[Jeremy Rochefort]

First, its always good practice to name each track with a description. One easy way is to click (select) on the track header and press F2 (or right-click and select rename) and add your descriptive name for the track.

The simplest way would be to first right-click on the audio track header and select duplicate track. you now have two tracks each with two channels (left & right).

On the first audiotrack, right-click on the audio event and select channels-left only. On the second audio track, right-click on the audio event and select channels-right only.

You now have two seperate audio channels!

Cheers

Jeremy

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[Jeremy Rochefort]

One of the powers of Vegas is its ability to work with these kind of scenarios very easily.

As Ed has mentioned, keyframes will be your answer – alternatively, by disabling the “sync cursor” function (the one with the I and lock in the event pan crop window) you can change the size of the image by dragging the corners of the image so as to resize to the exact size you want- this option will change the size for the entire period the picture is viewed.

By adding keyframes in the Event Pan Crop window, you can make the image change size/position over time – something many users use when doing photomontages

Cheers

Jeremy

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[Jeremy Rochefort]

Another option would be if you used Vegas’s media generator-text – you have placement/properties/effects tab which can do a multitude of different options

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Jeremy

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[Jeremy Rochefort]

This device works great. Just download and install the latest drivers from here (does include Vegas 6 as well as well as a host of others). Latest driver version is 2.6.5

https://www.contourdesign.com/shuttlepro/shuttle_downloads.htm

There is also Shuttle Application Setting Templates further on down the page.

If your mouse is USB, you can get a USB/PS2 converter and then plug your mouse into your mouse PS2 port (normally the green one)- all computers have one (that I know of)

Cheers

Jeremy

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[Jeremy Rochefort]

Right click on your video event in the timeline, select properties and choose “Reduce Interlace Flicker”

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Jeremy

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[Jeremy Rochefort]

Here’s your pointer –
Version 6.0c (Build 153)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) READ:0x1 IP:0x1

This occurs when there is a read error from the drive – in fact, exactly the same symptoms I had a while back.

The result was an overclock setting in the BIOS which I had used and unbeknown to me at the time, this does affect the read performance, especially from SATA drives.

I would try setting your BIOS settings to default – not the “highest speed” or similar setting.

Cheers

Jeremy

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[Jeremy Rochefort]

This article might inspire you in the right direction.

http://www.videomaker.com/scripts/article.cfm?id=12091

Cheers

Jeremy

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[Jeremy Rochefort]

Once you have created your mask, select “Mode” from the Path options in your Pan & Crop window and select “Negative”. This will invert the mask selection.

Cheers

Jeremy

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Yep

just drop them on the timeline. Vegas does support these files.

Cheers

Jeremy

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[Jeremy Rochefort]

Odd sounds from hard drives are never a good thing – this is usually a sign of impending failure (not always).

The fact that your other drive is slow is an indication that it is too defragmented to operate efficiently. One golden rule when working with video – defragment, defragment, defragment – as often as possible.

As I said, test and eliminate each problem in turn. Its never a good thing to change more than one thing at a time – by changing more than one thing, you will never know what the original problem is.

By utilising one drive as a project drive and another to render to, you eliminate the read and write cycle to the same disc which loses time. Should you want touse your C drive, put your project files on the c and render to another drive which will minimise the defragmentation of the c drive. However, usually save your c drive for programs etc and work on other physical drives.

Cheers

Jeremy

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