[Claire West]

[jeditdv] “Why don’t you do the voice sync time critcal stuff first and then add the other effects last?”

That sounds like it would work. But a suggestion came in earlier (from my Serif forum) to mute the tracks I didn’t need and that worked for me.

What I was facing was not just a slow framerate but long stops between split second moves from frames widely spaced on the film. Would you know if things can get this bad with Vegas? Or would you happen to know if this happens to some extent with every editing program, even the most “professional”?

[Claire West]

A new question, based on new woes with my current software. Is Vegas playback/previewing prone to stuttering? As I increase the complexity of my editing, the playback is in a constant start and stop of both video and audio — a second or so of action followed by a frozen screen (in spite of the time counter continuing smoothly)which after a moment snaps into a later frame. I am no longer able to edit the voiceover to match up with the film.

[Claire West]

It is the full version I’ve been thinking about. I noted the limitation of four tracks in the partial version and that definitely couldn’t work for me. Thanks.

[Claire West]

Thanks, Edward. With my current software, I can only “transform” individual sources or add and “transform” an entire track — and time isn’t one of the things that can be controlled on a track-wide basis. Given the huge number my individual sources, and the variety of commands for these, I’ve had quite a struggle. So the scripting option sounds great to me, and that one feature alone will probably drive my purchase.

[Claire West]

[jeditdv] “However, all of the above is totally immaterial to editing and I still don’t see why that would be any sort of determining factor.”

My project involves — besides many freeze frames and slow motion clips to be timed — a huge amount of text/photos/background sources, copying them from one area to another, sizing them in terms of seconds as well as placement and matching them to one another. With my current software, the constant opening and closing of alternate sub-projects for the copying and the subsequent adjustments in zoom level are a huge pain in the neck and extremely frustrating. So — it’s a very big determining factor.

I did plan on a download, but only after getting some reassurance about Vegas meeting my needs. I don’t have the time to learn new software if I don’t have some reason to think it’s going to work for me.

Thanks.

Claire

[Claire West]

The absence of frame numbers isn’t really important to me, only a means of simplifying the visuals. What I really want to know is if the specific setting — of say 5 second intervals marked out — is something that can be made a default setting and will appear automatically when I open any of what you called “nested VEG files.” Is that possible?

Thanks for the clarification on combining “VEG” files and the info on DVD Architect. Both are reassuring. I will probably continue this thread for another week or two to get a few other answers before purchasing.

Claire