Vegas Video discussions from 2005 (Q3Q4)

[Edward Troxel]

Originally Posted by Ian Stark

I was selecting multiple events either on the timeline or in the media pool then right clicking/properties/pixel aspect ratio.

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.

[Edward Troxel]

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.

[Ian Stark]

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 . . .

[Yi Fong Yu]

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.

[Phil Hamilton]

Originally Posted by Laurence Kingston

I'm not talking about 704x480 letterbox. I'm talking about 704x480 anamorphic. I find it strange that no-one else is complaining about the slight difference between the rectangular shapes of 16:9 SD and 16:9 HDV. 16:9 anamorphic 720x480 video is a little wider than 16:9 1080i HDV video. 704x480 SD video is a better match.

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?

[Terry Thompson]

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

[Bill Porter]

Originally Posted by Edward Troxel

If you render a DV-AVI file in Vegas to another DV-AVI file and you have made NO changes, it will be a straight file copy so there will be NO generational loss.

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

[Ahmet Ilhan]

"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.

[Edward Troxel]

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...

[Barry Rivadue]

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!

[John Rofrano]

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

[Reid Bailey]

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"?

[Mathiu Zimmermann]

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

[Steven Davis]

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.

[Don Bloom]

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