Danny Hays
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Also if you can find an old version of Cool edit 1.0, it has a noise reduction plugin that works great. Not Cool edit pro 2.0 as it’s plugin added some phasing sound. I think I saw it as freeware once. Now boughtout by Adobe as audition but I havent tried that versions noise reduction. Danny Hays
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Hello, If your using DV footage and you haven’t shot the green or blue screen shots yet, Be carefull to minimize any spill onto the subject. There’s no spill fixes in the chromakeyer in vegas, Just put some space between the subject and the screen. Also put a chromablur set to medium just before the chromakey plugin and it will make a huge difference, Also tilt your camera 90 deg for shooting standing people as you’ll have more lines of resoultion and not cropping and wasting the sides of the video. Keylight and Ultra are still far superior IMO. Danny Hays
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I agree with John. The HDV tape based camcorders also have the option to capture just the parts you want from the tape to disk. With AVCHD compression camcorders, if you capture a long clip without stopping the recording, you have to transfer that whole clip to disk, even for a little part of it. Booo! As cheap as laptops are now days, direct to disk is the way to go. Especially with HDV’s long GOP structure and it’s one frame dropped means a half sec of video lost.. only 2 i frames per second. By the way John, I have the HVR-A1 and I love it. Hows the Z1 in low light? Danny Hays
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One way is to use the “selection edit tool” and lasso all the clips you want to move and drag them to where you want, best used with snap to clips turned on. I know the ripple edit will move clips over when inserting a clip, not sure if it works the other way.
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WOW! thats a great idea for time lapse with V8. Not to get off the Vegas subject but there is a not well known program called OnLocation recently bought by Adobe along with Ultra. OnLocation has the ability to capture time lapse from 15 frames per sec to sixty minuts per frame, HDV. Four frames per sec to thirty minutes per frame, DV direct to disk. No changing tapes or wasted drive space. You can even set it up for motion detection to start and stop recording. And thats not even one of the better features of the program. It’s a capture app with great camera setup features. If you guys haven’t heard of it, check it out. Many peaple have it and don’t realize as it comes with the premium CS3 package, Windows only. Perfect for us Vegas users. Danny Hays
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The Vegas help file is big and may be intimidating at first. I would read in my spare time, not getting much of it at first but each time you’ll understand more and it has a glossery. You are with the easiest proffesional Video editing software out there in my opinion. Try Avid or Final cut and you’ll be back real quick. Danny Hays
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Your burning a standard DVD which is 3-4 aspect ratio and standard definition. Render as NTSC wide screen and the video will be letter boxed but you’ll see everything on an LCD monitor. Still use the safe zones when it may be viewed on a CRT tv. By yhe way if you connect you computer to an HDTV via a VGA connection, try rendering it as a Windows media video V9, 8Mbps HD 1080-30p video. and watch it with Windows media player on your big screen. You’ll be suprised on how good it looks compaired to standard def, which all regular DVDs are. Danny Hays
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Hi Steve, I hope you didn’t get the wrong idea from my post as I’m sure it’s a gret tool. I just downloaded it and another cool thing about it is it runs out of the folder without installing anything. That means It will run as a portable on a jump drive, now a way to get video on someones computer who doesn’t have any capture software. Wow!! This is the first protable capture app i’ve seen. Thank you Steve.
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Hi Steve, Want to see something ironic? I hadn’t heard of WinDV yet so I googled it and the first screen shot I saw shows 21 frames dropped, Although every other article I saw on it described it just as you did.
https://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PapaJohn/61/WinDV.aspx
I’m still going to try it as it’s a free and stand alone capture app. It’s just ironic that this article also raves about it not dropping frames. I’ve seen many posts on Sony Vegas not seeing their camera and this app is another way of getting video from the camera to the hard drive. I think the screen shot is just a fluke.
Thanks for the tip.
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Hello, I use a Presonus Firepod and a Firebox, both have 48v phantom pwr, both are firewire and on a fast computer using the ASIO drivers I can get the latency down to 1.5 msec. That neans I can use my audio effects in real time. Very usefull if you want to EQ, compress and or add some reverb and hear it through the headphones while your recording. Singers sometimes like hearing effects while they’re singing. I’m sure the Inspire 1394 by Presonus just mentioned for 150$ would also do this. Danny Hays