[Harrell Williams]

Thanks for the info. I followed your instruction and that didn’t work. The position = 720; scale = 100. These are same settings that are on regular/full size clip. The clip/footage has a black boarder around it and I want to stratch it so that the video is all they way to the edges. See the attached image. Thanks again for responding

[Harrell Williams]

You mean, add the ChromoKey and Color Key as plug-ins first?, then play around with them?

Please send me some step by step processes to try, or an instructional link if you know of any. Thanks for your help on this.

[Harrell Williams]

I don’t mean to come across as an idiot but do you know of a link out on the internet that instructs step by step how to do that, or can you send the steps to me. If not, I uderstand. I’ve got both manuals and will check them out. Take care.

[Harrell Williams]

Problem resolved. I deleted some footage from my hard drive, freed up some space. The rendering went the distance. Thank you.

[Harrell Williams]

At last…
I took your advise and deleted some footage from my hard drive, freed up some space and presto… It worked. Thanks everyone. Great advise; many lessons learned.

[Harrell Williams]

…So you have 1:04:23 on the time line? Does the time line play all the way to the end? Are you rendering to MPeg2 DVDA compatable Main Concept? and a separate AC3 audio render? When you take that rendered Mpeg2 file and play it with a player on the PC does it play all the way through?…

Yes. I render to MPEG@ DVDA compatable Main Concept (via Sony Vegas, Batch Render. I haven’t burned the footage and played it on a player yet. After I rendered it, I went to DVDA, opened it on the preview timeline, and scrolled to the end (because the audio track was longer than the video track), and saw that the end (roughly 3 minutes) had been cut off. I tried it twice and got the same results.

But I think you might have something with the hard drive space. I think hard drives are designed to stop after there is a certain amount of space left. Maybe that’s what’s going on. Do you know roughly how much space one has to have available in order to render?

[Harrell Williams]

Thanks to everyone for helping on this. Your advise was coorect. I made it through to the end, and to rendering. But now I think I’m having a problem with the length of my footage. I posted a message asking for assistance.

Thanks again.

[Harrell Williams]

Thanks for your help on this. I made it through to the end, and to rendering. But now I think I’m having a problem with the length of my footage. I posted a message asking for assistance.

Thanks again.

[Harrell Williams]

I am nearing my final questions…

I have edited the footage.
That which was shot with Night Shot, and was re-baked (by the professional using Final Cut Pro) is now in “black & white.”
But I used some other footage, like digital photos, exterior footage, all which I want to keep as it’s “regular color.”

When I am previewing the “whole” version of my edited works, in the preview section/screen, if I select “Red to Grayscale” it turns “all” of what is previewed into “black & white” footage (same with “Blue to Grayscale”). Not a problem (I’m just not sure what the outcome will be once rendered).

For the footage I want to stay as “regular color”, I put it on a separate track, separate from the footage that is “black & white”, and footage that has the Night Shot/green tint (I separated it all out on separate tracks so I could apply a “track FX, or event FX” where needed, so the effects would not cross each other in any way (meaning, mainly the track FX).

Questions:
When I preview the whole edited version, that which is supposed to be color footage is also black & white. I guess if I have the “preview” feature set to “Red to Grayscale”, it will show the “whole” edited version in “black & white”, not just what I choose to be “B&W”; is that correct? Meaning, when I render it, the color will be color and black & white, black & white (as I’ve selected it to be)?

I’m thinking I’m going to have to spend time rendering, then playing the footage on an Architect DVD a few times in order to see which effects took, if the color footage came out as selected; same for the black & white. There might not be an answer to my issue, but just in case… Thank you. I’ve learned a huge lesson here.

[Harrell Williams]

I am nearing my final questions…

I have edited the footage.
That which was shot with Night Shot, and was re-baked (by the professional using Final Cut Pro) is now in “black & white.”
But I used some other footage, like digital photos, exterior footage, all which I want to keep as it’s “regular color.”

When I am previewing the “whole” version of my edited works, in the preview section/screen, if I select “Red to Grayscale” it turns “all” of what is previewed into “black & white” footage (same with “Blue to Grayscale”). Not a problem (I’m just not sure what the outcome will be once rendered).

For the footage I want to stay as “regular color”, I put it on a separate track, separate from the footage that is “black & white”, and footage that has the Night Shot/green tint (I separated it all out on separate tracks so I could apply a “track FX, or event FX” where needed, so the effects would not cross each other in any way (meaning, mainly the track FX).

Questions:
When I preview the whole edited version, that which is supposed to be color footage is also black & white. I guess if I have the “preview” feature set to “Red to Grayscale”, it will show the “whole” edited version in “black & white”, not just what I choose to be “B&W”; is that correct? Meaning, when I render it, the color will be color and black & white, black & white (as I’ve selected it to be)?

I’m thinking I’m going to have to spend time rendering, then playing the footage on an Architect DVD a few times in order to see which effects took, if the color footage came out as selected; same for the black & white. There might not be an answer to my issue, but just in case… Thank you. I’ve learned a huge lesson here.