Jeremy Rasnic
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Can you see it on the timeline or is it black/blank there too?
If you can see it on the timeline draw a selection around one portion of the timeline that is affected and render just that selection to your preferred format (it only needs to be a few seconds long). Did that work?
If that did work then it would appear that your render did not complete correctly.
If it didn’t work, then you may have a corrupt file or problem with the encode settings. Try a different format or leave the settings on default and try again.
If you can’t see it on the timeline, then you may want to recapture your footage.
j razz
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What is the artbeats file format? Avi? Mov? Mpeg? etc.
Try playing with the different options under alpha. Again, make sure it is above the track you want to show through the event with the black background.
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Once you have your clip that you want to be partially transparent on the top-most layer, right click on it and go to “properties”. Once there choose the “media” tab and change the “alpha channel” property to “premultiplied dirty”.
See if that does it for you. Just remember that anytime you want something to have a transparent property, it needs to be at least one track above the footage you want it to cover.
j razz
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I don’t think they would have asked you if they didn’t see the value in your posts 🙂
Sometimes people see things in you that are not clearly evident to yourself. Welcome aboard.
j razz
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If you are thinking along the lines of a word document, think of the extra space the same as the rest of a blank page when you only have type that covers a third of the page. If you double click the event on your timeline and double click the selection (blue bar with yellow ends) then click back on your event, it will only play within the bounds of your selection. You can also click the loop button (next the the play button below your timeline) and it will start back at the beginning when the end is reached.
I hope that helps clarify a bit. The empty space is not rendered unless you have it included in the selection (blue bar with yellow ends). Rendering is what you do once you have your edit how you want. Look it up in the help file. You will render to your output format once your edit on the timeline is how you want it.
j razz
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If you double click the “event” (that is what clips are called in vegas) it will draw a selection above it (a blue line with two yellow ends). These are expandable by simply clicking and dragging. When you choose render, you can place a checkmark in the box that says something along the lines of “render selection only”.
However, with that said, there is no need to do this if you only have what you want on the timeline. Vegas will not render the blank portion of the timeline. It is smart enough to know when to stop. The selection is mainly used for rendering out a portion of your timeline or to build a dynamic ram preview.
Hope that helps.
j razz
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Based on your previous thread, it sounds like you need a more powerful processor and more RAM.
To magnify your timeline (zoom in on it) use your scroll wheel of your mouse. Click anywhere on the timeline and then use your scroll wheel to zoom. The further in you zoom the more you can see. Then just use the arrow keys to move one frame at a time.
If you want a simple explanation of pan/crop look in the help file that comes with Vegas. It also has valuable information for just about every feature in Vegas. Simply put though, Pan/Crop will allow you to “pan” a camera across a video or picture and it will also allow you to crop the footage or picture. Unless you want to do either, you don’t need to use it.
The “s” key is how you perform cuts in Vegas.
I hope this helps.
j razz
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I assume you mean by “those files” m2t files. Seeing how mpeg is the spec for HDV I don’t see why they wouldn’t. Of course, I have not used premiere in a really long time so I do not have an informed opinion on the matter.
j razz
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HDV is mpeg, not avi. Now, with that said, you can buy Cineform and capture as avi files, but they will take up more space than mpeg and you will not have the benefit of not recompressing the files if you do not add any fx to them (Vegas pro 8 only). If you are going to encode multiple generations of the files, it may be of benefit for you to utilize Cineform.
There is also a couple of programs by VASST that allow you to change the files to a different type and then switch them back before you encode. The benefit in this is that it allows for faster editing if you have a slow machine that is having difficulty editing HDV. There is Ultimate S Pro and Gearshift.
Hope that helps.
j razz
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What are you viewing the avi on? Windows Media Player? Try using a different player such as VLC. See if that makes them dissappear.
Did you notice this on the timeline? If so (find the frame that it is occuring) and see if it is there. If it is there, then it usually means that you had an error either on the tape itself (result of dirty head, bad tape, dust on tape, etc.) or the capture contains an error. First I would try viewing the tape again and then possibly recapturing that segment to see if it produces the same results.
Hope this helps.
j razz