Indeed it does! Thanks!

I would like and answer to this as well. When using my home made super macro setup I get alot of introduced CA.

You can do this fairly easily in After Effects.


Without going into too much detail, basically...split your footage into 3 layers R,G and B - stick each layer on a transfer mode that will mix them back into a full colour signal when layered.

Apply the optics compensation plug-in to two layers of your choice and adjust the 'field of view' control until all three colours line up.

I realise this is an awful explantion !! but the process is very straight forward and takes no more than a minute to do, and I could not be bothered going into detail if none of you have After Effects !!

:)

Drop me a single frame and I will show you.

Dont know if the Vegas forum is the right place, but I figure its all in the same family.

Anyways - I just got myself the Premium bundle of Adobe's Production suite and I'm not too happy with Audition in the way I want to generate music, Smartsound is just far too expensive for me, and Cinescore is right up my alley.

My main question is, would Cinescore work with Adobe in the way I'll generate a specific length of music and then import it into PP2?

Also, other than the Royalty free music, I'm worried that I cant use the scores generated for my own films that I produce, I'm more worrieda bout copyright and credit than royalties. I want to know what on earth do I have to put in the credits as when I did a film with music from Audition, someone pointed out I had to give credits to Adobe or I could get sued!!! I thought that was crazy! Or is it?

Anyways, thanks in advance.

Leo

... would Cinescore work with Adobe ... generate a specific length of music and then import it into PP2?Yes, just export your Cinescore sound track and load it into PP2. You can specify the length within Cinescore. One of the advantages of using it with Vegas is that you can launch Cinescore from within Vegas and send the sound track directly to the timeline.

Ah, thanks Michael.

Its a definate buy for me. For some reason I was under the impression that 'all' sister programs and plug-ins were software specific.

Thanks again

Thanks - I figured that out already, but the problem is I haven't got After Effects. No way of doing that in Vegas?

Thanks - I figured that out already, but the problem is I haven't got After Effects. No way of doing that in Vegas?

I do not know vegas but the process in any editing/comping package would be :

1) split RGB signal into 3 R G and B layers.

2) use a warping tool to match two of those layers to the third.

3) recombine R G and B layers.

FWIW, there's a thread on the Sony Vegas forum titled "Technicolor Challenge" at http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=475639 that may be of some help.

Hey all,

I realize that not everyone here uses U S2 w' Vegas but I have been unable to find a manual to sort out the finer points of what U S2 does. Is there one? I checked the install disc. No dice.

I've looked online. Nada. Or am I blind to the obvious?

Any help here would be appreciated.

sincerely,


ian

Have you tried the tutorials on the VASST site?
They're at http://vasst.com/?v=ultimate/tutorial_links.htm

Look for a PDF file in the folder in which it was installed.

Thanks Ed.


ian

Hi guys,

I was just wondering if anyone has tried these online, I guess you would call them classes. It's an online "school" that teaches you vegas, as well as many other programs. Here is the link http://apex.vtc.com/welcome.php. Just wondering if anyone had any feedback. Thanks.

I appeal to the your ego to let me know if the following is possible. Is it possible to do a live mask. For example, have you ever seen those premade portrait things at fun parks. You can walk behind the big board, stick you head through it, and take picture of you as someone else.

Well can you do this with a video camera and a mask?

Yes, but not live, at least with Vegas.

There is no live processing/keying available with Vegas, but it would have great capabilities to do it very fast and output it to tape or a monitor, if that would be acceptable for your application.

You would do that with a switcher with keyer. THat's how the amusement parks do it. The people stand in front of the blue screen or green screen, the camera is routed through a switcher with keying abilities, and the video is then routed to tape or disc.

Oh, hehe, holy crap. I was thinking of using it as a tool for wedding shows. I'll keep thinking about the above information.

If you search on this site and on the Sony Media Software forum (and dvxuser.com) for user reviews about the various training products out there.
http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowTopics.asp?ForumID=4

VASST is one company that offers training DVDs for Vegas (and other programs) and they sponsor this site. Douglas Spotted Eagle is the trainer for the core set of Vegas training DVDs (1-3) and he knows his stuff when it comes to Vegas. He beta tests Vegas, flies everywhere to do training for it, has way too many cameras, is a Certified Sony Vegas Trainer (the official Sony Media Software certification), etc. etc.
http://www.vasst.com
http://dvinfo.net/sponsors/#vst

Of course if you read my signature you can see that I'm a little biased. But certainly do a search on this forum and others, you'll find that a lot of people have good things to say about the VASST training DVDs. There's also sample excerpts on the VASST website.

I just finished a project that had some blurring issues and I looked in help and I was sent to this preferance option to insure I was "ignoring third party codec" as well as "always using Microsoft Codec". Was I wrong to change this? It has not seemed to have any adverse effects as of now? Could you please elaborate on this subject Ed!.

Thanks in advance ,

All mt best,

When editing my footage in Vegas and looking at the video scopes, specifically the waveform, if my DVD is going to be viewed on a television, should I have the 7.5 IRE setup box checked in the settings? Meaning, when someone pops this DVD in their set top player, it will add 7.5 IRE (it says NTSC video in the USA adds 7.5 IRE) And when I look at my specific player, it has options to add setup or not...If I color correct my project so that black is at 0 IRE on the waveform (without the box checked), then if setup is added on the dvd player, it will cause the black to look a little washed out.

Actually, I don't KNOW if my DVD is going to be played on a computer or on a TV.. Not sure what to do here..

Then there is the other checkbox that says Studio RGB. Not sure what to check there either. If I check BOTH boxes, it's basically the same as not checking either box...

TOO confused...

IMO for the USA .. check studio RGB 16-235 box ..do NOT check 7.5 ...

if you end up playing it on a HDTV you can go into the HDTV menu and choose 7.5 black

on a computer sceen the 16rgb blacks will be a little lighter then 0rgb black = you could make a special DVD using 0-255 scale ( uncheck studio RGB box) ..you could use that DVD for HDTV's - go into HDTV menu and set black for 0.

beleive it or not, there is absolutely no standardization amongst SD DVD players. In other words, some add 7.5 IRE, some don't. To make matters worse, the product literature never says whether it's added or not, nor does it tell you how top switch it on or off. Pretty disgusting, isn't it? So, IMHO, it's best to leave your blacks at zero, no matter what the playback venue is. If the player is set at zero, you're gonna be OK. If the player is set at 7.5, you'll clip anything below 7.5, or crush your blacks. To my eye, crushed blacks aren't as apparent as that washed out look of clipping your highlights.

Ok thanks for the input. So if I have a person teaching in front of a solid black background (or what I want to be seen as solid black), then I should NOT check either box on the video scopes settings AND I should color correct so that that black background in the video falls to 0 on the waveform scope.

Does that about cover it?

The Sony codec is better than the Microsoft codec. It holds up much better on multiple renders.

Is it possible to select a bunch of events on the timeline and be able to move the markers I have in place along with the events? When I try to select the events and move them, the markers are not going along for the ride.. Anyone know how I can do this?

Make sure Ripple Editing is turned on AND set to move EVERYTHING.

You're god!

Heya's

Just recently bought a Core 2 Duo 2ghz (T7200) Dell laptop. Has 1 gig of ram and a 7200rpm 100 gig hdd inside.

My current Veags Movie Studio Platinum (version 6) editing is happening on my deskstop which is only a Athlon 64 2800+ with 1.5 gig of ram.

I'm thinking in meantime until I upgrade my desktop, and also so I can take the projects with me easily to places I want to show rough edits of, I might start editing on the laptop.

I found a thread that was about 6 months old about external Hdds and laptops but it seemed to be focusing on DV. I edit HDV so was wondering wether both USB2 and Firewire external hard drives can handle capturing, editing, rendering etc?

Before USB2 I know firewire was the only way to go, but am wondering if USB2 can handle it, as I only have one firewire port on the laptop, yet 4 usb2's and external hdd cases (not inc. hdd) without firewire are about half the price where I live.

Thanks

Lee

i use combo USB2/1394a ( 2 1/2 external drives) with my laptop for DV files ... i just haven't tried HDV/USB on them ? i do have some SD uncompressed files on the drives and they play back fine over USB or 1394a -

testing the combo usb/1394 drive on my Averatec laptop the USB is faster then 1394a .. on HP laptop 1394a is faster then USB ...

i have 80% of my clips on some 1394b drives .. i use a pcmcia 1394b card.
use the laptop 4pin 1394a to capture HDV/DV to those 800 gig 1394b drives ( using pcmcia ).

... and not just a bit. If you use the microsoft DV codec and you play back the scenes that are recompressed with this codec on a 82cm widescreen TV-set (assuming you've shot widescreen DV) - you'll notice a degraded picures (almost like the picture is subvivided in little squares of 8x8 or 16x16 pixels...)

I'll grab a frame and post that later or put it on my website...

bottom line: DON'T USE the microsoft codec. You get the sony/sonic foundry codec with the NLE... use it!

I have made a displeasant discovery. I needed to color correct some shots in Vegas and I got them fine, but after rendering they looked slightly different colored when playing back in MediaPlayer. For one reason or another the colour of files played back in Windows MediaPlayer or in Sony Vegas Preview is somewhat different. This is very annoying. Is there any way to correct this? or some setting I can change about this?

Seems my last posts were deleted due to cross posting.....

Does anyone have a solution to transcode HDV to HD-DVD compatible h.264?

I'm currently making red HD-DVD's with mpeg2 but want to fit more video on a DL DVD.

Thanks in advance (and hoping my thread lasts more than day....)

Wes

Render it out in Vegas?

And if you're using an intermediate codec in Vegas, render it from the intermediate file, instead of from an edited m2t file (so the quality remains as high as possible)

I've connected my Sony HVR-A1U HDV camera to my computer via Firewire and the computer recognizes the camera. However, when I am in Vegas trying to print my project to either Mini DV tape or HDV tape, I am having problems.

When I choose print video to tape and choose OHCI complaint IEEE from the drop-down menu, it says no device available. I can't use it. Why? How can I fix this? Ideally, I want my project printed to a regular Mini DV tape in Standard Definition with a 4:3 aspect ratio and 23.976 fps. Next, I would accept it printed in HDV format as 1080i 29.97fps and 16:9 AR with black bars. I am working with a 16mm film transfer btw.

When I choose print to HDV tape then Vegas will see my A1 camera, so I click next letting it choose the HDV-1080i format. I have plenty of space of my hard drive for it to render the .m2t file, so again I click next. The next screen is where I'm supposed to choose manual or crash as the device control mode, but BOTH options are greyed out. I am unable to select anything. How do I fix this?

I'm like Don, with external cases that go both ways. They're handy.

Bear in mind that DV and HDV are the same data rates to and from disk. What works for DV should work for HDV the same. The big difference is processor load to decode the M2T on the fly and display it, but you should be fine on your speedy new Core2 Duo.

The picture changes a little bit for Cineform digital intermediate files, as the datarate is about triple of an M2T, but I've had good experience with USB2 here as well. I don't really do much multilayer video, though.

When I choose print video to tape and choose OHCI complaint IEEE from the drop-down menu, it says no device available. I can't use it. Why? How can I fix this?

Did you change the camera to standard mode instead of HDV mode?

several firms are now making SATA adapters to go in the PCIe slots of a laptop. My own PCIe SATA card has two ports, allowing a RAID 0 with 2 SATA hard drives. RAID 0 will give you a thruput in the regime of 100mb/sec, almost fast enough for uncompressed video.

its been a while since i used vegas, but i cant seem to find the setting for this...

when i hit ctrl-z for undo, it will close vegas right down instead of undoing...so then i lost whatever i was working on (well some of it is saved in the auto-restore)

cant seem to find that setting in the options or keyboard preferences (albiet i could be blind)

thanks!

I've had that happen, too, actually, usually (if not always) right after a ripple edit.

Hey Wes,
Do you mean this thread?
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=79073

Cheers.

Thanks for the info guys. I figured the data rate was the same for HDV as DV, but yeah still wasn't sure. Sounds like USB2 might be able to handle it, but possibly better to fork out the extra dollars to be safe.

The PCIe option sounds nice but I live in Australia and can't say I've seen them around at all. I'm guessing they are a lot pricier as well. I'll have a look around for them.

Thanks again for the info. If anyone is out there that does work with HDV on a laptop with USB2 or Firewire external HDDs, It'd be great to here from you.

I've seen the setup at amusement parks, and here in San Francisco on Fishermans Wharf. The have a greenscreen set up, and a 'flying carpet' that people sit on in front of it. The people are watching a monitor, which has the background on it, and everyone 'reacts' to the movement they see on the screen. It's all recorded and keyed in realtime, then they get a copy.

wierd, I couldnt find that thread, even with search..... Lets move over there and maybe the mod can delete this thread.

Sorry Guys,

Wes

I posted a clip once on another forum with a video related question and it was reposted and the guy told me, "I cleaned up the audio a bit too for you" When asked what he did, he told me he applied compression. I've been messing with this compression thing and reading about it but I still don't understand how to USE the tool to make the audio sound better. Can someone either give me a link or a brief but easy to understand explanation about how to use the track compressor?

there's several ways to apply compression to an audio track, the primary goal being to raise the overall RMS volume of the track. Since audio waveforms consist of peaks and valleys, the volume of the track can only be raised until the peaks begin to max out the audio amplifier and clip(distort). Compression reduces the volume of the peaks in one of 2 ways:
1-brick wall limiting in which no peaks are allowed to exceed a specified value, like 0 dB
2-general compression in which the peaks are rolled off gradually.

I use a compressor, in line with my mike setup, mostly because the dynamics of a voice in a song exceeds the dynamics of the instruments backing up the vocal track. compression helps to keep the vocal from exceeding the dynamic bandwidth of the recording stream.

software compressors, these days, work on several frequency bands, which are selectable by the user. selection of the frequency bands to apply compression to pretty much is a function of what the source is...vocal, musical, percussion, etc. application of a compressor is somewhat of an acquired skill, something a sound engineer is paid well to do well. different compressor algorithms each introduce a quality(or lack thereof) all its own, so the resulting audio stream is influenced by which compressor software you applied to it. the vegas compressors ar OK for general work, but, nowhere near the quality of something like Ozone or Waves. The Soundforge "Normalize" plugin is pretty good, when combined with the plugin's ability to rolloff values that exceed 0 dB. used alone, the Vegas Normalize function does nothing but raise the overall volume of the clip.

I would suggest you spend some time playing with the compressor plugin until you have a fairly good understanding of what the various settings do. Initially, ignore the attack and release settings and concentrate on playing with threshhold and margins. there's a free tutorial over at the Izotope website that might help you understand all the knobs to play with, including multiband compression.

Hi all,


I just got this wonderful Sony tape deck.

My computer recognize it. When I put a tape with HD content the Sony Video capture Xpress sees it and I can take control so the connection is good. But no preview. I can see the image on the tapedeck monitor but nothing through the program.

If I want to capture direct from Vegas it doesn't even let me control the tape and no preview as well.

I tried to look in the options and couldn't find anything. Nor was I succesful with a search on this board, maybe I wasn't thorough though.

Thanks

Phil

As I said in Title I purchased and downloaded Vegas 7 and easily installed and did fine with Vegas 7 and DVD architect 4 serials (as they were on a page after purchase) but did not see/get the serial for Boris Graffitti 3.0 LTD that came with the bundle download (and does Bullet also need one?) does anybody have a quick answer? Where are these serials? or do I have to deal with each company individually or contact sony through there SLOW support...

well at least I am not absolutely crazy...

Check again the order confirmation from SonyMediaSoftware. It should also have Boris Graffiti Serial next to Vegas and DVDA -numbers.

What strikes me odd is that I did not get the download link with Vegas 7 for Boris (or magic Bullet either). I can dl those through my Vegas 5 links, but still.

Nevertheless, I upgraded Boris to full license w/o bothering to install the LTD-versions... I do like the plugin-approach instead of needing each time to render and leave Vegas to accomplish something with Boris.

And I've posted two or three support requests to Sony during last three months and I've got the answer back in two or three days. Its not that slow...