Joe Parker
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Yes, if you’re running WinXP in a virtual machine, all bets are off. I especially worry that it doesn’t see the drive via 1394.
No, you shouldn’t damage a drive by unplugging it with the power on, even if you don’t close it properly. At most you should just lose any open files. However, stories abound of 1394 camera interfaces being fried, and many assume that’s because the little 4 pin connectors don’t like to be hot swapped.
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Ah, the dreaded av/c subunit Windows error. I don’t think I’ve seen that one since the early WinXP days. And I never found a solution for it except to reinstall Windows.
But that may not be what you have. If Device Manager sees the camera and properly identifies it.
Wild guess time: Maybe the camera’s output is misconfigured when you switch to SD? i.e., You’re trying to output SD footage as HD? I think there are menu settings in the camera with options.
Does Windows Movie Maker capture SD okay?
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I think Big Gill must be thinking of Premiere or something, as even Vegas 9 doesn’t have an “upload to youtube” on the file menu.
You’re right, you want to use the mainconcept mpeg4 template. Tweak it according to the current upload guide on their website. It should work.
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Using a remote control and multiple chapters, users could press “Next” to go to the next chapter. Just set the end point of the video back to itself, and it will loop forever until someone presses something.
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The old “NTSC standard”, if there ever was an official one, was designed for analog audio, not digital. It left a lot of headroom for peaks. With digital audio anything below 0db is fine, and if you’re using something like Wavehammer you can get it darned close.
Obviously if they specify, do whatever they say. Otherwise, why would you want yours to play quieter than everyone else’s? Better to crank it up. Remember it’s not a linear scale, so -12db is a lot quieter than -1db.
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With that busy project it’s hard to even tell what the problem is. Start a new project in the default layout and just drag a pattern to it.
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For fades, while you’re in the Editing tab, enable “Automatically overlap multiple selected media when added”. Set the duration with the next box – Cut-to-overlap.
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Looks fine from here. Really, the only thing that jumped out at me was the date – 11.10.09 – left me wondering if it’s being released in October or November. But that’s not your fault. 🙂
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Options>Preferences>Video>Thumbnails to show in video events.
It’s not a ‘problem’ though; it’s a ‘feature’. As the video gets more compressed, it takes longer to render all those thumbnails, so sometimes it might be best to limit them.
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The only problem with normalize is that it always accomodates the loudest noise in the clip, thus all your clips could be different. i.e., if someone bumps the mic or coughs, the rest of the clip is normalized to that.
Get around this by using the Wavehammer Volume Maximizer, which processes peaks the same as the rest of the clip.