John Rofrano
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Oh… I forgot to mentioned that you can change the additive behavior for 5.1 Surround in Vegas (duh!).
For each of the surround channels, right-click on the surround panner in the track header and change the Pan Type from Add Channels (0 dB Center) which is the default… to Balance (0 dB Center). Then Vegas will behave as you expected.
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> Are you able to capture successfully in Vegas?
Yes. Sometimes the file will be split for some unknown reason but at least all of the frames are there so I just place them back on the timeline and everything is fine.
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> do folks who use the HVR-MRC1 recording unit run into the same capture issues?
No, because there is no “capture”. The HVR-MRC1 is solid state recording. You just drag the files off of the flash card and start editing.
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Audio volume is additive and doubling the volume increases the output by 6dB FS. If you’d like to see the effects of this, take a test tone at -32dB and drop it on a track. Play it back and notice that the meters registry -32dB. Now duplicate the track and play it back. The meters should now be 6dB louder and register -26dB. Double those 2 tracks to 4 track and play it back and you’ll see another 6dB jump to -20dB. This is kind of what’s happening with your 5 tracks of surround audio. If each one is at -3dB, adding them together will clip quite easily.
This is the same reason that an orchestra is louder than a single violin. Think about it. No violin is any louder when played along than they are when played together yet they are louder together because volume is additive.
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> If it is working would you suggest that I seperatly render my projects from the mpeg 2 fomat with the chroma key to DV AVI and then compile all of thoes project files into one main project file and then use the make a movie feature to save it as dvd format?
Yes, that seems like a good approach. This way if you need to do more work on it you have it in DV AVI format which works a lot smoother in Vegas.
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> As far as rendering audio and video seperately, how does that actually work? Do I need to render those seperate files back together? Or can that be done in dvd setup?
You render the separate files but give them the same name, just with different extensions (.mpg & .ac3). When DVD Architect sees an mpg file with no audio, it looks for an ac3 file with the same name and if it finds it, it will automatically pull it in as the audio.
> Also, I’d like to work on the project in pro tools before finalizing the sound anyways. Is there any way to render the project with seperate sound files for each line of audio in my project rather than merging it all into 1 sound file?
Yup, you want to use our free plug-in VASST Trackalizer. I wrote it specifically for this purpose. The installer hasn’t been updated for Vegas Pro 9.0 yet but I see you are still using Vegas Pro 8.0 so it should work fine.
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Yea, if you’ve ever used After Effects, think of nested projects in Vegas like nested Compositions in AE. They serve the same purpose and are extremely power for compositing.
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Have you tried just turning off scene detection in the Sony capture? That’s what I do.
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> I do notice the photos qualities have been reduced more than the videos.
What was the original quality of the video? Was it HD 1920×1080 or SD 720×480? If it was SD then yes, the 1500 pixel photos were reduced more than the 720 pixel video which wasn’t reduced at all.
> Can I assume vegas processes photo and video differently in a way?
Well… it doesn’t have to make “video” out of the video. But it does have to make video out of the photos. So yes, it is processing them differently by the fact that they are still images and not video to begin with.
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Yes, Vegas Pro 32-bit & 64-bit coexist and open the same project files. Of course, if you add a plug-in to the 32-bit .veg file that isn’t in the 64-bit version it will cause an error.
~jr
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