John Rofrano
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[Eric Konkol] “If I delete the QuickTime player, does that still leave the codec intact?”
What others who have tried this have found is that Vegas Pro actually needs the QuickTime Player so if you delete it, Vegas won’t be able to open MOV files with ProRes or DNxHD. I think it still might work with AVC/H.264 MOV files but that’s the only one it can open without the player.
So don’t delete it if you need to work with these files in Vegas Pro.
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[Steve Rhoden] “…they actually have a quite a good amount of Vegas Projects being offered”
Are you sure? I just visited their web site and under Projects & Templates it only lists: After Effects | Apple Motion | Final Cut Pro X.
They may have dropped support for Vegas Pro templates! (at least that’s what their web site now indicates) so I take back what I said.
[Steve Rhoden] “You cant even see what they are offering unless you sign up!”
How ridiculous is that?
That is the equivalent of having a store with the windows blacked out. It makes absolutely no sense at all.
~jr
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[Arthur Fratelli] “I know imovie has that ability. Thanks.”
As Graham pointed out… Vegas Pro has nothing like this.
You have to appreciate that iMovie has Apple Motion powering it. That is like having After Effects under the covers and is a powerful way of adding very sophisticated motion graphics into an iMovie or Final Cut Pro X project with a simple drag and drop and media replace. Also the whole Theme concept is very powerful because it allows you to quickly see what motion backgrounds, lower thirds, titles, etc., that are all part of the same “theme” and if used together will give your videos a very professional and cohesive look. Finally you can create your own themes in Motion and publish them to iMovie and FCP X with the same drag and drop simplicity. It’s an extremely powerful and productive way of working. Vegas Pro doesn’t even ship with any motion backgrounds or lower thirds. It’s very “minimalist” in this regard.
The closest you will get with Vegas Pro is that Digital Juice has a few Vegas Pro templates that you can replace the media in. These will to work with Vegas Pro but not with Movie Studio. The problem with Digital Juice is that you can’t buy their products outright anymore. You have to subscribe to their service and there probably isn’t enough Vegas Pro projects there to justify the price (they are primarily for Adobe). 🙁
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Yup, cut and paste works as well after making the first button. Just don’t forget to change the in and out points,
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This requires an entirely different strategy than Scene Selection. The purpose of Scene Selection is to select a starting point from which to continue viewing, That’s not what you want to do.
What you need to do is add the main video to your project 11 times. Don’t worry, DVD Architect is smart enough to only add it to the physical disc once. Then create 11 buttons that point to the 11 copies of your video and set the IN and OUT points to be just that one scene. This will give you the behavior that you are looking for.
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If VideoGuys is selling subscriptions then it appears that at least one way to get Catalyst Suite is to rent it.
Hopefully we’ll find out more on Monday which is the start of the NAB 2016 show floor. That’s usually when announcements are made.
~jr
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[Thomas Roberts] “Can we play ProRes files?”
Yes, you can play them and edit them in Vegas Pro but if you want to create them you need to purchase the Cinic 4.0 encoder from Cinemartin which is the only licensed ProRes encoder that exists for Windows. You can also fake a ProRes-like format using ffmpeg but it’s not something I would use in a professional environment because it causes problems on a Mac because it’s not real ProRes.
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[Rob Clapham] “I have seen some news today stating that Quicktime should be uninstalled due to two vulnerabilities in the software. I checked this forum to see if anyone was talking about it, but no one has yet (unless this topic is covered in a different forum?)”
The vulnerabilities were found in the Windows QuickTime Player. You could always delete or rename the player executable and not have to worry. I don’t think many Vegas Pro users actually use the player. They just need to codecs to process QuickTime MOV files. All you need to do is stop using the QuickTime Player which you probably don’t use anyway. No need to panic. There are probably far more vulnerabilities learning in Windows itself. 😉
~jr
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[Steve Rhoden] “Its the number one cause of “one day everything running smooth and now its not” syndrome lol”
+1
Windows Update messed up my computer once… just once… then I shut it off and it never bothered me again. lol 😉
It’s the first thing I turn off after a new install of Windows.
I’m not sure what your problem might be (sorry)… I would just never use AVG.
~jr
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