I apreciate the offer, but having you create the file for me is hardly a way I'll learn. Could you perhaps detail your technique, and then I and all who read this email can benefit?

Thanks,

- Ben

"Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!" --Bullwinkle

;)

Ben, it could be that if you let our dear "Old Boot" here concoct something for you he might share the technique once he's got something. I'm with you; would love to see some of his magic!

Ben, I completely disagree:

1/- Once I make the veg you will see exactly how to do it.

2/- I would find this very difficult to explain here. It would take a better man than I to do a detailed "How To". If somebody wishes to do this - Good!

I will say I've done this very often for others, and they have been able to get on and do what they do.

Lorinda? "Bullwinkle"? What is that?

I'm up for "sharing", I do it very often, but one thing I wont do - and that is make things difficult for myself! . . And consequently others too!

The offer is still stands.

Best regards,

Grazie

He's a moose! You didn't get The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show in England? LOL! A classic!! It was an old, old cartoon starring a moose and a squirrel. There was always a sketch where Bullwinkle (in a tuxedo, I think) would call that out to Rocky. Anything but a rabbit always came out of the hat.

My sorry attempt at humor, Grazie--alluding to the notion that it might be tough concocting a fix without access to a still.

Nice of you to offer your help--mighty kind!!!

LOL!!!

I didn't see that one. I did see TOO much kids TV though, so I SHOULD have seen it.

"Alluding to the notion that it might be tough concocting a fix without access to a still."

Well yes, you are correct, but the reasons are at least 2-fold.

1/- These "shine" levels are truly dependent on just how much "shine" there is.

2/- PLUS actually using the still will provide me with an option to see what else could be done.


Grazie

You mean the 1978 original Superman: The Movie? Could you post a small clip of what the opening sequence looks like?

Hi Ben

This is one of those things that needs addressing before the shoot....
Get a women's make-up compact, and power the face of your talent...
If you look in most chemists or cosmetics outlets you'll find a tone that is neutral enough to use on most caucasien faces....

Once you've shot and recorded and your hi-lites are blown out they are gone, no soft ware will get them back...

regards

Gareth

drop shadows on text
 

Hi Folks, I searched for the answer for the question I'm about to ask, and guess what? I found that I asked the same question when I was using Vegas 4, and I still don't have an answer. But I think I can ask the question in a much better way now.

OK here goes: I want a caption on some footage. I open a track above the scene that I'm going to caption. Then I click on media generators - choose text - default text - write the caption - place it where I want - add a drop shadow. And it looks fine. When I open the composite control, it shows that "source alpha" is checked.

Now here's where it stops working. I want to fade up the caption - so I add a "fade to color" envelope on the caption video track. As soon as I do that, the entire project goes black until I fade it up where I want the caption to come in.

Now, if I change the composite mode on the caption track to "add" - then the fade to color doesn't black out the project before I fade it up. BUT and this is the CRUX of the problem - it removes the shadow on the caption.

Is there a composite mode that will allow me to use both the shadow on the text and a "fade to color" envelope? Or do I need to use a different technique to fade in the caption?

I would like to get this issue solved as I continually choose to not use captions when I know I should, because I can't get the shadow on it. I really like a shadow on my captions.

I really appreciate any answers you can give me here.
Milt Lee

how to save rendered m2t
 

After I have done my editing with the CF-avi Vegas does a render to m2t then prints back to tape. How do I keep that final m2t on file without having it to render again if I need to print additional copies??

Don't add a "Fade to Color" envelope. To fade-in a title, move the mouse over the upper left corner of the event and it will turn into a quarter circle. When it does, click and drag to the center. The farther you drag, the longer the fade. You can do the same fading out by moving to the upper right-hand corner. The same also applies to video and audio events.

Thank you - thank you - thank you! It's so strange that this issue has bugged me for so long. I never realized that the upper corners of a clip - audio or video could give you a little fade handle. What a treat!
Milt

First of all, by renering back to tape, you have essentialy saved it in the .mt2 format, so you could alway recapture native from the tape, and reprint to next tape.

Second, your question states that you first rendered to .m2t from Vegas CF. If you did, that the file is there for storage on hard drive or on DVD. In fact, you should be able to drag it to time line in a new Vegas project from there.

What you may be referring to is the situation where you tell Vegas to render your Vegas/CF edited project. I don't know about, Vegas specically, but in other editors, you can designate that the temporarily rendered file for the print to tape be maintained.

Do you have to render a mpeg2?
 

Hi
I've got some of my work as a MPEG2 file (the audio is also AC3 stereo). I don't have the original avi's and don't really need them.
I'm wanting to use certain bits of the file.
What I have done is opened vegas 6, loaded the file in the trimmer, selected the bit that I wanted (create sub clip).
Then loaded that into the time line - render.

Do I really need to render back out to mpeg2? or is there a better way to do this?

There's no fades or titles or anything, just two simple cuts.

If you edit MPEG2 in Vegas (even cuts-only), every frame will be decompressed and recompressed as you render.

You might want to look at something like Womble which can do cuts-only MPEG2 editing without re-rendering.

Thanks Ed - as always you've been very helpful :)

You might take a look at "TMPGEnc MPEG Editor" also.

Add space in timeline
 

After finishing the first edit of a project Im working on, I need to go to various places along the timeline and add or remove some space.

I have approximately 50 audio/video tracks.

How do you pick a spot on the timeline, and move everything on all tracks after that spot so that you can add or subtract some space. Hopefully there is an easy way to do this and ensure everything remains in sync.

Thanks!

I'd move one of the events as much as needed, then go to the Edit menu, Post Edit Ripple, and (probably) the third option to move everything.

My drop
 

Well, located on my front page is the drop I was able to 'create.' I did it the old fashioned way with actual liquid, and eye dropper and camera. I'll continue to play around and tweak it. But let me know. Thank you for your input and help.

As you will see, I changed my plan of having the logo appear from beneath. I kind of went where my drop took me.


www.droptodesign.com

Vegas 6 questions
 

Hello Vegas 6 users:

If anyone out has the answers, here are the questions:

1. I am shooting a movie that has several hundred clips. I was putting them all in one track to check for continuity. By chapter 5 or six the clips were shown as red screens instead of the actual video clip. So the first few clips in the story line are fine but afterwards I can not see them. If I save the first 2 or 3 chapters to a different file, then my red screens turn into video again. Does Vegas 6 has an intrinsic built in limit to the number of clips you can work with or is it my computer? (Dual core dual processor, 500 GB, 4.2MHZ PC)

2. I am not having much luck recording sound into Vegas. I am using TASCAM 122 and Acid Pro. The sound seems like is missing a fraction of a second from each recorded clip.

3. I have used Chroma Blur and Chroma select to erase backgrounds but I am having no luck when I try to place a walking subject on a fixed background.

I would appreciate any information.

Thanks

Gino Salerno

Hi Gino,

This will get moved to the Vegas DV forum just down the main page here pretty soon. You'll get the answers you need.

In the meantime, Welcome!!! :)

How do you select and use a Third Party DV Codec?
 

Hello again.

From within Vegas I know how to turn on 'Ignore Third Party DV Codecs' in order to ensure that you use only the supplied Vegas DV Codec BUT how do actually 'not ignore' a 'Third Part DV Codec'?

I need to try to render from DV to MainConcept's DVCPRO25/50. How?

Regards,

Dale.

Generally speaking... it's simply a matter of picking the right file type (i.e. AVI), choosing "Custom", go to the Video tab, and then pick the proper codec from the list of choices.

Thanks for the reply.

Actually - I was being stupid - select Video For Windows as the template - and DVCPRO25/50 appears as an optional Video format.

Sorry about that.

Thanks again.

Dale.

Field order
 

For HDV projects what do you set your field order to (Upper, Lower, or none)
when the final destination is HDV tape.

Thanks

Upper field first when rendering to 1080i media

What am I doing wrong?

I seem to get jagged edges on playback when I use upper first, but don't have the same problem when I select lower. Isit just my video player. Seems to happen in Media Player, VLC, and even on Quicktime.

FX1, Vegas MovieStudio, Dual Core AMD 3800+,

Are you viewing it on a LCD?

No, just my computer monitor...

You know, I think thats how I set it in Premiere, don't recall how I've set in Vegas renders. Could that make a difference? Anyone?

isn't there a link somewhere that shows you how to optimally output a web-based .mov file? i believe the link is somewhere in our opendv discussion contest section where people have to u/l files to compete.

HDV to HD. Best method?
 

hi ya'll,

this is a sister thread to the HDV to SD =). hopefully all editors interested in converting either cf or m2t to a consumer HD format can post replies here =).

i shot a wedding on XL H1's 24F mode. i put together a rough cut and output the entire thing to .wmv's HD default template. i dunno if it's just me but i'm getting a lot of pixelization/interlacing.

anybody have experience with outputting a good piece of HD file that can fit on DVD5 (4.35gigabytes) or DVD9 (8.5gigabytes)? either is fine by me.

16:9 question...
 

well, I got my first Sony PDX10 camera! weii...
anyway...
(for those who don't know, PDX10 have REAL 16:9 mode (16:9 chip)).
I capture video from my camera. I choose PAL DV widescreen template and when I import my captured avi, it is shown squeezed in preview. ok. when I turn on 'simulate device aspect ratio' vegas should show video in 16:9, right? the thing is, vegas is showing video in 1049 x 576! it's a little bit squeezed. correct resolution in preview should be 1024 x 576, not 1049! is this normal? or I did something wrong?

now, I played a bit in vegas and I got correct resolution (1024 x 576) in preview when I changed pixel aspect ratio for my project to 1.4220. Just to remind you, vegas gives you 1.4568 aspect ratio as default for PAL DV Widescreen.

what's going on here?

thanx for info...

Noise Reduction in Vegas6d
 

I'm trying to use Noise reduction 2.0 on a small audio clip in Vegas. This program has done wonders for me before but now everytime I try to save the file I get an error message that says, "The system is low on memory". I don't understand this. I have 1GB RAM and 33GB on the hard drive I'm using. Anyone know how to fix this?

How is your paging file set up?

Avid Xpress Video into Vegas for Sound
 

Hey everyone,

I've got a question. Right now we're cutting a feature on Xpress but the director/soundman hates the audio capabilities in it. He's much faster with Vegas. I know Vegas but am much more comfortable cutting on Avid to get the rythm I'm after. Here's my question:

Has anyone worked with importing sound into Vegas from Avid or another NLE or does anyone have good experience in the past of pushing sound clips out of Avid for sound (other than into something like ProTools). Lip sync, ADR, and folley work will be done in Vegas and we've also got some bad timecode on a couple tapes so that messes things up a bit as well. Would love to hear any suggestions and tips you guys have!

Thanks a ton!

My motherboard went bad, Oh, the frustrations of this Hi-Tech world we live in :)

Export, use CuiBono to read the AAF info, or try using the AAF straight from Avid. Import to Vegas using CuiBono, or simply import the AAF. I've done it both ways, and right now can't remember what the problem was that made me have to go to CuiBono.

Thanks Douglas! That looks like it could save the day... I think the direct import of the AAF files just arent recognized by Vegas - at least yesterday when we were trying. But this CuiBono looks like it does a ton!

I don't know what a paging file is, so I guess it's set at the default. Oddly the default wav file to render was 44,100 Hz, but when I changed that to 48,000 Hz it worked.