John Gleason
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I second this question. Right now I have a Audio Technica 4073a shotgun going straight into the camera (HMC150) but I potentially see a field mixer on the horizon.
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I have used both Vegas and FCP.
The biggest problem with Vegas is that is has less overall-compatibility testing than FCP. Because windows naturally has more programs, drivers, and hardware to contend with, it has an increased potential for such issues. Mechanically, more moving parts mean more potential problems (Although in battle I’d rather have a machinegun than a musket). If you wish to avoid any issues, install all the programs and drivers you think you will need and then install Vegas. Afterwords, keep updates and new installs to a minimum. Go through the process of editing a few small projects and if nothing bad crops up, you should be set with a solid system which won’t fail you when you start to work on something important.
FCP suffers from terrible audio editing, mediocre typography, and a high cost. Even still, it is rapidly spreading itself within small business and younger prosumers. This is due mostly because of Apple’s past and present marketing push towards younger generations, because it is being taught in schools within film programs, and because people want to buy what everyone else uses because that must therefore be the best. This can be compared to how the iPods marketing scheme worked and how even now people will express opinions without having ever taken the time to look through a side-by-side comparison of specs between an iPod and a similarly priced MP3 player.
You can go far beyond the editing basics with both FCP and Vegas if you have the knowledge. Addons are great to have available, however if you repeatedly need complex effects it will be well worth your time to learn Adobe After Effects.
If you haven’t seen this forum already, spend some quality time here and you will see the light. https://www.dvxuser.com/V6/forumdisplay.php?f=148
Personally I think FCP is a fine editor if you are a fine editor. Still, whenever I use it and it forces me to “prerender” after making a simple audio edit, my left eye starts to twitch, my mouth tightens, and somewhere, thousands of miles away, Steve Jobs feels a cold shiver run down his spine.
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Make sure you fully highlight/drag-select your project on the timeline. Once you have selected everything in the loop region you wish to render into your final movie, go to
File —-> Render As
And make sure “Render loop region only” is selected.
Otherwise, uncheck that option if you wish it to render until you run out of material on your timeline; I believe it automatically stops rendering after your last media event with this option unchecked.
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Yes sometimes the plugins are not carried over on the 8 to 9 upgrade. To check and see for sure go to “View” —–> “Video FX” If the fx list is not present here you lost them in the upgrade.
If they are lost try a simple reinstall. If that doesn’t work we’ll get more complicated.
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On most other websites, I can copy text by highlighting it with the left mouse button, and then copy it by using the right button. On Cow, the text will not highlight. I have to either retype the text, or perform a screen print which is then run through OCR. It’s a major PIA when I’m trying to save a tip.
Why does Cow disable the copy function?
Seems to work just fine for me. I highlight with left mouse click-hold, right click copied, then right click pasted.
Which OS and Browser do you use?
You try left click drag “Ctrl C” then “Ctrl V” even if it doesn’t look like it is highlighted. Even holding down “Ctrl A” then, while still holding Ctrl, pressing “C” and then pasting. This worked for me as well, although it copies the entire page down.
Also this belongs on the https://forums.creativecow.net/cowcowmunications section.
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Glad it was as simple as that. It seems if you use Vegas long enough it eventually happens to you. I usually just attribute these kind of problems to the well documented issue of sneaky Mackintosh Gnomes.
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Sometimes the keyframe box gets dragged “into” the bottom and becomes hidden. If this is what happened to you just scroll your mouse on the bottom of that particular window until a double up-and-down cursor appears and then drag the keyframe box up. It is kind of like when your taskbar drops below your HUD and you have to go fishing with your mouse.
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Any help I try to give stems from the fact that I believe Sony Vegas takes away all of the limiting factors except for the editor’s own imagination. If we can provide support to fill in the blanks left by Sony, perhaps this software will stick around longer and we won’t ever wake up in the night screaming “..no, don’t, please don’t make me pre-render the Final Cut Pro audio! All I did was make one lousy change and now it just beeps.”
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I have to add that a friend has the same problem. He uses FCP and I could not figure a way to solve the problem. I imported the footage into After effects and tried a variety of things to no effect.
Dublicated layer, masked, applied curves to the pixels, color correction, and made it Darken in layer blending. FAIL.
Used clone stamp tool. This works really great when the image isn’t moving much and the colors are simple. Otherwise it just creates a ghosting defect when the image is moving. I imagine this would be a pretty good bet if you manually clone stamped the pixels in each shot. Mostly FAIL
The only real solution I can think of is to just go with it. Add a ton more “broken pixel” dots to your project and turn it into a new style. Who knows, maybe it will catch on?
If anyone comes up a good solution I’ve love to hear it as well.
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Sounds rough. If you haven’t tried it yet, open 2 instances of Vegas and copy your entire timeline from one to the other. Then close the first and attempt to render it on the second Vegas instance.