>How would Vegas or a script know WHICH footage belongs TO
the project but is NOT used. Basically it can't.<

The Find Unused Wizard in Neon does exactly that.

Gary

there are file storage websites out there and for a nominal fee allow gigs of storage to be xfered.

I have numerous corporate clients, with offices in NY and London and being here in Oz allows me to work on the Australian element of the presentation, then uplaod and they can do as they wish after that ;)

;)

on larger text u can get away with lower bitates..., u can maybe even run a second track with a softness filter on it.. this may smooth out the lines as well..

glad it worked for u mate :)

Clipstream in Email
 

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video card
 

I'm looking for suggestions. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm running Vegas 5 and want to use an external video monitor as well as have analog capture and output. What video cards would work best.

I'm currently using a NVIDIA Ge-Force FX 5200.

Thanks

well, i have no idea what a script is or how to make one. so i'll stick with rob's advice of just going over the media files manually, one by one, and delete the ones not on my timeline.
thanks.

You're missing out on one of the greatest features in Vegas, then. You really need to take a look at scripting. You don't have to write them as there are already many out there available (some free, some for a small cost). They really are a timesaver.

video card doesn't make any difference. All that you mentioned should be done via a firewire card. External preview goes out firewire, to a camera/convertor/deck, to the monitor.

For analog capture, I do the same thing: Analog source to camera/convertor/deck to the computer via firewire. This will give you your best results.

True to that Edward. For the Lady X episode I handled I wrote
a small script that would open the leader, then present me with
a dialog to open the movie someone sent in and then it would
present me with loading the credit roll movie and it would load
the music underneath that itself. It all crossfaded this and the
only thing I needed to do was make sure the crossfades where
good etc. It also added cropping to get it to widescreen size.

Then all I had to do was hit export and load my quicktime preset
I had made and I was done. Pretty neat.

Edward: do you know if we can group events through scripting
in version 5 now? That was the only thing I could not do and had
to do manually when moving the credit roll around.

i'm still learning. eventually, i imagine i will get around to working with scripts. thanks

Thanks Edward,

do you mean just run it through my XM2 and use this as a convertor? Will this degrade the camera in any way?

Rich

Can't Capture to Ext. HD
 

Hello everyone,

Everytime I try to add my Lacie 250 GB ext. hard drive to the disk management file under capture I get this message from windows "Windows-Delayed Write failed"

I currently have the camcorder and the ext. hd connected to my laptop via 2 port firewire card. I tried the same set-up on my desktop an got the same message. I am using the XP OS.

Isn't it possible to capture footage to an ext. hd ? I thought it was but I am having doubts. Please help.

Al

<<<-- Originally posted by Rob Lohman : Edward: do you know if we can group events through scripting
in version 5 now? That was the only thing I could not do and had
to do manually when moving the credit roll around. -->>>


Grouping events is still not available.

Assuming the XM2 allows passthrough (my XL1 and GL2 do) then, yes, you can just use your camera. As for the camera, it won't be damaged except for the fact that it must be powered on and some people claim the heat from being on can reduce the life of the camera. I have no proof of that but also have no proof to the opposite. Many people use a convertor such as the Canopus ADVC 100.

Yes it is possible to capture to an external hard drive. Your symptoms sound more related to OS/hardware issues to me. Can you do anything at all with the external drive? How are you connecting it? (firewire or usb?)