Problem half-solved, update inside
 

Ok now a strange thing happened, for some reason Vegas sees my tapedeck but Sony Xpress can't connect to it anymore???

The only thing that remains to be cleared is the fact that I can't put in timecode for capture, the options are greyed out.

I have 5 hours of raw footage that needs to be trimmed down to 3 minutes, not to mention a limited hard drive space.

Any reason why I can't put in timecodes.

Thanks

Vegas 7.0, Ultimate s2, keyboard mapping
 

Vegas 7 forces you to use ctrl+key to bind global options....is there anyway around this?

Check that "device control" is checked in the capture preferences.

yep 7b

i also had a similar prob in v 6d

David, what kind of keyboard are you using? im on a logitech...its got built in software (setpoint) that maps keys...maybe that is somehow causing issues.

also...i seem to recall in like 4 or 5 version there was an option in the preferences that ctrl-z closed vegas

Sony Vegas Skin
 

There was a guide about how to change Vegas's skin, but I dont remember it. So, if somebody knows it, please let me know.

corrupt files after 7 upgrade`
 

i have several project files i was workin in v6 with, i just did the 7 upgrade recently and ofcourse it asked me to upgrade the 6 files to 7. now those files wont save properly. they save normally, but when i reopen the file i get "error loading plug-ins" and it fails to save any changes i made, which only include modifying transitions (the error under details will say transition 0000-0000-0000-0000) and give me one for each transition i modified.

i have tried copying/pasting my timeline into a new veg file with another instance open, but it seems to follow the file.

any ideas, short of redoing it all from scratch?

thanks!

Soooo... do you have an example of this 'magic' software?

ok, well i tried moving the project folder to another machine, and same issue. something obviously got corrupted when the veg file "upgraded" to 7 so it was probably just one of those "lucky" events.

i have exported the EDL and imported into a new veg, can put in the transitions they save ok...so just a hour or so to fix that all up i guess. dont think there was really any other option.

hmmm...it worked fine for 3 files. the last one it saved most the changes and now is doing the exact same thing when i try to apply transitions (flash)

I did a Google search on it and found this on Adam Wilt's site:

Ned Nurk worked on a standalone processor for Windows called FilmRender (formerly FilmMunge), which batch-processed AVI files. It was by all accounts good, fast, and very affordable. Unfortunately some slimeball crackers hacked his authentication system and pirated it. As a result, Ned stopped development and sales, and the DV world lost a useful tool.

:-(

Try to upload a short raw footage (approx. 30 sec.), even hard compressed, and I will upload it back processed.

What about credits?
 

So if you use Cinescore to shape some royalty free music that comes with it - then what is the best way to credit this music in your video?

Hi Seth,

thanks for your advice but there is no such option. In the capture window there a preferences button.

Three tabs in the preferences window: general, disk management and device, none of them has that option you wrote about.

I checked in the regular Vegas options but couln't find anything there either.


Anything else?

Thanks

How 'bout a sample, Plamen?

Animated Frame Problem
 

Odd one here. I have a veg project which mixes video with animated frames. I imported the frames using "open still image sequence" like always. Everything was great. I had this on the backburner for awhile, now when I opened the project instead of a sequence of frames Vegas 6 has converted it to a still image. Could I have possibly hit some button that made this happen or is there a quick fix otherwise? I can just reimport all the frame sequences I guess, but it's like 50 different sequences so would rather not. Any ideas?