[Jeff Schroeder]

Rodney,

You don’t want to render to lossless for DVDA. Select Mpeg-2 as the type and use the “DVD Architect NTSC video stream” or the “DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream” templates. Remember to encode your audio using Dolby AC3.

Jeff

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[Jeff Schroeder]

I always record in 1920×1080 29.97 interlaced AVCHD video (Sony). My most common delivery is decent quality web, like blip.tv. So I set my project to an HDV setting of very high quality. This will end up being one render to 1280×720. If I need a version for DVD, I put me HDV video from the first render into a project setup for DVD, 720×480 1.2121 pixel aspect. This is render number 2. If I need a copy for a mobile device such as an ipod I put my first render into a project template for ipod and render again.

Whenever I render to a DVD I always use 2-pass VBR and I use a bitrate calculator to really tweak the setting to get the best quality I can.

Don’t worry about render times. It goes with the territory. I am blessed to have an i7 3.2 with 24GB and twin GTX-460’s, the two video cards help because Windows 7 offloads some math to the GPU’s regardless of the OS.

With the first render you do all the color correction and effects, then when you re-render it all that extra processing is done, all that must be accomplished is the resizing. You cannot size up from say 720 to 1920 it will look terrible.

Most people would only render from original footage, but I am not one of them. In that case, re-save your original project with a descriptive name and then change your project settings. Make sure the aspect ratios are all good.

These are just some thought on your problems. I hope it helps.

As far as the 5.1 goes, you must have 5.1 to produce 5.1. You can’t just put stereo through the 5.1 setting and expect too much. But I’m sure you already know that.

Jeff

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[Jeff Schroeder]

An answer is forth coming, it is being moderated.

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[Jeff Schroeder]

Kelly,

1) On the options|preferences|editing tab set the ‘quick fade length for audio events (ms)’ to 0. The default setting on this is 10ms. Leaving this at 10ms this will supress any crack or pops when the wave is cut off abruptly. 10ms is 1/100 of a second, it is doubtful that you would notice this quick fade out/in.

2) Audio events are manipulated at the ‘sample’ level, not the frame level. On the options|preferences|editing tab uncheck the box for ‘Do not quantize to frames for audio only edits’. Then when ‘quantize to frames’ is on, it will be on for audio events also.

3) (from another post) Shift-click options|preferences and select the internal tab. In the box at the bottom (show only prefs containing) enter ‘AudioASRType’ the default is 2, change this to your preference in the following list.

2 = fast logarithmic
1 = linear
-2 = slow logarithmic
4 = smooth cubic
-4 = sharp cubic

Be very careful in the internal tab, but if things get messed up you can always re-enter the defaults, they are listed.

Hope this helps,

Jeff

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[Jeff Schroeder]

John,

Can the Lagarith produce a 4:2:2 format? If so, what are the settings in Vegas 10c?

Jeff

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[Jeff Schroeder]

Anna,

In event pan/crop put you cursor near the circle and drag. It will rotate. You can set the rotation center and even key it in manually on the left.

Jeff

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[Jeff Schroeder]

Kelly,

I would pile all your assets on a the timeline using whatever number of track are required. Then I would ctrl-drag events to a new area (the 30 second spot) and start pasting and edititing and whatever. when you have the 30 second spot finished, select the whole area and make it a region. Then edit the other 30 second spots making each a region. when done select the script batch render and render the regions only.

I could talk you through this at a more detailed level if you need. Or, I could send you a .veg using generated media to illustrate the work-flow.

Jeff

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[Jeff Schroeder]

Good point John, I just assumed he was using the text generator.

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[Jeff Schroeder]

Add another track above and put a color on it (or something).
If you cannot see it then one of the original tracks (the text) is set to solo already. The funny thing about solo is you can ‘solo’ multiple tracks.

Maybe this helps,

Jeff

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[Jeff Schroeder]

Auto ripple can be dangerous
I use the F key …

F – Post-edit ripple affected tracks
Ctrl+F – Post-edit ripple all tracks, markers, and regions
Ctrl+Shift+F – Post-edit ripple affected tracks, bus tracks, markers, and regions

Jeff

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