Jason Harbaugh
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“when was the last time you saw a page turn, cheesy cross fx in a feature?”
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Another good method for making blood that will be on clothes that you don’t want ruined, you can use blue liquid laundry detergent mixed with red food coloring. Makes a nice deep blood that usually washes out.
Creamy peanut butter with red food coloring also works great for edible blood. Sound strange but for certain situations it works well.
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Select the template in the Render As window, hit “Custom”.
Select the ‘video’ tab.
Under ‘Image size’ choose “(custom)”
Now you can change the width and height.
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I captured with the original timecode from the camera. So it looks like I’ll still have a lot of work to do, not a 100% rebuild, but pretty close.
So what is the proper workflow? I haven’t purchased cineform, so only have what comes with Vegas 6. Is there already an easy way to capture in HDV, edit and deliver in DV, while still retaining the option to deliver in HD, as in prebuilt into Vegas?
Also, does anyone use that Sony HDV deck with Vegas? For some reason it blows at batch capturing. Unless your clips are less than a minute apart, it will start fast forwarding and fail to find the next “in” point on the timecode for the next clip. You have to stop it, rewind, get it within 10 or 20 seconds and then continue the batch. Talk about a PITA! You would think Sony software would work with Sony hardware.
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I usually just use a high quality wmv. Depending on what size my final flv is going to be at. If it is going to be only 320×240 I obviously don’t render out with the HD preset. 😉 The flv’s from sorenson come out just fine.
As a test, I just tried frame serving, and Sorenson took it, but when trying to squeeze it, it just hangs and about 5 minutes later 1% shows up. This is for a 15 sec clip. If it is working it would take a lifetime. So I don’t think that is the right option. Render it out.
If you want the best, just do uncompressed avi.
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Nice render! Is that Daz Millenium Dragon 2 I see there? 🙂 I was just working with that model tonight for a website. Nice use of PI in the scene.
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That really sucks. Do you have access to another computer where you could setup with Vegas and try outputting from? If it works with the bare minimum (firewire card, A/D converter) then you know those aren’t the problem and you can start adding hardware one by one and see if anything breaks it. And it might not even be hardware related. Could end up being another device driver, or program that is conflicting. It seems like all you have left is trial and error and hope that the problem reveals itself.
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I had a similar problem when I tried to output through a digital/analog converter. Our BetaSP deck is only analog and the only way out of my Vegas machine is firewire so I went with the Pinnacle Studio MovieBox DV, firewire version. Got it hooked up, video passing through, looks fine for a few seconds and then it goes to garbage, like it can’t sync up anymore. Thought it was a bad converter, bought a second, same thing. Started playing around and found out that with Vegas running, I had to unplug and plug it back in (firewire connection), then reset it before it would display correctly. I have to do that every time I want to use that box if it has been turned off, or unplugged from the machine.
Before I figured out the shortest amount of steps to get it working, I would change my preview device settings to none, then back to OHCI and that would sometimes work.
I don’t know if you could be experiencing the same thing but it is worth a shot.
One of these days I’ll upgrade to a Decklink card.
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The plug-in is installed in the default directory: C:\Program Files\Sony\Shared Plug-Ins\Cinescore Plug-In 1.0
I haven’t seen anyway of accessing Cinescore directly from Vegas but from what I can tell, it is to ease the transition of projects from Vegas, Acid Sound Forge etc. to Cinescore. So instead of a manual plug-in it works in the background. Just a guess. I only started playing with the demo. The help file shows no reference to the plug-in. The plug-in dir also contains the FileIO plug-ins for aif, mp3, wav, midi etc.
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It is only when trying to do that one specific function:
Live Input
Keyed
Full Screen OutputWhen that is the configuration I’ve managed to crash the program more than 50% of the time. But I guess Ultra isn’t meant to be a “live weatherman keyer”.
However when I use it how it is normally meant to work, as in bringing in footage, keying it, outputting, using the master library sets, the program works like a charm. The key Ultra produces is what is fantastic about it. Blows away the keys I had been getting in Vegas and does so in a quarter of the time. It is now a perminent part of my Vegas workflow.