I couldn't resist posting another scene.

http://talentshow.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ao...z1tEF#v=104328

or -

http://tinyurl.com/smr3o

Brian

Maybe yes, but the rendered video doesn't look smooth like before, now it looks like progressive on TV set, i.e. flickering appears. Not good!!!

Turn on subtitles on the DVD, capture that output.

Well the project is in HDV so that won't work without reducing my resolution back to SD. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Okay, the play button works on the dvd player remote, even though it does not work in Architect. Kind of odd.

There is one other problem I'm having. When there is more than one video file in the dvd, I am somehow not able to skip from the last chapter of one clip to the first chapter of the next clip. Is this just a matter of changing the "title play" feature?

Thanks.

HDV playback - Am I missing something?
 

I capture the m2t files in Vegas 7 from a JVC BR-HD50 deck. When I place them on the timeline, with the preview monitor in Preview (Auto), I get a frame rate of about 6 or 7 fps.

However, if I render those clips from the timeline to an m2t, then place that m2t on the timeline, I get a frame rate of 25 fps (PAL).

As far as I can tell, the rendered m2t is the same as the captured clip, so why the big difference in preview frame rates? Am I missing something blatantly obvious?

Hopefully someone understands what I'm going on about here and can offer some advice.

Cheers
Pat

Set the End Action of the last chapter of one clip to the first chapter of the next clip.

what are your project properties set to when you capture the m2t files?

Then, yes, you're basically stuck with manually creating multiple text generated media. If you can get them as named regions (using Sub-Text, for example), one other possibility would be the Quick Label tool in Excalibur.

Ah that's what I was afraid of. I just thought there might be some plugin or script that could help - and also make sure the captions conform to guidelines for captioned programs.

Project properties on capture wouldn't matter, but project properties on edit do matter, I think this is what Bill is meaning to point out. If you have your system set for 1080 HDV when you're editing 720 HDV, then you'll take a performance hit, and vice versa.

I think that I have a solution for you, I'm not sure, but I think...

-Make 2 video tracks.
-Copy footage onto the new video track.
-On the bottom track's video, right click, properties, and set it to lower fields first.
-On the top track's video, do the same thing, except set it to upper fields first.
-Render it out, and see how it looks.

(Oh, while you're in the clip's properties, you could check 'reduce interlace flickering', ((in both the clips)) and that could help)

Just a thought. I use NTSC, not PAL, but give it a try and see if it works.

SB

Project settings were the first thing I thought of, and they match up (720p[25]). Might have to double check the capture settings again, just in case I am screwing up something there.

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

Render As... only gives me audio choices now - help!
 

When I go to "render as" under file, I am only given audio options. It didn't used to be that way.

I'm sure there is some setting I toggled on/off, but I can't find it. Any ideas?

Mark

Be sure you're using the HDV template, not the HD template.

You could always hold down CTRL-SHIFT when starting Vegas to reset it back to factory defaults.

Any ideas anyone?

No idea. I'm dealing with my own exception error in Vegas, and no one has been able to help me including Sony.

DVDA Disc Space Used Message
 

Hey guys,

Everytime I try to bring a mpg 2 file into DVDA 4 it says that the disc space used is 8.1 GB (Which is extremely large.) I opened this same file in DVDA 2 and it says disc space used 4.4 GB. I just completed two DVD projects in DVDA 2 because of this issue. What could be the problem? Is there a setting that I need to change in DVDA 4?

Thanks.

Vegas 7 using quad cores?
 

I believe Vegas 7 utilizes Core 2 (and other dual cores) to their potential, but the new Intel quad core (QX6700) is essentially two Core 2 E6700 together. Will Vegas be able to use the four cores to their potential? Will Vegas be able to use AMD's 4x4 to its potential when it comes out?

Apparently there's support as these tests indicate http://www.hothardware.com/viewartic...leid=878&cid=1 ... PC and CPU testers should use Sony Vegas more often to benchmark new equipment...

Forget what DVDA says about file size. It is not only very conservative but often so far off it's pathetic. Look at the file size in the EXPLORER WINDOW. It will tell you exactly how big the file is. I never look at the file size as it's read out by DVDA-this IMO is the one thing I wish they would do something about soon.
Don

Yeah, I do have that set right. It's just the matter of being able to skip, using the remote, from the last chapter of clip 1 to the first chapter of clip 2.

Okay, it seems that the footage when capturing is registering as 50fps for some reason, rather than 25fps. Found this out by capturing some footage in CapDVHS. So it may be the way it was shot, rather than the settings in Vegas.

This is a actually something I've been wondering about myself. I know you can assign an affect to a whole track or the output of all tracks....but is there a way to apply in one action an effect to multiple clips....so that each clip has the effect applied, but you can still adjust each one individually.

I know you could key frame an effect over a whole track need be, but I prefer when say doing colour correction and brightness/contrast control, to put those on each clip then adjust them individually. This task would be made a little bit easier if I didnt have to add the effects to each clip.

COPY>Paste Attributes

Highlite the clips you want the effect on and paste it to those then you can go back in and individually adjust but to me it seems if you're going to do that you might as well save it as a preset and then place it on the clip 1 at a time and adjust to taste.
Don

screen problem
 

ok when i view effects in vegas it comes up as the image below, it cuts off after the size of the default box, anyone else have this problem or how to fix it thanks.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i1...ewupscreen.jpg

Seth,

Check my article "Video De-interlacing with Vegas" here:

http://michael-morlan.net/pages/lear...nterlacing.htm

Enjoy,

Michael

That's a new one for me. What if you close and then re-open that window? What if you reduce acceleration on the video card?

well its not just vegas this is happening too, also photoshop, I tried the hardware accelerator and I shut all off and nothing changed even after restarting the computer. I think it has something to do with a font pushing the stuff off farther because now there is a bigger font used in some programs. Thanks for the reply though

Audio ? - mixing voice, music & fx
 

While mixing voice with background music and sound fx in my low budget movies I find it's difficult to get the right mix. For example, when I lay down some background music and set it to a level that sounds good the music may actually be too loud when rendered to DVD, drowning the voice. Likewise, I have trouble getting sound effects at the right audio level, for example, explosions and laser fire outside the cockpit.

Are there some basic guidlines for mixing the audio? For example with dialogue and background music are there standard levels that are fairly reliable (like the music should be at least 9db less than dialogue or something).

Also, if there are to be loud noises (explosion, horn honking, thunder, etc) I assume they need to Peak under 0db. But I would think you would want them to be significantly louder than the dialogue, which means you'd set the dialogue much lower, but my dialogue is usually around -3db straight off the tape.

Anyway, I know these are pretty dumb sounding questions and wasn't sure whether to put this in the Vegas forum (my NLE) or audio forum but figured if there was any advice it would be better to hear it about Vegas compatible plug-ins and such.

threads...
 

I think even Vegas 6 can have the # of threads set. A minimum of one thread per core should do the trick. Now I don't expect that to be fully optimized for the CPU, but it should work better.

jason

Consider a playlist
 

I once had to create a playlist when a movie I made had 3 different rendered mpgs. I added them to a playlist and then manually added chapters to the individual files. That seemed to work.

jason

Your dialog is definitely too loud. Normal speech should peak around -12db. Screams and whispers may vary. You may want to go through the dialog track syllable by syllable to balance the speech. Some consonants get dropped. Some words are overly loud. Get this right before adding anything else.

Effects can definitely peak at 0db. You can add compression to make explosions sound as loud as possible.

Mixing music is done to taste. If you wrote the music, keep it softer than you think it should be. ;)

EQ'ing the music around the dialog really helps. Feel free to manually drop the music as needed to keep the peaks from going over during effects and loud dialog. Same thing if the effects happen during dialog - pencil in a quick drop in volume as needed. Sacrifice everything before you sacrifice understandability.

If you're still unsure of your levels, rip the audio of a target DVD by connecting the audio outputs of a DVD player to your PC's audio inputs. Listen to the soundtrack and watch the levels.

Don't compress the overall result when going to DVD. (In essense, you've already compressed manually with the volume envelope.) Consider light overall compression for the web.

Here's a thread with lots of good tips on the subject:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=73903

Color Correcting Software`
 

Is there a software used for color correcting or are the tools in vegas adequate? Also, are there any books/video on the art of color correcting.

THanks

Check out the Sony Vegas color correction DVD by Glenn Chan and Douglas Spotted Eagle.

There is also an excellent book on Digital Color Correction from Steve Hullfish, but it's not for Vegas.
To answer the first part of your question though, Vegas has excellent color correction tools. They're not DaVinci or Pablo, but they're very, very good.

Try laying a 0 db tone at the beginning og your timeline. Set your the volume you like off of this tone and don't change it. Make an audio track at -6 db for your voice, -15 db for your sound effects and -18 db for your music.

You can then play with audio volume envelopes if you need to raise or lower a particular section in a particular track.

Jim

Blowing away a picture?
 

Hey all,

A quick question.

I'm using Vegas 6 w' Boris FX & Grafitti.

I would like to have a freeze frame "fragment" as if the wind is blowing it away. Starting from one side and dissolving across the frame.

I was thinking of using linear blur and a mask on a copy of the freeze frame.

However, can anybody direct me to a tutorial that could help or is there a quick and easy way of doing this effect in V6?

Thanks in advance.

sincerely,


ian