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You can:
A-Scrub through by clicking/holding play head (includes audio)
B-Scrub through by clicking/holding timeline indicator line
C-Scrub through using industry-standard J/K/L keys to go forwards and backwards.
D-Buy a Shuttle Pro or Bella Keyboard and use a jog/shuttle wheel.

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Jason, you didn’t respond to the most important part of the question. .mov is merely a container. Like saying “my clients want their video in a blue plastic bag.”
What codec are you rendering to for the .mov format? Some cannot deliver widescreen. Others are not optimal for HD.

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to what codec in a mov container? it may be you’re using a codec that doesn’t allow for widescreen or non-square pixels. What is the purpose of outputting to .mov?

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Low bitrate and downconvert to SD DVD are likely the culprits. What bitrate are you encoding to?

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As an SD camcorder, it’s not *bad* although the image leaves a lot to be desired. For about 200.00 more, you can get a current, HD camcorder…
either way, the DCR-sr45 content edits nicely in Vegas Movie Studio.
As a side note, I used the DCR-sr45 in the VASST Vegas Movie Studio 9 training DVD with great success.

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AVCHD is an MPEG format, Steve. 🙂
Slower/older systems simply can’t handle the immense compression of AVCHD, but new systems can handle 1920 or 1440 on the timeline in the same experience as HDV. We do this every day with some of the crash-cam stuff. But it MUST be a newer computer, and nicely tweaked without any background processes.
Cameron, you can batch render AVCHD using the Vegas Batch Script found in Tools/Scripting, rendering to HDV or .mxf file format. It’s still an MPEG to MPEG/4:2:0 to 4:2:0 process, so you lose little but time. It’s a slow process if your computer is slower/older, and your post suggests it is.
We cut over 1000 videos a couple weeks ago at the National Skydiving Championships, and easily half of that content was from a variety of AVCHD cameras. We multicammed the Canopy Relative Work, and in some cases, cut up to four cams as a four-way window using track motion, AVCHD source. Playback of the four was about 18fps, but single tracks were always solid 60i.
High compression formats require fast computers, and lower compression formats can squeeze by with lesser compression.
AVCUpshift or GearShift, or Cineform if you need the extra power, are all good options too. You merely need to decide whether your per-hour value is worth 50.00 or not. For me, it’s a no brainer…my time is worth so much more than tying up CPU cycles on a slow machine (I use UpShift on my MacBook Pro/Bootcamp quite regularly, it’s old).

HTH?

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Split out that portion of the event, right click, properties, normalize.
or
“V” key to insert a volume envelope, then put in nodes to raise that small section.
You may still need to normalize.

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Right Click on the AUDIO. The file. The wavy line display thing, and you’ll see a submenu. In the submenu dropdown, you’ll see “Channels”
Selecting “Channels” will give yet another submenu. Choose “Right/Left Only” in that submenu.

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Select the audio track. Hold CTRL and drag it to a new audio track. This will create a copy.
Now, right click the upper track and choose “Right only” in the Channels dialog.
Right click lower track and choose “Left Only.”
Now you have two mono tracks and can pick n’ choose what you want.

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Be sure that keyframes are in identical places.
Make certain that keyframes are all of same type ie; smooth, fast, linear, etc.
Be sure event lengths are identical.
Upgrading to 8 won’t change this, if you’ve got timing errors, it’s related to keyframing, most likely.
It’s also possible you’ve got keyframes on a half-frame, but I’d doubt this is the case.

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