Anthony Atkielski
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Hmm, I’m not sure I understand your suggestion.
Right now I have a video of about 15 minutes that has perhaps 60 clips or so in it. Most of the transitions are crossfades, so practically all the clips overlap. How would I carry out your suggestion in this case?
It has occurred to me that it might be something related to a particular frame being in a particular position between clips, but I haven’t been able to isolate it.
Either way, it seems like a bug, so I’ll have to report it, but if I had a solid reproduction scenario that would help a lot. And a useful workaround would help as well.
I’m wondering if maybe positioning clips so that their lengths, start/end points, and overlap durations are some special multiple of frames (?). Like maybe if everything aligns on n-frame boundaries, it might work. But I don’t know what n would be, even assuming that this method makes any sense at all.
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Thanks for the pointer! I uninstalled 11.0, then reinstalled just build 256 (per the forum discussion that you pointed to), and the help file is back!
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Where is the help file? I wanted to open it manually so that I could at least read the help and look up what I needed, but I couldn’t find anything that looks like a help file anywhere. If you can point me to where the help file hides for Platinum HD 11, that would be enormously useful to me. At least then I’d still have a way of looking at the documentation.
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Nope, source and rendered frame rates are the same, both interlaced 1920x1080x50i. Unfortunately, it is extremely hard to pin down the conditions that correspond to repeated frames, but they are perceptible and irritating. I don’t think this was happening in the past because I probably would have noticed it. It’s only a few frames out of a long video, but I’m still not happy about it. The repeated frames are not seen when you slowly step through the video frame-by-frame on the timeline; they only appear in the rendered output.
I’ve been racking my brain trying to figure out what I could have changed to cause this, but I haven’t come up with anything. I upgraded to Platinum HD Version 11 about two weeks ago, and then applied the lastest Build 256 update, and my impression is that it might have started with Build 256 (since I don’t recall noticing it prior to that).
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Unfortunately I’ve discovered a new bug in the new titler: it doesn’t recognize Adobe Type 1 fonts installed on the PC. The old titler did. Windows XP (and subsequent versions of Windows) allow you to install both TrueType and Type 1 fonts, the latter being more common for high-level typographic work. The new titler doesn’t see the Type 1 fonts. So if you want a Type 1 font, you have to use the legacy titler—but then you can’t use typographic apostrophes or quotation marks.
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An update on this: The problem is still not fixed in version 11 of Sony Vegas Platinum HD, and the first build of version 11 also had the problem in the new Sony titler that came with that version. Build 256 seems to have fixed the problem in the new titler, but the problem persists in the legacy titler. Something tells me that Sony will never bother to fix the legacy titler, especially since the new one now works correctly and does roughly the same thing.
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Excellent, thanks!
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FYI, Sony support told me yesterday that this problem has been forwarded to the development team. The implication is that it will be fixed in a future release, but I asked that it be fixed in a future update, as it is an easy fix (I recognize an easy fix when I see one).
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Well, I’m reassured. I haven’t found much use for fancy transitions, but given the vast numbers that are provided in Sony Vegas, I was worried that maybe there was some secret reason for using them that I had overlooked.
Yes, I do think I’ve seen elaborate transitions on sports programs, and sometimes on nightly news programs also, I think. Maybe this is a tacit admission that the subject matter really isn’t that interesting, so fancy transitions try to make up for it.
I’ve only used the wipes or page peels when something really big changes, like a complete change of location or time. I’ve also tried a fade to black followed by a page peel, sort of to emphasize that one part of the video is ending and something else is coming—I don’t recall seeing that in the books but it seems to work, and it’s still preferable to exploding pizza boxes, I think.
Thanks for the replies.
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Unfortunately, Platinum doesn’t have 3D tracking, but your reply did lead me to some attempts with simple title animation and distortion, and that does seem to do the trick, or it will once I practice a bit. Thanks!