Chris Young
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Barry ~
If you haven’t installed anything on the system yet I would throw it back at the people built it and get them to re-do the install as a default C:\ System drive.
No doubt it will run okay but 99.9 percent of programs default to the C:\Program Files path and it’s a pain having to remember with every install/update that you have to redirect install paths, it
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Have also seen this with V6 but never in V5. Was about to give up on one job as was totally unable to open the Veg either by going to ‘file open’ in Vegas or clicking on the Veg directly. Renamed the veg.bak for the job and it still wouldn’t open.
As a last option I tried opening the veg from the ‘file’ menu using the last 1 to 6 opened files list and voila! It opened. hastily re-saved under an updated new name. Bit of a worry but a very rare occurrence in my experience. I always keep updating the saves with numbers like ‘jobname_01.veg, 02, 03, 04 etc so if the worst should happen, touch wood, you find yourself hopefully only having to drop back to the previous save version.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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Joe ~
The steps I use:
Choose render as QT. On the render as dialogue select ‘custom’. On the project tab select ‘best’ from the drop down selection. On the video tab under frame size select ‘multimedia 320×240’. For frame rate select 25 frames for PAL or 29.970 for NTSC (We use PAL for Aussie). Under field order select ‘none’. With pixel aspect ratio I use 1.093 for PAL. Under video format select ‘none’. Compressed depth can be left at ’32bpp color
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Joe ~
I notice you said that you were getting very blocky flash files going from the avi file. I experienced the the same problems when going straight from avi’s. Hence going through the step of using an uncompressed QT of the dimensions you require before encoding in Swish. Comparing the results from the two different methods it like comparing chalk and cheese. Believe me if you get it right they are much smaller than QT and WMV files and can play and stream on both Mac and PC, assuming they have the Flash player installed.
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Joe ~
Yes Vegas will make good QT movies but it would be best if you use one of the ‘fast start’ options under the ‘custom’ tab. This will enable them to start playing while still streaming down. They are still pretty big though. To have even more of these sorts of encoding options you need to use something like Procoder from Canopus. Procoder will give you a vast choice of advanced options which you won’t get in the basic QT settings in Vegas. The other option for fast web streaming is to use a program like ‘Swish Video’.
One of the methods we use is to encode to QT at maximum quality using the ‘multimedia’ 320×240 setting. This will produce a file around twice the size of the DV file, but don’t worry about that. We then import that file into Swish Video and encode that at maximum quality or less depending on content movement etc. You can drop the audio encode rate to a lower setting in Swish Video which will help reduce file size. This will give you a file size of approx 7% of the original DV file with pretty good quality. The QT 320×240 multimedia size is only a starting point, you can of course go larger or smaller depending on your requirements. To give you an idea look at:
https://www.diamondsmajestic.com
On that home page you will see a small Flash video which we did for one of our clients. It was edited in V6 and then went through the process outlined above. Mind you I love the way our client has put their credit under it!
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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Ted ~
Forgot to mention you can also use the ‘Ctl’ key and drag the graphic longer for a slower speed if you need to fine tune. Just do a test render to make sure it’s smooth!
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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Ted ~
I just use the insert ‘text media’ tool, on a new track.
On opening enter the ‘length’, i.e. the duration of your ‘ticker’ in the dialogue box at the top. Next type in your text ticker or crawl using the normal text ‘edit’ window in the text tool. As your text line grows past the window limits you will see a drag bar appear at the bottom of the window, just keep on typing. Once you have finished select the ‘placement’ tab and select ‘bottom center’, make note of the ‘Y’ coordinate. Go to the head of the keyframe track and then drag your text line all the way off to the right, check your Y coordinate is the same as the ‘bottom centre’ one. Next drag your keyframe slider to the far end of the keyframe track. Now grab your text line and slide it all the way off to the left side, check that the Y coordinate is the same as the start keyframe, exit. When you go back to the timeline drag your ‘text’ graphic to the same duration that you entered in the text ‘length’ dialogue in the text tool and with luck you should have a ‘ticker’ that should render smoothly. I find with a little experimentation you will work out a good speed/length ratio that works. Do it frequently and so far so good!
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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Richard ~
You have thrown some light on the subject. It made me do some checking up with my first employer, the BBC. Of course back in the stone age when I first entered this crazy business there was no such thing as ‘digital video’. Using 768 x 576 has been an error I now discover. A small extract from their, massive on this subject, current technical training info (re PAL) follows:
Most computer painting systems use square pixels and therefore to
use such a package to make a still for export to Rec. 601 would
suggest that the “square pixel” image should start at 1024 by 576,
being resampled to 702 by 576, then placed centrally within a 720
by 576 black background. However the instant rise time transition
of blanking could cause severe ringing when an analogue output
signal is created. The better width to use for the “square pixel”
source is (1024 * 720 /702) = 1050 samples. After resampling to
720 by 576 the image can be output from an ITU-R BT.601 system.
Any subsequent DAC process is responsible for applying standard
“analogue system” blanking to the signal, giving a 52 microsecond
H.A.D. line. A 4 by 3 image should start life as a 787 or 788
sample per line “square pixel” source (ideally 787.69 samples!!).Andy Woodhouse
Lecturer
BBC Training & Development.So I now know that a horizontal 787 or 788 is the optimum to use. I shall be doing some serious experimentation with this. You live and learn don’t you! Thanks for pointers.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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Geez! maybe I shouldn’t have asked the question, got me confused now. Everything we have done in Vegas (PAL) using 768 x 576 looks fine. Draw a circle in Photoshop and and it appears as a perfect circle in Vegas.
In Photoshop when you create a new canvas the ‘preset sizes’ drop down menu gives PAL standard as 768 x 576 and widescreen as 1024 x 576. For NTSC 601 it is 720 x 540 and for NTSC DV/DVD it’s 720 x 534. There are also a host other NTSC widescreen settings for 601 and DV/DVD. Is anyone suggesting that these Photoshop specs are incorrect for Vegas?
Still confused!
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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Tim ~
As Richard suggests (thanks), is that meant to be 768 x 576? If so this what we already use so we were okay. Had to ask the original question though as I was kind of curious.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney