[Jeff Pimentel]

What if my camcorder does not have a firewire port? I have a sony sr11 avchd hard drive camcorder.

[Jeff Pimentel]

When I render to .avi as you described the video seems to play very slowly, but the audio plays normal. Very strange

Any idea why this is happening?

I would also really like to figure out how to use .mp4’s since that is the new direction for HD it seems. It can’t be that hard to do, but it has been quite a chore for me.

Thanks

[Jeff Pimentel]

John,

I do have the “MainConcept AVC” and “Sony AVC” templates with my version of Sony Vegas.

Does it matter which one I render to? In my project propeties how should I set up my project? Right now I have manually setup my project to have an aspect ratio that is proportionate to 16:9, but when I choose MainConcept AVC or Sony AVC the aspect ratio is 720×480 and not proportionate to 16:9. How should I deal with that?

The other part of this is getting my .mp4 file encoded for my website. I have both Flash Professional CS3 and Dreamweaver CS3. If I use Flash Pro CS3 I drag an instance of the FLVPlayback onto the stage and match my stage aspect ratio to my video aspect ratio. I then select the source of my video to be the .mp4 file I rendered in Sony Vegas. When you go to select the source it will not show .mp4 files so I was told I have to type the filename.mp4 in to the source field. I then go to my “Publish Settings” and set my file name for my .swf file and click “Publish”. I also hit CTRL+Enter and export my flash video.

I now have my .mp4 file, .swf video file, and .swf skin file, which is what I understand is needed to upload via FTP to my web host.

In dreamweaver my question is do I then insert “Flash” as opposed to “Flash Video”, which would require a .flv file? I don’t have a .flv file only a .swf for my video…is that the way it is supposed to be? I am having major problems after I get done in Flash CS3 and try to get the flash video in Dreamweaver and uploaded to my host. When I try it all I seem to get is the player skin and in the video position bar I get a green and white stripe patter flickering like it is trying to find a video or something, but all I get is a blank white screen.

I know this is a very long post, but I have posted many times with n luck of figuring out the best way to go from .mp4 out of vegas to a functioning high quality video on my webpage. I would greatly appreciate your help or a great tutorial that spells all this out.

Thanks in advance.

[Jeff Pimentel]

Thanks, I will try that.

[Jeff Pimentel]

Thanks I will try your advice and let you know if that works. Thanks for clarifying the setup for project, crop and render template.

What is a good program to use to resize photos that is free on the internet. I tried using Microsoft Office Picture Manager and for some reason it adds a red tone to the skin of people in the pictures.

[Jeff Pimentel]

What do you mean when you say render directly from the Vegas timeline? When I render I choose the “make movie” button at the top of the page and then step through the process in that fashion.

I am viewing the final product on a 46″ LCD HDTV. The down sized images are not blurry. I will try to resize to 1440 x 960 tonight and see what the result is. I am worried when I do that I will have the flickering problem again due to the panning and zooming I am doing in the video. What is your solution for the flicker issue with panning and zooming in a slideshow?

Any idea why the uncompressed template creates a choppy video? I have rendered with that template in the past with no issues and for some reason this project results in choppy video with the uncompressed template. What template should I use to fill the frame on a 46″ LCD HDTV, NTSC DV Widescreen template? Should the NTSC DV template render to a format to fit a standard 4:3 TV? When I use the NTSC DV template it still leaves black bars above and below the picture, and has large black bars on the left and right. Almost as if it is formatted in the horizontal direction for a standard TV.

I just want to know how I should render when I want a project to fill a 16:9 tv and also for a 4:3 tv. And how to get crisp pictures and not have the flicker issue due to high res pictures.

Thanks for your help. I really appreciate it.