[Graham Bernard]

I dragged the ‘project media box’ away so I could see the timeline better, and it went off the screen. – There’s your clue. In Vegas whatever was the LAST size of a window, that is what you will now have. Maybe 3 options for you:

1] Ctrl+Shift on starting vegas to bring back ALL the factory defaults. Easiest but you loose your settings

2] Look very very closely around the screen you may just discover it lurking just a handful of Pixels wide and high. Roll your cursor over an edge and carefully drag it bigger. I’ve used this but you need to have eagle eyes!

3] Try changing your screen’s resolution it may just pop into view. Never done it myself, but been told it works. I used 1] or 2] to great effect.

I now have Vegas Windows Layouts, which bring all my 10 workspace settings back from the grave, but that’s in VegasPro9b.

HTH

Grazie

[Graham Bernard]

I’m supposing you have the option to Preview while Capture selected?

In Sony’s Video Capture program it’s:

Sony Video Capture 6.0 | Options | “Always Preview Video”

Grazie

[Graham Bernard]

OK, no bug here. It is a feature in VP9 not included in VP8, that means you need to rewrap for VP8. Apparently it only takes seconds.

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[Graham Bernard]

Have you contacted SONY about this “bug”? Is it a known issue? I don’t have an EX3, but I would still like to know what has been done to enquire of SONY? I’ve been reading a lot about EX3 and VEgas, I haven’t come across this one before?

Grazie

[Graham Bernard]

I can’t repro this.

Please supply a Screen Grab of your Timeline and Preview and any other Graphical info that might assist?

Grazie

[Graham Bernard]

I’m really not sure I understand your problem anymore.

Grazie

[Graham Bernard]

If the material isn’t big enough, then you are hobbled with what you have.

#1 Yes

#2 This will be a result of the resolution of the material you are using.

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[Graham Bernard]

1 – Yes

2 – The/your video in Pan/Crop workspace are the dimensions you get to manipulate.

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[Graham Bernard]

Part 1: Zooming-in will reduce quality. If you have enough resolution to start with this is not a problem. You will also chop off video. So, use higher resolution and larger material.

Part 2: To pan/crop you need to have material remain within the Frame. The Frame you move is like the Frame of a Camera. Move the Frame Left and your material moves Right. Move it far enough you leave the material behind! So, use material that is larger than the Frame.

Part 3: Your Keyframes are too close together. So, extend the Event and try again.

Grazie

[Graham Bernard]

I could possibly see an option for variation creeping in and that is this:

1] In Vegas you have more control over the variations of CBR, VBR and Max and Mins.

2] In DVDA you can adjust and SET the Bitrate – period! Often this is futzed around with to get MORE onto the DVD platter, but what it also does is reduce the bitrate for noisy and often needed detail.

Taking THESE 2 views into account I could see a scenario that making a render in Vegas could actually be superior to DVDA! But that’s really a tight call.

Now, in the greater scheme of things, and staying well under an hour play time, the 8mbs DVDA default COULD very well mostly suffice. But, big but here, getting to play with variations and at the very points where they COULD count could possibly make Vegas appear less than competent, where in actual fact, Vegas is doing a far more complex and intelligent process than DVDA was ever intended to do.

If you ARE going to do this comparison, you really do have to compare eggs with eggs and not eggs with apples!

Point in case here: Recently I prepared a DVD-RW test of some work. It is very noisy and gave my Sony STB a bit of headache. Yes, I prepared all in DVDA and at 8mbs. I decided to reduce the bitrare to 7mbs – no real science on my part, just a “hunch” to get thing to play without spluttering. It worked. But I knew it would work, so I reduced the bitrate. This was NOT about getting more onto the platter, it was me saying ok, I got TOO much noise here for this STB so I need to reduce the bit-rate. What it would ALSO have doine was to reduce the detail – which I would be unaware of – onto the Bravia 40″ screen.

OK, I got me armour on now . . .

Grazie