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 want to make the CN Tower move!
 

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?

No audio on capture
 

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.

Rebuilding Peaks?
 

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?!

My Second Video in Vegas - Courage
 

http://homepage.mac.com/slackpacker/...Theater11.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.

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

avi contrast problems, Help!
 

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?

RSVP for Sony Event at NAB
 

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.

I don't know if Scenalyzer adds any watermarks to the audio. If not, just add the video captured in Vegas and the audio captured in Scenalyzer - then make sure they're in sync! That should solve your problem for now.

Vegas will not capture the second stereo audio channel. That's why I originally bought Scenalyzer - which can capture the video and BOTH stereo channels in one pass.

However, for $33, if it solves your problem, it's a VERY SMALL price to pay.

Chris, thanks for posting this. I have a few comments:

1. Use a tripod. The jerky movement was unsettling.
2. Don't zoom in & out -- it looks too homevideoish.
3. Watch out for the fast & inconsistent panning
4. When you were focusing on a subject, I found it disconcerting to see them talk when you couldn't hear them.
5. This type of venture might work well with a healthy dosage of slow motion (that is, if it is about this length and just set to music).
6. I liked some of the shots -- especially the fog or clouds (I guess fog is a cloud!)

And, finally, I am sure that there is a story that you're trying to tell, but I don't know what it is. If you don't use voiceovers, you can still use titles. Off the top of my head, I'd want to know things like:
- is this is first time walking on the Appalachian trail?
- Why is he doing it?
- How far does he go each day?
- What is the weather like (highs/lows during his trip)
- Does he do any of this alone, or is it with the same people throughout?
- How many people have done this?
- How much preparation did this take?
- Did he face any particular hardships?

This is the type of project that can take on a life of it's own, and before you know it, you can be trying to edit it down to an hour, so it just depends on what you're trying to do with it.

Also, I did like the music.

If you like doing this, then please, keep doing it. Follow your dream.

Same comments/questions as James

but I do want to know, why did you choose the carrion eating bird as the ending, is there any significance to it?

it felt like an inside joke, tribute, or just some random ending

The only other input I can provide is in regards to pacing. I found some of your shots a bit long. Especially present during the shot inside the car...it was almost like you were drawing it out waiting for the peak in the song. Also once that peak in the song hits try using a "flash" transition...I feel it would be more impactfull than a page flip. Otherwise good second effort- keep up the hard work!

Vegas & OMF
 

I'm a Vegas user, working with an Avid producer. I'm working on the audio of an indie film and scoring the music. He wants to give me the project files as OMF, but, I'm finding that Vegas does not support this file format. Why doesn't Vegas support this file and what are anyones thoughts on how I can work with my producer on this project?

thanks for your help.

How about this:

http://www.cuibono-soft.com/Store/ED...rt_pro_v3.html

The Hawk at the end was... just a thought I had. The end of the thing it caught and the end of the video.

I have to learn how to not pan! and Zoom. :)

The whole idea behind the Video was - To say goodbye to a friend going away for 6 months on the Trail.

Thanks for all the feedback

Chris

I'm off to GA tomm for 8 Day's to start Hiking the AT with Bill I'm sure going to use the tips for the video I shoot there.

Douglas/Jay

Is there any word on an Australian launch or get together?

I have afew suppliers who would be interested in gathering afew people here in Sydney, and im sure there are many other Aus users out there who would be interested in something like as well.

any info would be greatly appreciated.

I'm out of suggestions for this particular problem, Peter. Sorry.
Uncompressed doesn't use any codec at all, so that can't be a
problem.

Peter,
It's looking fairly good that we'll be coming to Australia again with the VASST tour. Working that out now, for the summer. As far as launches go, that's handled by a different division of Sony, so they wouldn't likely comment to us at Sundance Media Group/VASST on their launch plans for down under....I'll ask about it though!