Chris Young
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Thanks Mike ~
I guess I really didn’t want to know that! But now that I have been informed and put on the straight and narrow I have done some hunting. Doing a Google ‘images’ search on ‘DVD logo’ I came up with a logo that looks similar but is not on the offical DVD logo list. It actually has the word ‘video’ written inside the ellipse under the letters DVD. I guess using it won’t contravene the DVD forum’s copyright yet it will work well enough to inform anyone that this is indeed a video DVD that they have in their hot little hands. You can’t be too careful now can you!?
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Leslie ~
This is how I understand the use of the DVD logo. I found this info on a Mac related web site some time back but no longer have the URL.
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One final note: I have been looking into the legalities of putting the official DVD-R logo on these types of discs. It appears as though authors of DVD discs that are DVD-Rs are allowed to put a mark indicating they are indeed DVD-Rs on the disc. However, it is illegal to put a DVD-Video or plain DVD logo on a disc if you do not have a license, and there is a fine. Most replication houses either have licenses or use the license of their testing facility. You can find the DVD-R logo here (attached here, please note that it is just DVD-R). Once again, I am not a lawyer so be sure to double check the licensing on your project before using any logo.I have been using the official DVD-R logo, which includes the TM symbol, on ‘burnt’ discs. It is the logo that has DVD with a symbol of the disc under it and the letter R under that. You can find all the official logos in one downloadable file called ‘DVE.eps’ at:
https://www.cdman.com/graphics/disc_designing/logos.html
Have a read read of the relevant info on that page about the allowable colors and sizes for the logos. I have yet to find anyone who can give me a concrete ruling on this logo issue and I have tried everywhere I can think of to date. Good luck!
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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Zip ~
Have had another look at this problemo! Have a work around for stills that works here in PAL. Should more than likely work in NTSC. The process, as you requested, was using external drives and external previewing of DV, QT, WMV, MPEG1, MPEG2, TGA, JPEG’s. With DV files the response could be considered instant, or almost instant. With the QT, WMV & MPEG’s the response was around 2>3 seconds after selecting the external preview. Then the playbacks ran fine. Interestingly I had an NTSC WMV file which when I selected it previewed back in the Vegas preview window even though external was selected… now how that works I don’t know?
With the different still formats they all took around 2>3 seconds to initialise on screen then stayed there for around three seconds and then collapsed away. I had no system ‘crashes’ or hangs with any of the files, video or stills. Agreed, with stills v6.0 is nowhere near as smooth in previewing as v5.0. What I did discover which will help if you have heaps of stills to preview to clients is the following work around. Go to ‘preferences’, select the ‘editing’ tab and change the ‘new still image length’ to say 30 seconds or so, apply the change, exit and now try your stills previewing. Here it worked a charm, nice long previews. Just have to remember to change it back to a reasonable length for actual project work. You can bring all your stills in under this longer length and change back to the five second or whatever length afterwards when you start working.
An after thought. Another thing about previewing I have found is that if you have 1>2 gig of ram on your system it best to set the ‘dynamic ram preview’ under prefs to around 16>64Mb, as Ed keeps pointing out, because the higher you set it the choppier your previews will become, especially on longer play out sections. It’s all to do with Vegas’s memory management, an issue that I still believe is an issue though it still silence from Sony on this point. It was never an issue in 5.0. Keeping ram preview at 16Mb and the page file stays at around 330Mb. Set it for 1Gig and the page file climbs and climbs and in our case on one of the units it tops out at 1.32Gig and the previews are as choppy as a chainsaw massacre. A shame, as in 5.0 this wasn’t the case. I often use the higher ram figures with ‘build dynamic ram preview’ to preview TV commercials as I can preview most full thirty seconders with 1Gig of ram. So I find that I am often switching between 16Mb and 1024Mb depending on whether I am just plain editing or building bigger ram previews.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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Sonic Foundry’s ‘Click & Crackle Removal’ plugin works very well if you have it. It was part of their vinyl restoration pack from memory. Another exellent one is the Waves x-Crackle plugin. Not sure if the latter is available as a single plugin or whether it’s only available as part of a pack. Let us know how you go though if you use SoundSoap, would be very interested to hear as I am always on the hunt for ‘clean-up’ type plugs for audio.
Chris Young
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Leslie ~
Scenalyzer works well for this. In fact it is IMHO the best tool for capturing either video or audio for use in Vegas. Can’t remember the last time I used the Vegas capture app as Scenalyzer is so far ahead in most aspects. It also has a host of other good features which I find useful. Well worth the $40 or so it cost. They have a downloadable demo which watermarks the video every so many seconds but from memory it does’t watermark the audio so might be worth a go. Find it at scenalyzer.com. All the best for a hot sunny Xmas and all that.
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Working in PAL here and have exactly the same behaviour, as you are experiencing. With still images in 5.0d the image stays up on the external monitor but as you say drops out in around three seconds in 6.0c. Haven’t had any associated crashes though. With live video as opposed to stills both appear to behave much the same way, which is quite satisfactorily. I have not been able to find any setting that alters this behaviour. I wouldn’t mind betting it has something to do with the code re-write that enables 6.0 to use a ‘windows secondary display’, e.g. a computer monitor, or a Blackmagic ‘Decklink’ as an output option.
Chris Young
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A long shot here but was the drive you ripped the music with a DVD drive? If it was and it is a new PC just check the following. Go to ‘my computer’ and find the drive icon for the drive you ripped the music with. Right click on it and select ‘properties’. On the properties dialogue look for the ‘hardware’ tab. Click on this tab and you should see a list of the drives on your HP Pavilion. You should see listed the drive you ripped with, select it. Now click on its ‘properties’ dialogue box, which is down towards the bottom of this window. This will now open another ‘properties’ window, on this should be yet another tab called, believe it not, ‘properties’. The settings on this final properties window determine how Windows will use this drive for playing CD music. On this window you should find a check box with the description ‘Enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device’. If the check box doesn’t have a tick in it click on it to select it. Now try ripping again and see how you go.
I am not saying this is the answer but I have seen similar problems occur with ripped audio when this checkbox has not been selected. Post back how you go. We may have to scratch our collective heads further if this doesn’t work!
Chris Young
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If you are talking Vegas Movie Studio I think you will find the’pan &crop’ tool, looks like a lttle square, is available on all your vid clips. With this you can resize a clip and place it in any position in your video frame that you so desire.
I can’t recall whether Movie Sudio has a ‘track motion’ icon on the track header but if it does you can use this for p-in-p. The beauty of track motion one is that any pics put on the same track maintain the same dimensions and position as your first.Chris Young
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Laca ~
Not a major problem, it was just a friendly word of caution. It’s just that I am
very sceptical over judgements made over one example, especially on forums
where we are all trying to help one another and especially when it comes to
spending ones hard earned dollars wisely as is the case for most of us. As
you say, I am sure there aren’t many of us who can throw money around so all
of us should make sure our advice is well balanced.Chris Young
CYV Productions
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Leslie ~
No worries!
Til later
Chris Young