Thanks for your time
 

It would be nice if you could do it on the same track, the transitions seem to work better.

Thanks again.

Jon

Pete- don't be scrared. It won't bite you.

I found that with Satish's tools often it is something dumb that cause crashes etc. For instance, you have turn down your preview memory to 0 in order for these tools to work. Stuff like that usually causes the problems.

It's Here, It's Here!
 

Finally, it's here!

Vegas 4.0 and DVDA 1.0 installed, and working!

I've already burnt a dvd, arelatively quick project, consisting of 2 sets of a band playing live, and adding audio recorded on the Mini disc player (The reason I got the program in the first place, to sinc audio and video!)

The question I have today is:

Should I render the titles and audio and video for each set as an .AVI file, and let DVDA render the .AVI files to MPEG-2 when burning the DVD, or am I better off rendering in Vegas to MPEG-2, then using the MPEGs in DVDA?

I'm wondering on two counts.

1) Quality

and 2) Time.

All help, as usual, very much appreciated.

Thanks, Andy

Hi Vince:

I didn't get any beeps, the audio dropped out every 5 seconds or so for 1/2 a second.

BTW got my Vegas proper yesterday, installed, and now I'm off and running.

Love this program.

Andy

Congratulations!!!


It really doesn't matter whether you give DVDA an AVI file or render to MPEG in Vegas. Each method has it's own advantage. If you render to MPEG in Vegas:
1) You only have to render the MPEG file ONCE no matter how many times you build the DVD
2) You have more control over the MPEG settings

If you give DVDA an AVI file:
1) Simpler method of setting the file size to "fit"

Thanks Andy happy cutting

will stay in touch


Best
Vince

Vegas 4.0 perform invert/revert?
 

If I build the static 35mm adapter for my GL2, what steps in Vegas are required to get the image upright and reversed correctly?

Thanks,

Joseph

Yeah, Rob, too bad.

Many times when we are just playing around, could really burn a CD instead of a more expensive DVD blank.

Thanks for the reply Edward.

Sets 3 and 4 of the band I rendered to MPEG, and imported into DVDA.

I then deleted the captured AVI files (approx. 40 mins each)

I then imported the MPEGs into DVDA and guess what? I was about 15% over the 4.7 gigs.

Am I correct in assuming if I'd brought in AVI files, I'd be able to change the bit rate to 'squash' the info down enough to fit? The bit rate wouldn't change, I'm thinking it was because they were mpegs.

If So then I've learnt:

1/. Don't delete the source AVIs until I'm POSITIVE I've finished with them.

2/. If I think I might be near the 4.7 gig limit, let DVDA render.

Thnaks again for the replies Edward.

Cheers,

Andy

Yes. If you had given DVDA the AVI files then you could have adjusted the bitrate to match the total size.

Alternately, just make sure you render the correct size to begin with. Take a look at my newsletter where I discuss this topic. I also have a bitrate chart in that issue.

http://www.jetdv.com/tts

Go into the pan/crop settings for the clip. There should be presets
there to flip the image (if I remember correctly).

p.s. I moved the post to a more approriate forum

well i installed it, and it runs fine as standalone

then when tryin to run it as a plugin i keep gettin the .NET thingy, so i go to MS and download the 20odd mb app...

restart the machine, try to run the plugin and it happens again..

run the app as standalone, an theres no problem..

then theres the GFX card support, apparently its supposed to support gfx card rendering, which for some reason wont read a Radeon ATI card.. so its all done in SW...

these are jsut bugs, so im sure he'll fix these.

good potnetial and its free...

great work Satish!

I've heard when this happens, usually an uninstall and reinstall of Vegas is necessary. I wonder why Sony doesn't alert users to download and install .net framework first?

Yes, pan/crop can do that easily.

To get to the "presets", open Pan/Crop, right-click the image on the Pan/Crop screen, and several options appear including "Flip Horizontal" and "Flip Vertical".

Peter, there ARE some cases where it is necessary to uninstall/reinstall Vegas AFTER installing the .NET Framework.

Can you run any scripts? If not, I would recommend the uninstall/reinstall procedure.

Audio workflow suggestions?
 

I'm looking to shoot with both a wireless and onboard shotgun with my newly aquired PD-170 for the upcoming Wedding season. I've heard from many the best set-up is to have one on each channel that way in post I can pan accordingly to get the sound from whatever source I choose. Nothing is lost in imaging beings both sources are record mono.

My question is this- say if I record this way and I have the shotgun audio in the Left Channel, and the wireless in Right. If there is a sceen where I want only the wireless audio- what do I do? Do I pan to the right (or channel it was recorded on)...will that effectively give me the audio of the wireless out of both left and right?

How about instances where I want both sources out of both channels simultaneously? I heard people talk about duplicating channels. How do I do that? Or should I just duplicate the audio clip and pan one all the way to the left and the other panned all the way to the right?

Thanks in advance!

You right click on the event and choose which channel you want. Check the Vegas shortcuts list.

2- To have both I think you want to duplicate the audio onto another track. You may have to slide one of the channels back a little bit to account for different times it takes for the sound to get to your mic. (not too sure about this)

Yep, just add the audio twice, right-click one of them, choose Channels, then Left Channel Only. Right-click the other one, choose Channels, then Right Channel Only. Then you can use the standard volume controls to determine how much of each is added to the final mix.

Problem using avi clips outside vegas
 

Hi, don't know if this is a vegas related problem or a windows xp one.

I want to use clips captured with vegas in others applications, like AE and SteadyHand but I am unable to plaback thoses clips outside Vegas, even Windows Media Player cannot play them.

I have heard that Vegas use a proprietary DV codec so I have tried to render my clips in uncompressed AVI without better result.

In WMP, I get this error: Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The file is either corrupt or the Player does not support the format you are trying to play.

When I try to play it within Steadyhand: Directshow problem: Could not playback video file !

So I need some help here.. :)

Thanks

While the Vegas codec can only be used by Vegas for rendering purposes, it can still be READ by other codecs (such as MSDV). Also, capturing is an entirely different animal - the codec doesn't even come into play. Something else must be going on.

Vegas internally uses a different codec indeed (but you can force
it to use MSDV in the settings). BUT, it writes 100% compliant
MSDV files. If you look in the header it is the exact same as MSDV.

So if you can't read the files something else must be wrong.
I can play all my Vegas files in Windows Media Player without a
problem. I would suggest you download the latest WMP from
Microsoft and (re)install it. See if that fixes your problem. Sounds
like the DV codec has been messed up somehow. (Re)Installing
the latest version of DirectX might help in this case as well.

Are you capturing the clips, editing them and then rendering them to AVI's?

If so, I wonder if you are rendering them as OpenDML (AVI 2.0) files, which can't be read by every application.

Try rendering a clip and select Custom Template then Video and uncheck the OpenDML box in the Video Settings.

I Lost Some Titling Fonts!
 

Yesterday, I formatted my hard drive and re-installed vegas 4.0 (which I had done many times prior with no problems). Prior to this, I had been editing a wedding video which was coming along nicely.

After re-installing Vegas, I brought up my previously edited wedding video and I noticed that all the titling fonts/letters on the timeline titles had changed to "symbols." When I went to change everything back to the original letter styles, I noticed that many of the letter styles had disappeared from the drop down list under the media generator titler. For example, I no longer have "stencil" or "Batavia".

What happened?

HELLLLLLLLLLLLLP!

Rob, Thank you for your reply and suggestions, I will try it tonight.

Ian, I have already tried this one without better result.

i like my Vegas config the way it is now, it's rock solid and i have no issues.

I think i'll leave it until i finish these next projects and then decide.

it still works as standalone so thats good enough to learn with for now i guess.

Evidently, when you reformatted, there must have been other programs that you did not reinstall that had these fonts associated with them.

Vegas will use whatever true-type fonts you have on your system. Just locate the fonts you want and install them on your system and Vegas will see them automatically.

Re-Rendering Question?
 

I have two prevously rendered MPEG2 clips and want to join them in Vegas.
If I put the two clips end to end in the timeline with no transistions and re-render to MPEG2, will I lose quality?

Yes you will. Every frame will be de-compressed and then re-compressed. Either revert back to the original AVI and re-render OR use some other program that can join MPEG files (such as TMPGenc)

Okay
 

In other words, if I install a word processing program like Microsoft Word, Vegas will borrow the fonts from that program? I understand what you are saying but there have been times that I have installed Vegas on prior times without any other word processing programs and I still had no fonts missing like now. What programs besides word processors does Vegas get it's fonts from?

ANY program that installs fonts. Go to Start - Control Panel and look at the Fonts section. THOSE are the fonts on your system. What installed any particular font? Some program you installed. No way we can know WHICH program.

Vegas will happily use any font on your system - no matter where it came from. So, yes, if you install a word processor and it installs fonts, those fonts will then be available in Vegas.

You can also download true-type fonts from the web and install them. They will also be made available in Vegas.

Any particular font you're missing?

Missing Fonts
 

I know for a fact I am missing Batavia and Stencil.

If you google the font names with the words download, font, etc., you will find different download sites for them. Just download the file and then drop the ttf file(s) in your Windows/Fonts folder. I found Batavia in about a 1/2 second with google. Use this search string "download batavia font" and choose a site. Try the same with the stencil font.

Restoring PreSets
 

Hi Guys!

This maybe just Newbie Ignorance, with a simple fix, but it's frustrating the hell out of me.

I put a border (The Translucent Blue One) on, and must have clicked on something bgy mistake, and now it's solid. How do I restore the preset to it's original parameters?

Cheers,

Andy

Strange thing...
 

What's peculiar is that stencil and batavia should be in my fonts folder through Windows XP. Why in the world did Vegas not pick it up?

Those are NOT standard Windows fonts. Some program you installed in the past (but didn't install this time) had to have added them.

Do as Todd suggested and just download them from the internet.

Set all the settings the way the were originally and then hit save?

Uninstall/reinstall?

Thanks Edward.

That's my problem, I can't remember the settings! Also, I vaguely remember try to save over a preset and not being allowed to by the program.

Uninstall / Re-install? I was hoping to avoid that.

Maybe I'll save that for when I try the .NET Framework.

btw do you ever sleep? :)

btw part II I've tried a few things with saving stills from Video, following the links I've got from hints in this forum, and I've come to the conclusion that the help I get from the people on this forum is nearly as amazing as the program itself.

A heart felt thanks for saving me time and frustration.

Andy

<btw do you ever sleep? >

Andy, you will find that those of us from the great state of Illinois, home to Abe Lincoln, the Stockyards, Sears Tower, O'Hare airport, the transportation hub of the US, the middle of the country, the home to so many dishonest politicians, where in 1968 the first Mayor Daley decreed 'If you can't join 'em, beat em'.... wait, I forgot what I was going to say. Oh yeah, naw, we never sleep, it too noisy what with all the planes trains automobiles and politicians filling the stratosphere with hot air!

Don B.