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Simply select the “Color Corrector (Secondary)” video effect and drop it on the clip you want to manipulate.

Then click on the eyedropper (where it says “select effect range”)

Then move the cursor to your clip and select a range of colors you’d like to remove.

Then go to the Saturation slider in the window and move the slider all the way to the left… you’ll see the color selected will now be removed from the clip.

There are some tricks & tips when using this effect… for example… some shots are easier to remove colors from then others based on the complexity of the colors in the shot. It is very easy to remove greens and leave the reds (or vice versa) but difficult to remove one shade of red and leave another shade of red.

Also, you can use this effect 2 or 3 times on the same clip to remove several shades of colors… but if you use this effect too much on the same clip… the quality seems to be affected as the clip gets grainy.

Hope this helps.
Paul

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I have 4 Maxtor 250 Gig drives that have performed flawlessly over the past year.

I do Daisy chain them together sometimes and all works well.

Paul

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Even if you don’t have your markers set in the Vegas project… it is easier to find the spot on a Vegas timeline, copy the timecode, and paste it into DVD Arch. Trying to move a marker in an mpeg2 file with ac3 audio in a DVD arch project is very time consuming.

[Canadauser]

I find it easier to open the Vegas timeline project AND open the DVD architect project….

Then I find the timecode of the marker in the Vegas project, copy it, and then paste it into the timecode of the DVD Arch project. This method seems to save me about 5-7 minutes… and is easier than trying to move my DVD Arch marker through the mpeg 2 project.

Every 5 minutes saved is worth it to me.

Paul

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I am a Excalibur 3, neon, and tsunami user… I just upgraded to Excalibur 4 today… I will use the demo until I get the program!!

Again, thanks SO much for what you do here for Vegas!!

Paul

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If you have already made your prepared files in DVD Arch (creating the .VOB files) you can quickly use DVD Shrink to shrink the .vob files in the right proportion to fit on a dvd.

I use this if I’ve misjudged the size my mpegs, ac3’s, and animated menus take up when I prepare the dvd. Rather than re-encoding an entire mpeg… it is much quicker to simply prepare the DVD, even if it’s oversized for the dvd. By using DVD Shrink, everything will be converted to fit perfectly at 4.4 Gigs.

Enjoy!
Paul

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thanks

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I totally agree… the videos by Gary are great and have saved me countless hours.

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Are you capturing to your system drive? Take my advice… don’t do that.

I used to do this but now I have dedicated capture drives. I ran into many problems while capturing to my system drive.

Have you formatted the new hard drive into NTFS rather than FAT32?

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I’m not sure if you have the option to “re-transfer” the film footage… it may be the best way to get rid of the flicker.

I’ve had this problem myself but was able to get rid of most of the flicker by adjusting my shutter speed in relation to the speed of the film.

I eventually found a point I was really happy with.

But sorry, I don’t know of any plugin for you.