[Don Bloom]

OK had to shoot a wedding yesterday so I was out of the loop.
From what I’m reading there is a copy of the groomsmens clip on the timeline so first you need to look down the line to see where it is.
As for the workflow, I was a bit confused myself as to why you would render to MPEG to fix the audio then re-render to mpeg.

if Vegas doesn’t have enough audio control for you then render the audio only to WAV bring it to your audio program do your thing then replace the audio in VEgas. OR you can OPEN A COPY in AUDIO EDITOR from Vegas to SoundBooth. Set that in Preferences>audio>audio editor and you eliminate a step. Once you do your thing in SoundBooth render the finished product to either MPG in Vegas and bring it into CS3 to put your DVD together OR render to AVI as 1 big file in Vegas, bring into CS3 and render and author there.
I think this might be a better,smoother workflow for you with less chance of things going haywire.
Don

[Don Bloom]

Well then the only other thing I can recommend is to highlight the clips, events or tracks you wish to move and move them independently. If it’s only the top track highlight the events to the end of that track only and move them. If it’s both tracks do the same.
It does sound though as if the workflow is a bit clunky-I mean unless you nees to have the 2 different tracks can you pull all the clips (at least most) to a single track therefore eliminating the other and making moveming a lot easier?
Don

[Don Bloom]

one thing at a time. Although i don’t use 8 I did use the trial and never saw any differnce in quality between 8 or 6 which is what I use every day. Second, rendering from AVI to MPEG and back will degrade the quality. How much will vary depending on the bitrate used in the mpeg compression.
Rendering AVI to AVI would be a very minor amount of degradtion at least from what I’ve seen over the years doing it. As for the pixelation and red flashes I have to say that the only time I see any pixelation is on a really fast pan-I called it the NYPD Blue swish pan-real fast and real ugly (especially in a wedding video) so I really can’y think of a reason that you should be seeing that unless the codec you used for the DVD caused it.????
Sorry I can’t help more.
Don

[Don Bloom]

I’m sure there are more elegant ways to do this but what I do is SELECT ALL then SPLIT and RIPPLE. This way
I’m cutting ALL tracks (video and audio) and moving them to the LEFT so first I set MARKERS for IN and OUT points then I start at the END of the timeline and work my way forward-that way everything stays lined up with the markers.
Like I said not the most elegant but it works for me.
Don

[Don Bloom]

I may have misread to begin with.

Insert and EMPTY Event Button type in what you want then point the button to whereever you want it to go. IE [1 – 6]
Don

[Don Bloom]

Yep. When you insert your movie into DVDA right click on the button and a menu appears. One of the items is INSERT SCENE SELECTION MENU. Click on that and a dialouge box will appear and ask you how many chapters you want per page set that number, click the OK button and you’re all set.
For example, say you hav 36 chapters (wow that’s a lot) and you want 6 per page. When you set the number in the dialouge box to six it will give you 6 pages with 6 chapters per page. Arrange them how you want them if you want and you’re done.
This is ASSUMING of course that you have the chapter points already set in either Vegas or DVDA.
HTHs
Don

[Don Bloom]

to my knowledge there really isn’t a way to do this in Vegas but creating the mask in photoshop isn’t all that hard.
First open a NEW project use the NTSC template when you open up the menu for a new project.
Now go to the TOOLS and pick the LINE tool-don’t worry about the size as you can set it to exactly what size you want.
Layout the lines where you want them and use the sizing tool and size them accordingly. Make sure you set the background to TRANSPARENT when you set the template.
Save as a PNG and bring it into Vegas-plqace on top track and place the video footage on track below the grid.
That should get you started.
Don

[Don Bloom]

I read it the same. One image spread over a bunch of TVs instead of seperate images.
I did this a while back and what I did was make a mask in Photoshop, black lines, set at the aspect ration so I had 12 boxes. Transparent background and layed it on track 1 and the video on track 2. It looked pretty decent. I was just looking for the mask in hopes I could email to you but I seem to have ‘misplaced’ somewhere on one of my drives but it’s fairly simple to make in a photo edit program.
Don

[Don Bloom]

1 hour and 50 minutes will not fit on a single layer DVD without compressing it. MPEG2 with AC3 audio settings should be AVERAGE bitrate 5,282,000. anything higher and it won’t fit.
Don

[Don Bloom]

Multicam editing really as hard as it sometimes seems and here’s the trick.
Forget the timecode as the 2 cams might be off a bit. Snyc the audio by way of looking at the wavform-find a peak and use that as the starting point. Once you have that, there is a slight possiblity that it may drift a bit as time goes on but that’s cameras not software. Every camera is a tiny bit differnt but usually not enough to make a noticable difference.
Once you have you’r starting point then close your eyes and use your ears to go thru the audio at various point and see if it stays in sync or drifts-for fine adjust ment use the number pad 7/9 and 4/6 to move in varying increments to keep it where it’s supposed to be. Honestly once you have it sync’d there should be very little if any drift of the audio. Again if need be (if it does drift) find a slient area and cut the split the audio tracks and move with the keypad until it’s back in. You might need to do this more than once or not at all.
HTHs
Don