[Edward Troxel]

Yes. The BEST way is to contact customer service and tell them you are giving up ownership and who the new owner is. They can give you the specific instructions. After doing this, a new serial number will be generated for your brother to use so, to him, it will be just like a new purchase.

It *may* not be possible to upgrade after this process (it WON’T be possible if it was already used for an upgrade). Check with customer service to see. He will only need the serial number and should just download the most current update from the website for installation.

Edward Troxel

[Edward Troxel]

There’s some info in Vol 1 #7 of my newsletters. Plus, take a look here:

https://www.sonymediasoftware.com/download/step2.asp?DID=391

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[Edward Troxel]

[WrathWielder] “When I do a SPLIT (S) it’s between 2 different scenes where the cam was stopped & started”

In this case the / key will not work because the two events will simply be extended to create the overlap which means you’ll still end up with a CUT even though they’re overlapped. You either need to overlap them manually or, in the full version of Vegas, you can make all the cuts and then use a script to overlap them all at once.

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[Edward Troxel]

[WrathWielder] “1) Do you happen to know of a keystroke that will SPLIT (like ‘S’ does) and then also overlap the 2 events by the default amount in preferences?”

Technically, a Split and then overlap will DO NOTHING. This is because you are dissolving from and to the same video. However, I believe what you are looking for is: Put the cursor on the split position with the event selected and press / on the numeric keypad.

[WrathWielder] “2) Is there a way to join all the frames in an event into a single thumbnail?”

The zoom level will determine the number of frames/pictures you see at once. You can always proceed from frame to frame by using ALT-Arrow.

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[Edward Troxel]

The two main options are:

1) Render from Vegas to MPEG2 and AC3
2) Render from Vegas as DV-AVI and let DVDA convert to MPEG2 and AC3

Either way will work fine but you have more control over your settings if you choose option #1.

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[WrathWielder] “1) Scene detection – both by CONTENT and TIMECODE…I load up a DV AVI in VMS and for the life of me I can’t find anywhere to have it detect scenes. In S9 I just hit the spacebar and it gave me a thumbnail for each “event”. In VMS will I be forced to do this manually by watching the video?”

You can do scene detections based on starts/stops of your camera if the clock is set in the camera. It’s an option in the preferences in the capture program.

[WrathWielder] “2) I can’t get this whole transition thing down in VMS…can it really be this difficult?
All I want to do it put a transition between 2 events where the audio from the A side fades out and the audio on the B side fades in while the video transition is doing it’s thing.”

It’s even easier in VMS, just overlap the two events on the same track. If you want something other than a crossfade, drag the desired transition onto the overlap.

[WrathWielder] “If I’m forced to overlap the tracks to get the transitions to work, how can I have the audio NOT crossfade but just fade out/in at the split?”

You will need to shorten the audio of each event (use the “Ignore Event Grouping” button to leave the video alone) and then manually add the fades. For my editing, I usually WANT the audio to fade from one to the other.

Another option would be to get the full version of Vegas and use a script to perform the exact operation you want.

[WrathWielder] “In S9 I would do quick videos by capturing into a DV file, detecting scene changes (either by content or timecode), dragging each of these detected scenes to the timeline so all that was there were thumbnails for each scene.
Then I would drag a transition between each thumbnail and burn away!”

With the full version of Vegas and scripting, you can write a script to do all the above at the push of a button.

Edward Troxel

[Edward Troxel]

Vol 2 #10 of the newsletter gives the condensed Vegas 5/6 version plus a way to pass multiple colors.

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[Edward Troxel]

I, personally, treat all variants of MPEG as destination formats. To keep something I may use in the future, I render to DV-AVI and, for storage, print to tape.

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[Edward Troxel]

The Panasonic PV-GS150 appears to be a MiniDV (SD) camera which would require using the EXTERNAL capture program. Some cameras also require a menu change to switch between firewire in/out.

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[Edward Troxel]

Also, when you open the task manager, you’ll see a “wowexec” is open. If you kill that process, Vegas will continue to load. The cause for the wowexec being loaded is related to the above post or some other driver being loaded.

Edward Troxel