[Frank Manno]

Hi Douglas,

I tried that (Setting end action to a menu) but it just goes ignored no matter where I point the end action to. It just keeps on playing into the next chapter.

It’s as if DVD architect doesn’t know where the chapter finishes.

I hope I made the chapters properly in Vegas to begin with.

It was 3x 10 minute sections butted up together on the vegas timeline to make 1 x 30 minute segment. At each 10 minute interval I simply put a Marker and gave it a name.

I’m assuming that DVD architect will detect that the chapter finishes where the next one starts, am I right?

Do I have to tell DVD architect how long the chapter goes for?
so that it knows where I want it to finish?

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

Ah, that was the problem. Didn’t to it in ‘GLOBAL’.

Thanks…

[Frank Manno]

Sorry everyone for all these posts 🙁

After looking at this problem further I discovered that it happens only at transition points with any transition for the duration of the transition on the first clip only not the second.

So to clarify.

While playing back footage, all is well until it reaches the transition, then at the first frame of the transition the image on clip 1 is scaled and you see the ‘zoomed in’ version for the duration of the transition. Clip 2 is always fine at that point but if clip 2 has a transition to clip 3, then clip 2 will have the problem and so on.

I can play back the transition point 5 times and this problem will only be visible n 2 or 3 of those 5 playbacks.

Does it on slip trims too.

My fiend also has the same problem and is using the same card as me, the NVIDIA 6600.

Before I go out and buy a new card, I thought I’d post this here to see if someone knows of any settings I can look into?

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

I tried putting the preview window on monitor 1 and the result is the same.

I did however notice something else. This scaling problem seems to happen on a dissolve point between 2 clips.

I have a series of 4 second clips with a 1 second dissolve on the timeline.

The point where the dissolve starts is the point that the preview goes bonkers.

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

>I haven’t seen this but would take a stab at your video card, >drivers, >etc. Rolling and slip editing are common practices, and I’m >reasonably >confident other users would report this as a problem. It >would be >annoying.

Hi Douglas, thanks for your response. My video card is the nVidia 6600 and the drivers are all up to date. I have other friends using the same card with no issues. If nobody else has reported any problems such as what I’m describing then I guess it’s just me 🙁

>I’m not sure what you mean by “can’t see if the footage has cuts?” If >you are rolling/slipping an event, then you’re only seeing the in/out >points of that event (clip).

What I meant was, because the preview is scaling at irregular intervals as I’m slip trimming, it makes the preview look like there’s cuts. eg: watcing a wide shot then Vegas preview scales and shows a closer view but at full screen. It just looks like a simple cut. wide shot to midshot of the same scene, filling the preview window.

It’s as if you’re using the pan crop tool with keyframes and setting them so that at 1 second you see the full screen then at 1 second and 1 frame you grab the top corner in pan crop and drag towards the center about half way. Then at 2 seconds, add a keyframe and at 2 seconds and one frame go full screen again. This is the best way I can describe what I’m seeing. Notice how it would appear like a camera cut?

The window itself isn’t scaling, that’s always the same size. The image inside it is scaling.

When the problem occurs it does it like a ‘cut’. It doesn’t always scale in the middle either, sometimes you see the top quarter of the full screen AS a full screen image.

Could it have anything to do with me using dual monitors? I might try putting the preview window on monitor 1 and see what happens.

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

[Frank Manno]

That’s not a bad idea..

That other thing I wanted to do was try to match the colour, grain, etc of the original movie..

How could I do that anyway? What would be the best tool to match colour with? Just hue/saturation and all the usual stuff and just it by eye yeah?

That’s why I was also hoping to get it on the timeline at some sort of decent quality level.

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

>you can hookup a DVD player to your passthru, be it a deck or camera >and simply play the DVD into your computer using Vegas capture or >Scenalayzer

Is it possible to do this? I find that with vegas capture I can’t capture anything via a passthrough because I can’t find any way of starting a capture this way. Vegas seems to want to control the deck to start a capture, via deck control.

How can I start capturing a signal that’s just passing through my firewire deck?

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

>File – Import – DVD Camcorder Disc

I don’t have that.. Am using 6.0b. Is this something new?

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

That sounds like a good idea. Thanks. 🙂

-Frankie