Doug Graham
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Okay, here’s one possible reason things are off…
Are you previewing the video on an NTSC television monitor, via a Firewire connection to your DV camcorder or deck, but listening to the audio through speakers hooked up to your computer? This will produce a noticeable lag in the video.
Either monitor the video on your computer monitor, in the Vegas preview window, or use speakers connected to your television monitor. This will keep the audio and video in sync.
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Again, it’s got to be something in your system. View/Text Size is enabled on my machine here and works fine. It isn’t a forum design issue.
I don’t know if it’ll help, but FireFox has some additional Font options, such as specifying a minimum font size, or forcing pages to use your fonts rather than theirs. You can find these in Tools/Options/Content/Advanced.
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If it’s “custom audio”, then I don’t understand what you mean by “not synced with the video”. The only thing you’d want to “line up” are the points where you insert transitions, and this can be done by placing markers on the timeline.
Just hit the M key to the beat of the music. Then go back and insert transitions at the marked points.
By “waveform”, we mean the picture of the audio that appears in any audio clip on the timeline…that blue squiggly thing. To see it more clearly, zoom in until you are at the frame level. The waveform trace will expand and become easier to “read”. The peaks often represent percussion beats in the music, allowing you to line the clip up visually.
By “audio/video sync” we mean the alignment of audio that accompanies the visual action of the clip…people speaking, clapping, etc. The audio that your camcorder captures will always be in sync with the video (unless you deliberately unlock the audio from the video in Vegas, and then move the clips out of alignment). But if you are shooting with multiple cameras, or have a digital audio recorder, you’ll often want to sync up audio from one source with video from another source. Here’s where the waveform display in the audio clips can help quite a bit.
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I second the votes for AVG. I purchased the multi-license network edition, which lets one machine download the daily updates, and then updates every other machine on the network. However, the free version should work just as well. (I did find the network version’s installation and config instructions to be quite complex and hard to understand, but this doesn’t apply to the AVG program itself.)
I like PCTools antispyware software for its thoroughness. It finds all kinds of things that Ad-Aware and the others miss. However, it is kind of slow to use on a regular basis.
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For those of you who can’t get CTRL+scroll wheel to change the size of your fonts, there is an option in the View menu of both Firefox and Internet Explorer to change the font size.
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Ralph, I don’t know what to tell you. This feature works for me, and has worked on every computer and mouse combination I’ve had since the scroll wheel came out.
Zrb, I don’t see how the Mac OS has anything to do with it. I’m talking about a feature of Windows.
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It’s not the site. I can change the font size here in the forum in either IE or Firefox. I suspect it’s the mouse software on your second computer.
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Hold down CTRL and move the mouse wheel. Works on any web page.
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Premiere Pro 2 can edit HDV footage quite well.
However, all of the cams that have 4-5 MP still image specs are definitely in the “consumer” camp when it comes to video. You will find that they have quite a bit less light sensitivity than what you’re used to, and while the HDV format improves the picture, the cameras’ use of a single image sensor (instead of the VX-2000’s 3) degrades it. There are also many fewer manual control options.
Conversely, the HDV camcorders that fall, like the VX-2000, into the “prosumer” category don’t have the kind of still image resolution that you’d like. Models like the Canon XH-A1, Sony HVR-V1U or FX-7, Z1U or FX-1, JVC HD-110U.
Add to that the fact that still photos are a medium where posing your subjects and carefully selecting the background, will give the best results, whereas video excels in capturing the ongoing action, and you are probably better off getting both a good camcorder and a good digital SLR, and then using two different people to shoot them.
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It’s good hardware…but Vegas will run just fine on much less capable systems…including systems with 1.8 GHz Athlon processors. The only difference will be that rendering will be slower, and you’ll see less realtime performance while editing.
I’ve never seen Vegas lose A/V sync during a render, so I can’t tell you whether it’s hardware, or your source material, or some software setting…but if your current system is properly set up, and Vegas is properly set up, it ought to work. What I’m saying is, don’t go out and buy a whole new computer system until you are SURE that the problem is with your existing hardware, and can’t be fixed.
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Doug Graham