Using the Properties tab in Excalibur will allow easily changing that particular property for all selected events. The two free tools mentioned by Spot do something different than that. I'm not sure if Ultimate S adjusts that particular setting but know it does have many aspect related tools.

When you apply a Velocity Envelope, you can adjust speeds as desired but it will NOT adjust the length of the event to match the new speed. One thing you might consider (especially if you only want a single speed for the entire event) is the CTRL-Resize method. Hold down the control key, resize the event to the desired length, and the speed will be adjusted to match.

Another solution would be to use a script. A script can then apply your desired velocity setting and adjust the length of the event to match.

You guys are giving me (and I suspect many others) more and more reasons to investigate Excalibur and UltimateS. I feel a letter to Santa coming on . . .

thx DSG, i just wanna confirm some of what i knew or didn't and what i needed to brush up on.

it looks like i need to buy the DV Proxy and then do the tutorial and then i should be A-OK to go! thx for the help.

Yes everything I created thus far is anamorphic. Looks great on my 16x9 TV as the entire screen is filled. Haven't seen any black pillars on the sides at all but then again I haven't tried this yet on a 4:3 screen - maybe if I do then as the image is cropped for display then the pillars will show up on the sides plus the banding at the top... Is this what you're referring to?

Douglas,

Thanks! Every comment gets me closer to my goal.

I have Vegas 6 and when I look under Properties, Audio, I don't see the item you mentioned.

Under Media Manager I have a lot of different "tags" like snare, cymbal, hi-hat etc. but I can't get them on to my timeline or even to preview.

I only need some background music so my project isn't complicated. I would really like to learn how to use this part of Vegas.

Tery

Does this apply to Splitting and/or Trimming a file too?

"import audio at project tempo" option is at options\preferences\audio tab in vegas 6.
and you still need an audio editor to use sony loops. you can define the editor from the same tab.

If you pop a DV-AVI file on the timeline, you select a small region of that file, and then you render to a new DV-AVI file, it will simply COPY that small region from the original file to a new file.

If you put two DV-AVI files on the timeline and you render them both to a single new file, it will simply COPY those two files into the single new file.

This is, of course, assuming no added effects or crossfades, etc...

Color Corrector Question
 

I'm using Vegas 5 and have a fifty minute documentary of various interviews. Some sequences require an increase in color saturation (using the Color Corrector), but I'm having trouble limiting these changes to just the shots I want and not automatically making the rest of the documentary change too, as what has happened so far when I adjust one sequence. It's already rendered in mpg, and am wondering how I can limit just how certain shots can be controlled without the program automatically blanketing the whole documentary with these changes.

Thanks!

It sounds like you may be adding color correction at the track level. Try adding it at the clip/event level. If there is just a section of an event you want to affect, use the ‘S’ key to split the event and then just apply color correction to the split part.

~jr

Glass titles with underlying video
 

I'd like to create an effect where large "glass" looking titles move across the screen and reveal video playing through them.

I can handle basic things like a transparent title effect, but what would I use to create an 3d glass looking title sequence.

Boris is beyond my price range is this something that Swish could do and can it then allow underlying tracks to show through the "glass"?

DV AVI Codec (w/o compression) blurry + low quality
 

Hello,

This makes me go crazy... slowly..:) .

I have shot a project together with 2 friends of mine, the material was seperated and everybody put together his own part (using a "fresh" Vegas installation.

Right now I have two computers in front of me. All I am trying is to put out the timeline of one computer as PAL DV AVI file (without any compression but not in the "uncompressed" mode). The Video put out by one of the PCs is always blurry w. compression artifacts - the other is absulutely fine.

Now I reset Vegas (Ctrl + Shift), and tried it with a whole new project (putting out a simple Title. One PC is blurry, the other is absolutely fine.

Funny but true: The Preview window shows the video in full size and w/o artifacts.

Please, please keep me from going crazy. (I even tried to use the Microsoft Codec :) - which is fairly close to >OAFNBsid<ugb.

Thank you!

Matthias Zimmermann

Keystone
 

How do you keystone a video clip in vegas 6. For example, in a similar way you key a projector when you are not square on the angle. I want to key a video to match a projector screen at an angle.

I've done a little searching, I wonder if this is possible.

The one thing that comes to mind is in TRACK MOTION and using the 3d effect. Set the angle on the 1st frame with a keyframe and you should be set.
Don

First project to DVD , couple of pointers please
 

Hi ,


Well I learned today that my client wants his project on a dvd which will of course play it on a regular tv set. It is a first for me , usually all mu stuff is for the web.

I had DVD architect installed already but didn't get around to it...damn :)

Anyway is there any particular basic things I should remember before rendering . I know about the broadcast color and I assume I will have to check the 7.5 box and leave the Studio RGB off. anything else besides that.

Unfortunately I don't have a tv set so I will be shooting in the dark but I am sure that if a few basic points gets covered I will sleep a little easier tonight

Thanks

Phil

I think I found it in [Deform] Thanks for the boost

Just render the timeline to MPEG2 and AC3. Give those two files to DVDA and see what you get. It should all turn out fine if the original footage was fine.

Hi Edward,


I assume that you mean the H.263 , also I usually render the video stream as "progressive" but now since it will be shown on a tv can I leave it to the actual "lower field" setting.


Thanks

First, DV is compressed; other than uncompressed, there is no "without compression" option.
Second, if it's a PAL file, what is the source footage? What are you applying to the footage in terms of processing?
Third, clearly you've got different settings on the two computers if one is rendering clean and the other is not.

You might want to hold CTRL+SHIFT on booting Vegas on the machine that is rendering blurry images. You may have had something take over the codec in Vegas if you've been experimenting with codecs. You can also try checking the "ignore third party codecs" in the Options/prefs.

Thanks; I will try that.

:D

Take a look at Vol 1 #7 of my newsletters. It explains the basic process of getting the files ready for DVDA.

In all fairness
 

A few weeks ago I posted my frustration that Vegas 6 would not control my new Sony DSR-400 camera when I captured from it.

Well, for some reason it does, now. Flawlessly. I must have been doing something wrong when I tried it before.

So I herein publicly apologize to Sony. What's right is right.

I still wish Vegas could burn to tape through the camera; but it can't. That's not Vegas' fault, however... it's the camera's. But you'd think since both products are Sony, it would...

If your camera is miniDV, it can write to it.

The Sony DSR-400's primary format is DVCam. It will also shoot and playback standard or Mini-DV; but it says right in the instruction manual it cannot be used to burn tape from NLEs.

Scott Moore's SMCubes
 

Hi,

Does anyone have an alternative link to Scott's Cubes transition for Vegas?

The link to his web page works (http://www.endor.demon.co.uk/) but not the link to the download (http://www.endor.demon.co.uk/SMCubes.exe).

Alternatively, if any kind soul could email me the 96kb file I would be in your debt for ever (spiritually, folks, spiritually). ianpstark@ntlworld.com.

Many thanks.

Ian . . .

Sent to your email. I've included the luminance effect (film style optical dissolve) as well.

Mike

I love this place.

Many thanks indeed Mike.

Best,

Ian . . .

I just tested that link and it worked fine just now.

Strangeness in Vegas
 

Hi. I'm using Vegas 6.0c, and I'm getting this weird render issue. On some of my rendered mpgs, I'm getting this weird black flicker at the top of the screen. Almost like a half-inch black gradient trying to invade my image. It's not consistent, and not on every frame, and I'm not sure what's causing it. It's so far driving me nuts, and has marred two of my projects. It shows up on both tv and computer.

I'm rendering 16:9 frame-mode video out to 4:3, with the black bars on top and bottom. Before render, the video is set to blend interlace but progressive. I have it set to render progressive. The mpg is being set to an average of 7,000,000 with two passes. I don't have "reduce interlace flicker" checked on any of the video files. All the video files have Magic Bullet fx on them.

The weird thing is that when I render it out to straight 16:9, and not 4:3, there's no black flicker at the top of some of the scenes.

Agreed, seems to be up now.

Preview Gone
 

Hi - My video preview will not function, it's gone? Vegas 5 Thanks

Try hitting Alt+4, see if that brings it back. you may have hidden it beneath a docking window, look for a tab that says "Video Preview"

I tried all that, it vaporized, I wonder if I reload this version of Vegas?

Hold CTRL+SHIFT when you start Vegas. It will reset EVERYTHING to default, so be ready to reset your prefs and so on.

That did it, thanks for saving what would have been a rough night.

Widescreen wmv
 

I've read the thread on compression started by Phillipe and that seems to contain a wealth of useful information.

My problem is related to that but different enough, I hope, to start a new thread.

My client wanted a ten minute production for distribution to their customers on DVD. All fine. Job done. Footage (PAL) was shot 16:9 and the finished product looks great on a widescreen TV.

Now they are asking for a version to be downloadable from their website. They haven't specified what format they want (and because it's the weekend I can't ask them!) but a quick scan of their website shows that they favour wmv.

I just made a test render using the default 512kb settings and the quality is OK (ish) but all my PinP's have gone weird and kinda repositioned/resized themselves. I guess this sort of makes sense to me, bearing in mind that the window size has changed.

Could some kind and knowledgeable person give me a clue as to what wmv settings I should use to retain the original proportions of the footage please, as well as to produce a sensible download size?

I'm sure there are other details I should be providing so please let me know and I'll do my best to fill in the gaps.

Many thanks.

Ian . . .

Help! Boris FX transitions in Vegas
 

I am using boris fx 8 with vegas 6 c. When I apply a boris transition a still frame from both videos becomes the transition. Then when the transition is done there is a jump where the video continues.

I have a 2 second transition so why does Boris make them still frames when I apply their transition?

Is is something I am doing because I didn't have this problem yesterday.

Please help.

When I applied the transition it brought in a backround track that covered the video track. Once deleted my problem was solved.

My DVD drive has a 2MB buffer and it's not a ROM drive, it's a RAM drive, it should print fine, but I'll try without the cam to see if the data rate is constant.