Can Vegas 4 capture the HD10's MPEG2 video.
 

In Vegas 4, I have been able to view .m2t video files I downloaded online. I was wondering how to capture the HD10 MPEG2 video into Vegas 4. Is it possible and how would it be done. I would like to capture and view the 1280x720 HD video in Vegas from the HD10.

Thanks,

Doug

After 5 hours of defraging still can't capture. Looking into reformatting my hard drive or buying a new computer now I guess.

reversing clip
 

Hello,
Is there a way in Vegas to reverse a clip. for exampe you have a clip of a car driving in reverse, and you wish to make the car look like it is driving forward..
Thanks,
Mike M.

Insert a velocity envelope. Change the "speed" to a negative number. -100% = full speed reverse.

Check the DMA setting. Sounds like it may have gotten turned off some way.

Take a look at the "Beginner's Corner" articles in the Vegas Tips, Tricks and Scripts Newsletter at http://www.jetdv.com/tts

Any individual clip may be normalized but that won't guarantee each of them are at the same volume level.

The volume may be fully controlled by using the Volume Envelope, Track volume, and master volumes. If you want, you can also create busses which also have volume controls. So, yes you can make the volume consistent by using a combination of tool.

Sounds like when you FIRST loaded the file, you cancelled the peak file build. You found the solution - just rebuild them. Pressing F5 will also do this.

Videoguys was kind enough to host the newsletter for me. I was getting so many hits that I nearly exceeded my bandwidth and had to find an alternative. So I appreciated Videoguys being willing to host the PDF files.

Edward, thank you for your input. But I don't know what a DMA setting is. Is that in Vegas or XP?

Tags?
 

I am a newbie of vegas 4.0(d)

Question:

In some clips I have discovered tags on the top of the clips (they can be everywhere on the tops) and when the film is coming to this tags the film shaken (or frozen) for a millisecond just there.

What is this tags and how can I delete them?

What does the tags look like? Little triangles cut into the strip? Are they always there, or only when you do ... what?

always there
 

They look like small trangles, yes, cut into some clips from the top. And in the audio track they are at the same places. And they are always there.

How to lock?
 

I have edit my 55 minutes film down to 18 minutes.

And now I want to cut some more videoclips.

Everytime I have done so, all other events have come in disorder so that the music no more is in accordance with my videoclips.

I do not understand the manual how to do.

Can somebody explain how I can lock my CD-clip to my video-clip so they don’t move when I delete some other videoclip?

These are marks that indicate that your clip has reached the end and is looped back to the beginning. The framing at the start and end of the clip are slightly different, which is causing this jump. There isn't anything you can do about it except get a longer clip. :)

There are two things to look at here. First, if the clip originally had the same audio, it should be grouped by default. You can see if this is the case by clicking on the video or audio and seeing if the other piece has a blue border around it. If not, use Shift+Click or Ctrl+Click to select all the clips you want to be in the same group. Press "G" to group them. Now the audio and video will stay in sync, as long as ignore event grouping is turned off. (This is the open padlock button on the toolbar.)

Good site for tutorials:
http://www.sundancemediagroup.com/he..._tutorials.asp

And Example files:
http://www.sundancemediagroup.com/help/kb/kb_files.asp

As mentioned above, Edward's newsletters are also a great place to start.

There, those links work better. :)

So would a religious Vegas user who cannot stand the sight of Premiere have any use for Aspect HD?

Maybe in the future. The technology that drives Aspect HD for Premiere can ported to other editing applications. CineForm is considering Vegas and other NLE for this technology. However, if you want on-line multiple-stream real-time HD editing, Aspect HD with Premiere is today's only solution.

Thanks for the info, David.

At the top there's a button with 2 filmstrips and a arrow (8 from the right). That's the auto ripple button. Ripple is so that when you delete something everything else moves back to fill in the hole of the deleted item. You can set it to either move all tracks back or just one track.

You need to use the capture program that come with the camera.

Here is a thread I started a few weeks ago.

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...threadid=15357

Mike

For another alternative, if that section is DONE, just render it and use the rendered clip instead of the individual pieces.

XP. You need to go to the hard drive controller properties and see if it is using DMA or PIO. If PIO, I guarantee you'll drop frames.

Thanks for the sites.

I've printed the manual and Edward's first 9 newsletters and had them spiral bound. I just have to get to reading them. I spend half of my life on the road, it would be nice to have a life but it's a living

I always worry about how I'll do on anything technical and new. i always make out like a champ, but it's the nature of the beast. When I'm cock sure I fall flat on my face.

If everything else checks, remove all but the necessary peripherals and try it . If it works then install them one at a time until the problem returns.

I had problems with available system resources because of a USB multifunction device. ( HP office jet)

Thanks Edward, you nailed it as usual!!

thanks,
Mike m

The normalize function isn't a good tool for volume increases because if the audio has clipped digitally even once, it won't work at all. You're better off using a compressor function and raising the volume level, although that requires quite a bit of work to
set levels for all of the tracks you're working with.

I really wish these DVD editors had some functions to rate the
audio tracks in 2 levels: short time Peak counter/rater (1/20 second), long time peak counter/rater (1 second) and full track counter/rater.

24p Standard footage playing choppy in Preview Window
 

I captured some 24p (standard) footage and found it played back choppy in the preview window.... 9 fps to be exact (@ full size/best). I thought 24p standard was still 29.97 frames a second...what would cause it to play choppy? I opened up a new project using the 24p template and it seemed to play fine.
?! Any ideas?! ....keeping in mind this is 24p standard.

two questions
 

1. In my film I wish to freeze my last clip. How do I do that?

2. I have a firewall and antivirusprogram. Is it a good thing to shut it down everytime I work in Vegas? (Sometimes I have forget to shut it down but no problem in Vegas.)

Because you have unlimited tracks in Vegas you can sort audio that requires the same kind of treatment on separate tracks, and even channel some of those track to different buses. Then you can apply FXs on both track and bus level. Have a look at the audio signal flow diagram in the manual.

What you also can do is to set up the default track FX and/or create FX packages with typical presets that you normally will use, and then just select/deselect them as required.

In detail:
Drop Graphic Dynamics on an audio track. Select and tweak some different presets and save them. Rightclick the track header, click on Set default track porperties, and then OK. Next time you create an audio track it will have Graphic Dynamics selected and you can just pick the appropriate preset.
OR:
Set up a collection of audio FXs and tweak them for one typical use you may need (music, voiceover, etc). Save as FX package. Next time you can just selct th package and it will replace the FX already on your track and install itself, tweaks and all. Repeat for other typical uses.
Of course you can still fine-tune the tweaks after that, but you will have a relevant starting-point.

Thanks to all for the inputs. Vegas looks like it will be my choice. It has more tools than I will ever be able to use, but it's a little daunting coming from a Pinnacle Studio 8 background.

To slow down, freeze, or reverse, use a Velocity Envelope.

When capturing or printing to tape, it would probably be a good idea to shutdown the firewall and antivirus programs. For normal editing it probably won't matter (and *may* not matter on capturing or printing either - only tests will determine that).

Personally, my editing and internet computers are two separate machines. My editing computers never see the internet so they have no need for a firewall or antivirus program.

Check out EndItAll. This progam allows you to setup which processes should be shutdown or killed. I have it setup for editing, so when I start editing, I close/kill everything I won't need.

Very Cool
 

Mark,
Kudos, you did a smokin' job with what looks to be the same tools we all have. Once again great job. I would also like to get additional info on you PS training disks. Please email me off the boards with info:

me1313@mindspring.com

Thanks,
Wade

Vegas/DVD Architect--no commentary track/options
 

I will eventually be using Vegas 4.0 to edit 24p or 24pa footage and will need to output to dvd w/ 5.1 sound and include a commentary track. For that reason, I was leaning toward DVD Architect; however, it's my understanding that multiple audio tracks, for a director's commentary track, isn't possible in Architect. Ouch!
Now what authoring program should I purchase? Isn't there an available plug-in for Architect to enable a commentary track? I guess it's on to other 5.1, AC3 encoding software that has multiple languages capability.

Correct. DVDA does not currently offer multiple audio tracks. If the video is short enough - it could be included twice. Otherwise you'll have to look at another product that does offer this feature.

Hope I didn't stump EVERYONE. *yikes*

How?
 

<<<To slow down, freeze, or reverse, use a Velocity Envelope.>>>

I know how to slow down and reverse but how do I do to freeze a videoclip with Velocity Envelope?

I want to freeze a videoclip and then have a text rolling there.

ZERO percent as the speed is Freeze Frame. Right-click the node, choose "Set to..." and type in 0.