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?