[Edward Troxel]

I’m not seeing that, Tim.

Track 1: Parent: Effect added: Otherwise empty
Track 2: Child: Video on this track

Effect is not being applied to the video – no matter if it is pre or post mode.

Edward Troxel

[Edward Troxel]

[George W] “or saving off the parent/child composite as its own project, then adding the saved project to a track.”

That could definitely work!

Edward Troxel

[Edward Troxel]

I see no way to do that short of rendering that small section and then replace that section with the new render and apply the blur to that event.

Would be cool, though, if it worked that way.

Edward Troxel

[Edward Troxel]

They will run in Vegas 6 unmodified.

Edward Troxel

[Edward Troxel]

You would have to change “Auto Activate” to yes and have the destination be that other menu.

Edward Troxel

[Edward Troxel]

[Juan Karlo de Guzman] “The start-up speed is far slower than Media Studio Pro 7.”

Ok, you mentioned this three times so I’ll answer it twice. Vegas 6 has a new feature called the Media Manager which is a powerful database for organizing your media. When you start Vegas, it must also start all of the database services (basically, SQL Server Lite) which is what is taking the time. If you are not making use of the Media Manager, you can turn this off by going to Options – Preferences, scroll down to the bottom of the list, and there is an entry which reads: “Enable Media Manager (requires Vegas restart)”. Uncheck that option and your start-up times will be much faster.

Edward Troxel

[Edward Troxel]

[Juan Karlo de Guzman] “and Trimming in Vegas 6 is such a pain”

Not sure what you mean by this. I find trimming very easy. Just drop the clip on the timeline and start chopping. (I generally don’t use the trimmer unless I have a specific reason for doing so).

Edward Troxel

[Edward Troxel]

[Juan Karlo de Guzman] “Where can I find that script?”

I use Excalibur (the Overlap Media) tool but I’m sure there are others available.

[Juan Karlo de Guzman] “Also the loading time for Vegas 6 is so slow…”

Go to Options – Preferences and turn off the Media Manager. Then it will load in about the same amount of time as Vegas 5 and earlier. Of course, then you can’t use the media manager.

Edward Troxel

[Edward Troxel]

No – UNLESS you have separate menus where only that one button is animated and going to that button automatically goes to that new menu. So… you should be able to “fake” it but you’ll have to put some work into it.

Edward Troxel

[Edward Troxel]

I’m looking at DVDA3.0b. I just entered 100 and got 00:00:01:00. I entered 090 and got 00:00:03:00. I entered 12345 and got 00:01:24:15 (which makes sense since 45 would be 30+15). Entering 4000 I got 00:00:40:00.

One other thing: I’m on NTSC.

Edward Troxel