[Dan Achatz]

Looks pretty good on paper. Did you head on down to your local Fry’s or Best Buy and look at it next to the other models in that price range?

When I do that, I quite often see one that has the same specs, but looks better.

At any rate, it’s always nice to have a large viewing monitor.

Dan

[Dan Achatz]

I would learn to use the waveform monitor in Vegas. You can trust it more than any monitor for video levels. For color correction you need a monitor.

LCD monitors are getting much better, but they still cannot reproduce the same quality as the best production monitors.

Now here’s where you have to be careful. Consumer TV/Monitors are designed to make a bad picture look good. The designers are assuming that your cable company has mangled the signal, so they try to bring everything back to perfect.

What you want is a studio monitor. Here designers are trying to show you what it is you really have. Once again the best monitors use CRT’s. They may also cost $5, OOO plus. This is probably out of your price range, it’s out of mine.

I would recommend that you go ahead and buy an LCD Monitor, but make sure that you buy a professional monitor such as the Sony LMD1420 or the Panasonic WV-LC1710.

Now if it’s just going to be used to see the playback and not for making any decisions about color correction or video quality go buy an LCD from Dell, Best Buy or Fry’s.

Also, you might want to keep in mind that many of use have started to migrate to HDV or the DVC-Pro HD. This means that you may want to consider monitors that have higher resolution then the monitors mentioned above.

Dan

[Dan Achatz]

Thanks,

I’ll have to check into it.

Dan

[Dan Achatz]

Nope this wasn’t the problem. But thanks for the info. I just went ahead and recreated the files. As long as I saved them as a photoshop file, they were fine. If I tried to flattens them and save them as a JPEG, it kept giving me the same error. I wonder if JPEG files have a maximum file size. These were 12000 x 9000 at 300dpi files, so the file size was around 34 Megs..

Dan

[Dan Achatz]

If it’s above the top, it will still be above the top no matter what resolution the screen is set for. Increasing the resolution will only helps if the window is lost off the right side or the bottom side.

Try this: assuming the Pan/Crop window is the currently active window (it should be if you’ve just clicked the Pan/Crop icon in an event), press Alt-spacebar to open up the control menu for the window. Type M to select the Move command. Use the arrow keys to move the window back onto the desktop. Press Esc to exit the Move command

[Dan Achatz]

It’s been my experience that DVD-R’s work in alomost every machine. DVD+R’s work great in computers, but will not play on many set top DVD players.

[Dan Achatz]

One of the great people on this site sent me the perfect Veg file.

Thanks to Jeff and alll of you.

Dan

[Dan Achatz]

The very first DVD players that were sold, would not play recordable DVD’s – or +. I always ask them to try a different DVD player before they return it. The price of a new DVD player that will play -R’s in my area is under $50.

[Dan Achatz]

I just remembered that I have Nero 6 Ultra edition. I use it to burn DVD and CD’s from time to time. I was just looking at it and I can’t see where it renders H264 files.

How do I get to that menu?

Dan

[Dan Achatz]

Does Vegas See the Nero Encoder?