Edward Troxel
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EffectsLabDV is a good option. Another is Particle Illusion. Places like https://www.artbeats.com/ also have these that could be keyed over your video. i.e. https://www.artbeats.com/prod/search.php?pg=1&act=Search&kw=fire&ct=
Edward Troxel
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You need to mask yourself out in some way. You’ll need a background shot without you in it. Then you could use Bezier masking to cut you out of the scene and it could use the background without you in it’s place. Naturally, you’d need to make sure the mask misses the book.
Using chromakey with a greenscreen may be another option.
Edward Troxel
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[MdG_NL] “What does normalisation exactly do for me? Is it working on a track, on a scene, on a region, or on something else?”
It works on an event basis. It simply takes the LOUDEST point in the audio and adjusts that to the level specified. Therefore, if an event has one loud blip, THAT is what will be used as the loudest point. So if you normalize several clips, they could all still have many different sound levels.
[MdG_NL] “What does it do? Is it adjusting the complete area (see above) to a level so the “average” is on a certain level, or does it something else?”
If you use Sound Forge to normalize, it can normalize based on RMS values.
[MdG_NL] “During interviews I’m fighting with the audio level all the time (using an envelope for that). It’s a hard battle. Can this tool help me winning the battle?”
You might want to try adding a compressor effect instead. That should help even out the levels.
Edward Troxel
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The trial version of Noise Reduction adds noises every x seconds. To eliminate the trial chirps, you have to register (i.e. buy) it. That is the typical method of protecting audio effects so people can trial them.
Edward Troxel
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Are you simply trying for external preview? If yes, here’s how to do it:
computer –> firewire –> camera/convertor/deck –> rca/S-video –> TV
Then click on the External Preview button and make sure that “firewire” is the preview device in Options – Preferences.
Vegas 6 added the new ability to also preview to a secondary monitor if your video card allows two monitors.
If you do get something via the TV out jack, I wouldn’t trust the colors for color correcting purposes.
Edward Troxel
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Ok, sounds like you’re using Vegas Movie Studio? The Vegas 6.0c update is for the FULL version of Vegas – there have been no updates so far for Movie Studio.
How are you connecting whatever you want to capture into the computer?
Edward Troxel
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Add a new video track ABOVE all the other tracks. Put the text on that new track.
Take a look through my newsletters where I talk about things like creating lower thirds and using text generated media.
Edward Troxel
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[George Loch] “It means your loading a completely new instance of the whole program. This seems pretty expensive resource-wise for this functionality.”
If you open the Task Manager, you’ll see it’s much less than you’d expect. Way less than double. I’ve heard of people that routinely have 5, 6, 7 instances open.
Edward Troxel
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I haven’t noticed any differences in either of those between 6b and 6c. First recommendation would be to totally uninstall Vegas and then reinstall 6.0c and see if that makes a difference. Beyond that, you may have to contact tech support.
Edward Troxel
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There’s also a new version dated 12/28/2005! The version when I looked yesterday was still on 09/27/2005.
Edward Troxel