D. Eric franks
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Just to add to Mr. Rhoden’s post: double click the title bar to get “actual size” when the window is not docked (it is docked in your case, so Steve’s got you covered here, of course).
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Check out the “Tracking” property in the text tool (on the Properties tab). It’ll do what you want, although it’s not technically “kerning” in the formal print-layout meaning of the term.
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SFK files are the picture of the audio (the waveform) that you see on the timeline when you edit. Vegas generates them when a media file is added to a project. You can safely delete them and Vegas will regenerate them as needed, but they are small, so I’d just ignore them.
I can’t even imaging how RAM latency would ever generate a file. As far as sticking with this or that parts, I’m not going to argue with experts, but I usually check out what’s on sale for RAM, do a little research to make sure it’s not in some crazy batch of duds (which there is a bunch of RAM modules in the tech news recently) and buy whatever. If you aren’t overclocking or pushing the voltage, mid-range name-brand on-sale RAM is fine, unless you have some finicky motherboard.
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If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press
and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not
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Your data rate is rather low at 1Mbps. YouTube and Vimeo are in the 2Mbps range. If you are hosting your own content, this is probably fine. If you are uploading to YouTube/Vimeo, bump the data rate up in the 20Mbps range and let them reconvert for you.
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If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
— Howard Zinn —
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Oh, no noob apologies – none of this stuff is intuitive, fast or easy (at first anyhow).
MPEG-1 is definitely going to be more pleasant to play with, performance wise, and the file size will be smaller, but I don’t think you are going to be happy with the quality (depends on what you are using this for, I suppose). And, yea, a 70-minute render on a 30-second clip is definitely excessive. So beyond figuring out the right codec, there’s something else going on here.
Fortunately, it might be a matter of $100 and a new hard disk drive, which, as far as computer problems are concerned is about as cheap and easy as you can get away with. As you get more and more into video editing, hard drives are more and more like basements: you always fill ’em up, no matter how big it seems at first.
OK, DV codec time. I’d render the 30-second clips out to DV-AVI files:
(1) File menu > Render As
(2) Save as type = “Video for Windows (*.avi)”
(3) Click the Custom button.
(4) Template = “NTSC DV” (or “NTSC DV Widescreen”)The reason I’m recommending this is that your DVD-Video disc is 720×480 and the NTSC DV codec is 720×480 (and your project should use that resolution as well), so it’s a pretty straightforward conversion. Even if you mix up the standard with widescreen bit (your video will looked squashed), you can toggle the pixel aspect ratio with a click or two, so it’s not even a big deal to get that wrong.
Here’s the downside: a 30-second clip is going to be about 100 MB (where MPEG-2 on the DVD is probably right around 20 MB per 30-second clip and MPEG-1 might be half that – albeit the quality will stink on the later).
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Oh, I hadn’t seen the followup to this until today: Brilliant, Graham! A wee little lightbulb went on in my head when I realized where you were going with this “Ah HA!” Great little tutorial too, clear and to the point, didn’t ramble for 20 minutes…
Thanks!
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Unfortunately, you have discovered the big trade off. Smaller files use more efficient and more computationally intensive encoding and are harder on your computer in terms of smooth playback. Yes, you can covert these to a less efficient and easier to playback format, but these files are going to be larger. So you have a choice.
Still, there may be something you can do: large 1GB VOB files (MPEG-2 encoding) make Vegas very, very cranky, so going in, finding short sections that you want, rendering (trim) those out to the AVI format using DV encoding and then delete the VOB files should save you some space AND the DV-AVI files are incredibly pleasant to work with in Vegas.
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I’ve definitely seen this repeatedly with all kinds of files in v9. Closing (without saving) and reopening the project seems to do the trick, but this is the most annoying of all the bugs that affect v9 on my machine.
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Vegas can do frame-by-frame roto masking with the bezier masking tool just fine (Event Pan/Crop > Mask), but yes, After Effects’ tools are better. Still, if it was just one frame, I’d just do it in Vegas – save time and a few hundred dollars. That said, even though AE’s masking tools are better, there are NO magical mask buttons that will do what you want for free: it’s probably going to be a tedious, frame-by-frame-by-frame roto job for hours no matter what. Honestly, that’s the unglamorous side to what effects guys and gals do all the time, however.
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Next time someone asks, innocently say “Well, I use a Moviola, but I can get by with a razor blade in a pinch. The brand really doesn’t matter to me.”
To be honest, however, if/when you need to collaborate, Apple and FCP do not play well with others (see also: QuickTime for Windows not having DVCPRO HD codecs, H.264, etc.) and being a Vegas editor becomes a pain for everyone involved. That said, once you’ve mastered Vegas, FCP (or Avid or Premiere or Edius or MediaStudio Pro or Liquid or…) are pretty easy to pick up. If a director insists on FCP, ask them where the edit bay is and have at it. FCP is a great app and if it’s running on a $30,000 dual-processor, 16-thread workstation, I sure wouldn’t complain.