I make it a matter of religion to avoid okrah. Yukky stuff no matter how you slice it. ;-)

Not as far as I know. I've never mixed frame rates, but you should be OK. You'll want to use 2-3 pulldown though.

What? Okra haters?

It's easy enough to see who isn't Southern around here (Florida isn't the South, by the way). :)

Not since the Snowbirds discovered it!

Running Text cross the bottom
 

Hello,
This is my first post here. I'm working on a little project using Vegas 6 that I want to make a text running on the bottom from right to left like you see it on TV news stations when there's a warning or closing schools due to heavy snow. We see that quite often in western NY during winter time. I know how to scroll the text from bottom to top (credit text), but not on the bottom. I did a search 'running text' on this forum here, but didn't find what I want to accomplish.

Thanks for all your help

Have a look at this thread: http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=69902

I have that fully explained in Vol 4 #3 of my newsletters.

I have never heard of them. Thanks!

Instead of using pan/crop, as suggested in that thread above, for a long news scroll, do this:

Type out your news scroll in a text box from beginning to end -- all in one line.

Look at the frame size and length at the top. Change the length to what you need it to be. (You might need to experiment some here.)

Then, go into the "Placement" tab, make sure the cursor on the timeline at the bottom of the editing box is on the first keyframe, and place the start of the scroll where you want it. Remember what the Y coordinate is.

Put a keyframe at the end of the timeline. Move the whole scroll over until you get the end in the position you want it. Make sure the Y coordinate matches your original Y coordinate.

Now, the scroll should run from beginning to end over the length of the clip.

Thanks for all of you. When I get home, I'll try what explained above and if I still get stuck, will let you know. There's such great help in this forum.

Yes, that's what my article describes as well. Using the Placement tab using the "X" values to control the scroll.

Frame Image in DVD Architect
 

I am just learning Vegas+DVD. Vegas has been simple and works great. On DVD Architect the manual is not so clear to me. A question.

I inserted media onto a menu. Because it fades in, the image is black. Can I easily tell it to use a specific frame on the video as an image for the menu? Or do I have to go back to Vegas and separately capture and save the frame I want to use?

Thanks.

Dale

Yes you can. Select that menu item and then look on the right hand side. You want the "Media" section. Then change the "Start Time" to be the frame you want displayed.

Thanks. That worked perfectly. I appreciate the help!

Dale

Render Speed and Processors
 

I do several projects per week with similar settings. I render from AVI to mpeg 2 in order to make DVD's. I recently bought a second computer to improve my workflow, and it has, because I work on my second project while rendering the first and so on. The problem is that I thought the new computer would also render a good bit faster than the old, but they are approximately the same. It's about an hour and 30 min. of render time for every hour of video (this is just the video stream, I'm not concerned with the audio, because it's pretty fast).

Here's a comparisson of the parts of the two computers that should make a difference:

New Computer:
MSI 939/Nforce4 sli/sata2/raid/a&gbe motherboard k8n-sli
AMD athalon 64 X2 Dual-core processor 3800+
1 GB Supertalent 1024 CL 2.5 DDR PC 3200
Western Digital WD1200JS 120GB sata2 7200rpm (system drive)
Western Digital WD400KD 400GB sata2 7200rpm 16mb HD (video files)

Old Computer:
Dimension 8400 Series, Intel P4 Processor 540 (3.2ghz) w/HT and 1 mb cache
1 GB DDR2 SDRAM at 400mhz
250GB serial ATA HD (7200 rpm) (system drive)
Seagate 300 GB sata 5nf1f23z

Now with the dualcore and sata2 doesn't the new computer seem like it would be a lot faster? If not, I'm taking it back, it cost about twice as much as my old one from just a year ago.

Here's a brief description of what I render:

AVi files with default settings and 1.2121 pixel aspect ratio most often with only a crop effect (to crop out parts of the top and bottom...not changing the h/w proportions) and a RGB - 16 generated color clip beneath (this is because a lot of my stuff is 2.40:1 or similar). Anyway, there are mostly straight cuts, VERY RARELY is there a single disolve or speed effect or overlay, and the only effect over the whole thing is the crop. I take that and Render AS: mpg 2 - DVD architect - Widescreen - and usually change the average and max bitrates depending on length. It's usually about 2 hours long and like I said take about 1.5 hours render per hour of video - on EITHER COMPUTER. Does this sound right?