[Douglas Spotted eagle]

Are you converting to/from progressive footage?
What is the framerate of your project?

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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

1-Upgrade to Vegas 8, it’ll read the mpeg from the camera directly
2-convert to a standard DV avi format vs something like Xvid or DviX.

Either solution will save you lots of grief and potentially give you better quality.

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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

are you running antivirus while editnig? This could be a source of the problem
Drives in DMA vs PIO mode? What other hardware is on that bus, if any?
What other applications running in the background?
What is the video source format?

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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

Use the Levels filter (preferably with scopes, this is covered quite heavily in the VASST/Glenn Chan Color Correction for Vegas DVD) or the Curves filter. B/C should almost never be used as you’re cranking up luma noise.

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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

SHORT answer; you can’t
LONG answer; Use Scenelyzer, it will capture these audio tracks.
Longer answer; why would you use those extra channels? Using this mode compromises audio in a very bad way, and you can never get it back.

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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

you can still pan/crop the events. The starting resolution is there no matter what. Depending on your preview mode, you may or may not see it.
If you’re working with HDV, it’s always larger than PAL. Only the HVX200 (not HDV) has smaller frame/imager than PAL in HD-land. JVC frame is 720, Sony or Canon frame is 1080.
ANY time you pan/Crop, you lose quality. No matter what the end game is. But….HD in SD project does let you get away with zooms up to about 40% without losing too much, and it remains (mostly) unnoticable.
Don’t worry about the fields. Force a resample, Vegas will manage this properly for you.

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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

Vegas works the same way, or can offer actual HD monitoring to any DVI/SVGA monitor as a secondary monitor. One con you didn’t mention is the different color spaces (709 vs 601) but it’s not such a big deal as to make monitoring HD in an SD rez to be unusable. Although I generally monitor HD over SDI, we also use BVM SD monitors quite regularly. it works, although as you point out, it’s not optimal.

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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

I’m confused. You should have two timecode views:
source
project

Source (what he looked at to give you T/C) cannot change. It’s fixed.
Project-doesn’t matter what the source is.

If he specified t/c for the project, it wouldn’t make sense.
putting the shots in his specified sequence makes sense, but how could have identified I/O points for the project while viewing the source?

Douglas Spotted Eagle
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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

Research the various DVDs before buying. There is a reason that VASST and Class on Demand are distributed by reputable companies like Videoguys.com, VASST is found in B&H, Adorama, and many other fine reseller stores.
And…we’ve got some fun new volumes coming for the series.
Between the 9 volumes that exist now, starting with “put the install DVD in the computer tray” and finishing with in-depth training on the ProType Titling tool, you should be covered.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

Research the various DVDs before buying. There is a reason that VASST and Class on Demand are distributed by reputable companies like Videoguys.com, VASST is found in B&H, Adorama, and many other fine reseller stores.
And…we’ve got some fun new volumes coming for the series.
Between the 9 volumes that exist now, starting with “put the install DVD in the computer tray” and finishing with in-depth training on the ProType Titling tool, you should be covered.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor