[Bryan Cannon]

Agree that highlighting at the beginning of the play only is the best approach.

It would be fun to try the ESPN-style effect by freezing the video, expanding the player of interest, shrinking him back down, and resuming. Obviously very simple, once the player is isolated from the rest of the frame. I’d personally probably do this by cutting out the player in a photo editor, but I’m sure those with the Pro version could do it through masking in Vegas as well.

[Bryan Cannon]

In that situation, I personally “Render to a New Track” (under Tools). This is obviously valuable for those of us who are using Movie Studio, and limited to only 4 video tracks. But I would be interested in hearing others’ approaches, as well.

[Bryan Cannon]

I found this interesting (and useful), although I personally have had some success with masking and completely forgot the “mask generator” existed. Which leads to a couple of basic masking questions:

1) How is “transparency” treated (vs. black) on the mask track? Since I tend to use white/transparent masks, is that how I’m getting away with no mask generator?

2) If a mask has a child track, its effects apply only to that child track. I noticed that if a mask does NOT have a child track, its effects are applied to all lower tracks (they all seem to become default “children”). Is there a way to turn off that behavior?

Thanks,
Bryan

[Bryan Cannon]

Thanks – I will give that a shot and see if it shortens up the process.

[Bryan Cannon]

Thanks – that did indeed work, and it appears I’ve got the right plug-in. So I still don’t know what the problem is, but I at least I know one more thing that the problem isn’t.

[Bryan Cannon]

Just out of curiosity, what camera are you using? I have tried importing several sample m2t files (from the web), and none are exhibiting the audio problem. In fact, Vegas seems to like them much better (speed in loading, etc) than any of the output from Upshift.

I am wondering if the AVCHD format Canon uses is not handled as well by Upshift.

I guess my next step would be to find some AVCHD sample footage (from Canon and others) and Upshift those on my machine.

Thanks

[Bryan Cannon]

Thanks James – I too am new to NLEs. I’m using Vegas 9 Platinum. As far as Upshift parameters, I was unable to create ANY changes to the choppy output regardless of settings. For what it’s worth, most of the time I’ve used the “high quality” default option. I did notice, though, that if I tried to open the “upshifted” file in Sound Forge, all I received was an offer to purchase an MPEG plug-in. Is it possible this is simply a missing plug-in issue?

I’m currently uploading a sample video to VASST to see if they can replicate the problem importing it to Vegas. If I don’t learn anything more, I will take you up on your offer.