Bob Peterson
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No, you have the correct number for widescreen. You did not specify widescreen the first time, so I looked at Program Stream Pal.
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PAL for DVD has a resolution of 720 x 576 with a pixel aspect ratio of 1.093. You can find these numbers in Vegas Pro by looking at the Render As screen for your desired format. In the Render As screen, click on customize. The customize screen will tell you the resolution and pixel aspect ratio.
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The explanation of all this was what I tried to do in my post. Perhaps read it again, and try to understand what John and I are trying to explain to you? I think it will save you a lot of time and aggravation. I must confess that I do not have, nor have I used Lightroom. Thus, I cannot tell you whether it can do what you want it to do. Perhaps you can try Photoshop Essentials which is a light version of Photoshop.
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I, for one, am not willing to part with $10 per month. I am happily ensconced on CS6, and have no plans or needs at the moment for anything else. There are already some respectable competitors popping up, so I will continue to watch those.
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A couple of suggestions.
If you want the best resolution, keep in mind that DVD and Blu-Ray are very different in the resolution that they offer. DVD has a maximum resolution of 720 x 480 while Blu-Ray has a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1080. For the best visual result, you will want to use as much of that resolution as you can to display your images. Thus, you will need to develop two different presentations; one for DVD and a different one for Blu-Ray.
Vegas can render your presentation in many different formats. For example, NTSC or NTSC widescreen. While this offers great flexibility, you will need to pick your format before you begin so that your presentation can make the best use of that format. A major consideration is aspect ratio. Each format has its own aspect ratio which will require you to crop your images to support that aspect ratio. An example is DVD using NTSC. This format has a pixel aspect ratio of .909 while Photoshop works with a pixel aspect ratio of 1. That means that Photoshop will need to deliver an image with a resolution of 655 x 480 rather than 720 x 480. The 655 is calculated as 720 * .909 which is 655. The Photoshop image will fill the screen because its pixels are slightly wider than the pixels in a video image. Similarly, other video output formats will have different aspect ratios which you will need to adjust for when sizing your image. That does not mean that all images MUST be 655 x 480. They can be, for example, 1310 x 960, or other multiples of 655 x 480. The important thing is to retain the ratio between horizontal and vertical.
It can be very frustrating if the image aspect ratio is wrong, because the video output will be letter boxed to make it fit into the available space. I would test your image sizes before getting to far into the project to insure that your aspect ratio is correct, and that the output video is displayed as you expect. For my own work, I use a standard template for cropping in Photoshop, so that I can select the best possible crop which will fit within the required template. I also set up an action in Photoshop which includes all the standard steps I take once the image is cropped. That includes things like setting the targeted resolution, flattening the layers, converting to 8 bit color, and saving as a png in the desired directory. That makes short work of processing the desired images.
My standard is to save at twice the target resolution as a png file. Vegas has always done well with pngs, and the extra resolution allows me to zoom in a bit if I want to. I do all sharpening, resizing, adjusting, etc. for still images in Photoshop. I think Photoshop is much more competent with still images than video software such as Vegas.
Similarly, Vegas’s strength is as a video editing tool, and it includes respectable audio editing as well. While other tools may offer advantages in creating a slide show, I suspect they cannot match Vegas when it comes to editing and finishing the final output. I always look at the rendered video output on a targeted display device such as a TV. What I see on the targeted device, may differ in terms of brightness, color, contrast, etc. from what I’ve seen on the computer. I can adjust for this in Vegas without going back to a slide by slide edit in Photoshop.
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I think you are seeing something that virtually no one else will ever see. Things are moving past so rapidly that it is hard to see any detail at all.If you are talking about the sky when you say “background”, I saw no noticeable differences between the two videos.
I’m not sure who your intended audience is, but I am quite sure that the average person will not see what you are obsessing over. Anyone who can see a difference between these two, fast moving videos has way too much time on their hands. I’m just sayin….
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If you can live without the feature, you may be better off to wait for version 14. That’s my plan. I am still on version 12, and not missing 13.
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Sounds like you’ve hit a bug in version 11, and that the bug is fixed in 13. If so, it looks like two choices. Upgrade to 13, or don’t use the changes that trigger the bug.
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Why update Quicktime? Are these MOV files? If the problem is mp3s which Vegas can process, I would try rendering each one in Vegas to a wav file. Then replace the mp3s in your project with the wav files, and see if Vegas will render it that way.
BTW, I continue to be in favor of reloading Win 7 from scratch, and rebuilding everything. Your machine is much too flakey.
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OK Don! I have found a way to play back the video with the time and date. Although I set user bit codes for my test, I don’t think they are needed. The solution is really quite simple. If you connect the camera, via an HDMI connection to either a TV or to a computer, the camera will play back the recorded video and send the audio and video out through the HDMI cable. When it does so, the time and date are included in the video image.
So, the video can be played back and displayed on a TV for any legal proceeding. All you need is the card on which the video was recorded, and the camera.
For a computer, I will be very surprised if there is no software that can capture the video and audio coming in on an HDMI port. There is a second option if the HDMI cannot be captured. I have a small adapter box which converts the audio and video coming from an HDMI cable into a standard component TV output. The kind of TV signal that uses a yellow RCA connector for video plus two other cables with RCA connectors (red and white) for stereo audio. There are several devices that can convert a component connection into a digital signal which can be captured on the computer. So, capture of the original video and audio is completely doable.
I hope that helps.