Bob Peterson
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Either ignore it, or reduce the preview quality. Your system is most likely too slow. Thus the preview video, which now needs more cpu, is lagging the audio, and probably running at a very slow frame rate. Everything will be fine when you perform the render since the render does not need to operate in real time.
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Systems people can teach a lesson. They are not usually enamored with new software. They don’t put it into production until they are fairly sure that it will work reliably. You don’t risk your revenue stream on untested software, and software is a tool. A fancy new car is a toy.
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I use the Color Balance control at the level on a track which is a duplicate of the slide track. I use it to change the colors of the text and background. I then use a mask on each slide which, via keyframes, moves from point to point. Sometimes I use to color balance controls in sequence to obtain the best effect.
It’s a bit more work, but offers precise control over what is being highlighted.
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I don’t think Sony has ever supported the ability to take a veg file back to an earlier version of Vegas. If you think about that, you will probably see why that is the case. Things would start breaking.
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I don’t know, but Vegas uses Dolby to generate AC3 files and I know that Vegas does not edit them. My guess is that it is a licensing issue with Dolby labs. Perhaps someone else has all the details.
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I can’t advise you on the camera since I don’t routinely follow those, but a used camera on ebay should be substantially less than $250. Just be sure that the camera has the pass through feature, and get verification from the seller that the camera does work. If you want a camera that you will actually use as a camera, then you may want to spend more money.
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I suggested recapture because I am doing something very much like what you are doing. My original conversion was done by an HP device which was probably very comparable to what you used to create your disks (and VOB files).
I have now run through the process and can confirm that the best choice is to recapture. I am assuming that you still want the best quality in your final render. The first consideration is tape degradation due to aging. This issue seems very overblown to me. I have seen exactly one tape which has suffered from visible degradation, and many of my tapes have not been stored under very good conditions. Naturally, if the tape is visibly degraded, recapture will not work.
When I used a VHS camera, I tended to fill the tape. One tape I recaptured today had 1 hour and 45 minutes of material. The capture, using a camera to convert to DV, produced a file which has 21.5 gigabytes. The DVD produced by my HP conversion unit would hold somewhat less than 4.7 gigabytes. That means it had to use a bit rate for the render of about 5.7 megabits per second. When I rendered a DVD from my DV file, I had the luxury of using a bit rate of 8.5 megabits per second because I could limit how much was on one disk. My recaptured video had a noticeably sharper resolution than the DVD produced by the HP device about 10 years ago. In addition, the HP device tried to “improve” the video by boosting the saturation. Bright reds, for example, looked like they were glowing, and bled into adjacent areas further obscuring details. The recaptured video had well saturated color which looked quite natural, and which looked much better than the HP produced video. The recapture video has a much higher quality in spite of any tape degradation.
The time required to recapture was trivial. Simply start the capture process, and walk away.
The expense for me is negligible. I already have the needed camera. While the Canopus unit surely will produce better quality, my guess is that the improvement would not be worth the cost. I am satisfied with what my old camera produces. You can probably find a comparable or better camera for a very low price on ebay. All you need is the electronics to perform the pass through conversion to DV. You will not need good quality in the camera’s transport, lens, etc. BTW, my camera is a Sony DCR-TRV17.
Good luck! I’m glad I checked it out, and found a substantial quality improvement.
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My suggestion, if the tapes are still in good condition, is to reconvert the tapes. I use an old Sony video camera to convert the output from a VHS player to DV in pass through mode. The camera interfaces the DV to the computer through a firewire connection. Vegas can capture directly from the firewire.
Once you have the files, do all of the desired editing in Vegas. Do not convert to intermediate files. When the editing is finished, render the video to the DVDA MPEG-2 format. The bit rate used to render the video determines how close to the source it stays. Render the audio to the Dolby Digital Pro format. DVD Architect will know how to use the video and audio files to burn a DVD.
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I have an 80gig SSD (C:) which is fast when reading, and not so fast when writing. Whenever possible, I install my applications on a normal harddrive (D:) to avoid filling up the SSD. Ditto with documents and other user files. The SSD is used mainly by Windows.
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You should open a new topic to get the best response.
Vegas allows you to drag things around, and tends to “attach” things to a new position easily. Simply click and drag it away from its new home and drop it where you want it.