Doug Graham
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Either ATI or NVIDIA work fine. Your computer may have an AGP slot for a graphics card. If it’s a newer machine, it may have a PCI-E slot. Your graphics card must be compatible with whatever slot your motherboard has.
Don’t throw out your NTSC monitor. Continue to use it for full-screen preview through Firewire. Use your second monitor to stretch the timeline. I also put my video preview window and my video scopes on the second monitor.
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Even still better yet is two widescreen monitors! 🙂
However, if the choice is between two 19″ monitors and one 20″ widescreen, I’d go with the dual 19s. That will give you more screen real estate.
I have a pair of Dell 24″ widescreen monitors, and I love the setup.
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Leave Quantize to Frames “ON” for most video work.
If you need to do an audio edit within a frame, then you can turn it off to get finer resolution.Regards,
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According to the initial reports, it is not. The Z1 is still the only Sony HDV cam that can handle both formats in a single camcorder.
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“However, How do I know that the video I’m seeing on the preview monitor is actually what my finished video is going to look like on a TV screen?”
You don’t, and it probably isn’t. Most computer monitors display video much darker than it will look on a TV.
“Is it better to have a TV hooked into your system?”
Yes, it’s essential.
“Could I preview my editing on a TV monitor and still us my dual computer LCD monitors for my work space?”
Yes. Keep your camcorder or DV deck connected to your computer via Firewire. Hook the TV to that. Vegas can switch back and forth from its preview window to your TV at the click of a mouse.
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Writing the action will be a lot simpler if you sort the photos first.
In the media browser (or any thumbnail viewing program) select all the vertical images and move them to their own file folder.
Now, all you have to do is write a simple action to rotate the photos, and batch the entire folder.
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This isn’t basic or cheap (well, it’s cheap in comparison to what it does), but it’s what you need for live event production:
https://www.newtek.com/tricaster/
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How can you create a rotoscope effect with a still image?
You need a series of images, such as frames from a video clip.
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If your computer has spare hard drive bays and sufficient power, why not add the drives internally? You can configure them as a RAID 0 array for faster throughput, either via Windows software, or a separate RAID interface card, or your motherboard might have onboard RAID capability.
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You mean you want the writing to appear as if it’s being written by an invisible pen?
Vegas’ text editor can’t do that. You’ll need an animation application or a separate character generation program like “Heroglyph”. See https://www.prodad.de/gb/heroglyph_std_details.html
Regards,
Doug Graham