Time ruler format in the Trimmer
 

Is it possible to display the frame number counting from the beginning of the clip, rather than the tape?

With the timecode filter applied in the media pool, yes.

Capture HDV from JVC-HD100 into Vegas 6
 

I am a new member on this site and a new HD 100 U owner, please excuse my ignorance. I edit with Sony Vegas 6. What are my options as far as getting the HDV footage from camera to my hard drive. At this time my plans are top capture in HDV for archival purposes but to down convert and produce in SD.
I really appreciate any help that can get me on my way.

Thanks for the speedy reply! I am not sure if I understand. Are you referring to do Timecode filter under Video FX? I tried adding that to the track on which the clip was placed. Sure enough, it imprinted the time code, but how does that help me when I want to edit a clip in the Trimmer? I want the beginning of the clip to be frame zero so I can work with other applications (say I need to rotoscope a segment of a clip).

Your first post doesn't reference the trimmer, FX don't show up there for obvious reasons.
If you want to select a portion of an uncut clip and make a specific frame to be frame zero, you'll need to make a subclip of that sequence/clip in the Trimmer tool.
To see T/C for the actual event, you have to drop the Timecode FX on the clip in the Media Pool, as mentioned in the earlier post.

Emre,
It is already an icon on the Video Preview toolbar. It looks like a little TV or computer monitor. Also the keystrokes to invoke it are Alt+Shift+4 (and how come that little combination isn't preprinted on my WorldTech Vegas keybaord I don't know).

Thanks, Pat. I know that but I want to have a copy of the icon on the general toolbar as I don't use the Video Preview window (the wonders of a dual monitor setup).

Create Empty event for ALL tracks?
 

I don't know if there's a way to do this in Vegas 5, but I have almost finished my edit for a wedding, yet I'm trying to insert an empty event for all (audio and video) tracks. Problem is, I have 4 video tracks with 7 tracks of audio carefully synched to the video. I have to keep them all together.

If I do a regular "insert empty event" on one track...well...you know what happens to the sync for all my other tracks. So is there a way to do an "insert all empty event"?

Thanks for any light you can shed on this frustrating issue!

Sorry about that, I just monkeyed around with the places in Vegas I thought you should be able to do it and couldn't so I'm at a loss.

There are always going to be a few things that you wish were different to make Vegas (or any software) more helpful, but they're absent.

My biggest "want" in Vegas right now is some sort of text description of VideoFX, AudioFX, Transitions, and Presets. I think if you right-click on one, you should have the option of displaying a paragraph (or ten) about that Preset or effect. I can't remember the difference between Color Balance and Color Corrector. And I sure don't remember why you're supposed to use one over the other.

I would recommend Cineform Connect HD. Its only 200 bucks and works well with Vegas. I capture using the Cineform HDLink utility and edit in HD with those files. I then downconvert at rendertime for DVD. When you edit with the Cineform files you get pretty good performance so there is no need to downconvert and edit in SD.

Agree if you have a reasonably fast computer and don't mind spending $200, Connect HD is probably the way to go.

If you have a slower PC, or short of pennies, you could also consider either doing the render to Cineform from Vegas (i.e. capture m2t, render to CineForm) and using that, or using a DV proxy (either my manually replacing files, or using Gearshift). Take a look at this thread:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=52233

Mark

My first question would be why you are inserting empty events to begin with? However, it sound like you have auto-ripple turned on and it needs to be turned off.

SoundMax motherboard sound - usable?
 

I keep having Vegas & Acid only lockups with my EMU 1820m Vegas 6 combo and latest drivers/versions are worse than it use to be.

I yanked the EMU and Vegas seems happier but the SoundMax on my ASUS mobo seems to be a little weird. Center volume is low and can't figure out if it's got some driver alternations to the the analog outs...

Anyone using it for surround mixing successfully?

My reason for creating an empty event across all tracks is simple, I am trying to make room to move a sequence in front of another event. If I only had 1 video or audio track to move across the timeline, a cut and paste would be simple. However with so many audio and video tracks carefully synched together, moving a clip with it's audio track will throw everything else off.

Maybe I'm completely missing it, and there's an easier way. I have looked for a way to 'lock' audio tracks with their video tracks like I do with Adobe Audition, but haven't found a way. If I could do this, I could move one track over the desired amount, and everything would follow with auto-ripple.

Bottom line, I don't want to keep having to sync multiple audio and video tracks when I move things around.

You can lock a track or event by right clicking and selecting "Lock."
As far as blanking, are you then using these empty events as slugs? You can make a selection for the length of the empty event/slug, and then right click, choose "insert empty event" and this will insert an empty event for the length of the entire selection. Just be sure ripple is off.

moving to beginning or end of clip
 

Hi folks, Don't know what this is called in Vegas, but I want to be able to move from one clip to the next on the timeline - without having to mouse around and placing the cursor over the end of the clip.

Is this a keyboard shortcut that I don't know? In Saw - you hit the TAB key and it moves the cursor to the next "beginning" or "end" of an event, or region. Shift-Tab moves it the other way, and it's so handy. One click and you are there.

I've looked through all the help files and can't find it. Maybe it's not there, but then again, maybe it's just called something that I don't know.

thanks,
Milt

Vegas and HDCam
 

Does Vegas support HDCam? Thanks.

I assume this is in regard to the HVX200---the answer is no, but you can use Raylight by Dv Film---I understand that it isn't the most elegant way of working.

http://www.dvfilm.com/raylight/index.htm

Control-Alt--arrow keys----Just hold the control and alt key down together.

I was actually referring to the Sony F900.

Yes, it does.
Both via firewire from JH3, or as component input from cam directly using a BMD card, which is how we're working with footage from the 700.

As far as P2...http://www.sundancemediagroup.com/ar...sony_vegas.htm

Yes, it does.
Both via firewire from JH3, or as component input from cam directly using a BMD card, which is how we're working with footage from the 700.

As far as P2... I'll have a tutorial up within the hour.

Wonderful - works like a champ.
Thanks,
M.

If you have a ten key, you can also hit 7 or 9, same as Avid. 4/6 nudge, 2/8 move up/down. 0 for preview centered around cursor.

DSE and Edward are certainly more knowledgeable on Vegas than I, but if I were to do what you said you are trying to do, I would just finish that project exactly how you want it with all video and audio track set where you need them and SAVE.

Then just open another instance of Vegas, place the new event on the timeline and then add the .veg from the first project and it will place all 4 video and 7 audio tracks in correct spatial order when you render.

I didn't used the nesting feature of Vegas for quite a while after it came out. But after loosing a really big edit, I've learned to do a series of small edits and stitch them together. It may be just a mental thing, but I'm intimidated by large edit projects and breaking things into meaningful chunks make it easier on me. Silly self-induced mental games, but fortunately for me, Vegas mitigates my neuroses.

Hey Doug, how does the Raylight work---is it cludgy? Also, have you shot with the HVX200---if so, what do you think? I'm thinking of it as an entry level camera into the world of HD.

I don't find Raylight kludgy at all, it's not much different than HDV-CineForm. Native reading would be good.
As far as the cam...I won't comment beyond saying it's not at all what I expected. Chromakey is impossible with this camera. At any setting. 720p30, 720p 60n, 1080i....nada works. The vertical shift is ridiculous to deal with.
We ended up using the A1U footage acquired at the same time.

Multiple Event Fx windows open
 

Anyone know of a way to get the Event Fx window to open in more than one instance?

Color matching: I have two clips on two tracks and I'm flipping back and forth using the Solo button to view them. It would be great if either the Event Fx window matched the clip being viewed, or if I could get one Fx window to open for each clip.

Scott

Scott,

I haven't tried this and I'm not on my Vegas machine to give it a spin, but will the EventFX dialog box dock? Can you drag it to the edge of the area where the Trimmer and Transitions tabs are and see if it will latch on and "dock" to become a tab.

I don't think it will because I think all the dockable tabs are specific menu items in the View menu. I don't think you can have two open because it is a 'dialog box' but I cannot confirm that.

As far as I know, you can only view the properties for one FX at a time. Here's a interesting solution, though: Open Vegas TWICE and do each image in the separate instances of Vegas. Then you can have both open at once.

hc1 hdv for web encoding help?
 

picked up hc1 on saturday $1480 out the door at circuit city...lol this thing was $2000 back in jan...shoots nice stuff. I have been experiamenting with getting some good quality on the web with hd stuff and wondered if anyone has some setting recommendations for rendering using wmv for footage that was shot in 1080i. should be an intresting thread. i am using vegas but am open to any type of encoding program. trying to make a small excellent quality file. 5 minute video would like to stay around 80 megs give or take 10

Tom,

I too, have a HC1 and I like the camera. I am new to video so take this with a grain of salt. For me, the best file size vs. clarity vs. display size when I render w/Vegas is at the 3mbps w/compression setting for both WMV9 and Quicktime. For a 3+ minute clip, I am getting ~70mb file sizes, w/display settings at 640x480. Keep in mind that I am shooting in HD which I find "crisper" than DV. With a 320x280 (or smaller) display, I'd get much smaller file sizes by a magnitude of 10x (~10mb) and quicker "streaming" but I prefer not to. Interestingly enough, shooting in DV vs. HDV, my file sizes are not that much smaller, all things considered. Hope this helps.

yeah thanks paul i will try out these settings. anyone using sorenson squeze here

Thanks for the tip. I'm editing with a pentium dual core 2.8. Don;t mind the $200 for cineform. Again excuse my ignorance, but is this the process; connect HD 100 to computer by firewire at which time HD connect will recognize my camera, put camera in VTR mode and simply download?
Thanks for your help

Hard Drive speed?
 

The drives I have are 7200 RPM and I am running Vegas 5 SD. Will the slower hard drives I think 5400 rpm work as well...I am looking at laptops and a lot of them have the slower drives

Thanks

Vince

Generally speaking, the 5400 drives in today's laptops ARE fast enough to capture video and I have done so. I also capture to a firewire 7200 rpm drive on that same laptop.

Thats exactly right Joe. You have some options in HDLink(cineform capture utility) whether you want to keep the raw m2t file or convert to cineform avi or both. Little things like that. but from there you just close Cineform HDLink, fire up Vegas, and drop clips in the timeline or whatever. Piece of cake.

Vegas can capture and edit the m2t files or you can convert to Cineform in Vegas without buying Connect HD, but like I said before the performance of Connect HD is worth it. Plus you get the nifty capture utility HDLink.

AMD Athlon 64 Processor
3700+
2.21 GHZ, 2 GB RAM, 250Space

Win Xp

Is that a okay computer to edit on?

Thanks Ed.....

Edward,

The DV-PC Recorder Canon offers with its XL-2 has a "Performance Check" program that tasks the hard-drive and measures the sustained write performance.

The 7200 rpm drives in my desktop peg the graphs upper limit at greater than 30mb/sec. The 5400 rpm hard-drive on my laptop struggles to keep above the "minimum" line of about 4.5mb/sec, but it does stay above that if I've disconnected it from the network and ensured that no other programs are tasking the hard-drive. But the laptop does stay just above the line and so is satisfactory for capture. As a test, an external 7200 rpm USB drive on the laptop pegged the chart like the desktop's internal drives.