[Jake Theriault]

Chris, thanks so much for your answer. Near as I can tell, this Everio doesn’t have an A/V connector, so I guess my best bet is to take it back and search for another. I still want to get a JVC cam though.

Since you work for JVC, could you give me any recommendations based what I want the camera to be capable of?

Thanks in advance, chris!

[Jake Theriault]

Thanks so much for all the suggestions! I tried most of them, and finally one worked. I just had to set up the Project Properties right. I had it in 640×480 and the frames I imported were in 720×480 for some strange reason…. I guess I was gone so long it… reset itself? I dunno, but thanks any way!

[Jake Theriault]

This is a second of the initial ‘divide’ in the project, where the old clip meets the new clip.

The first Half second or so shows the ‘old way’- the way that the rest of the project is.
The second half shows the ‘new way’ – the way the rest of the project DOES NOT look like.

If you put it in Vegas and look at it, you see the image sort of jump- the side black bars dont stay the same. It really screws up the way the film will look. If you could help me agian, I would really appreciate it, thanks!

[Jake Theriault]

Hi again, I was hoping I would not run into any more problems, but I guess i did. Everything was working out great so I was taking stills and putting them through the program and everything worked fine. I left for a 2 week vacation and came back and started “filming” again. I had a 750 stills that I put into the program and did all the steps to turn it to “video” in 8fps. It worked perfectly like last time, only the problem was that two black bars on either side were different sizes when watching the newly “converted” vid with the final project.

Here is a video showing you what I mean. Please play them in Vegas to see what I am talking about.

( I uploaded it but I really dont know how this site works, so I dont know where to find the video I just uploaded to show you…)

[Jake Theriault]

Thanks for the quick response!

It works! I am so grateful and glad!

(I have a okay machine, just to specify: Dell Inspiron 8600 w/ a 1.6 ghz and 2G of random access memory, so no problems with that)

I did all your steps and did a very small test render with about 15 frames at 8fps. It worked perfectly! Just perfect!

You see, the reason this means so much to me is that I have a lego mini series on youtube, I give it some pretty decent work, too. I used to always “convert” the frames to ‘8 fps video’ with the horrible Windows Movie Maker 2, which is ridiculous and long and frustrating. But now with your help, it’s a snap to convert the frames.

One more question: what’s the max amount of frames i can render into 8 fps at a time? 700? 500? 200? Don’t worry I, will start by converting the frames in groups of 300, just to be safe. But how much do you think Vegas can handle at a time?

Anyway, aside from that last question:

I cannot thank you enough! I am very grateful for that advice, truly, I am.

-Jake T

[Jake Theriault]

Thanks so much with the help! The problem was the first one, so i selected the first image and imported it with the selected box you said, and it worked fine and imported all of the pictures (751 pictures) into a big long “video” ( that’s about a minute ans 30 secs) that I put on the timeline, however…

When I play it back/preview it, it looks choppy.

It pretty much “loads” while it’s previewing, which makes it look extremely choppy.

Is this normal?

And when i render it, will it stay choppy, or will it be a smooth, 8 fps video clip?

[Jake Theriault]

Thanks for the help, but, I did all you said and I got to the open still image sequence dialog box and set it to 8 fps and then BAM.

Error message.

“Warning:An error occurred while opening one or more files

The item was not found”

Which is bull crap because I know exactly where the files (pictures) are. I dont see why my computer+Vegas can’t see where they are. I mean, I even checked to see if they could manually be imported by importing them through the explorer and it worked that way, except i cannot specify the fps like i can with your way, which is why I dont think anything will work now =( I am pretty sad.

[Jake Theriault]

Hi, and thanks for responding to my post.

I tried the first steps, but, there was no dialog box after i selected the images that asks me what the fps is. If you could clear that part up for me I would appreciate it. Thanks so much!

[Jake Theriault]

Hi. I am an amateur stop motion movie maker seeking help with one problem in the program Sony Vegas Pro 8.0. I read your post “Smooth still image sequence” via a google link, in which I found this great site. It was very helpful, but one problem still remains. I would appreciate it if you would help me out on figuring the numbers I need to change in options>prefs>editing tab. I need those numbers to make the still image sequence look like or be exactly 8 frames per second without any “dissolving” (I do not know what this is, fyi, sorry).

What I am after is just a smooth still image sequence at precisely 8 frames per second. Thanks in advance!

Jake T