Douglas Spotted eagle
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No. BMD Intensity is not supported in Vegas. I sure wish BMD had drivers for it though.
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use Generated Media/gradients, set to circular, and set the inner color to transparent.
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It’s content-dependent. If there are static and then high motion scenes, I wouldn’t use CBR. If it’s fairly static, then CBR is the best option. My bigger point is that she can go to a higher bitrate (I didn’t read the length) which often translates to better quality but not always. Again, it’s content dependent.
There are many other ways to get better video output from an encode as well that have nothing to do with bitrate, but rather saturation, cropping, etc. -
Sure it can. Film out and all.
Stan Harrington has won at least 50-60 awards with a couple of his films done entirely in Vegas, surround sound etc.
the credit roll generator isn’t a “joke” on a big screen, but the credit roll generator may not be the formatting you’d like. You can easily use either of the other two titling tools found in Vegas (I’ve never seriously used the roll generator) or you can use a third party app.
C/C is fine in Vegas, only Color or DaVinci-similar app is going to be significantly better.
Vegas does not do DPX or Cineon output, but most film transfer labs would prefer uncompressed QT or similar anyway. -
Ultimate S can do this if you have the image as a png or tga (or even jpg).
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First, I’d not recommend using avi as an intermediate. Particularly DV avi. You’re tossing a significant amount of quality out the window.
Second, look to your setup.
Reduce render threads to 1.
Set Dynamic RAM to a low value, I’d recommend 128 or 256.
Clear ALL background programs so nothing is running but Vegas. No antivirus, no mail, no Corel, no other background app.
Be sure heat isn’t getting you. This is a common problem when rendering to CPU-intensive formats.
Render to MPEG2 for DVD, WMV for web. I’m confused as to how/why WMV has entered the discussion?
CBR at 8Mbps will provide a very good image (not the best you can do, but you should be worrying about getting an output first).
Are any of your stills larger than 2K in any dimension? Are they tifs? JPEGS? PNGS? TGA? PNG and TGA work best in Vegas, and no image should be larger than 2K in horizontal or vertical pixel value. -
You can:
~Create score in Cinescore on its own, and import to Vegas as an audio file used for editing.~Create video in Vegas, open said video file in Cinescore for scoring finished video.
~Open Cinescore over a region in Vegas, and create score as you edit. This is easiest workflow, IMO.
Create region. Right click in Audio Track. Select “Insert Generated Media”. CineScore will open. -
will give you an example of what could be a background slide/title card with video playing over. -
This is a very short preview of how the ProType Titler works.
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Jan Crittenden Livingston From our perscpective efficiency is not the key priority when doing acquisition because whatever you give away at that point is gone.
Completely understood. Kinda like trying to turn 960 x 540 into 1920 x 1080. It’s gone, so you can never recover it properly.
Apparently we’re caught in semantics. DVCProHD isn’t enjoying any further development, improvement, nor change. Developmentally, it’s dead. So is HDV. So is Beta and VHS. Whether it’s still implemented in product is a different conversation.
Either way, it’s not germaine to the Vegas discussion. The OP simply needed clarification as to why Vegas doesn’t offer P2 and DVCProHD support, and the suggestion was that Sony Creative Software didn’t support the codec/format because they are pushing XDCAM, and that simply isn’t true, regardless of how it’s spun. I know from personal discussions with both sides of the issue, that the lack of support is due to a decision made on one side of the fence, not the other. It is what it is, but the lack cannot be put down to a relationship between various entities of the Sony umbrella.
The sad thing is that it shortchanges everyone by not having direct support for the format in Vegas, and it’s an unfair burden on users. It’s not honest nor appropriate to spin it
differently.