Unless you want to re-join a scene that you had split previously, there's no way the viewer is NOT going to notice a change.
Having said that, what you can try is changing the out point of scene 1 and/or the in point of scene 2 one frame at a time until you're happy with it.
Make sure you do a decent preview (I go back at least 5 sec. before the change and then hit play) of it each time before you make your final decision.
This is probably a holdover from my analog (tape to tape editing) days when 5 sec. pre-rolls were the norm and you had a chance to see how it looked before you commited to it.

Mike

Handwriting text in Vegas
 

Does anyone know how to get a realistic handwritten word or words as a text overlay to my video in Vegas 5?

I have some pretty descent handwritten fonts, but I want a word to look like it is being handwritten from one side of the screen to the other.

Am I thinking beyond Vegas?

Vegas does this easily with Bezier Masking

It's really project dependent. Some projects benefit more than others in this regard. Naturally the network speed WILL make some difference but, once again, would really be project dependent. Best to just do some testing to see what benefits you might gain.

The Vegas 6 sample projects on the sony vegas website has an example.

It's the editing project sample... the boston commercial.

Was that done with Bezier Masking?

Yes. Well I'm almost sure it is anyways. ..

DVDA2 Chapter Name Highlight question
 

Hi gang,

I have my main menu and then submenues (sp?) set up.

The submenus (sp?) are all the same. Four pictures, each of which represents a dance (chapter). I have nine of these submenus.

Along the bottom I have the submenus listed ie: 1 to 4 5 to 8 etc

However, no matter which chapter I'm in when you hit the menu button during a dance or switch between submenus the appropriate menu displays but the "1 to 4" link is the one that's highlighted every time no matter which submenu I'm in.

Is there a way to set it up so that when I open a submenu (or return to it) that submenu's link at the bottom of the screen is also highlighted?

Just wondering. I've gone through the menu options and I haven't seen anything.

Thanks for listening.

sincerely,


ian

In the sub-menu, click on the "Return" button. On the right side in the "Button Properties" section, in the "Action" sub-section, look for the entry: Destination Button. Change this from "Default" to the entry you want chosen when returning from that menu.

When you say it is like you "open and close your eyes," if you mean that the video gets dark when it makes the cut, then you have either set your in and out points incorrectly or introduced a fade in / fade out at the start and end points. Zoom all the way in to the end of the clip -- there should not be an "arc" indicating a fade out, and the little triangle in the upper corner should be dark blue, not light blue. If there is an "arc" there, drag it back to the end of the clip so you aren't fading out. Also make sure you have "quantize to frames" set, so you are not accidentally hard cutting somewhere other than an exact frame point.

On the other hand, if by "open and close your eyes" you mean the cut is more jarring to watch than the hard cuts you see in television and movies, then I am guessing it's the audio. You want the audio to be smooth between the two clips. If the two clips use different audio, you want to smoothly transition the audio between the two even though the video cut is abrupt.

I may have misunderstood...
 

Hi Ed,

Yeah. I may misunderstand.

I have no problem with everything being appropriately linked.

I have more of an aesthetic concern.

As noted each submenu of four dances has all of the submenus listed at the bottom of the page. 1 to 4 5 to 8 etc.

When I return to any of the submenu pages it's the "1 to 4" link that is always highlighted. I was hoping that when I returned to, say, the "9 to 12" submenu that the "9 to 12" link would be the one that's highlighted.

A niggling thing I realize but then I'm a little... picky about my work.

Thanks again.

sincerely,


ian

And if you change the setting I mentioned, THAT is what will happen. It specifies WHICH button is to be highlighted.

My momma always told me to listen.

I should have listened to momma...

and Ed.

Thanks for the help.

sincerely,



ian

;-)

Vegas Chroma Key Walkthrough
 

Hi, i bet this has been on this forum several times but i cant find it in the search.
Could someone please walk me through chroma key step by step? i can get started but i cant figure out how to get the picture i want instead of the removed color.
Thanks

Track 1: Green screen clip
Track 2: New background clip

Add the chromakey effect to the clip on track 1 and use the eyedropper to pick the color of the background color.

so i cant ad my own image or video as the background then?

Yes you can. That's what's on track 2!

oh *der*
Sorry misread your reply.
thanks

Keith Kolbo's article, "Chroma Keying DV in Sony's Vegas", at http://www.broadcastnewsroom.com/art...e.jsp?id=31596 is an excellent tutorial.

Mike

Effects issue
 

Just upgraded Vegas 4 to 6. Anyway, after reading the 400 pages of manual, I can't seem to find my likely simple answer.

Question: Why do all my effects only appear in half of the image?

Thanks in advance.

On the preview monitor there is an icon that switches "splt screen" on/off. Turn it off.

Thanks, so simple.

Thank you for your responses. I will surely play with your suggestions and hopefully they will give me that smooth event change that I am looking for.

Brian, what do you mean by "quantize to frames" and what is hard cutting?

If i understand it correctly, that the little triangle in the upper corner should be dark blue when 2 clips are butted together. Should there be any overlaps like .1 seconds?


Thanks again!

Danny

A "hard cut" is probably not a real editing term, but what I meant was a cut from one clip to the next, rather than a cross-fade transition.

"Quantize to frames" makes the clips snap to the frame boundary grid when you move them. If you have your cut in the middle of two frames rather than right at a frame edge, it may render funny and that could be causing your problem. There is a button on your toolbar that turns quantizing on and off, and you can also toggle it with ALT+F8. You should keep it on when editing video, and can turn it off when doing the audio if you need to make movements of a fraction of a frame. It should be on by default, so it's probably not your problem.

Yes, the little triangles in the corner should be dark blue when the two video clips abut each other and you aren't cross-fading. If they are light blue, there is some fading in and out going on. Also, you might try a very quick cross-fade of just a few frames to see if that helps, too.

Splendtastic

Thanks Edward

Dynamic Noise Reduction
 

I have done and extensive search for information on using Sony's Dynamic Noise Reduction but still need more information.

I assume that setting the threshold value to a lower number will cause the filter to perform more noise reduction. Is this correct?

I wish to use this filter to reduce the video noise generated due a very low light situation, and a high gain setting on the Canon Xl1s. Our video includes scenes of buildings that we set on fire for a movie. At first, there was very low light (high gain situation) and we had a lot of video noise. Later, as the fire burned brightly, we had enough light.

What are the trade-offs in using this filter? For example, if some of the events on a track have video noise, and others don't, and the filter is applied to the whole track, is there undesired consequences to the otherwise good video?

In general, what are the side-effects of using this filter?

Thank you for your assistance.

newbie: adjust colors and contrast in .avi ?
 

I need to adjust the colors and contrast levels in 15 1-hr avi files, each with 10-20 scenes.

I have been using studio 9+, but after making adjustments scene-by-scene, there is a rendering error throughout, a deformation several pixels high and across the whole image, in the lower part of the images. Otherwise, usage was easy.

So before buying another software, I downloaded Vegas evaluation.

Can you provide some instructions for what I need to do?

I can open the avi, but the scenes are not detected... can I force Vegas to auto-detect the scenes, based on the time information within the avi?

How can I easily adjust the colors (mostly increase saturation) and contrast (mostly decrease contrast) scene-be-scene? (some scenes are in brigh sunlight, others are in shade or indoors, so all need slightly different adjustments, but within 1 scene there are no changes.)

I then need to regenerate the .avi (viewed on an LCD or with screen projector, from a computer)

Thanks in advance
Christophe

Transition Problems
 

Hey All,

I am currently making a Music Video and I am having some problems with the transitions.

I am using the dissolve fade through black transition.

When I place the tranistion in, most of them time it gets placed in properly with a good amount of overlap. But sometimes it doesnt overlap and just sits on the clip where the cursor is, and then when I drag it to overlap, it completely alters the lenght of the clip bringing the end of the clip to the start.

What I was wonderng, is if there is anyway to just alter the transition instead of adjusting the lenght of the clip

Thanks in Advance
Scott

Create the overlap first, then drop your transition on the overlap. If you don't need to see the transition dialog, hoild the shift key when you do this.

Gary

Oh yep, I think it would be a wise idea in future to add transitions as I go along!

Thanks for the help Gary

Playlist Question
 

Sorry about the new thread guys.

I am just wondering when I am saving the information, where abouts do I type in the name of the audio ( song ) so that it will come up down the bottom when playing Windows Media Player

Eg.
UBA High Risk Music Video
Jupiter
(c) UBA 2005
Playlist 1...Now, Instead of it saying that, I need it to say that name of the song.

Any help?
Scott

I can open the avi, but the scenes are not detected... can I force Vegas to auto-detect the scenes, based on the time information within the avi?

You will have to manually find the scene changes, place the cursor there, and press "S" to split. When capturing, Vegas can capture each scene to a separate file.

How can I easily adjust the colors (mostly increase saturation) and contrast (mostly decrease contrast) scene-be-scene? (some scenes are in brigh sunlight, others are in shade or indoors, so all need slightly different adjustments, but within 1 scene there are no changes.)

Look at the Color Curves and Color Corrector effects. Simply drop them on the clips and adjust as needed.


I then need to regenerate the .avi (viewed on an LCD or with screen projector, from a computer)

File - Render As

File - Render As - pick the WMV format, click on CUSTOM, and now look at the LAST tab. Fill in as needed.

Problem connecting MAudio FIrewire 410
 

Everything LOOKS okay. When I plugged it in the first time I was not getting any sound, found I was plugged into 7/8 instead of 1/2. So I fixed that, then I fooled with it for a minute, turned 410 off and on, and then I was getting sound out of one speaker. Duh... I forgot to plug other speaker in. So I plugged other speaker in.

Now nothing works. When I select the Firewire 410 as the audio device in Vegas 5, I cannot even play the timeline. I start it and it just freezes on a single frame. When I switch back to Microsoft audio and onboard speakers, it works fine. I have rebooted everything, dropped and reconnected the 410, nothing seems to help.

M-audio driver 5.10.0.5009

Can someone please send me a clue, because I don't have one.

Chienworks and I are chatting LIVE over here . .
 

Anything Vegas! Or anything will do us!


http://www.vegasusers.com/chat/login

Seeyah there!

Grazie

Are you talking about Mike Crash's free filter?

Too much dynamic noise reduction means that you'll pickup motion artifacts. On things with motion, there'll be a ghost/trailing effect.

Dear Glenn,

I am speaking of the Sony Dynamic Noise Reduction filter that comes standard with Vegas 6.0. I believe that it comes standard with Vegas since I do not remember adding or downloading any filters or plug-ins.

The information on the filter states that it was copyrighted by Mike Crash in 2004.

When I click on the ?, no help file pops up for this filter.

This filter has one slider, a "Noise Threshold" and the standard position is about 1/3 of the way to the right. Moving the slider to the left reduces the value.

Solved it. Firewire card issue.

ELiminating "TS" speech defect
 

I tried and tried using track EQ to find the frequency where this sound is happening, but maybe there is a better tool for cleaning this up. I also really need teh track EQ for other things. The speaker has a "TS" that is very pronounced on words that begin with S. Listen to the sample.

http://www.VeniceDigitalVideo.com/audio/PaulSample.mp3

All help appreciated, one of the last issues before I am done with this project.

Yep , I did one in Vegas , check my website and you will see one at the end of my promo video. It was my first so my second one will look a whole lot better :)

Be prepared for an entire evenig , well in my case it didn't help that I was dealing with a difficult font but I am pretty sure you will spend a great deal of time on this.


Just remember , when outlining your text with bezier point , be very generous with them , drop as many points as youy can , it will come in handy when you remove them later

See ya


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