[Amanda Duffield]

Thanks I have a copyright advisor/lawyer and also people who say yay or nay regarding privacy. I deal with footage of students and sometimes footage that has very particular copyright restrictions/exceptions. Neither advisor is happy with any ‘external’ online uploading like Vimeo.
If I choose upload and streaming, it must upload to our Departmental intranet which will only accept 50mb. My footage at the moment is 800 MB.
I will have another look at Takybox.

My next question will be about compressing. I have done many searches about compressing in Handbrake but my version (latest for PC as far as I can tell) does not look like the ones’ pictured in my searches. It has some options but not others.
I do have Vegas 13 and Nero (10 or so) and , in the past John Rofrano has been very helpful in giving me some render settings.
However, I’m still not very familiar with rendering. Just don’t have the concepts right.
So any advice on going from 800mb to 50mb for 30 mins? There’s not really a need for huge quality in this instance, it’s a teacher with face to screen and a student with back to screen. Sitting down, sound checks and questions where student points to pictures. It’s about how to administer a test.
Captions are done and burned in.
It’s too big for our intranet limit of 50mb.

[Amanda Duffield]

Thank you reko tomo and Jeff Pulera for your fantastic replies.

I appreciate you taking the time.

Jeff – you are close to what I want to do however I need to give a bit more information, wondering if you can advise a little more.

1) A staff member will make the video themselves – what they use is anybody’s guess. Sometimes their iphone, sometimes an old camera they have at the office, sometimes their ipad, whatever.
2) They will upload to, say dropbox, and I will download and post caption.
3) In the past, once this was done, I would render it to a strip of footage that they can play, captioned, at one of our staff development days.
4) However, this time (and I’m sure many more times in the future), the person who videod this wants to make a ‘kit’ out of the information. So, I could make a DVD with menus however not everyone has a dvd player. So, staff member has asked me if I can make it on a usb but put menus on the usb.
5) Firstly, this is an expensive option because dvd’s are so much cheaper however I’m not the bean counter so not my issue – I just have to say if it’s possible.
6) I cannot guarantee what the person at the other end who will play this has, or will play it on, or what I.T. knowledge they have. My experience tells me that anything that says ‘put the usb in’, ‘right click on VIDEOTS folder’, click on ‘play with’, choose … video player and if it’s not there, download vlc etc etc etc. Generally, people ring me and say ‘what the’? They have no idea, not even about vlc.
7) I had a look at takybox as suggested. However, it looks like I have to use their usb, which means I would have to buy multiples of the usb (I think?). Also, their latest version is a ‘subscription’ which I knowmy employer won’t do.j

I’m thinking of saying it’s not possible for our situation. Unless I’m missing something and there’s an easy way for everybody, no matter what the IT knowledge and also, no matter what platform they use?

I doubt it would ever be played on a TV but can’t say for sure. I imagine it would mostly be played on a usb.

So, best idea and video format is what I’m wondering. I really don’t understand much about rendering but I do know that MPEG2 is the one thing everyone can play without complaint.

I hope that’s not too much to post,

thanks again.

[Amanda Duffield]

I’ve lost track of where this thread is going now, but if- as the heading suggests – it’s for suggestions, can I request that Sony Vegas Pro make it possible to burn captions in as ‘open-captions’. And, when this happens, don’t make it via the ‘text’ option because they come out blurry. I’d like them to look just like the ‘cc608’ broadcast versions however I want to move them around the screen, change colours for speakers, and burn-in so that non-techy people won’t keep ringing me because they don’t know how to use (or find) VLC or they don’t get how to press ‘subtitles – on’ , or they don’t get what Imean by an .srt file or…… or……. It may seem simple to you and I but it’s apparently very difficult to lots of people out there so I just want to burn them in to make like life easier 🙂

[Amanda Duffield]

Similar to a recent poster I was just about ready to fall out of love with SVP and move to …… (Still undecided).

I’ve long been concerned that Vegas Pro is not actually the best program for my needs – could you advise because if it’s not the correct program I won’t fill up the feedback page – it could just be that I should be using software that has a different purpose.

I have no formal training (other than John and Cow Forum!). I was taught by my predecessor who was taught by her predecessor. Back then, nobody streamed content and everybody used DVD players. YouTube may have been around but blocked from access. vegas was used purely to cut out surplus/unwanted footage and architect to caption and burn to DVD.

Nobody wants dvd’s anymore. Architect exports very few formats as far as exporting subtitles goes, plus I usually lose my colours, positioning etc. so, .ive been trying to change this workflow to one program only -Vegas pro 13.

My job is to:
1. Produce transcript.
2. Synchronise into captions.
3. Provide footage back to requestor, with captions burned in (open) .

I do not play with any with any of the technical aspects of recolouring or touching up people’s footage. I generally render to mpeg2, MP4, pal formatting.

Vegas doesn’t burn captions in.
Vegas doesn’t display the captions in preview window after the first one (ie does not refresh). (Recent upgrades haven’t fixed this.
I bought vegasaur us and converted captions to text boxes (so I could burn in) however the text wasn’t as crisp as captions. It looks blurry. Tried various rendering suggestions from here.

I trialled caption assistant which was very helpful with the making captions side of things however at around $600 aud I could buy a whole new suite of software for that so trying to understand if Vegas really is made for this workflow.

Vegas DOES export captions to various formats meaning handbrake & YouTube can read them. But then I’m just re-burning in handbrake to burn captions in, seems like double-handling, plus I can’t burn in handbrake without a kind of ‘shimmer’ happening on captions (frame rate?)

I like Vegas and architect due to being able to synchronise precisely to the audio by lining up with the audio wave. Free programs like mac caption and subtitle workshop aren’t as flexible for synchronising however they are great for exporting in various different formats for other programs to read.

I realise Vegas is not purpose built for captioning and wonder whether to continue trying to workaround it, whether to purchase caption assistant, or whether I am on the wrong track altogether and should be looking at different, purpose built, software. I use PC and laptop, no Mac.

Thanks.

[Amanda Duffield]

Thanks.
Is that just a matter of going to web and upgrading?

[Amanda Duffield]

Thank you. Ill have to wait until I return to work to check my computer (oz school holidays). In the meantime, can you tell me if this item negates the need to install anything?
https://www.videoguys.com.au/Shop/p/6982/sonnet-firewire-400-and-usb-2-expresscard34-fwusb2-e34.html
Although it looks like it uses a card reader which I don’t have either.
Thanks

[Amanda Duffield]

Ok so here are some silly questions…..

How do I know if my pic has a free pci slot? Is that merely a free panel? I do have free panels where I presume cards are fitted as needed.

The manual says 6-pin to 6-pin cable however this box is old (2008 I think) and when I look at it I don’t think it’s 6-pin, how do I know for sure? I count 4 ‘nodules’ inside the part where the cord goes, plus most comments here say 4-pin to 6-pin cord to power the device. So I’m thinking I need to buy a 4-pin (Canopus-out) to 6-pin (PC-in) card.

Also I can buy 4pin, 6pin, 9pin cards. Is it worth paying for 9pin included, is that something that may be needed in future or not at all?

Thank you.

[Amanda Duffield]

great thanks

[Amanda Duffield]

thank you

[Amanda Duffield]

Thank you So much.

It is a work purchase so I must go through certain distributors – I know I can use this one https://www.ple.com.au/Search.aspx?SearchString=firewire%20card
.

Happy to buy ‘texas instruments’ for compatability. The cost of the card is not an issue but the cost of buying the whole box again would be probably knocked back.

It will be purchased by head office and sent to me and someone else will install so I need to choose the right one.

thanks.