Vegas Video discussions from 2004 (Q1Q2)

John Hudson · April 5th, 2004, 02:33 PM

Grab a frame and put into Photoshop?

Josh Bass · April 5th, 2004, 02:47 PM

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?

Keith Loh · April 5th, 2004, 02:56 PM

What kind of animation?

Edward Troxel · April 5th, 2004, 03:08 PM

How are you capturing? Via firewire? Or Analog?

Does it work with some other program? (such as Scenalyzer...)

Edward Troxel · April 5th, 2004, 03:09 PM

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.

Anthony Williams · April 5th, 2004, 03:25 PM

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...

Keith Loh · April 5th, 2004, 03:32 PM

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.

Josh Bass · April 5th, 2004, 04:03 PM

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.

Glen Elliott · April 5th, 2004, 05:01 PM

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?!

Rob Easler · April 5th, 2004, 05:42 PM

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

Glen Elliott · April 5th, 2004, 06:29 PM

Wow- thanks for the info Rob. Odd isn't it?!

Chris Hendrick · April 5th, 2004, 06:40 PM

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

Edward Troxel · April 5th, 2004, 07:20 PM

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)

Edward Troxel · April 5th, 2004, 07:24 PM

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.

Josh Bass · April 5th, 2004, 09:16 PM

Hmmm. . .'tis possible. From whence do I download scenealyzer?

April 5th, 2004, 02:47 PM	#1127
Josh Bass Slash Rules! Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 5,472	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? __________________ The Bass' camerawork The Bass on IMDB

April 5th, 2004, 02:56 PM	#1128
Keith Loh Air China Pilot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Vancouver, B.C. Posts: 2,389	What kind of animation? __________________ -- Visit http://www.KeithLoh.com \| stuff about living in Vancouver \| My Flickr photo gallery

April 5th, 2004, 03:32 PM	#1132
Keith Loh Air China Pilot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Vancouver, B.C. Posts: 2,389	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. __________________ -- Visit http://www.KeithLoh.com \| stuff about living in Vancouver \| My Flickr photo gallery

April 5th, 2004, 04:03 PM	#1133
Josh Bass Slash Rules! Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 5,472	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. __________________ The Bass' camerawork The Bass on IMDB

April 5th, 2004, 05:01 PM	#1134
Glen Elliott Wrangler Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 2,898	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?!

April 5th, 2004, 02:33 PM	#1126
John Hudson Major Player Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: 32° 44' N 117° 10' W Posts: 820	Grab a frame and put into Photoshop?

April 5th, 2004, 03:08 PM	#1129
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	How are you capturing? Via firewire? Or Analog? Does it work with some other program? (such as Scenalyzer...)

April 5th, 2004, 03:09 PM	#1130
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	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.

April 5th, 2004, 03:25 PM	#1131
Anthony Williams Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 26	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...

April 5th, 2004, 05:42 PM	#1135
Rob Easler Major Player Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Naperville, IL Posts: 219	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

April 5th, 2004, 06:29 PM	#1136
Glen Elliott Wrangler Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 2,898	Wow- thanks for the info Rob. Odd isn't it?!

April 5th, 2004, 06:40 PM	#1137
Chris Hendrick New Boot Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: NY Posts: 21	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

April 5th, 2004, 07:20 PM	#1138
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	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)

April 5th, 2004, 07:24 PM	#1139
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	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.

April 5th, 2004, 09:16 PM	#1140
Josh Bass Slash Rules! Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 5,472	Hmmm. . .'tis possible. From whence do I download scenealyzer? __________________ The Bass' camerawork The Bass on IMDB