Andy Hart
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Chapter markers aren’t copied. Render it out in a format that supports markers and won’t degrade your video and drag it into the new timeline. Click Tools > Scripting > Promote Media Markers. You can also drag the old .veg project file (from the same version of Vegas) into a new project’s timeline… but Vegas will want to render it once you do this.
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If you don’t have NewBlue FX perhaps you could try the Sony Cookie cutter effect with a small circle on one track for one side and copy the event to a new track as another layer for the other side, and your original globe picture unmodified on a 3rd track below the other 2 then play with the screen/add/alpha track settings to get a look you’re ok with.
You could also set it to create 2 circles on one track and try to change the size of the circles inversely while zooming in or out with the event or track motion for that clip, again leaving an unmodified globe pic directly below on another track. Good luck. Vegas may not be the best tool for this task.
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I wouldn’t render things to AVI first because you’ll loose quality. Try rendering to Sony MXF (HD EX or HD422) if you need an intermediary, keeping it HD at this point in the game is fine. Once you have everything in one timeline and add chapter markers (avoiding non-letters when labeling them), export the audio to Dolby Digital AC-3, then use the “DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen Video Stream” preset to export your video.
See how big the files are when you add them up, and you can tinker with the video bitrate if you need to export another version (with a slightly higher or lower bitrate) to keep DVD-A from having to re-encode (loss of quality would be inevitable). You want DVD-A to already have the mpeg in the right size and to just combine that with the files it makes for menus and parse them for DVD playback.
Note that DVD-A will automatically put the audio with the video on your disc when the video is dragged into the project if both files are in the same directory and have the same name. If you end up making different video versions, just drag the good one in then double-click to open it in the timeline and drag the audio on there. Check to see that it plays as it should and you’re good to go!
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Sounds like possible HDD thrashing. Did you try turning down the preview window’s quality while editing?
Even with an i7, ssd and 16GB ram I have to do this. Sometimes “Preview (Full)” looks smoothest, other times when a lot is going on with color correction, titles and transitions an even lower setting like “Draft (Auto)” is needed during an edit to see what’s going on with my HD footage.
Don’t forget to crank it back up to “Best (Full)” before rendering.
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I would love recommendations on a trackball system that others find useful for color correction. I have thought about using a joystick for editing, but it never made sense. If someone uses a system that makes sense or is helpful please let us know.
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1) Gaussian blur bursts + Color Corrector Gain adjusted up, + track/event motion
2)tv simulator, radial blur, layer tracks and adjust color/alpha
3)create a mask in photoshop
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For now just let the sharpness be degraded instead of the spatial fidelity. In the video preview window select “Preview (Auto)” or even try “Draft (quarter)” and the choppiness will likely clear up enough for you to make better edits. Don’t forget to set it back to “Best (Full)” when you are done editing, right before you save & render.
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“You can also put your image sequences in a fresh 1080p project and then export them as XDCAM 422 50Mbps files for editing – works great!”
So is this same conversion a possible solution for robustifying the avchd video that’s crashing during my renders that are heavy on color correction?
If so, could you please let me know if there’s a way to get all my video in the XDCAM format straight off the card/camera flash memory (an alternative to the device explorer route?
If that’s still best, where does one learn about “use (of) scripting to batch export” to achieve a similar result. Thanks.
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Sounds like the file the video event references could be corrupt. I’ve had this happen in FCP where I had to recapture an event to get around it, and I’m betting that might be the easiest way for you in Vegas. However, in Vegas I usually can copy the files to a 2nd HDD and get it to work. Then test a render of JUST that file. Then, by taking the file that came out of the first (failed) render and trimming it back to about 90% from where it failed, pasting it on the timeline of original project in a new video track, saving with a new name, and adding the rendered file from the 2nd HDD, usually an entire project will finish out ok. Other times… well… I started this post because I’m having one of those other times.
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I had similar problems with 10. These rendering issues and issues playing back 5+ avchd streams in multicam in fact motivated the upgrade, but to no avail.
ONE IMPORTANT ISSUE for others to note if having similar problems is that certain characters like an exclamation point in the name of a MARKER ex: “Everybody Dance!” will cause a failure repeatedly. Often the software will crash up to 1 minute in advance of this point and the half-finished rendered output will have NO markers. This has happened to me regardless of whether the render format is even capable of containing markers.
If this is your issue, just render a section of ~1min around each marker in question to see if it fails. It should fail fast and save with no marker, or work. If it works than that issue is solved. Unfortunately my issue now is something else.
