Danny Hays
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they’re from my Sony Handcam HDD HD camcorder. I believe the files are AVCHD from that camera. Most NLE’s have a hard time with them, even Sony. They had AVCHD cameras out before the had Soey Vegas except them, not until Vegas 8. Converting them to m2t would help alot. I use m2t with AF just fine. Hope this helps, Danny Hays
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As good as keylight is, It still needs a fairly well lit green/blue screen to work great. If you have CS3 with Ultra, Ultra will work great with what normaly would be considered un-keyable footage. It even has pre and post color corecting so you can raise the saturation, brightness to get the green screen bright and green, then in the post color corection you can turn these parameters back down so your forground is back to normal or how ever you want. It’s not a normal timeline pluggin most of us are used to but it can save you from having to re-shoot. Hope this helps. Danny Hays
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Shooting in low light unless you have a high end camera will have this grainy problem. Some people use a blur effect. Set to a low setting, just enough to blur the grain. Hope this helps. Danny Hays
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you can capture a jpeg from your preview window. make sure it’s set to full best and click the little floppy icon. Then import the jpeg to the time line and drag the edge to the desired length. Use the standard text with alpha channel in a track over the jpeg track. The text with the gray and white checkerboard background will be transparent. Hope this helps. Danny Hays
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If your version of Vegas will render audio as an ac3 file, then you have all you need. Danny Hays
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If there’s no black in the forground clip, use the chromakey effect and key out the black. Hope this helps. Danny Hays
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If you can play it with a reletivly fast computer connected to the HDTV via VGA, HDMI, DVI or component video, try rendering to Windows media video V9 8 mbps HD 1080-30P video. You can still get better with the custom settings and raising the bitrate. Watch full screen with Windows media player. This look great on my HDTV. There are also HD mpeg render templates you can experiment with. If you have to play the DVD with a regular DVD player it has to be downconverted to standard definition, 720 x 480 mpeg 2. Hope this helps. Danny Hays
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If their website shows all 3×4 video and you haven’t shot the video yet, I would stick to that so you don’t run into unexpected problems. You can play 16×9 videos on the web though if the player supports it or you letterbox it first. You don’t need to use scopes as it’s not being broadcasted from a TV station. If you encode the video to the same format the website uses, usually flash, it should look the same as if you play it with a flash player straight from your computer. Hope this helps. Danny Hays
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If drive space isnt an issue, you can always convert your avchd to Cineform avi. Its a lossless codec and is very efficient with Vegas. Hope this helps. Danny Hays
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Adjust your shorts! LOL!!