[Brian Tallant]

I changed the first keyframe to “fast” and the second keyframe to “smooth” and it worked just like I wanted…a strong start and a gentle end. Thanks for the suggestion!

[Brian Tallant]

John, what about the Canopus ADVC110? I had been considering getting it at some point, but you and Mike talk as if it doesn’t have a TBC. Do you know anything about that model?

[Brian Tallant]

I thought about that, but I wasn’t sure how to make Vegas look at the orange color of the text in one clip and make the text in another clip the exact same color of orange, and at the same time adjust the color saturation of the rest of the image proportionally. Can Color Match do that, and if so, how?

[Brian Tallant]

Kelly,

I use the feature you’re describing quite a bit, and I’ve never had any problem with it, in Vegas 11, 12, or 13. I just tried creating a .PSD file in Photoshop CC 2014 and when I imported it into Vegas 13 the transparency was preserved. Like I said, I’ve also done this extensively in previous versions of Vegas and Photoshop.

So, although I don’t know why you’re having the problem, at least I can tell you that the problem is not common to all users.

[Brian Tallant]

Yes, I have a friend who agreed to help me.

[Brian Tallant]

Oh, I didn’t realize that’s how it worked with graphics cards…remember, I’m new at this 🙂

I sent you an email concerning your offer, and in it I asked a question which I guess it might be okay to repeat here. If I end up building my computer I will follow your design (one change I will make is to use the ASUS P9X79 WS instead of PRO, because you said somewhere that if you had it to do over again you would use that motherboard to be able to use your case’s firewire port in front). I realize it’s not your job to design a PC for me, but do you have any idea if the Radeon R9 290X would be compatible with either your motherboard (if I purchase yours) or the one I’m considering? Or can you give me an idea of how to find out? Again, I have no experience with this, so even simple matters of whether or not certain parts fit together is new to me.

[Brian Tallant]

John, that’s a very unexpected and very interesting proposition! I would like to consider that.

But before I do, I want to follow up on your suggestion to get a Radeon R9 290x. I have two questions:

1) I use Photoshop in conjunction with just about every video project I do. I guess it’s hard to say which I use more, Vegas or Photoshop…they’re pretty much equal in that regard. You mention AMD cards don’t do CUDA. How would this negatively affect my ability to use Photoshop?

2) When I search NewEgg for Radeon R9 290x I get over 30 results! And from a number of different manufacturers. When I search for a specific model of NVIDIA card I get one result. What’s going on with Radeon cards and how do I know which of these versions to buy?

[Brian Tallant]

Alright, I believe I have the problem solved.

There are two ways around the issue:

1) Set both the project settings AND the clip property settings to Square Pixel Aspect Ratio (1.0). Then copy or save a snapshot. The image attributes will say 720×480. But, since it is a square pixel aspect ratio, it will look squeezed.

Then, when you have your still image, place it on the timeline and change the project settings and the clip property settings of both the video and the still back to 0.9091 so it looks normal again.

2) This method is much easier…simply copy or save a snapshot as normal, insert it on the timeline, right click on the event, select properties, and make sure “Maintain Aspect Ratio” is not selected. This produces exactly the same result as the above method.

With a normal snapshot you will lose a little information on the top and bottom. However, in both of the above methods I used the Solo Track feature to toggle between the original image and the captured still and found there was nothing missing from the still.

[Brian Tallant]

I have never calibrated my monitor, so no, it probably isn’t showing colors exactly right, but I only have one monitor…I edit in Photoshop, edit in Vegas, and watch the videos all on the same monitor. So the colors, even if not properly calibrated, should look the same in Photoshop as in the m2t video.

Again, this problem only seems to affect my m2t renders….mpg and mp4 have very good color reproduction.

[Brian Tallant]

I don’t think that’s what’s going on here. In this case it’s frame 29 that’s being dropped, and it only does it on one particular installation of Vegas (version 11, on my laptop)…Vegas Movie Studio doesn’t do that, and neither does Vegas 11 or 12 on my desktop.