Aaron Star
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Like Steve recommends, and verify you are running B453 in help->about Vegas Pro.
More information on your system specs, project settings, workflow (source media formats(timeline formats)) and render to format, would help people help you.
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While testing further I ran into something odd. When I changed the “run as” settings on vegas and photoshop until I got the file lock error. Photoshop file #1 always opened locked, even if both applications were returned to normal mode, and I even rebooted to see if something was remaining lock due to bug. I then created a photoshop file #2 and placed it next to the #1 on the timeline. #2 can be edited just fine while Vegas is open, and #1 still gets the locked error. This somewhat aligns with Paul’s replace work around. It seems like once a PS file somehow has the file lock error, that setting gets stuck/written in the .VEG file. Creating a new VEG file and dropping all three files on the timeline, allows #1,2,and 3 to be edited while open in Vegas. So the locked error is effectively cleared in a new .VEG file. Definitely seems like a bug Sony would have to repair.
I tried several photoshop files open in both vegas and photoshop, and all were able to be edited with no file lock error on a new .veg file.
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Not exactly. The user can be apart of the administrator group, or an admin level account. I mean when you start an application with “run as administrator,” you are effectively starting the application as another user account. You just need to run both applications normally from the logged in account.
Trying to replicate the problem I figured out that if Vegas is “Run as Administrator” the photoshop file is locked. Photoshop run in either normal level, or “run as administrator” still got a file locked error when trying to save changes. Restarting Vegas without the “run as administrator” setting allows Photoshop to save changes while the file is still on the vegas timeline.
I used to run all my versions of vegas as “run as administrator” for reasons I cannot remember, until I ran into this photoshop file edit issue.
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Are you opening Vegas or Photoshop with “run as administrator” ?
I used to open vegas and photoshop as admin, and would not be able to edit PSD files while Vegas is open.
Opening Vegas and photoshop both as normal user allows the “close media” function to work for me. Opening programs with 2 different users like User, and Admin, causes a permissions file lock between the applications.
I am running VP13-B453.
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I would bypass vegas and get a copy of Handbrake. Handbrake should be able to convert all your files using the built in batch function. Try the normal profile and check web optimized. Verify the video is looking normal to you.
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What Hollywood does is not representational of the 98% of the other video editing done every year. If you are worried about marketability of your skills, then there is this fact:
“Every 2015 Oscar nominee for Best Picture and Best Film Editing edited using Media Composer.
99% of all network broadcast prime time television* in North America is produced on Media Composer.” https://apps.avid.com/mediacomposerfirst/
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Alternative also would be to use the pan&crop on the green screen footage, then use the track motion to move and size the image at the track level. This would require dedicating a track to the clip, and what you are doing with it.
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On the green screen file, from the pan crop utility chose a drop down preset for 16×9. This should crop the image to match the 1080 project file. Once you have the crop applied, you can resize the image, and should be able to move it near the edge like you need. making sure constrain aspect is enabled, when you are trying to resize the image again.
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Apply a chroma key filter to the the green screen video, this will matte out the green.
Then use the pan and crop utility to rotate and size the green screen video the way you want it to look. If you zoom out with the scroll wheel while in the pan crop tool, you should see a circle that you can control the rotation.
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There are three separate components to a video file.
One is a container or wrapper: These formats are like .mxf, .mov, .avi, or .mp4, .mkv, wmv or wma. Mp4’s container was a poor naming choice, due to confusion with Mpeg4 the codec. Containers align information in a way video and audio can be read back at the same time. Containers can hold multiple video tracks, audio tracks, and data like CC, and timecode. Only certain containers are able to hold large amounts of tracks and things like embedded CC.
Two is the video codec:
Mpeg1
M-jpeg
Mpeg2
Wmv/VC-1
mpeg4-L1/VC-1,L2,L3
mpeg4-L4/h.264/AVC/vp8
mpeg4-visual/dnxhd/prores
mpeg4-L5/xavc/dnxhr/prores-4k
h.265/HEVC/vp9
Uncompressed
Wavlet/jpeg2000Three is the the audio codec:
PCM/WAV/CD-Audio format/uncompressed
Mpeg1,MP2,MP3,MP4/AAC
Dolby AC3 is basically MP3 with a multitrack ability, hence 5.1 or 7.1. WMA professional can do at least 7.1+ and handle things like vbr, zip like compression (lossless), and uncompressed.
The container specifies how many tracks can be held and IO’ed at one time.Formats like DNxHD, prores, hdcam, xdcam, and cineform are marketing names for manufacturer created “standards”. These standards are created so that hardware, that is less flexible than software, can read and write the information. Professional workflows tend to use the mxf container due to its wide range of information it can hold. Where as Mp4 is much more constrained to audio and video, but no data or CC.