[Harry Putnam]

Another `Never mind’ moment.

I was laboring under the false notion that the Express_card was used for networking devices only. Once someone relieved me of that nonsense I see plenty of Express card firewire cards.

Running Vegas Pro 10c on Win 7 (64bit)

[Harry Putnam]

John Rofrano Re: USB to FIREWIRE problems
by John Rofrano on Sep 15, 2010 at 9:10:35 pm

NO FIREWIRE, NO PCMCIA and NO EXPRESSCARD

I don’t think there is a solution. I’m guessing the company the made that USB to Firewire device stopped making them because they didn’t work that well.

I didn’t even think they made a laptop without at least an express card slot. Even my little $299 Lenovo IdeaPad S10 NetBook has an express card slot! Also the Dazzle is an absolute amateur piece of junk so I can’t imagine the people buying this equipment know anything about video.

Sorry to rais this somewhat old post but found it in googling on this same problem and not sure of something John says here.

John (or other interested party),
The way you mention the express card above makes me wonder if the express card can have some role to play in capturing video or adding a firewire port.

I just posted about this a short while ago and then found this old post while googling some more.

My situation: No firewire on laptop
usb, eSata, HDMI and Express_card are all available.

I’ve been searching for a converter firewire to usb and beginning to see its not a very likely thing to find.

What can you tell me about Express card. I had understood it was a networking thing and didn’t even look into that angle.

Running Vegas Pro 10c on Win 7 (64bit)

[Harry Putnam]

[Aleksey Tarasov] ”

Aleksey Tarasov Re: Option to reload/replace footage
by Aleksey Tarasov on Jan 28, 2011 at 12:11:38 am”

Hehe…. well thanks for the hand holding…

Yes, of course, I saw that, but near as I could tell (The first time I tried it) The footage on the timeline didn’t change so I thought it didn’t work the same as After effects.

On that particular occasion the piece of note was in a sort of complicated little group of bits and pieces, I didn’t expand the timeline as much as I should have and must have blundered around in there myself somehow and ruined the test.

I see now after doing it a few more times in more controlled conditions that it works just like I described and is a very nice way to do certain kinds of tasks, where once the setup details are in place you can just rotate a number of files thru by the `Replace’ mechanism.

Thanks again for making me take a second look at that function.

Running Vegas Pro 10c on Win 7 (64bit)

[Harry Putnam]

[Harry Putnam] ”
Running Vegas Pro 10 under win7 64 bit

Sorry for the lamer question but I’m really getting worn down trying to find simple things in the help file. Seems my search strings are never the right ones.

When working in the pan/crop dialog where can I set how far a single click on right or left arrow moves the media? I’d like 1 px… is that possible?”

Sorry for wasting time. I had somehow gotten the pan crop dialog into `snap’ mode, so when I attempted to move with arrow keys it jumped a whole gred space… its now nicely moving a pixel at a time

[Harry Putnam]

[Walter Soyka] “Posts Index Read Thread

This post should move to AE Basics Forum

The bit above appeared in an usual position not usually associated with a response.

It came after the line one sees following a response:
“Posts Index Read Thread “Quote” SOLUTION
KUDOS
Reply Like”

So I’m not sure if it was Cory’s comment or what but may I ask if a question regarding the included `Card Dance’ plugin would be appropriate here… or that also should be the `Basics’ forum?

[Harry Putnam]

[Walter Soyka] ” Re: About exporting Transparency AE – Importing Trans Vegas
by Walter Soyka on Jan 24, 2011 at 8:12:08 pm

The AE render queue looks good. Are you sure there’s nothing opaque in your comp’s background? If you click the Toggle Transparency Grid button in your comp’s viewer, do you see a checkered background?”

Thanks for the input and confirmation. Also for the useful search tip.

Yes it has the checker background. And I see Cory has put his finger right on the mystery for me. Turns out to be easily solved in Vegas with a simple change in `properties’

[Cory Petkovsek] “by Cory Petkovsek on Jan 24, 2011 at 8:20:05 pm

After importing the footage in vegas, rightclick the event and hit properties. Tell vegas the footage has a premultiplied alpha channel. Also make sure within the quicktime/animation properties that the millions of colors+ is set there as well.

This is a vegas question, rather than an AE question.

Incedentially, I usually use straight matte instead of premultiplied so it has a cleaner alpha channel. Vegas will do either.”

Thank for the input. Solved the mystery in one go. Had I searched on Alpha channel as Walter suggested, or maybe just Alpha… I probably would have found that switch in the properties dialog.

I agree, its the wrong forum for the question but didn’t realize it going in.

Thanks for the tip about using straight matt in AE for export. I would have no doubt been a good long time finding that out on my own.

Thanks again to you both.

[Harry Putnam]

[Mike Kujbida] ”
There’s no logical reason I’ve ever read as to why it works the way it does.
Maybe the original programmer(s) thought it was the best way of doing it or maybe he/she/they was/were “under the influence” at the time and no one ever bothered changing it :)”

Thanks Mike… I got a good chuckle out of that.

Reminds me of the story I’ve heard about Bill Joy, who many years ago authored the veritable unix text editor called vi.

It’s generally believed that Bill was sloppy drunk when he wrote the bulk of it, and is said to have asked when he sobered up, who in the h___ wrote this junk! And yet it stands to this day, in large part as it was originally written. (Many many, improvements and additions of course)

[Harry Putnam]

[Mike Kujbida] ”
There was a post on one of the Vegas forums many years ago where someone took the time to do 100 renders with a DV-AVI file.
There was no difference between the original and the 100th render.
That says a lot about the excellent quality of the codec used.”

Ahh great, I’ll come in just under the wire… hehe

[Harry Putnam]

[Ralph Hajik] ”
Harry, here’s another helpful site for you.”

First… thanks to all for the excellent input.

Anyone know if there is someway to make that little tut play in something like 1/4 screen or anything between the size its displayed at full screen?

I thought I’d just snag it out of the Cache and muck around with it till I got a little bigger, but still don’t see a way to make it 1/4 screen or so.

The adobe flash player that plays it can be made full screen but the video only increases something like 100 % Which still means its a bit small.

Are there other players that can adjust the size a bit more?

At the browser size I can’t see it very well and at full screen its so blurry that I can see only the larger things…

[Harry Putnam]

[Harry Putnam] ”
But again I wonder if there is not a fairly well produced Tutorial somewhere that is more an introduction aimed at a new user. But is based on at least a fairly recent version of DVDa.”

I think I may have found what I was after at this SITE

Working thru that and your thread together looks like it will provide a heck of start.

Thanks again