Joe Mantaratz
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We all have made the same mistakes learning a new software so you are in good company. What you did what select a different cursor that is used for an area or group selection, hence the dotted box. You want the normal editing tool. If you are unsure as to which one that is hold down ctrl D and you will have it back. Then you can check the help files to understand what each editing tool does. Hope this helps. Happy New Year
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Thanks Steve, I wished I had asked this question before it would have saved me lots of time. I found Claxa by chance and started looking at it. I have not found any reviews other than what the developer states. It’s free, so that is a plus but that certainly does not mean better. Can you tell me the system of tools you are using? In a few months I will be buying new equipment and looking at software, so I am in the planning stages now. It does look however that I will be buying the Final Cut Pro 2 suite and will need to purchase a new Mac as well and set it up as a dual boot. Thanks again for all the suggestions.
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No on both accounts…. I will look into it. Thanks for the suggestion.
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My mistake when you said you were doing videos of painting I assumed it was house painting. I have to say I was very impressed with your work and like the way you are able to bring the viewer along for the ride. One of the gifts I have always wished I had was to able to paint but alas it was not allotted for me. I live in Miami and would love to be a voice for your work here. But to your immediate request.
My brother is a Hollywood editor and now is in the sale end of it, he has worked on many major films and might be able to suggest something. His company can certainly do whatever you need but I am not really sure of what you are asking. If you are interested let me know and I will put you in contact with him.
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My personal rule is to have a clean boot with no services running whenever I am working with Video. This has been covered before but basically no internet, virus , spyware or anything non essential running in the background. When I render I leave the computer alone and don’t attempt to run another at the same time. I want all my CPU power and RAM to be available to the render process. You just never know when a hiccup in the process will corrupt your render so for me it is not worth the chance. As far still size is concerned, if you use high res pics then it will take a much longer time to render those files and can seem like the system is frozen. It might well be if it running out of memory. If you are done with your project then make sure you delete all unused media from the project before rendering. Vegas can work with 2meg pic files just fine but when there are many of them it really slows things down. You have to understand that you think you are adding just one pic. But if that pic is being shown for 5 seconds and also uses effects then the program must render that pic at the projects properties. For example….30FPS…(frames per second…) multiplied by 5 seconds duration that equals 150 redraws of the same pic. Now add effects and such and it does not take long to see how the resources can get used up quickly. It also is reducing the file size at the same time further slowing things down. HIDEF video does not even remotely come close to the quality of a High Res pic. The video would be huge if it could. the Try this test and see what I mean.
Take a snap shot from the Preview window set to Best Full of a high res clip. Compare the file size of that pic to the original.
Now Place that in the time line and replace it with one of the offending clips and see if it still stalls. Bet it doesn’t.
Hope this helps
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As a side note CDA files are merely a pointer that tell where the actual corresponding audio file resides on the disc. Hence the need to EXTRACT the audio from the CD.
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Without the DAR file I don’t know of a way to reverse the process. The rendered folder is the end product of your menus, navigations, media etc. At lest you have all your media files and you can work from there. Here is what I would do.
1.Each one of those VOB files are MPEG2 files and you will need to convert them to a format Vegas can use. All of your menus are there as well so you will need to convert all of them. Vegas will read the VOB files but it will truncate them and make them unusable. There are many free programs out there that can help you do this. Or you can burn it to a DVD then rip it.
2.Once you have you have your files converted it is only a matter of rendering your new media in Vegas.
3.Depending on the type of Menus you created you can use those as well and import them back into Architect as a back ground media then overlay the added links you will need. If you need help with this let me know, I am leaving out a lot of details here as I do not know your level of experience.
4.You will have to redo all the navigation links, color sets, etc. There is no way that I know of to do what you are asking. There might be but I am not aware of it.
Hope this helps let me know if you are successful.
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There are many options to do this and it really depends on what you are looking for and the freq of the hiss.
1.Click on the effects for the audio track, there will be three effects already chosen as a default. The one you want to use is TRACK EQ.
2.Select from the presets SYS HISS CUT. You can also click and drag the control points and create your own freqs adjustments.
As an example I had a project where the video audio was saturated with wind noise, I was able to cut out almost all of it with a series of these tools. So play around with it until you get what you desire. Hope this is helpful.
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SONY to SONY……nope sorry the software world and the hardware world do not work hand in hand in development production. Os it does not surprise me that you have this problem. Find out what codec the MPGS are using and then acquire them. If I import my camcorder discs it converts them all to mpgs and breaks up the chapters using the rec on off events as markers. When you import the clips will they play in the project media window? If so then it could be a memory problem.
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Exempt? 🙂 Sure… I have been holding off on getting into the world of converting old videos to digital but as I am finding out there is a huge market for this type of work. Those that are middle aged are realizing that their parents are getting on in years and want to have something to remember the days of old. I had done the research on the one you suggested and wanted your input as well as any others whom might have other suggestions. Invariably I find with most things that after I own it for a while I realize there are things that I wish I had known prior to buying it. You know the what I mean, “Oh that model does not work with XYZ and you now need this WTZ as well..” MOst likely I will get both and internal and an external, any recommendations for an internal, besides just having TBC?
Thanks for your help and time John.
Joe