Vegas Video discussions from 2004 (Q3Q4)

Emre Safak · July 18th, 2004, 12:15 PM

Thanks Doug, I thought so... wouldn't it be nice if 5.0b included an opacity setting? It seems like a no-brainer to me.

Kylie Wilson · July 19th, 2004, 01:59 AM

Hello

I'm having a problem rendering to mpeg2, the first time I rendered everything worked fine. I have had this problem before I seem to think it is a bug that has something to do with windows media player.

The error states "An error has occured while creating the media file ***************.mpg. "The reason for the error could not be determined".

I'm using Vegas 5, I cannot think how I fixed the problem last time. Any suggestions greatly appreciated

Edward Troxel · July 19th, 2004, 08:07 AM

Check to make sure the drive containing your temporary files is not full. Then change where Vegas places the temporary files to a larger drive.

Dave Deng · July 20th, 2004, 01:59 AM

When I capture video through my USB port into Vegas 5.0 the maximum resolution is 640 x 480. This seems ok, but I would like to know if there is any way for me to capture at a higher res. If its not possible how would the quality of the outputed DVD be??

Thanks for your help
Dave

Edward Troxel · July 20th, 2004, 07:36 AM

Please do not capture via USB (especially if you want to be happy with the results). The preferred method of capture is via Firewire. Firewire will give you full DV resolution. If your camera does not support firewire, get a convertor and run analog to the convertor and then firewire between the convertor and computer.

Dave Deng · July 20th, 2004, 08:14 AM

Thank for the reply Edward, I also have a Pinnacle's DC10+ but have had a real bad time in the past trying to render my movie into one big file. To put it lightly "im over it". Ill try capturing through firewire, Thanks.

Edward Troxel · July 20th, 2004, 08:18 AM

I'm not sure the Pinnacle card is OHCI compliant. You may be better off removing that card (and it's drivers) and installing a standard OHCI firewire card using Window's drivers.

As for large files, you should be able to make them as large as needed assuming your drives are formatted to NTFS. If they are FAT32, you will be limited to 4Gig files (about 18 minutes of DV).

Glenn Chan · July 20th, 2004, 12:16 PM

I've just noticed that the 2 extra buttons on the MS USB IntelliMouse Optical mouse moves the playback head forwards and backwards following the ruler lines on your timeline. This could save lots of time looking through footage.

The mouse is also nice for webpages since the two extra buttons act as back/forward.

Conclusion: The evil empire wins again. ;)

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...105-122&depa=0

Ok, minor gripe. The plastic around the side buttons are squarish and not rounded so they can get a little irritating.

2- Anyone have any other mice of human interface devices they also like? I haven't tried a Contour Shuttle Pro with Vegas yet, so I don't know how it compares... but you could get both :D

Glen Elliott · July 20th, 2004, 12:33 PM

Interesting finding- wonder if you can map the extra mouse buttons to other actions in Vegas now that V5 allows you to remap keyboard shortcuts and the like.

Dennis Vogel · July 20th, 2004, 01:06 PM

The NewEgg site says it's a 5 button mouse (plus wheel). You only mentioned 4 buttons. I'm asuming the wheel is also a button. Do you know what it defaults to in Vegas?

Dennis Vogel

Dennis Vogel · July 20th, 2004, 02:47 PM

I'm doing my first DVD Architect 2 project. I have a single MPG file that I made a single movie DVD from. When I played the DVD the audio stopped after 49 seconds on both my settop player and my PC. I played the MPG file in WMP and it is fine--audio plays throughout the file. I played the first VOB in the TS_VIDEO folder and the audio stops again at 49 seconds. So it appears the render in DVDA failed to write my audio to the DVD files. Oh, if it matters I rendered the DVD to disk first then while in the same DVDA session burned the DVD. Standard PCM to AC3 conversion in DVDA.

I notice the timeline at the lower right of the DVDA window when I added the MPG file to the project. The audio track was probably still building the peak file when I started the render. I would have thought that only affected the screen view and not the render. Could that have prevented the full audio from being rendered? Must the peaks all be built before rendering?

If that's not the problem, anyone know what else might be going on here?

Dennis Vogel

Edward Troxel · July 20th, 2004, 03:00 PM

Let it build the peaks and then re-build the DVD. Let us know if it works after that.

Jeff Donald · July 20th, 2004, 04:10 PM

You call that a mouse? That's not a mouse. This is a mouse. It even works on my Macs.

Dana Pence · July 20th, 2004, 05:30 PM

Up until recently Vegas was rendering my video flawlessly. About mid-way through the most recent .AVI render, it started inserting a single black frame about every two seconds through the remainder of the video. By selecting that portion of the video where the problem began, I've attempted to render that with every possible combination of settings offered by Vegas, and still get the black frames. Any ideas?

David Jasany · July 20th, 2004, 06:30 PM

I'm adding a slide montage to my project. I've saved the photos at 655 x 480 pixels. Dropped the jpgs on the timeline and viewed result on preview window. When the preview window is docked and Best Full is selected, the picture fills the window. When I undock the window and enlarge it to full size, there are small vertical black bars on the left and right side of the picture.

If I set the preview window to Preview Auto, and leave it as a small docked window, the bars are again visible.

Is this normal and will it look right when viewed on a NTSC TV? I don't have an external monitor to preview. Thanks.

July 19th, 2004, 01:59 AM	#197
Kylie Wilson New Boot Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 12	rendering error mpeg2 Hello I'm having a problem rendering to mpeg2, the first time I rendered everything worked fine. I have had this problem before I seem to think it is a bug that has something to do with windows media player. The error states "An error has occured while creating the media file ***************.mpg. "The reason for the error could not be determined". I'm using Vegas 5, I cannot think how I fixed the problem last time. Any suggestions greatly appreciated

July 20th, 2004, 01:59 AM	#199
Dave Deng New Boot Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Victoria, Australia Posts: 6	Capturing Limitations When I capture video through my USB port into Vegas 5.0 the maximum resolution is 640 x 480. This seems ok, but I would like to know if there is any way for me to capture at a higher res. If its not possible how would the quality of the outputed DVD be?? Thanks for your help Dave

July 20th, 2004, 12:16 PM	#203
Glenn Chan Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 4,750	MS 4-button mouse: Neat I've just noticed that the 2 extra buttons on the MS USB IntelliMouse Optical mouse moves the playback head forwards and backwards following the ruler lines on your timeline. This could save lots of time looking through footage. The mouse is also nice for webpages since the two extra buttons act as back/forward. Conclusion: The evil empire wins again. ;) http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...105-122&depa=0 Ok, minor gripe. The plastic around the side buttons are squarish and not rounded so they can get a little irritating. 2- Anyone have any other mice of human interface devices they also like? I haven't tried a Contour Shuttle Pro with Vegas yet, so I don't know how it compares... but you could get both :D

July 20th, 2004, 02:47 PM	#206
Dennis Vogel Major Player Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Hillsborough, NC Posts: 409	DVDA 2 Audio Questioni I'm doing my first DVD Architect 2 project. I have a single MPG file that I made a single movie DVD from. When I played the DVD the audio stopped after 49 seconds on both my settop player and my PC. I played the MPG file in WMP and it is fine--audio plays throughout the file. I played the first VOB in the TS_VIDEO folder and the audio stops again at 49 seconds. So it appears the render in DVDA failed to write my audio to the DVD files. Oh, if it matters I rendered the DVD to disk first then while in the same DVDA session burned the DVD. Standard PCM to AC3 conversion in DVDA. I notice the timeline at the lower right of the DVDA window when I added the MPG file to the project. The audio track was probably still building the peak file when I started the render. I would have thought that only affected the screen view and not the render. Could that have prevented the full audio from being rendered? Must the peaks all be built before rendering? If that's not the problem, anyone know what else might be going on here? Dennis Vogel

July 20th, 2004, 04:10 PM	#208
Jeff Donald Warden Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Clearwater, FL Posts: 8,287	You call that a mouse? That's not a mouse. This is a mouse. It even works on my Macs. __________________ Jeff Donald Carpe Diem Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Where to Buy? From the best in the business: DVinfo.net sponsors

July 18th, 2004, 12:15 PM	#196
Emre Safak Trustee Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Brookline, MA Posts: 1,447	Thanks Doug, I thought so... wouldn't it be nice if 5.0b included an opacity setting? It seems like a no-brainer to me.

July 19th, 2004, 08:07 AM	#198
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	Check to make sure the drive containing your temporary files is not full. Then change where Vegas places the temporary files to a larger drive.

July 20th, 2004, 07:36 AM	#200
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	Please do not capture via USB (especially if you want to be happy with the results). The preferred method of capture is via Firewire. Firewire will give you full DV resolution. If your camera does not support firewire, get a convertor and run analog to the convertor and then firewire between the convertor and computer.

July 20th, 2004, 08:14 AM	#201
Dave Deng New Boot Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Victoria, Australia Posts: 6	Thank for the reply Edward, I also have a Pinnacle's DC10+ but have had a real bad time in the past trying to render my movie into one big file. To put it lightly "im over it". Ill try capturing through firewire, Thanks.

July 20th, 2004, 08:18 AM	#202
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	I'm not sure the Pinnacle card is OHCI compliant. You may be better off removing that card (and it's drivers) and installing a standard OHCI firewire card using Window's drivers. As for large files, you should be able to make them as large as needed assuming your drives are formatted to NTFS. If they are FAT32, you will be limited to 4Gig files (about 18 minutes of DV).

July 20th, 2004, 12:33 PM	#204
Glen Elliott Wrangler Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 2,898	Interesting finding- wonder if you can map the extra mouse buttons to other actions in Vegas now that V5 allows you to remap keyboard shortcuts and the like.

July 20th, 2004, 01:06 PM	#205
Dennis Vogel Major Player Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Hillsborough, NC Posts: 409	The NewEgg site says it's a 5 button mouse (plus wheel). You only mentioned 4 buttons. I'm asuming the wheel is also a button. Do you know what it defaults to in Vegas? Dennis Vogel

July 20th, 2004, 03:00 PM	#207
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	Let it build the peaks and then re-build the DVD. Let us know if it works after that.

July 20th, 2004, 05:30 PM	#209
Dana Pence Tourist Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Show Low, Arizona Posts: 4	AVI render creates black frames Up until recently Vegas was rendering my video flawlessly. About mid-way through the most recent .AVI render, it started inserting a single black frame about every two seconds through the remainder of the video. By selecting that portion of the video where the problem began, I've attempted to render that with every possible combination of settings offered by Vegas, and still get the black frames. Any ideas?

July 20th, 2004, 06:30 PM	#210
David Jasany Major Player Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: North Carolina Posts: 313	Photo Resolution & Aspect Ratio I'm adding a slide montage to my project. I've saved the photos at 655 x 480 pixels. Dropped the jpgs on the timeline and viewed result on preview window. When the preview window is docked and Best Full is selected, the picture fills the window. When I undock the window and enlarge it to full size, there are small vertical black bars on the left and right side of the picture. If I set the preview window to Preview Auto, and leave it as a small docked window, the bars are again visible. Is this normal and will it look right when viewed on a NTSC TV? I don't have an external monitor to preview. Thanks.