[Doug Jackson]

Hi Johnny,

I’m not sure I would want to loose all features of 5.1 audio tracks, but to each their own.

You can do this from within Vegas without having to render the video.

And Vegas can put the resulting ‘submixed’ Stereo or MONO audio track back into the timeline as a new track.

Stereo will equal 1 track with two channels. Mono will equal 1 track with one channel.

Simply choose ‘Tools->Render to New Track‘ (Ctrl+M) and then choose an “Audio” only format (AC-3,FLAC,MP3 Audio,Wave(Microsoft)). Each of these types have caveats – some are ‘lossy’ compressed formats, some are ‘lossless’.

Once you make your Audio type selection, click ‘Render‘ and once completed, Vegas will drop the new track right into the timeline.

You did not mention which version of Vegas you are using but this feature has been supported for a long time.

Regards,

–Doug

[Doug Jackson]

Hi Kelly,

I seem to recall that Magix has moved ‘Quicktime’ to what they call a ‘deprecated feature’ in Vegas Pro (later versions). I think you can re-enable it if you choose. Look under ‘Options->Preferences->Deprecated Features’

Regards,

–Doug

[Doug Jackson]

Hi Jon,

Look for ‘Darren Mostyn’ on YouTube to get some great tips.

Regards,

–Doug

[Doug Jackson]

Hi David,

You need to activate ‘Time Stretch’ mode on the event.

Move your Cursor to the end of the event you want to stretch.

Hold down the ‘Ctrl’ key. (The cursor will change to the stretch mode, not Trim mode.)

Left click and drag the end of the event for the correct duration as needed.

Once you release the click, the event will show a squiggly line indicating the time has been slowed down or sped-up depending on which way you dragged the end of the event.

Regards,

–Doug

[Doug Jackson]

Hi Mike,

I believe sometimes DVD Architect ‘gets it wrong’. Many full moons ago, I mastered a DVD in DVD Architect (It was Sony at that time but I don’t remember what version — this was around 2006) and we had 1000 discs replicated (the whole glass master and stamper and injection molding process). We started to get random reports from customers who said their player would play the first movie then stop throw a ‘disc error’ instead of progressing to the next item. I could not replicate on any of my players nor get real ‘detail’ from any of the customers. I went looking for a tool to check the ‘DVD’. I found a software tool called ‘pgc_edit’ (which I think is still around) which basically told me the menu programming from DVD Architect wasn’t ‘exactly’ correct. I don’t remember the details. But I did use ‘pcg_edit’ to correct the menuing and we had a short run of replacement DVDs duplicated with the new menu which we sent as replacements to those who had the problem. We never heard back from any folks to whom we sent replacements. ‘pcg_edit’ at that time was ‘Donationware’ and I recall telling the producer he should send a few shekels to the author(s).

I made it a practice to run all future DVD masters through ‘pgc_edit’ to let it ‘fix’ any errors it detected before duplication.

Regards,

–Doug

[Doug Jackson]

Make your ‘sand’ patch a jpg and put it on the bottom?

:{)

[Doug Jackson]

Hmm, that result would also match what you originally posted – like the ‘sand.png’ is not there.

Is there something wonky with the actual ‘sand.png’ file? But Vegas somehow has it cached for preview? Go out to explorer and see if the sand.png is viewable with something else. Recreate ‘sand.png’, maybe. I’d try to ‘replace’ that image in Project Media.

Or put your mask back into ‘SunnyBeach’ and try ‘sand.png’ BELOW it.

Strange.

Regards,

–Doug

[Doug Jackson]

Hi Stephen,

I tried to recreate your issue in my Vegas Pro 13 but could not.

I’m curious, since your ‘sand’ png is above ‘SunnyBeach’ video, do you need the mask on ‘SunnyBeach’?

Did you try restarting Vegas before rendering?

Regards,

–Doug

[Doug Jackson]

Hmm, isn’t ‘720×576’ a 5:4 aspect ratio?

So are you trying to create a 4:3 from the original 5:4 aspect ratio?

Regards,

–Doug

[Doug Jackson]

Hi Graham,

Where did you find the ‘Vegas User Manual’?

I have installed Vegas Pro 19 (381) and can’t find a separate ‘User Manual’ to download. And, by the way, the in-program help still shows as Version 18.

Regards,

–Doug