Bob Peterson
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A bdrom cannot burn discs. The “ro” portion of the name stands for “read only”.
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I’m not sure why you are highlighting things like fps or audio volume. If the video source is 50i, then the playback should be about 25fps which is what is being shown. I did not see any screens showing text fields or problems with them.
If you actually played some video on the timeline, and saw a framerate slower than about 25, you are probably trying to play a compressed video source that your computer is having trouble keeping up with. Thus, the reduced frame rate.
I’m not sure how you learn Vegas if no courses are available to you. You might want to check VASST for instructional videos.
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I have not yet tried a studio monitor or multiple displays. For the moment, I can limp along because I have an older ATI video card with a TV tuner built in. It does have a composite output to a TV. When I’m ready to adjust for TV display, I connect an old portable TV to that composite cable. I can then judge what the video will look like on a TV. The ultimate test is to burn a DVD, and play the result on one of several TVs available to me. Fortunately, I have not seen color accuracy problems between computer monitor and TVs. The problem is mainly one of luminance. I am now toying with the idea of adjusting gamma on my video card to shift back and forth between stills and video.
Unfortunately, the video world does not seem to have anything like color management. Thus, the display accuracy of the video image varies a lot from one device to another. I always cringe when I see my video displayed by an overhead projector and looking VERY overexposed.
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I’m curious. What color space are you using in Lightroom? Are you using CMYK?
You don’t really need to turn off color management in Photoshop, but you should convert your images to sRGB before sending them to Vegas. It seems that most video people do not understand color management and color profiles. It was reflected here with the assertion that color management is print technology, and that you would routinely work with a printer color profile and/or CMYK.
My usual problem is that my monitor IS calibrated for still photos. That makes it a LOT easier to work with stills, but video always looks dark on my monitor. However, after the video is rendered and viewed on a television, it brightens up quite a bit. The trick is figuring out when dark is not too dark.
BTW, I do not send full size tifs, or any other still format, to Vegas. I crop stills to an appropriate size for video, and save them as PNGs. I do not expect Vegas to be terribly good at resizing photos, and large photos slow it down immediately.
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If you convert 60i to 60p, you are forcing the software to rerender the video and to create frames that are not in the original video source. That is probably why you see a lessening of quality. 60i video is the interlaced version of 30p (or 29.97 fps). It is not 60p.
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It sure would if you hope to market your video or broadcast it. Any commercial use must be very careful with copyrighted material.
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Are you rendering a loop region? If so, you need to set the in and out points.
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I do not know why you are using the trimmer with still images. There is no need to do so. You can simply drag their length to any desired value.
I rarely use the trimmer these days. If I need to remove a segment from a clip, I split it at about the middle of the segment to be removed. I then drag the ends inward to the desired trim point. I am then free, should I decide to do so at a later time, to move the “trim” point to any desired location.
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Government maps are public domain. The same is true of older material. I think that material published in the US before 1923 are public domain.
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Vegas does not offload processing to the video card. “Choppy” playback means that your computer cannot process the video fast enough to keep up with the audio. There are several potential causes of this, but the video card is not one of them.
For starters, what format has been used to encode the source video, and where is the source video stored on your computer?