[Charles Smiley]

Now that reminds me…. Is there a way to make the external monitor function default to always on when reloading a project?

I use a black magic Design internal board HDMI-ed to a flatscreen actual TV.

[Charles Smiley]

That selection needs a box to check to make it a personal default.

Anyhow, the difference is that I start with 24-fps HD converted to HD MXF for a little color correction temporary files made from historic and recently discovered 16-mm Rank-Cintel film transfers. I only need DVD copies for a few people (that lived the history) to help identify scenes and events.

It all works, except for the DVD setting always setting back to 24-fps. It seems a bit presumptive of whoever coded that routine.

[Charles Smiley]

No the1920x1080 NTSC 60i setting always works OK and makes fine test DVDs.

It just keeps changing back to 24 fps everytime I use it a second or subsequent time. It work be nice if it was a sticky setting.

[Charles Smiley]

Thanks for the tip Steve.

All I use is old 60 and 70 year old 16-mm original archive films and much of it is a horror show if it’s hand-held, or from moving vehicles. So taming it to meet modern viewer’s expectation is a challenge. It sounds like Mercalli can get my percentage of useful shots up a bit more.

And yet, it has historical value since we don’t have time machines worked just yet to film old events with modern equipment.. 🙂

[Charles Smiley]

Thanks Jeff. That seems better than the one in Vp16. A 10 second clip would take 12 minutes to evaluate. And the variable orange box for the area-of-interest never shows up in expert mode.

[Charles Smiley]

Thanks for the reply Mike.

But the core-question is if Vegas 17 video stabilization is significantly better than in 16. The video stabilization in 16 seems clunky to use and disappointing in results.

If not, I’d rather spend the money on a 3rd party plugin for that function – rather than an upgrade to 17.

[Charles Smiley]

I just finished a Vegas 16 historical project that is over 1-1/2 hours long that used all old 16mm color film from about 50 sources mixed with graphics and color slides. So I had to use almost every CC and image enhancement effect in the works — Plus Neat film de-graining.

It would be stable for long periods at a time and then suddenly go ‘white screen’. It’s hard to say if the thing that triggered it was any specific category of action on my part.

So frequent clicking on the save button became the norm. Being an escapee from using Premiere since 1997, I am happy overall. But save, save, save. The restoration option, after restarting the program, doesn’t always get you success.

[Charles Smiley]

Check every default place Vegas and every plug-in uses to put its “debris”. Get all of them off your C: drive. That has always made life better here -and it keeps junk off my Solid-state C: drive since they have limited capacity. Put junk in your project drive only. Some programs are sneaky with somewhat hidden little junk defaults that put temp files in the C: drive’s folders like “User”.

[Charles Smiley]

Nobody has ever heard of this problem?

[Charles Smiley]

I’m glad I saw this. If you do lots of sound Foley work on silent old film you need this ability to slip things around without losing the small volume and pan changes.

This is almost totally automatic in PPro and seems somewhat an after thought in Vegas – ie. slipping sound clips around and over each other with retention of the volume envelops. . But since I will never use PPro again (after 25 years) I guess I’ll just do it this new way. Some of the things in Vegas (16-Pro) are better than PPro and with no yearly “ransom” fees to endlessly pay. 🙂