That's a pretty different topic. Emre gave you a link to a tutorial on how to change a particular range of colors. If you want to get "cinelike" colors then you will probably need to change all the colors in an image. First off you need to define what "cinelike" is... parts of it ma not be achievable/practical in post. If you want your films to look like Hollywood, then there's things like art direction and lighting which will make your footage look great but these things cannot be done in post.

If you want things to look like film, check out the film look forum here on dvinfo.net. Some people say to shoot film if you want the film look, since you cannot achieve the same effect with video.

Better yet, if you want things to look like film shoot Super 16mm!

There are a couple of tutorials on the use of Vegas color correction tools:

http://www.wideopenwest.com/%7ewvg/tutorial-3.htm

http://www.wideopenwest.com/%7ewvg/tutorial-8.htm

http://www.wideopenwest.com/%7ewvg/tutorial-11.htm

http://www.martyhedler.com/homepage/...Tutorials.html

and a good one on Disk 5 of Gary's DVD,

http://www.vegastrainingandtools.com...video_dvd.html

progressive footage looks interlaced when sped up - why?
 

My progressive frames footages looks like interlaced footage when I speed it up in Vegas. I don't want this but I can't seem to find the way to correct it. Preferences have field order set to none (progressive).

Why is this happening and how can I help it?

My story and my thoughts

I left premiere to go to canopus (edius, storm,,,).
Then I found Vegas and found reason. It was like working with qubase making music (the good old days)
Premiere is always in my pc in case i have "troubles". But with vegas have no troubles any more.
I really love this program, the DVD as well.

how does it seem to be interlaced? Sometimes depending on ur preview panel quality settings, youll get interlacing if teh source material in interlaced and ur project is set to progressive...

i personally have never had an issue. i shoot with DVX100s and use vegas all the time..

Stupid Page file Glitch.. rant
 

okies, heres my gripe..

vegas kicks ass.. yes.. it surely does.. BUT

sometimes when working on a longform project with copious amounts of footage on the timelines, the pagefile will poo itslelf and give me a random frame within a clip which is totally unrelated.. thats the first gripe..

the second is when using teh Flash transition.. again, very similar to the randome frame, this one however cycles through a load of frames which can be a good effect if i wanted to use it.. but i dont.. it only happens with the flash transition though..

its not a ram thing.. im using corsair and have never had an issue.. but apparently this is a known issue.. :(

lets hope V6 alleviates this

I mean that when I open the rendered .AVI with any external player, it is obviously made up of fields. But only the shots that were sped up.

I suspect it has something to do with the properties of the individual clip that has been sped up, but I've been testing different settings to no avail...

I guess i'll have to take those clips into After Effects and speed them up there.

I have also, on two or three occasions, seen a totally unrelated frame appear. I do believe it is a RAM related issue simply because exiting and restarting Vegas will make it go away.

Split Screen
 

I am filming a movie in which one actor plays two characters. Such as in the film Dead Ringers. How do I take the same scene, filmed with each different "character" and splice it to look like they are in the same location and shot. Thanks for your help.

MITCH

Vegas 5:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...threadid=28430

Vegas 3/4:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?threadid=4092

Yep- I started a long thread a while back about this problem. Very frustrating- here's hoping to get it fixed in 6...because the problem traveled from 4 to 5 without being addressed.

Matrox rt .x10 and Vegas
 

I purchased the matrox rt. x10 a while back bundled with premiere because I got a pretty good deal. Iv not been liking premiere to much and have been thinking of going vegas. My question is, does anyone here have experience with matrox and vegas? is it an issue that it came with premiere, I mean does it work "better" with adobe? Just curious.

P4 3.2 Hyperthreaded
2gig Ram
Matrox rt. x10

Thanks!

Vegas does not use any of the hardware acceleration cards. In fact, unless it standard OHCI compatible, you won't even be able to use it. You're better off just using a standard firewire card.

Of course, part of the problem is DUPLICATING the problem. This one is one of those that may be impossible to duplicate in house unless they just happen to get one.

This would make the whole point of the matrox card usless then, so is the advantage of faster rendering/capturing given by the card, worth sacrificing for vegas?

To me, no. To some, yes. The increased workflow and greater stability means more to me than worrying about any rendering that must be done.


Hey Mark, you're only a couple hours away from me! We were in St. Louis last Sunday.

I also had bought the RTX10 with Premiere 6.5, a couple years ago. A nice deal, but when Vegas 4 came out I switched. The RTX10 was very hardware demanding, and I felt limited to the Matrox effects for Premiere regarding the realtime usage.
Vegas also offers realtime previewing which works very fine with. And the RTX10 doesn't have the fast MPEG2 rendering the RTX100 offers, so for rendering there was no reason the prefer the RTX10/Premiere combo. I have had both systems on my pc for more than a year. But after buying Vegas I never touched Premiere again. At the moment, Premiere and the Matrox card are removed from my system.

If i switched to vegas should I remove the card, orlet it be to use it for anolog stuff?

i have a couple of render files which are a perfect example, but i think that the next time i see this, ill do a camtasia capture and get it straight off the timeline..
might be the best way to get this out to sony..

if we cant reproduce it, we can at least show it..
..

Vegas 4 doesn't like Aiff files, help me convert pwease.
 

So I got some music tracks from a friend, and I find out they're Aiff files, which apparently Vegas 4 can't read (when I try to import them into a project from the hard drive, I get a message about "problem importing blah blah, files are corrupt or of an unrecognized format". Now, I played one of these files, via the QT player, so I know they're okay.

I found some trial software to convert Aif to a variety of formats, so I tried to convert these files to MP3 using it, and when I played the converted, files, it was just noise, like static, all the way through. Apparently I don't know what I'm doing. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp.

You can keep the card inside for analog capturing. I remember a capture utility from Matrox you can use for that, that I think will work without having to start up Premiere. Check it out for yourself.

Quicktime Pro can easily convert, but it would cost a small amount of money. RAD Video Tools (shareware; Bink and Smacker) might also be able to do it.

I don't know if they fixed Vegas working with variable bit-rate mp3... personally I'd stick with wav. Constant bitrate mp3 should also work.

Vegas should also be able to import and convert... don't know what's happening there.

The free Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ - can do this.

According to Sony's website, Vegas DOES support .AIF files.

It is possible that it uses Quicktime to open those files. Have you installed ALL of QT? (Including the authoring components - requires a "custom" install).

Personally, for analog captures I still prefer to capture via firewire and use a camera/convertor/deck to do the analog to digital conversion.

DV50 setting?
 

Can anyone tell me if Vegas has a setting for DV50 or 1:1 rendering? - Thanks, Jeff

You could render uncompressed (which is 1:1 compression?).

I don't think Vegas has a DVCPRO50 codec or 50mbps codec, but I could be wrong.

Yeah, I would think it would support that format, but every time I tried to import the files, it gave me the weird message.

If the files are truly NOT corrupt, I would check with tech support about it, then. They may want to see one of the files.

You could also e-mail one to me and I'd try it on my system.

Thanks, all.

Audacity did the trick; I converted the aif files to .wav files, and all is well. Vegas can see them, and the gods smile down upon me.

Ed, I may not have installed all the needed components last time I installed Vegas 4. I didn't do anything special during the installation, just picked a directory, told it to install, etc. If there's some special option you have to use to make all the QT components install correctly, I didn't do it.

It's not when installing Vegas - It's when installing Quicktime. When you install quicktime you MUST choose "Custom" and then pick all the options that the standard install leaves out - particularly the "Authoring Components".

I recommend reinstalling Quicktime, picking all the components, and then trying to put the .AIF file into Vegas again - just to see if it will work.

Ah. Gotcha. Will do. Thanks.

And later, the Bass says:

Well, when I downloaded quicktime to install it, there is no "custom installation" option. It just kinda does it for you. Is it hidden?

It should have the standard windows installation options of "Minimal", "Standard", and "Custom" or something like that. It's on one of the first few screens. You MUST pick custom or anything that uses the Quicktime engine will NOT work correctly.

I dont think it does---you might be able to download the Panasonic Pro/50 codec----I vaguely remember someone telling me it would work.

Could you explain a bit more on what you are doing there Edward?
My AC3 encoding skills aren't up to par yet <g>

The following may sound harsh, but it's not meant in such way,
but why do you care? What does it matter?

Basically, encoding to AC automatically lowers the volume by the amounts specified in those settings. If you do not want any lowering, change them as specified. There are others much more knowledgeable than me on the topic who, I'm sure, could explain how each setting in detail.

ive been told that the main concept dvcpro50 codec SHOULd bolt onto Vegas without a problem..

im yet to try this as im in the middle of 3 projects as i write thi s(its rendering) but the issue stems from teh bandwidth required for playback and rendering..

Sata and IDE just dont cut it im afrad.. a Sata raid might get away with it...

hell im using a Digisuite with a scsi raid array and its the only thing i can think of which can handle this apart from avid

maybe the axio system when its released wil be able to streamline sata raids, or vegas 6 might, considering its a full rebuild of the application, might be able to handle it on a dual xeon... who knows. this is just speculation...

This sounds like you have some settings wrong. Make sure your
project and export settings are both set to PROGRESSIVE (or none
for interlaced). Both are set to interlaced default!!!