One approach is to leave ripple edit off.

Use the following keys to ripple:
f ripple the affected track
shift f ripple more stuff
crtl+shift+f ripple everything, including other tracks and markers

Crtl Shift F will probably be used the most. Unfortunately, it's a fingerful.

Thanks guys. I'll try that this weekend.

umm.. i dont think your understanding what im saying..

teh Nvidia card is single or dual head only.. this wont change no matter what u plug into the 3 outputs... what im sayng is to purchase ANOTHER gfx card (single head) and plug it into ur PCI slot of the pc, as opposed to PCIe or AGP...
this additional card should give u access to run the 3rd monitor (even 4th if the new card is also dual head)

I wouldnt waste resourses on running the one projects across the 2 machines.. to be honest, the most accurate means of checking colour is to use 1394 live output into a CRT monitor with Svideo, or by using a decklink interface card

and if it's just seperating the track (single) and ripple isn't cooperating (fudging stuff around a lot) then just right click the next event and "select till end" or something like that will select them all then when you grag they all drag... of course you can use CTRL to do that to multiple tracks if you need.

Peter,

I see where you are going with that, I would like to hear how it turns out once accomplished.

Vegas 6.0d - wmv format 1Mbps
 

I recently upgraded to version 6 from 5. Version 5 used to allow me the option of selecting Windows Media format (.wmv) and render at 1Mbps. Which used to be good (quality vs size) for web upload to my site. Version 6 only gives me the option of 512Kbps or 3Mbps but not the 1Mbps option. I dont like 512 and find 3Mbps renders to large a file size. Is there a way to force 6.0 to give the 1Mbps option ?

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

SC

Click on the "custom" button and change to the settings you want.

if you get sound forge from sony it kind of integrates with vegas just to make it a little easier. it has a ton of options for cleaning audio and such.
there is a trial too to see if it is what u need.

so is the dvfilm thing better than the magic bullet suite?

try a generaated media color white. then overrlay the video on both sides.
not sure whether that is what ur looking for though

Overscan
 

I have noticed this a few times and had to re-render after moving my titles. Pain in the butt, but that is what happens with older TVs that are not adjusted properly. I kind of have an "eye" for where those boundaries are now so I don't usually edit with them turned on. DVD Architect will complain if some of your titles, buttons, menus, etc fall outside of those boundaries. That is a good warning that you might want to remember.

jason

Actually, as I stated originally, I can edit on my work laptop. I took Glen's advice and converted it to a more standard .avi from within Vegas then used two of those files, one in After Effects and the other in Vegas.

My question really was how to get it to work on the pc that I use at home to do all the ediging on...the one will more muscle. I did not want to edit on the laptop nor do I want to convert, reconvert back and forth.

So my take on the situation is that I most likely already had a DivX codec on the machine that would not work with the file I was given. I installed the DivX codec my friend sent me but it didn't work. I haven't acted on this yet but I am hoping if I uninstall the existing codecs and reinstall the one I was given, it might work.

thanks for everyone's help

You can use the Vegas overlays in the video preview window to show you action and title safe.

Action safe: Everything outside might be cropped by the monitor.
Title safe: On old CRTs, the outer edges will have lots of geometric distortion, so titles will appear curvy here.

i woul try to just redner it out to avi just to test the look annd feel before you decide if that is what you want to do.

FX Video Event FX Problem
 

I am still learning Vegas. Today for some reason the Video Event FX controls don't seem to work. I selected the clip, opened the Video Event FX Window and selected the initial keyframe. Then I moved the slider controls for brightness and contrast, but no effect. (It doesn't seem to work on other clips or other controls either). Any ideas what could cause this?

Dale

Hmm effects bypassed? sure there is a check at the top in the plug-in... did you maybe bypass the effects in the preview window... forget what the icon looks like but it has a little triangle next to it.

My guess would be that you turned on "split screen". It's the button just above the preview screen that's a circle that's half light and half dark.

Is there a file that these settings are stored in so I can change some and have a back up if something goes wrong... don't really want to start from scratch from one setting.

is your video preview on draft or good. sometimes its hard to tell if it is on draft.

It's called "The Registry" - i.e. Windows Registry!

Yeah, that's what I figured so I dug through it looking for the keys but I couldn't find it.

I'm no dummy when it comes to the registry and the "damage" it can cause and I know how to back it up... I do IT work for a living so I'm not afraid to dig into it.

Render Again and Again !?!
 

Hey guys,
I have rendered a project to mpeg 2 for DVD. It took over 8 hours to render it. After reviewing it, I notice there were simple corrections that need to be made.

Q1: Do I have to re-render the original project and wait another 8+ hours or can I just edit the mpeg 2 clip and render as a mpeg 2 clip? Will there be any loss in quality bo using the second method?

Q2: Also, Is there any way to merge multiple mpeg 2 clips into one to be view as a movie in DVDA? Or will I have to place all the clips on the timeline in Vegas and select and render them as one clip?

Q3: I have old clips that I want to put on the web. I have deleted the original avi clips for the sake of space. Is it safe to render a mpeg 2 file as a wmv or rm file? Will there be an enormous loss of quality when rendering from a mpeg2 file instead of the original avi file?

Thank you for your help.

Q1: Yes, you need to render the whole thing again unless you use some other program that can cut MPEG2 without re-rendering.

Q2: Yes, you can "End Action" from the first one to the second one. There will be a slight delay as this happens and the length of the delay will vary from player to player.

Q3: It's "safe" but the quality won't be as good as it would be using the original files. Just try it and see if it looks fine to you.

Q1 (Rev): After editing, is it ok to re-render the original MPEG2 as a MPEG2 without loss of quality?

Q2,Q3: Thank you! I will try it.

Rendering MPEG2 to MPEG2 will decompress and recompress EVERY frame. You're better off going back to the original source file.

Sony Vegas Movie + DVD Platinum tweaks?
 

Sorry if the question has been answered before, but is there any form of video hardware acceleration possible with this software? Also, I know that Vegas 6 has support for multi-core and dual CPU's, but does SVMD6 Platinum have the same capability?

Mice
 

Hey - sorry to bother but I'm baffled. I recently cleaned a lot out of my hard drives, ok good, but now when watching anything, preview window, movie, whatever, it stutters incredibly when I move my mouse, video, even audio, any ideas at all? It never did this before..

Not sure if this is it but anytime you "clean up" your Hd you should do a defrag (along with a good weekly defrag routine).

Do as I say, not as I do ;)

***Guess I'm quicker on the trigger ;)

Did you defrag your hard drives after cleaning them out? Simple thing to miss, but might be the cause.

(Edit : Yes you are Kevin, yes you are! :D )

Will do and report - Thank you!!

Thanks for everyone's suggestions. As Edward surmised, it turned out I had turned split screen on unbeknownst to me -- probably due to the fact that lately my mouse seems to have a mind of its own. Well, that's one way to learn about split screen. Again, thanks much!

Anyone? Perhaps I posted this in the wrong section?

Damn Edward and his spot on terminology, stealing my thunder :p J/K

Glad you got it resolved

Moved to Vegas forum.

No hardware acceleration cards work with Vegas. It really doesn't need them. As for multiple CPU's, yes it will use them.

Interesting. I have been using this software on my AMD box with a 3800+ X2 CPU. I noticed that only one core seems to get used most when previewing in the timeline. Perhaps both cores will be used more when actually rendering the video to final?

Also - too bad about no hardware video acceleration. I have two Nvidia cards connected in an SLI configuration, and it would have been nice to have harnessed some of that power, at least while previewing in the timeline.

DVDA Playlists
 

You can also create a playlist in DVDA o that multiple media items are linked together. These are a bit of a pain in the butt to create chapter menus from, but it can still be done.

I just found the easiest is to spend lots of time proofing while viewing inside of Vegas adn then render the big file once. Of course that doesn't always work out, but it does save on render times and saves frustration working in DVDA.

jason

Split Screen
 

That reminds me... what good is taht split screen feature? I haven't ever used it and I am not sure what good it is for? Any suggestions?

jason

It can be useful if you need to match colors in various sections, or you want to see how what you are doing affects the colors. It just happens you have yours set to bypass effects. There are many other options available if you click on the dropdown menu arrow. Look it up in the help file.

Render AVI to Separate Clips
 

How can I render an AVI file to AVI file again but to split video file to 3 separate clips, all that on the fly. For example I edit in Vegas DV AVI file about 4 hours long, adding transitions, effects and music and then I want to render that AVI file to AVI again but I want to split it in 3 separate AVI files ( 1 hour and 20 min each)., then I render these three video clips with my favorite video encoder "Cine Cinema Encoder" to MPEG (to fit on 3 DVD disc for excellent results) but CCE has no option to separate video file during encoding, like TMPGEnc for instance, which is much, much slower option.I have try with marking regions in Vegas and then with scripting render the file, but all three AVI files were the same from begining to the end of the video clip.Some advice.
Regards.