Rendering for Digital Juice Swipes

[James Wilhelmi]

Quicktime Animation.

James

[Mike Kujbida]

I don’t bother rendering out to a different format.
Instead, I drop my ETK clips right on the Vegas timeline, do a “Match Output Aspect” in Pan Crop and set my alpha channel as required.

[John Rofrano]

Yea, I find that rendering Digital Juice files for Vegas Pro is a complete waste of time and disc space. Like Mike, I just drop the original files from the DVD into my Vegas project. They are often smaller and higher quality than anything the Juicer will render. I think the Juicer is for those other NLE’s that can’t handle many formats.

~jr

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[Mike Kujbida]

I used to render to DV-AVI on my old computer (P4, 3.4 GHz) but with a quad core, MOVs are no strain whatsoever.

[Ken Bennett]

Mike,

I don’t see anywhere in Pan & Crop tool (on the DJ FX clip) where “Match Output Aspect” is nor any alpha channel setting!!!

Ken Bennett
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[Mike Kujbida]

After opening the Pan/Crop tool, right-click in the middle of it and select “Match Output Aspect”.
For the Alpha channel, right-click on the clip once it’s on the timeline and select Properties.
Switch to the Media tab and change the Alpha channel tab to “Straight (unmatted)”.
If that one doesn’t work, there are two other options to try.

[Ken Bennett]

OK, I need some direction here. So far I cannot get any of my Digital Juice FX that have alpha to work in Vegas. Just dropping in the source file, I am not getting any alpha channel. And the source files are no where near the quality I was getting in my other NLE. So there has to be a secret somewhere to make it work if it does work in Vegas.

Since I use a lot of DJ FX in my projects, if I can’t get then to work in Vegas this will be a major road block. I need to know this now.

Thanks.

Ken Bennett
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[Ken Bennett]

THANK YOU, Mike. You just made my day.

Ken Bennett
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[Mike Kujbida]

[Ken Bennett] “THANK YOU, Mike. You just made my day.”

Ken, pick the winning numbers in the next multi-million dollar lottery and we’ll call it even 🙂
Seriously though, I’m glad I was able to help.

[Ken Bennett]

Not quite. I’m still having problems with DJ Compositor’s Toolkit. Those are the ones of actual HD footage shoot with black backgrounds. They don’t work in Vegas. I can’t key of alpha out the black. Any experience with this set of visual FX from DJ?

Thanks.

Ken Bennett
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