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Preview / Timeline issues
Hey there,
I’m enjoying 9c on my HP laptop with W7x64 Pro.
However…I’m working on a project and editing still images and video (mp4s).
The files USUALLY show up in the timeline when I drop them in – but here are a few problems:
1) Occasionally, files show up just RED in the timeline. Hmm. Media has not moved…
2) The Preview window doesn’t show the media half the time. Sometimes it shows up, sometimes it’s just black.Pretty annoying. Going to try an uninstall and reinstall now and see what happens. If not – FCP it is for this project. Oh well.
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6 Replies
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How big are the images and what format is your project? You may be consuming too many resources by loading 10 megapixel images into an SD project that is going to output as less than 1 megapixel or an HD project that is going to use 2 megapixels. Try resizing them to no more that 2x the project dimensions. This will make it much easier to edit.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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>>You may be consuming too many resources by loading 10 megapixel images into an SD project that is going to output as less than 1 megapixel or an HD project that is going to use 2 megapixels.
Hi John.
Using too large of an image can make it show up as red?
I use 10MB .png’s a lot, because some times I zoom waaayyy in.
Norman Willis
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> Using too large of an image can make it show up as red?
Well… no one knows why we get the red frames. I have gotten them in some of my tutorial projects using Camtasia files. One day they read fine, the next day they show up red. I close Vegas and re-open the project and they are fine again. It’s strange.
> I use 10MB .png’s a lot, because some times I zoom waaayyy in.
Vegas Pro 9.0 was supposed to have added support for giga-pixel images so it certainly handles large images better than any other version of Vegas but the facts remain that HD is only 2MP. If you place a 10MP file on the timeline, Vegas has to resize it 30 times a second down to 2MP. That takes a lot of memory and compute resources.
How far are you zooming in? 2x, 3x, 5x? Are you doing this on every image? Is it an active zoom motion or just reframing the shot? If you are just reframing, I would do all of that work in Photoshop and save a ton of time rendering in Vegas by having your images as close to video resolution as you project allows.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com -
>>How far are you zooming in? 2x, 3x, 5x? Are you doing this on every image? Is it an active zoom motion or just reframing the shot? If you are just reframing, I would do all of that work in Photoshop and save a ton of time rendering in Vegas by having your images as close to video resolution as you project allows.
I need a better set-up, but at the moment I am just taking macro (close-up) photos of Scripture pages with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3 under fluorescent lighting. That gives me a ~3MB .jpg. Vegas does not like .jpg’s, so I convert them to (a 10MB) .png with Irfanview, like you, Mike and Steve suggested. It works great, except for the occasional red event, which is usually resolved by a quick close-and-reopen.
I’ve got all your tutorial DVD’s, including the ones on Photoshop, and I am very eager to go through them all, but I have to get the new websites up and running first.
Is there some bracket or something I could use to brace my Lumix, pointing right straight down at the books about a foot away from the table, so I could take cleaner, more ‘head on’ shots of the pages? When one gets up on the page close like that, right now some of the shots come out at an oblique, and do not come out uniform. It is OK for now, but not as good as it could be.
Also it would be nice if there was some means of holding the pages open and flat, without breaking the spine of my books. Any ideas?
Norman Willis
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There are some tripods that allow you to shoot straight down. You might also consider getting a SoftBox which will give plenty of soft light that doesn’t leave shadows.
I can see where you’d need a lot of zoom to go from a bible to a passage. One trick you could use is to simulate a fast zoom. During the zoom, there would be a motion blur (which you would simulate) and when you stop on the passage of scripture, it could actually be a different image that was taken only inches from the page. That would eliminate the need for very large images.
There are also book scanners that you hold in your hand which would probably work better on pages that are not flat. You could also simulate the passage. In other words, create an image in Photoshop that uses a tile of the actual page stock as the background and then uses a font that has imperfections like they came from a printing press or typewriter. This could be a lot of work.
BTW, I create photo montages with hundreds of jpegs and Vegas works just fine so I don’t know why you’d think that Vegas doesn’t like jpegs. That’s almost exclusively all I use.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com -
You are probably looking for a Copystand. Check B&H Photo and Video for examples.
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