Jason Harbaugh
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This is a great tool that will help a lot.
Too bad you could put together something like this: https://www.revostock.com/SearchResult-Empty.html
When you hover over the thumbnail, it shows the full animated clip. It would be a ton of work to create all the animations, but on the bright side, it would only have to be done once. 🙂Maybe in my freetime I’ll try building off of your catalog format and do something like that. No promises, but I’ll at least see how long it takes to do a couple.
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I think what Thomas is asking for, which I know DVD 3 and earlier don’t do, is have automatic premade menu transitions. Stuff like having a curtain do a wipe transition over the menu as it goes to the selected video. Sure you can make all these in your editing program, render them out, and do as jeditdv suggests, but that is a lot more effort than checking a box that says “curtain wipe”. Kinda like all the premade transitions in Vegas. Sure you could manually make some of them by doing a timeline and keyframing a mask, but wouldn’t you rather just drag and drop the wipe transition?
So far I haven’t seen anything like that added in DVD 4 (just the demo). Simple stuff like having the menu fade out should have been a no brainer for them to add.
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Excellent. Now I just need to figure out if I want to get an AJA card, or Decklink. Probably a question for another thread in a little bit.
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Anyone know what the upgrade price will be?
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Well if you are looking for playback on a computer, most clients won’t have a display capable of showing 1080p anyway, so 720p is what you’ll want to record at which isn’t as CPU intensive. But CPU isn’t the only factor either, certain Nvidia and ATI graphics cards have WMHD hardware exceleration which really helps on those 1080p pieces.
You could burn WMHD DVD’s but there are only a handfull of DVD players capable of playing it.
Next step is HD DVD and Blu-ray recordable media but all of that is still in its infancy for actual workflow and it’s pricey.
For just projecting, I would encode in 720p, since that is almost guaranteed what the native res of the projector will be at, and get a powerful laptop to do it.
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We have the Canon XL-H1 and love it. It took us a long time to finally decide on an HDV camera and after about a year of back and forth settled on the Canon. I can’t tell you much about shooting with it since I’m not the one doing the shooting, but the footage has always looked great.
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There are some aspects of it that are useful and do make the job quick. Perhaps if they made both available? Make resize handles on the image/video with a fixed display window like most apps. This could be enabled by a simple toggle box like the fixed aspect ratio, or verticle only buttons. If it is disabled, everything stays the same as it is now.
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You could always burn to a dual layer DVD, or if you are stuck with single layer you can always have Architect re-encode the video at a smaller bitrate to fit all the video on the DVD. You would lose some image quality but to most eyes it is neglible. Heck you should see how low the bitrate drops on some hollywood produced DVD’s.
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I just wish they would improve the titling functions to something more like Live Type. It is the only thing that makes me jealous of the FCP guys. 🙂
I also would like to see a better cropping/resizing tool. How about something that actually makes sense like putting handles on the corners of the image and letting you drag each independently as well as drag it around a fixed display space like every other application out there? This resizing by zooming/unzooming and dragging outside the image is completely counter intuitive.
Can’t wait to try Architect 4 though. Looks like some good additions there. Hopefully they also add HD DVD and Blu-ray authoring, being Sony, Blu-ray at least should be there.
We are also looking at an XDCAM-HD camera, so that workflow addition will be much welcomed.
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I’m still surprised at how few people even know what Vegas is. At my work we are split between Vegas, my department, and Final Cut Pro. Most of the other production companies we work with always ask what I’m using and when I say Vegas, it is just a blank stare.