[James Smith]

[Graham Bernard] “If I look closely I can see that that blue line has “bled” into the footage. This implies it’s now part of the Video. Can you get back to the original and confirm either way?”
Thanks Graham,
The line is not present when the original analogue tape is viewed on a TV screen, but only appears after transfer to DVD. It’s present on all transferred footage.

[John Norton] “Just select the pan/crop icon thats on every event and adjust the crop amount accordingly. You can then use the option to copy and paste the event attributes to any and all remaining events that have a similar issue. You probably knew all of this already, I may have not made it clearer in my ist. post, best of luck.”

Hi John,
I’m just a casual user of Sony Vegas so hadn’t used pan/crop before.
I’ll give it a go and sees if I can work out how to do it. Thanks.

[James Smith]

Thanks for your replies.
[John Norton] “I had a lot of this with old V8 tape converted to digital, I did a very small event crop to remove.”
Hi John,
How do you do that in Vegas?
Thanks in advance.

[James Smith]

Thanks.
Would prefer to keep the old version on initially, since it’s worked so well so far!

[James Smith]

Thanks.
My only real contribution was to put the camera on a tripod and point it at the sky for 75 minutes or so while twiddling my thumbs untill the battery ran out. The real kudos arguably belongs to the programmer(s) who wrote the software and of course Mother Nature for putting on such a show.
Here’s an alternative version with a different soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWhriFnAnlE

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[James Smith]

Thanks John and Mike.
Here was my first attempt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4snLlCVQrU

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[James Smith]

Ah thanks. So, in Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9 (non pro version), is the only way to do time lapse to:
1. Click on the R-hand furthermost edge of a clip, hold the ctrl button down until the wavy line appears and then drag the cursor as far as it will go to the left.
2. Render.
3. Repeat step 1 on the previously rendered footage?
Will this produce acceptable results?
Thanks in advance for any advice/info.

[James Smith]

Hi,
I’m running Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.
I can set the playback rate to 4x as explained by John above. But when I go Insert>Video Envelopes>Event Velocity, ‘Event Velocity’ doesn’t appear as an option under Video Envelopes. The only 2 options under Video Envelopes are ‘Track Composite Level’ and ‘Track Fade to Colour’.
So I can’t do this second step to speed up the video a further 3 times.
Can anyone tell me where Video Envelopes is and how to proceed?
Thanks in advance for any advice/info.

[James Smith]

Thanks Matt,
Looks like it was a noobie mistake on my part, trying to do a conversion that wasn’t supported.
Rendering to .mp4 has produced a useable video now.

[James Smith]

Just found this message posted on the Youtube help forum on 8th June 2011, straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, and it appears that Youtube is no longer deinterlacing uploaded videos:

“YouTube has stopped trying to de-interlace 1080i uploads altogether, because their process was screwing up almost all 1080p uploads while still doing an unpredictable job with 1080i. And yes, most people DO de-interlace and re-encode their videos before uploading, because they have a far better chance of looking right if WE do it rather than depending on YouTube. ”
https://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=39fe72ba0b873b32&hl=en

Also checked my footage in VLC player with deinterlacing set to off in the options, and it appears that my Sony Vegas-rendered movies are interlaced.
I have managed to produce a very large deinterlaced .avi file in Sony Vegas 9, but when I try to produce a AVCHD 1920×1080 .m2ts file, the file comes out interlaced, despite having in Vegas’ settings:
Project>Properties>Video>Deinterlace Method>Blend Fields ie it’s not set to ‘None’.
So the problem remains, has anyone managed to successfully produce a deinterlaced AVCHD 1920×1080 .m2ts file in Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0, from raw camcorder footage (1920×1080 interlaced .m2ts)?
If so what options in Vegas were used?
Thanks in advance for any advice/help.

[James Smith]

AS Brett said, hold down the ctrl key a you drag the right-hand of the video.
I’ve used that function before in Vegas for slow motion and it works quite nicely.