Angelo Mike
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[Stephen Mann] “How? I suspect that this is your problem. The safe area is only a recommendation. It means everything inside the safe area will be visible on practically all viewing devices. This goes back to the days of CRT televisions where the edges of the TV were usually covered with a bezel because the edges of the image were distorted. Especially early color-TV’s which had round picture tubes. But most digital displays will show the full frame or within a few pixels. If you used track motion or pan/crop to “shrink” your video into the safe area, then you created the black box around the video.”
With track motion, but it hasn’t been an issue when I’ve rendered DVDs and played them on tv. I’ll try it out without it and see what happens.
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I have no idea. It’s for an event and someone is running a live broadcast backstage as well as occasionally playing my DVD, but I really don’t know. He plays the live footage from the other camera operators, which looks fine during the show. I don’t know if I’ll have much of a chance to talk to the guy running the video to get it working/time to test it out.
I rendered to standard DVD specs and have been doing so for years. Widescreen videostream, 16×9, track motion used to bring the video into the safe area.
Maybe I should just render one that’s not letterboxed or int he safe area, because both seem to be showing up in the projection, though unintentionally badly.
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Pfft. Opening and closing that enclosure was pretty easy as it is. It’s just so cheap that the same part, where the door locks, has broken on two of them. Now I can’t even get the hard drive out without ripping the whole thing up, since there’s no way to disassemble it. The other won’t even lock shut now.
But I’ll probably get this. I guess I thought a dock was more expensive. I always assign my editing hard drives as F and almost never have problems with that. The almost being when it occasionally switched up the assigned letter to the drive possibly because I turned on my back up hard drive first, then the main one, but that was rare and doesn’t seem to happen now. Thanks.
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No, but it seems amazing. I plan on getting the BlackMagic camera at some point, which comes free with Resolve.
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[Eddie Macarthur] “correct. I don’t want to speed up or change the playback rate of the STUDIO audio. the audio recorded in the studio is at the perfect tempo. I want to change the playback rate of the rate of the live video to match. in the final edit I was having to make micro adjustments, sometimes going down to 80% playback rate for part of a word, then maybe 105% at other times. very fiddly work, but us audio guys are used to dealing with very small time values to get the right feel. vegas does a nice job of controlling the video playback rate. it’s just that when you do it you can’t hear the location video sound following along. if you could, the job would be a lot quicker. and yes, it does make a difference, getting it right ;-)”
Oh. This is different. If I were doing this for a client, I would have told the client up front that it may be unrealistic to expect this effect. It may be doable, but it’s just going to take a lot of trial and error with velocity envelopes. I wouldn’t agree to do it in the first place.
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[Eddie Macarthur] “could do that. but the backing track is at a set,known, tempo. if I stretched the studio audio to match the video lip movements, it would sound terrible (even when moving things around in milliseconds). i’m mainly an audio producer, so that would be out of the question. the problem is simply that live singers don’t sing a song exactly the same way twice, even when the music is identical. fact of life! so velocity envelope is the only practical way in vegas to smoothly match the video to the “perfect” audio… if only sony would give me the audio matched up, a job like this would be a lot faster. tip for anyone having to do this; put markers at key points where the mouth movement is obvious. place velocity points on and very close before and after the marker. that way you can always check section by section that your sync is good. another way to do this is of course get the singer to re-sing the vocals to picture, dubbing over what they did “live”. have done this before but wasn’t an option in this case. ed”
I don’t get it. It seems like you’re saying you don’t want to change the speed of the audio at all, but you still want to alter the speed of the video.
How much are you using the velocity envelopes to make changes in the speed?
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Download helper is good but sometimes doesn’t work right or let me download in the format I want, so keepvid.com is a great site to use when that doesn’t work. It lets you pick a variety of resolutions and codecs to download the video.
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That depends on what you’re rendering to and how fast your computer is.
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[Brett Cole] “Thanks for the feedback. Would this approach “draw it” per se? I need for the line to be drawn and not just have a blob move. I assume that’s what you’re thinking too. Would this approach work if the line was an arrow with a distinct shape at the head?”
Yes. Keyframing the motion in pan and crop will animate it.
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David Fincher outputs his movies that way, cropping instead of shrinking the whole image. The results speak for themselves. I guess you would do it using pan and crop.