My audio track is not syncronized with the picture
 

Hello,

I'm using vegas 6.0

A cut and paste parts of a big 1,5 GIG MPG video into a little 127 MB MPG Video...

My voices are not syncronized my with my video and I dont know why...

Can someone help me?
Thank you in advance

PS: In my project I have 2 video tracks ans 4 audio tracks

From your description, it will be hard to answer. For example, was the original file in sync? Also, how were the pieces cut an pasted? Can you simply move the audio so that it IS back in sync?

Also, you do realize that MPEG is NOT a good editing format?

Milt, I'm currently working on a prison related documentary ( I assumed that your title says that you just finished one--but I could be assuming) Would love to trade war stories with you and pick your brain.

You download the codec ..they will tell you which folder to install them..

for win2K/XP & black magic ... C\winNT\system32\quicktime

once you install it then it will show up when you choose to render QT - then you have to go into custom/advanced , Video , video format then choose from among 8-20 different QT codec's = in this case look for black magic = there will be a 10bit and 8 bit ... 8bit if betaSP , 10bit digibeta ..

i use a place that uses FCP with decklink ... i'm on PC with Vegas .. i render out of vegas as QT using the Black Magic 10bit codec 720x486 ... i deliver a 1394 drive ( formatted NTFS) , most of the time i keep files to approx 40gigs each ..so i may deliver 2-4 files ..named 1,2,3,4 so they make no mistake when they drop them into FCP ... they then feed the MAC my files from their PC over their gigabyte network to the mac drives ( they do not charge for this) ... then they transfer to Digibeta using FCP/decklink card ( they charge for this) ...

Thanks John,

Uaing SWISHmax, is it possible to sync a beep or click to each stroke?

I've actually finished the project I needed this for but I would love to find a simpler method to the way I was doing it!

Ian . . .

Good Information. I can do that. So for the final question - if you don't mind sharing - what's the name of the house that does this?

Thanks
Milt Lee

Wanting to learn more about color correction
 

Where can I learn more about color correcting in Vegas5 using filters,histograms etc?
thanks

You could start here:

http://www.bb-video.net/

Vegas6 A/V sync not worth much?
 

Vegas automatically moves all video tracks with it's audio anywhere I want it without having to sync it back up. I tried dropping two same audio tracks into different tracks, but it won't line them up...am I missing something? I thought I could just drop in two tracks from a wedding and Vegas6 would help me sync the A and B cams up, but it doesn't do that

The A/V Sync will help keep the audio and video in ONE AVI file in sync and will give you an indication when they are out of sync. In fact, it will work for multiple grouped events as well.

It is not designed to sync two or more separate cameras. For that purpose, I use the Sync tool in Excalibur which will let you pick a sync point in multiple cameras and will quickly align on that point. Then you can use the multi-cam tools to easily edit that project.

The originial file was in sync

i cut and pasted by highlighting the parts that i wanted...

What if you try this: Place the ENTIRE mpg file on the timeline and render it to DV-AVI. Now cut up the DV-AVI file. Does that work better?

Remember, mpeg is NOT a good editing format.

Yes, it is sync now.. Thank you

Another notch in your Colt, Edward.

for info on Color Correction in depth that applies to all NLE's look for the book

Color Correction for Digital Video: Using Desktop Tools to Perfect Your Image
by Steve Hullfish, Jaime Fowler

http://www.cmpbooks.com/product/1220

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...754580-5469549

i use Video Arts in san Francisco ..

note: that Video arts transfer to Beta Sp by you rendering a 10bit BM codec NOT 8bit .. they then transfer to digibeta 1st then dub to Beta SP ..

So to make a correction in my above post .. when you render for beta SP check with your production/post house on if they want 10bit or 8 bit ..AND if 8 bit i believe the real pixels are 640x486 for beta SP not 720x486 .. again check with your place doing the transfer ...

now i do know that video arts keeps the digibeta used to transfer the project to beta SP for awhile ( 6 months that i know of ) at any time you can have other copies made from it ..and they will sell you the digi beta for a excellent price ...

Vegas 5 stutters bbbaadddd...
 

Hello!

I have used Premiere 6.5 before and never had any problems with the playback...

Now I have switched to Vegas 5.0d. I already found out about the PAL capture problem (Minimum Clip Lenght) and solved it... Now the captured files cannot be watched in any way in the regular Preview window. You can see them wobbling around skipping 3 seconds on 1 second of playback.. I already tried using a different preview mode (default is Preview (Automatic)).

I have heard so many great things about Vegas... right now, it's just a little frustrating :) .

Thank you!

Matthias

thanks for the advice

Straight DV-AVI with NO effects/changes made to it should play back at full framerate. If it does not do so then something else is going on. For example, is the hard drive in PIO mode instead of DMA? Is something else running in the background eating up CPU time? What are the system specs? Previewing to preview screen or external monitor?

Uninstall Version a to Install Version b
 

Just downloaded the updated V6b...I already have the "a" version installed. Should I uninstall the existing program or overwrite into the same directory?
Thanks -db

It should automatically find and patch a to b without you doing anything since it is still the same major version(6). I just did this without any issues. No need to deinstall.

Bryan

Vegas Render Settings?
 

What seems to be the best settings for rendering in Vegas for the following?

1. Codec - In the video device tab in preferences - what is the best codec to use? Cinepak, NTSC DV, Mainconcept? or would it be better just to save as .AVI and compress in TMPGenc (which is what I've always used before Vegas - and seems to do a wonderful, quick job).

2.In project properties, should I deinterlace my footage with "blend fields", use a deinterlace plugin, or what?

3.And does it make a real difference if the full-resolution rendering quality is set to "best" vs. "good"?

I'm using Vegas 5.0b and rendering out footage shot with my PD170.

thanks!

Are you putting PAL clips into a NTSC timeline by any chance?

If you look at video preview window, it should say something like Project: 720X576X32 25.000i (I think those are the numbers for PAL).

humm....the download is 90+megs. Did you download a patch or the entire b download..
David Bird

The updates are full installs. If you had NOTHING installed, you could install directly to 6.0b. If you have 6.0a installed, it will be UPDATED to 6.0b. Either way, just install 6.0b.

#1) depends on what you are wanting to do. When I am printing to tape, I render as DV-AVI. When I'm making a DVD, I render to MPEG2. When making something for the web, WMV. It all depends on your current task which you haven't defined here.

#2) I have left these at the default settings

#3) Unless you're doing photo montages or something using very hi-res images with scaling, you don't need "Best" - stick with "Good".

Thanks for your help....
David

excellent - I'll give them a call.

Milt

I am doing various projects in Vegas right now, one being a wedding, but everything I do goes to DVD, not the web or back to tape, and I want the best quality.

Thanks for the response Edward - still curious about the codec to use out of the MANY in the Vegas dropdown box. I guess since Cinepak is first, maybe it's best??

If you are going to DVD, you want to create MPEG2 files - NOT AVI. Even if I were creating an AVI file I'd use the standard NTSC-DV (assuming US standards).

Go to File - Render As. As the "Save As type", pick MPEG2. Under the presets, choose one of the DVD Architect settings and then go to custom and don't change anything except the average bitrate. This needs to be modified to match the length of your video.

I have how to create a DVD written up in one of the issues of my newsletter (I think Vol 1 #7 without looking to verify). Just click on the link under my name.

Using DivX Files
 

I have a DivX file with an avi extension that plays just fine with the DivX player, but when I bring it into Vegas, the video is about a quarter as long as the audio track and there is no audio. It is just a straight line. Any suggestions?

MITCH

Try converting it. Someone on the Sony forum suggested virtualdub. Use a lossless codec like huffyuv, or use DV.

RAD video tools converting it to uncompressed AVI worked for me, but I suspect virtualdub works better.

Version 6.0a worked fine on one computer but the media manager would crash continually on the second computer.

After I installed version B both crash on startup. anybody know why?

do u have acid5 installed??
also have u ever installed acid5??

im also gettin this problem and its a known issue..

heres some feedback from sony

Im still investigating the issue from this end, hopefully theyll find a workaround..

"Some of you have reported having stability issues with the Media Manager
active. If this is you, it is recommended that you completely uninstall
Vegas 6, all versions of the Sony Media Manager, and, if present ACID
Pro 5, and then reinstall ACID Pro 5 (current version on our website)
and this, build #110 (or any later build) of Vegas 6. This should ensure
that no beta or mismatched shared Media Manager components are residing
on your system.

i actaully use Main concept Main Actor 5.2 if i need it as DV, or if i jsut want to convert it, i use ManConcepts mpg converter

Thanks Peter. I did everything you said and it did work.......sort of........Acid worked fine after the reinstall. Vegas sort of works better. it doesnt freeze when I open up small veg files but still freezes on the bigger veg files.

small file is about 16kb and big is considered 68kb.

so there is still something wrong; however, i did find that if i unselect the "automatically open up last project" option in the preferences window then Vegas starts up a lot better.

I feel like throwing the system out the window. hehe.

Brandon,
As Edward has said, if you are going to DVD output, render to DVD compliant mpeg2. This means you won't have to rerender and thus lose quality. The only time you shouldn't is if you render to an uncompressed file for compression in a third party compressor (Cinema Craft Encoder, etc).
I only ever use two codecs in Vegas: Mpeg2 for DVD, AVI-PAL for print to tape. Oh, also AC3 and WAV audio.

About deinterlacing, if you require it, visit http://mikecrash.wz.cz/. He has written a vegas filter based on the Smart Deinterlacer for virtualdub you can try.

I thought Vegas 6.0 could recognize the nonsync'ed audio by turning the clip ink..of course only with an original file ? Or is it only for AVI ?

Vegas 6 will do that if the two pieces are moved out of sync. However, it the playback STARTS out of sync, there's no way for Vegas to know.

DivX vs. 3ivX
 

hello,
does anybody have experience with the settings in Divx and 3ivx to make this both codecks working well? I realized problems in Vegas, when there are instaled this codecks.... rendering is so much slower, sometimes the result is not smooth...

thx.