NEWBIE WITH QUESTIONS!

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NEWBIE WITH QUESTIONS!

Posted by Holly Johnson on February 14, 2008 at 1:15 pm

Hi,

I’m new with Sony Vegas and I’m having some trouble. If anyone has the time and can help, I would really appreciate it. Here they are…

1. I’m using for montage making only, so what settings would you use on starting new titles? I’m a little confused with the template, pixel format, motion blur, deinterlace etc..

2. I jumped in head first and did a montage, and it looked good in the preview window but awful after having published it…I found out after the fact that I should have rendered it, so I went back and did that, but it didn’t help. Here is the link to my first attempt….

https://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?PID=1082227&t=5430

Any ideas why it did this?

3. Is there just a plain fade in transition? I was having trouble with some of my transitions from the above link.

Thanks,

HOLLY

Mike Egts replied 17 years, 7 months ago 5 Members · 8 Replies
8 Replies

Edward Troxel
February 14, 2008 at 3:37 pm

Take a look at my newsletters. One of them talks about building a motion slide-show. Depending on the version of Vegas you’re using, there are also custom commands and scripts available that can build a slideshow for you. Then all you have to do is tweak it.

Edward Troxel
Terry Esslinger
February 14, 2008 at 5:46 pm

Your link does not take me to a montage but to a site with a site that you have to register to view (not a great idea) and to a video tat is not a montage.
Holly Johnson
February 14, 2008 at 6:34 pm

Hi, Sorry, I don’t know why its doing that, when I click on it, it takes me straight to the page where I downloaded the montage. It gives me the option to play video, or download it. Sorry. 🙁
Holly Johnson
February 14, 2008 at 6:35 pm

Thanks, I’ll take a look. 🙂
Jack Watts
February 28, 2008 at 11:07 am

What is the condition of the quality of you source footage? This is very important for the final look of your project! If it is bad then then you final render will be worse. i would suggest that you do some research on codecs and system requirements for video rendition. If you have low ram this will affect your render. And word of advice never believe your preview window(unless you preview on an external monitor) The preview monitor has 4 settings Draft(terrible), preview(bad), good(good) & best(better). But these previews mean nothing,they are merely used for reference for your workflow. Your final render ie.compression dtermines your end result!
Mike Egts
September 29, 2008 at 10:06 pm

I have a newbie question.

I use Vegas Pro 8
Is there just one compression type:
mpeg2 – avi – QuickTime
that is the best to render to, before rendering short videos
and burning them with DVD Architect?

I have made text frames in Photoshop (PNG file)
and layered it into my videos.
After rendering, the text does not look crisp anymore.

I usually render my project to AVI, before burning it to DVD Architect.

I am at a loss for what to do and cannot find a definitive answer.
I do have a good system with plenty of Ram memory.

Hope I have given enough information.

Thanks
Mike Egts

Mike (X) Egts
Jack Watts
September 30, 2008 at 11:12 am

Is your png saved as straight or premultiplied? also what is the quality of your png file. try exporting it from photoshop at the highest possible size to retain data!
Mike Egts
September 30, 2008 at 11:36 pm

I am saving the PNG at 655×480 size.

I am not up on saving straight or premultiplied.
Sorry, I just hit Save As: PNG

My biggest question is still
*What is the best format to render to, when you want to keep the best quality?”

I see a huge difference in the file size of Mpeg 2 and AVI.

Does File Size automatically mean less (or better) compression?

Thanks so much

Mike (X) Egts

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