 5 that are in the image.

So if you have a picture of 5 buildings and wanted to animate/dance/bounce/move only 3 of them while the other 2 in the pic were still, how would this be accomplished.

thanks for the help...

You can a simple static animation where the buildings themselves will not change but their position does change.

However, to make it really good, you would probably want the buildings to also stretch and change shape as they bounce.

This would be easy to do in a 3D program where you map the texture of the buildings to an object and then deform it.

Firewire. I don't have any other capture programs. I always use the Vegas capture utility.

I just tried another tape, and got audio off of that one. So it must be this particular tape? I can hear the audio when I plug headphones into the camera during playback. . .I don't get it. I can see the audio registering on the camera's (XL1s) VU meters.

This isn't raw footage that I taped, that I'm trying to capture. It's a copy of a short film I shot. I believe it was created in Premiere, though I don't have any idea what settings were used.

Also tried windows movie maker to capture, with the same audio-less results.

Why is it sometimes when I open up a project it has to rebuild my peaks for every instance on the timeline?

I created a project, moved some media on to the timeline saved it and that's that. I go to re-open the project about a week later and it immedatly begins to reload all the peaks as if it never did it the first time- which it DID. I even opened up windows explorer as it was building the 20'some peaks just to make sure I wasn't imagining things and that I had indeed built the peaks previously which I HAVE. All the SFK files were there but were being replaced with new ones. WHY?!

I've heard that everytime the time changes Vegas rebuilds the peaks on projects you open. There is a post about it over at the Sony Vegas forum.

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=267299&Replies=7&Page=3

Wow- thanks for the info Rob. Odd isn't it?!

http://homepage.mac.com/slackpacker/iMovieTheater11.html


This is my second video edited in Vegas. I did it as a tribute to a friend of mine who is walking the Appalachian trail for 6 months right now.

I used Livetype on the Mac to do the titles, Imported them in quicktime to Vegas. Did a key and the rest of the video was done with Vegas.

Please take the time to Tell me what you think of it. I'm wondering if I have the talent to do this full time....

Regards

Chris Hendrick
Vegas Fan

Any chance the audio is actually on stereo 2?

How about downloading Scenalyzer and seeing how it works? You can test with it without purchasing. (It just periodically adds watermarks)

Yeah, it seems to be related the fact that we lost an hour Sunday. Sony explained it last fall - some really obscure problem with the way Windows handles dates.

Hmmm. . .'tis possible. From whence do I download scenealyzer?

You could put it into Photoshop and make 5 layers with each layer representing a building (cut out) and possibly a 6th layer that represents the horizon/background.

Since Vegas sees from the 'top down' you could then import the jpegs and use the Pan and Crop on each individual track to do basically whatever you want.

I do like the idea of a 2d program for giving the buildings character but perhaps Vegas can do this job using the presets such as pinch and twirl and whatever else you can find.

the card is fine for Vegas use with dual monitors.

hydravsion will also clean up pixelation when viewing video on a monitor.

http://www.scenalyzer.com

I run a Radeon 9800pro and have used two displays on it in the past. You actually don't need Hydravision, dual support is built into the Catalyst drivers. Simply connect your second display to the unused port, right click on your desktop and choose properties. Once in display properties right click the secondary display and choose "connected". It's once it's active you can adjust individual resolutions and refresh rates for each display.
Hydravision is a tool that helps "manage" your dual display desktop rather than making it possible in the first place.

I wouldn't use the TV out on the RADEON to connect an external monitor for color corrections.
1. It won't display only your preview window- it will act as a second display.
2. The colors won't be accurate. The TV out is directly affected by the video card's Video LUT.

Optimaly, yes, it's best to connect an external NTSC studio monitor via IEEE. Next best thing is a good television- though keep in mind..unlike NTSC monitors, TVs drift and will have to be recalibrated often.

Thanks for all the thoughts guys. I am going to put a few of the suggestions to test and use the best solution

Hi everybody

I have a problem and have no idea where to start looking!
It started when i created avi files on Storm2 and then used it to as a part of a new Avi file.
The second Avi lost contrast- colors (black,,) wasn't the same any more.

These days I use a combination of Premiere,Vegas and storm2 and I am still getting "washed out" colors.

2 years ago when my only toy was pinnacle studio 7 had never these problem!

Does any body has any idea where should I start to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.

Anthony>

It could be related to the different ways in which codecs interpret information. What happens if you use uncompressed? Do you notice the problem then?

Now that Sony has put together the Vegas gathering, you'll need to RSVP the good folks at Sony.
If you'd like to attend, email to: sonyproaudio@am.sony.com This will let them know how many folks to expect.
Event Details:
Monday, April 19
7:30 p.m.- 9:30 p.m.
Paris Hotel
There will be lots to see and do, giveaways and other excitement. Meet the Sony folks responsible for Vegas and put faces to all the names you keep seeing around the web forums.
Please drop an email to the above address if you plan on attending. See you all there!!
Thanks to Jay Mitchell/SoCal Vegas Users for being one of the catalysts in this event coming about.

I'm a little thick: I tried capturing with scenalyzer, and now I have the audio, but I've got those watermarks every so often. If I don't want to purchase the program, what does this mean for me?

If the audio's on stereo 2, is there some way to set Vegas 4 to detect it?

Also, forgot to mention this (sorry!), but I'm not sure how this file was printed to tape. The guy was making DVD copies of this short, so this could be an MPEG-2 burnt to tape, or an AVI file. There's really no way to tell, is there? I can't get ahold of him because he moved to LA yesterday, and I have no new contact info! Ha! ha! hahahahahhaha!

Would this DVD/MPEG business affect the audio? I thought of it because while watching one scene in the movie, there's a shot where there's a hot spot on a guys face, and it's all pixellated, while the rest of the picture looks normal.

Nice! What camera did you use for this?

You've got some really nice shots in there as well as some shots that, I think, might have been better had it not been for some of the panning back and forth. Just something to think about for your future projects. Keep going and I think you'll find that you've got what it takes to do this full time.