Bob Peterson
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Chuckle. I took an intro FCP course about a year ago. The teacher, a bright young documentary maker, suggested that we download some public domain clips for use in our projects. She had no idea that FCP cannot use mpeg files. That option was quickly dropped with no explanation. She was, however, quite sure that FCP is superior to Vegas. After all, it runs on the Mac and everyone she knew was quite sure that FCP is the king of the hill.
I found FCP cumbersome and VERY wanting in both video and audio capabilities.
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You should be grateful (and so should we). Sony has taken the time to insure that what they need in the OS is present. If they did not, you would be bombarding the forum with complaints that Vegas installed on a discontinued and unsupported OS, but then encountered random problems for which there are no explanations.
NO software developer is going to accommodate a potential market of one person. That is not a conspiracy. That is solid business logic.
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It is fairly easy to do. First, be sure that each camera is recording audio. Then, when editing, be sure to turn “Quantize to Frames” OFF (Don’t forget to turn it back on when you are done). Then zoom in on the timeline to see a large amount of detail. Align the audio from each camera so that all cameras are perfectly matched. Check the alignment for each camera by using headphones and enabling the audio for both the camera and the reference source. If you hear any echo at all, your audio is misaligned. Continue to adjust until you hear absolutely no echo. Then turn off the audio for all except the reference source.
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My current documentation (i.e. what I have tested to see if it works) says that I used 872.7 (720 x 1.2121) x 480 for an SD Wide format. I crop pictures to twice this size, so I really use 1745×960. For a standard SD format, I use 1310×960 which produces an image with no visible bars.
If a setting doesn’t work, I use trial and error to zero in on a size which works. Note that the 480 (or 960) dimension is not changed. It is simply a matter to finding a good value for the horizontal dimension.
BTW, I also use PNG format for my images. Jpeg and others work, but Vegas does like PNG. I would not use pan & crop. Vegas will slow down a LOT if the photo image is too large, and it is not designed to be a still image editor.
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Your example doesn’t make much sense.
You put together 10 different timelines with the same source material? Then, you want the software to merge the 10 different timelines in a what… and how…? If you can’t describe it, it is going to be really tough to program a set of logic which does it.
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The calibration devices are designed to set the monitor so that the monitor will accurately reproduce what you will see on a color accurate print. The aim is to adjust colors and luminance so that a photographic print will look identical to what is seen on the display. It is NOT aimed at seeing the image accurately on uncalibrated video monitors (the web) or on a television. I think the main issue lies in luminance rather than color adjustments when seeing differences between prints and a television. Since most computer monitors are not calibrated, and since manufacturers bias the display to look “better” (i.e. usually brighter), it’s impossible to anticipate the appearance of an image on the web. Most people recommend Microsoft’s RGB color space for the web.
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I have my assistant hold the white board at the speaker’s position. First, I focus on the assistant’s face and then turn off auto focus. The assistant then holds up the white board, and I perform the white balance adjustment. That procedure is intended to insure that the camera has the white board in focus.
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I use a large (probably 3 feet by 4 feet) ‘board’ that I bought at a local art supply store. There are more precise tools available, but I think the white board probably takes me 95% of the way to a perfect setting. I may also perform additional white balancing in Vegas especially when I attempt to adjust two cameras so that they will produce the same colors for the same subject.
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Use the Color Corrector tool to properly white balance your video. It will remove any color caste. You can also use the Color Curves tool if you wish to limit the range of tones affected a bit more precisely. However, the curve tools require more knowledge of color theory to use properly.
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Lagarith is not an option in Avidemux. That is one reason I have not tried it. How does one convert to Lagarith, and where is the codec? I am just a bit leery of nastyware.