Joe Parker
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If you captured these file in Vegas, you should see two lines on the timeline – one video, with a grouped audio track beneath it.
Assuming you can hear audio when you play it back in the camera, you may have captured it wrong. Or simply neglected to bring in the audio track.
Like Theo said, we would need to know all about the formats involved.
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Yes, if you use a CBR (constant bit rate). VBR will make smaller files, but obviously there’s no way to calculate beforehand exactly how big the file will be, since it’s dependent on movement. Eventually you should get a feel for it.
If you really want to use CBR, you can use any online bitrate calculator to get the size (google it).
If you’re shooting in 1080 60i (not at all clear from your post), then you should output the same. 24p is preferred by filmmakers, but they have the luxury of staging their shots. you can’t do that for a run n gun wedding. You’ll end up with a blurry mess.
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There’s not much to say about “how”. You just hook the output of your camcorder to the input of the DVD recorder and press Play and Record.
Some recorders even have firewire inputs if you’re really particular, but the composite inputs should be fine.
Here’s a couple refurb units for <$75 shipped: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0009OAP34/ref=dp_olp_refurbished?ie=UTF8&qid=1251380306&sr=1-17&condition=refurbished
You can probably find a better deal if you look. But I dunno. If I was only doing this once, I’d probably just capture it. -
Yes, bdr’s made from scratch work okay. Very puzzling. But we put out several weddings a week so I’d hate to think we can’t devise a way to use a template.
About the only thing I can think to do at this point is order some bd-rw’s (inexplicably now called bd-re). But at $10 a pop, I’m not sure I’m going to save any money in the long run. Especially since I have no idea what to even test first.
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Of course, if you do this a lot you’ll want to just buy a standalone DVD recorder. Refurb units are under $125 USD.
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That shouldn’t be a problem. But just remember Vegas takes a snapshot of the preview window, not the video. So you must set the preview to “Best>Full” to get a full res snapshot. There are scripts that do this if you need it a lot.
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Look at the disk in explorer. Is it a blu ray or a dvd or what (i.e., does it have .ifo files?). Tell us what the file structure on the disk is.
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That’s a pretty vague description of the problem. Please elaborate. When you throw a simple title on the timeline and render it, what error are you getting? Be specific.
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Vegas 9 has a new option under Prefs>Editing that will affect what happens with photos. “Automatically crop still images added to timeline” actually seems to work backwards for me, cropping images when I UNcheck the box. Or maybe I just don’t understand it.
Anyway, I’ve always kept an icon for the matchaspect script on my toolbar to use for photos I want to pan. You can always just run the script manually if you don’t do a lot of this. Or set it manually as described by Mike.