[Andrew Lenczycki]

If you are rendering out your final project using Sony DVD Architect,
you can set this to loop the video indefinitely. I do this for DVD’s I create for events (family parties, school sports banquets, etc.) where I want to set the video running and walk away knowing it will just keep playing over and over without user input to the DVD player.

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

I believe I created what you are trying to do by adding a track above whatever you want to “highlight” and put an Elliptical Transparent to Black event from the Media Generators tab of Vegas. I tweaked the 2 default Control Points in this to create a circle rather than the default ellipse. By moving the control points further or closer to each other, you can affect the amount of “soft focus” on the highlighting circle (see Fig1).

I then used the Event Pan & Crop for this “mask” event, to keyframe move the highlight circle “mask” across the event on the track below I want to highlight (see Fig2).

By grabbing the opacity line at the very top of the “masking” event, and dragging it down from 100% opacity (which creates a completely black mask with the highlighting circle), you can lighten the black enough (reducing it’s opacity) to get the look I believe you are after. I found that 46% opacity gave me a look I liked (see Fig3).

Here is a look at the final result.

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

I have been producing high school sports compilation DVD’s for several years now, and to give them a more “professional” look, create my own DVD case artwork (I only use a single slim DVD case) using Photoshop Elements. I would then print the artwork onto photo stock on my home printer, trim and install the DVD case insert. While working on another project, I found I can take the Photoshop artwork file down to my local FedEx/Kinko’s and have them print the artwork onto a good quality “brochure” paper in color. I still trim these myself, but Kinko’s will do for a nominal charge. For the very limited production (10-25 copies) projects, this has turned out to be a large time saver as well as printer cartridge saver. The color printouts at Kinko’s are $0.69 each.

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

Best Buy takes all types of outdated electronics for free. They then send them to be ecologically recycled, rather than just dumped in a landfill somewhere. I have taken several old CRT monitors and dead printers there for recycling.

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

I think you will need to be a bit more specific with what you are trying to accomplish before anyone can offer suggestions. Your English seems fine, just elaborate on what you’re trying to do.

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

The location of the automatic overlap of multi-selected media is on the Options|Preferences…|Editing tab about halfway down. There is a checkbox to turn this on and off, and spinner controls to change the amount of overlap. See below.

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

Steve, The missing plug-in error dialog box has stopped since I installed Digital Juice’s “colormatteremover.exe” file (or something very close to that. This was done after talking with the DJ Tech Support person. There is an email notice that goes out when you purchase later versions of R2G volumes, that you must install this .exe file, and I simply forgot to do that on the new computer I built (I simply transferred my Digital Juice catalog from the old computer to the new one).
Which Digital Juice R2G segment did you use for your testing? While I haven’t had a problem with every segment I use, since I’m USUALLY using them for the sports recap and need 20-40 segments, this is when I have run into the problems, regardless of which segment from which template I use. Going from John R’s comments about the 13 QuickTime animations used by the particular segment I am currently having issues with, and the resources needed to deal with 13 QuickTime animations x 30 Segments in a project, I could see where 32-bit QuickTime and Vegas could be problematic. Also, the number of actual QuickTime animations vary by the particular R2G template used. I’m sure if I used a very simple template that only used 4 or 5 QuickTime animations, it would be able to deal with more segments in a project before the “wall” gets hit and problems start.

Also, just so that I am giving as much information as possible, I am only using the latest FREE version of QuickTime, not the QuickTime pro version. I don’t know if that would somehow make a difference or not.

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

What you say about Vegas using 32-bit QuickTime and the resources required makes sense. In one of your previos posts on this thread you said:

[John Rofrano] If you saw a black preview window while Vegas Pro was rendering those sections with the words “no recompression required” then YES. If you didn’t see this then NO. Vegas will tell you when it doesn’t require rendering. If you didn’t see this, then you might want to render to DV AVI instead of MPEG2 to keep the quality up. DV AVI has 5x more quality than DVD MPEG2.

I don’t believe I saw the “no recompression required”, but I’ll look for it next render. As far as the DV AVI, which template would that be to render for a DVD in Vegas Pro 12 (sorry, I’m at work and only have Vegas 10 installed on this machine, and don’t see a DV AVI option, only the “Windows for Video (*.avi)|= NTSC DVD Widescreen“).

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

Steve,

I will email you the .veg file, but you will need the 13 QuickTime .mov files that comprise the Digital Juice R2G segment. One of the files is 69MB and 12 of them are between 3-4MB each. You will need these files (I believe) to be able to work with the .veg project. How would you like me to get these files to you?

If this is too much hassle, I won’t be offended if you don’t want to wade into this, just let me know.

Andrew Lenczycki

[Andrew Lenczycki]

Steve, thanks for the reply.

If you do use Digital Juice R2G templates at all, and have a half hour to kill, try taking a single segment from a R2G template and bring it into a Vegas project. Right-click the nested R2G .veg file and then change one of the “Your Text Here” tracks and do a replace of the “video holder” (I am typically using a .jpg picture here) then SaveAs the file as “Sample 1” or something like that. Close the file (returning you back to the Main Vegas project), then add the SaveAs file (Sample 1) onto the timeline. Do this 10-15 times and my guess is you’ll see what I’m talking about as far as the “flake out”.

I use the show “center, head, tail” thumbnail display of events on the Vegas timeline. A “good” R2G segment will show all the color(s) of the element in these thumbnails (or on the Project Media tab of Vegas). When the “flake out” occurs, selected (usually the latter) R2G events in the project look like they have transparency (white/gray checkbox), with typically only the text from the R2G showing up on a black background (i.e. it’s like the R2G has lost all it multiple video layer info, or it’s become transparent, and only the text shows up on the preview screen).

I’m really not sure if this is a Digital Juice Ready2Go template issue or a Vegas (10 & 12) issue. If someone else with R2G templates can confirm they get the same thing it would be great.

Andrew Lenczycki