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vegas & windows media…
Anyone know anything about this….
I’m in the middle of a huge debate at work…we are working for a client who needs 150 short windows media videos all about 5 – 10 minutes in length…
…our company runs FCP…however we were told that if we use cleaner, on our macs, to compress the uncompressed self contained quicktime movies into windows media files they will look terrible…the funny thing is, they are right…the files look awful…not that I expect any great things from windows media files but these look quite bad…
…so…they said it’s an issue of using a mac to compress to a windows file…and on top of that…using FCP…they say we need to export all the quicktime files and then import them into sony vegas, apply several filter effects and then export from vegas to the final windows media file…this will get an acceptable file…
*whew*
…and because I only know avid and FCP, veas is like a forigen language to me…i cannot even get vegas 6 to do a batch export…
has anyone ever encountered this problem on a mac compressing quicktime movies into windows media? how did you beat it without using two programs, two computers and exprorting, importing and then exporting/compressing? i say there i a way to do it in one step, create a good looking windows media file but everyone in the office says there isn’t….but i cannot prove or dis prove this because i never deal with windows media…or vegas for that matter…oh and editing on vegas isn’t a possibility either…the computer we have running it couldn’t support all the media/processing…
i dish out huge thanks to anyone who can shead some light on this issue…i’m sorry i double posted because i don’t even know if this is a FCP issue or a vegas issue…i appologize…but this sounds nuts…what kind of problem is this? I don’t even know…
thanks a ton in advance –
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Import the QT files and place on the Vegas timeline. Put them all on a single track. Double click on the first file and then hit “r” on the keyboard to save a region. You can name the region if you wish. Repeat for each clip.
Now go under Tools / Scripting / and choose “Batch Export”
Select the template you want, and at the bottom of that dialog box choose “Render Regions”
At the top — select the directory to save the files. Click OK and it will now be automated.If you have Excalibur — you can completely automate even the marking and naming of regions, then export each region making the file name match the region name. Scripting is a powerful tool and really sets Vegas apart from all the other NLEs.
td
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wow…thanks…that’s going to save me hours and hours of time…
I still don’t know about the whole compressing of quicktime files on a mac to windows media and what the deal is there but the scripting thing is huge…
Thanks A Ton
Nate
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