[Chris Forsyth]

For anyone who stumbles upon this in the future…
In this case – it was solved by simply going to
Options – Preferences – General Tab
Putting a check in the box next to: “Skip Drive Database; autodetect drive capabilities”. That seems to have done the trick.

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[Chris Forsyth]

Hi Jeremy:

Thanks for the reply. The link you provided seems to be broken…it takes me to another page on this forum that has be deactivated.

Would you mind pointing me in another direction?

Or anyone else know?

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Chris

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[Chris Forsyth]

They are the MP4 files – he gave me all of the files – and he did find the link for me to download the clip browser, so I am going to use that and bring them in that way. Thanks so much to you and everyone here for the responses – much appreciated!

Chris

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Hi Douglass:

I am using Flix Pro to convert to flash, I don’t see a way to render to a flash file directly from within Vegas – and in the manual for Flix Pro (On2 Tech), they say to render an uncompressed .mov or uncompressed .avi file for conversion to flash using Flix Pro.

Am I misunderstanding the terminology here? If i have the reel put together within vegas – consisting of 5 clips back to back – how do I get that reel converted to flash without rendering a file from vegas to be converted by Flix pro? Is there another file format I should be rendering to for conversion to flash within Flix Pro?

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Chris

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[Chris Forsyth]

Thanks John…One more question:

The footage that i have that is 720×480 – was given to me, so I don’thave the raw footage. But the file I have…while the video media properties say 720×480 (which is the actual portion of the screen that the video takes up), the actual clip I have has top and bottom letterboxing / borders on it – so the actual screen display of the clip including the letterboxing is 720×528. I’d like to export this without the letterboxing to 720×480 without the letterboxing or borders on top and bottom, and then bring THAT into the 720×405 project and do as you said. How can I get this back to an output file of 720×480 without the top and bottom borders? If I simply crop it also removes part of the right and left side of the actual picture – is there a way to crop just the top and bottom borders off of this?

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Chris

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I want the final output to be widescreen – 16:9, and will be rendering it to an uncompressed .mov file, for use in conversion to a flash file to be displayed and played on a personal website. So the first 4 fit the output ratio perfectly, while the last one appears looking funny if I bring it into a project that has the properties set for 16:9 display. it has not only letterboxing on the top and bottom – but also in the right and left also. So do you mean that I should bring in the final clip to the project anyway, and crop the parts of the frame that are black around the edges out? is it that simple? It appears to make that film clip look very close up. Am I understanding this correctly?

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Chris

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[Chris Forsyth]

Great suggestion – many thanks!

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[Chris Forsyth]

Thanks VERY much to all who have contributed ideas and suggestions to this question – all are very much appreciated, and have helped a great deal. Thanks a million.

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Anyone?

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[Chris Forsyth]

Hi Mike:

Thanks for your response. I have posted 2 Day shots and 3 night shots – hopefully these will help. The night shots are pretty close up and from above, vs the day shots which were shot from the side. If these don’t help, I am happy to post more – just let me know what would be more helpful.

Basically in the scene – the day shots were in a pond, and I need to cut from there to the night shots, (which is to be the end of this scene where the guy is pulled under and drowned by “the devil and his minions”), these shots were done in a pool. I can tell they lit it from the same direction the sunlight was coming from in the day shots. The jpeg’s are here:
https://www.ChrisForsyth.com/CreativeCow/DayToNight.htm

Any and all help / suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Chris

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