Vegas Video discussions from 2005 (Q1Q2)

Brad Scott · April 14th, 2005, 05:39 AM

Thanks Gary.

Jay Gladwell · April 14th, 2005, 07:52 AM

Can't make it to NAB this year?

Mark your calenders!

On Wednesday, April 20th, 9:00 p.m. Pacific time, there will be an online NAB-Live chat in the Vegas Café Chat Room with Douglas Spotted Eagle, Victor Milt, and other members of the VASST team. Stay tuned, as more details become available.

You'll find the Vegas Café at: www.gooddogproductions.com/chat/vegas_cafe.htm

Add the above link to your "Favorites" folder.

Edward Troxel · April 14th, 2005, 08:58 AM

Grazie, that's only 5:00 AM for you! Midnight on the east coast.

Now, if I can only remember next Wednesday.........

Bob Safay · April 14th, 2005, 03:56 PM

Question, can Vages do side-by-side shots? I want to be able to compair the golf swing of an instructor and a student swinging a golf club. I used to do it all the time with linier editing. Bob Safay

Glen Elliott · April 14th, 2005, 04:07 PM

With ease. Can be done with either pan/crop OR track motion.

Dennis Vogel · April 14th, 2005, 06:46 PM

So removing a blank DVD stops it from hanging when you select "Make DVD"? Then how do you make a DVD?

Good luck.

Dennis

Ian Slessor · April 14th, 2005, 06:48 PM

Hi people,

I "filmed" my kids Competition Dance Showcase (I know, I know, I didn't "film" it - please humour me... ;-)

We used a GL2 (close on right side) & an XL1s (wide at back of room).

Unfortunately the XL1s footage for the first 15 dances came out overexposed enough that it's really annoying. The GL2 footage is nice apart from the fact the lighting guy didn't remove coloured gels on some of the lights.

I need this footage so what is the best technique(s) to make the best of the overexposed footage? I'm using Vegas 5.0b (build 160) if that helps.

I could really use some help here being new and all.

Many thanks to anyone and everyone who assists me with this. Your HVX200 will be in the mail after I win the lottery.

sincerely,

ian

Edward Troxel · April 14th, 2005, 07:02 PM

In the last issue of my newsletter I list many different ways to do this task. Just click the link under my name.

Edward Troxel · April 14th, 2005, 07:05 PM

Good luck. You can't bring back detail that isn't there. If you post a snapshot, maybe someone can play with it and get some reasonable results.

Chris Trainor · April 15th, 2005, 12:08 AM

I have a dell xeon, gig ram, Vegas 5, dual monitors coming out of a Radeon 7000.

I often use both monitors when I am working on certain types of projects, but generally just disable the 2ndary and use one for day to day stuff.

Anyway, often I will open vegas in one of the two modes, but almost always use both monitors eventually when working. But sometimes now when I open up vegas the scroll bars at the bottom of the page and for the master controls are just black bars. It generally takes different reboot configurations to get it back, with one monitor on, with both, just seems to fix itself at random.

Pic below:

http://bouncebooking.com/temp/vegas-error.jpg

Anyone ever occured this?

Steve Roffler · April 15th, 2005, 04:32 AM

you can try fooling around with some of the video effect filters. Color curves and color corrector might help. Try turning down the gain in the color corrector and then adjusting the color curves. But as Edward mentioned, this is of limited use if the video is really overexposed.

Bob Costa · April 15th, 2005, 06:16 AM

Use DVDA for authoring & prep, Nero for burning. I tried several DVD burners before I gave up on DVDA and started usingthis procedure.

Edward Troxel · April 15th, 2005, 09:10 AM

I've seen this mentioned before. I believe it is related to your video driver/video settings. You may try going to Options - Preferences and turning off "Enable Windows XP Theme Support". You could also try using a different theme.

Khai Yang · April 15th, 2005, 10:16 AM

I recently purchased Vegas movie studio.

now i'm having problems while making the movie "Make a Movie"

first time everything was okay, except that one of the background music was transitioned over another music. which i recalled never did such a thing. checked the raw time frame and everything seemed okay.

now i redone the whole process (make a movie), which is about 2.5 hours. the mpeg file converted okay, but now the wav. file crashed on me saying that it "timed out".

anyone with the same problem? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated?

P.S. is it possible to just redo the wav. file instead of the mpeg file?

Jim Lafferty · April 15th, 2005, 12:11 PM

Not to derail the thread, but I see you're in Baton Rouge -- ever heard of a guy named Kevin Kuperman ("kup")?

April 14th, 2005, 07:52 AM	#1187
Jay Gladwell Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,244	NAB-Live Chat Next Wednesday! Can't make it to NAB this year? Mark your calenders! On Wednesday, April 20th, 9:00 p.m. Pacific time, there will be an online NAB-Live chat in the Vegas Café Chat Room with Douglas Spotted Eagle, Victor Milt, and other members of the VASST team. Stay tuned, as more details become available. You'll find the Vegas Café at: www.gooddogproductions.com/chat/vegas_cafe.htm Add the above link to your "Favorites" folder.

April 14th, 2005, 08:58 AM	#1188
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	Grazie, that's only 5:00 AM for you! Midnight on the east coast. Now, if I can only remember next Wednesday......... __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

April 14th, 2005, 03:56 PM	#1189
Bob Safay Trustee Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 1,557	Side by side Question, can Vages do side-by-side shots? I want to be able to compair the golf swing of an instructor and a student swinging a golf club. I used to do it all the time with linier editing. Bob Safay

April 14th, 2005, 06:48 PM	#1192
Ian Slessor Major Player Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: South-Central Ontario, Canada Posts: 216	Overexposed footage... Hi people, I "filmed" my kids Competition Dance Showcase (I know, I know, I didn't "film" it - please humour me... ;-) We used a GL2 (close on right side) & an XL1s (wide at back of room). Unfortunately the XL1s footage for the first 15 dances came out overexposed enough that it's really annoying. The GL2 footage is nice apart from the fact the lighting guy didn't remove coloured gels on some of the lights. I need this footage so what is the best technique(s) to make the best of the overexposed footage? I'm using Vegas 5.0b (build 160) if that helps. I could really use some help here being new and all. Many thanks to anyone and everyone who assists me with this. Your HVX200 will be in the mail after I win the lottery. sincerely, ian

April 14th, 2005, 07:02 PM	#1193
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	In the last issue of my newsletter I list many different ways to do this task. Just click the link under my name. __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

April 14th, 2005, 05:39 AM	#1186
Brad Scott New Boot Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 8	Thanks Gary.

April 14th, 2005, 04:07 PM	#1190
Glen Elliott Wrangler Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 2,898	With ease. Can be done with either pan/crop OR track motion.

April 14th, 2005, 06:46 PM	#1191
Dennis Vogel Major Player Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Hillsborough, NC Posts: 409	So removing a blank DVD stops it from hanging when you select "Make DVD"? Then how do you make a DVD? Good luck. Dennis

April 14th, 2005, 07:05 PM	#1194
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	Good luck. You can't bring back detail that isn't there. If you post a snapshot, maybe someone can play with it and get some reasonable results. __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

April 15th, 2005, 12:08 AM	#1195
Chris Trainor Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: new orleans / baton rouge Posts: 46	weird behavior of scroll bars-turn black. Dual monitors. I have a dell xeon, gig ram, Vegas 5, dual monitors coming out of a Radeon 7000. I often use both monitors when I am working on certain types of projects, but generally just disable the 2ndary and use one for day to day stuff. Anyway, often I will open vegas in one of the two modes, but almost always use both monitors eventually when working. But sometimes now when I open up vegas the scroll bars at the bottom of the page and for the master controls are just black bars. It generally takes different reboot configurations to get it back, with one monitor on, with both, just seems to fix itself at random. Pic below: http://bouncebooking.com/temp/vegas-error.jpg Anyone ever occured this?

April 15th, 2005, 04:32 AM	#1196
Steve Roffler Regular Crew Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Taipei, Taiwan Posts: 100	you can try fooling around with some of the video effect filters. Color curves and color corrector might help. Try turning down the gain in the color corrector and then adjusting the color curves. But as Edward mentioned, this is of limited use if the video is really overexposed. __________________ Steve pdx10, EOS10D

April 15th, 2005, 06:16 AM	#1197
Bob Costa Major Player Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Venice, FL Posts: 850	Use DVDA for authoring & prep, Nero for burning. I tried several DVD burners before I gave up on DVDA and started usingthis procedure.

April 15th, 2005, 09:10 AM	#1198
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	I've seen this mentioned before. I believe it is related to your video driver/video settings. You may try going to Options - Preferences and turning off "Enable Windows XP Theme Support". You could also try using a different theme. __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

April 15th, 2005, 10:16 AM	#1199
Khai Yang New Boot Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 8	Vegas Movie Studio + DVD problems!!! I recently purchased Vegas movie studio. now i'm having problems while making the movie "Make a Movie" first time everything was okay, except that one of the background music was transitioned over another music. which i recalled never did such a thing. checked the raw time frame and everything seemed okay. now i redone the whole process (make a movie), which is about 2.5 hours. the mpeg file converted okay, but now the wav. file crashed on me saying that it "timed out". anyone with the same problem? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated? P.S. is it possible to just redo the wav. file instead of the mpeg file?

April 15th, 2005, 12:11 PM	#1200
Jim Lafferty Major Player Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 636	Not to derail the thread, but I see you're in Baton Rouge -- ever heard of a guy named Kevin Kuperman ("kup")?