John Rofrano
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You will need to use the software that came with your capture card and then you can edit in Vegas Movie Studio 9. Vegas’ capture tools are primarily camera acquisition tools (as you have seen).
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The problem is probably that his computer only supports WMV6 and you rendered to WMV9 (or some combination of mismatched versions). You will have to find an old version of the Windows Media Encoder for Win2K to get it to render something in that old of a format.
It may be easier to just get your client to update their version of the Windows Media Player (if the newer versions even run on Win2K) so that they can play the newer formats.
I would also discuss with the client that if you can’t play the old video from their web site, chances are none of their customer are going to able to either. It may be time to update their technology.
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What is your target device? If it’s the web, use the Sony AVC or MainConcept AVC type for small mp4 files. If it’s a DVD use the MainConcept MPEG-2 format. Both support widescreen.
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> Before, i just smart resampling, but some of the shots would seem very blurry.. So now i’ve turned that off, but then the shots don’t “flow” that well.. I’ve read alot about interpolated frames, is this possible to do in vegas?
That’s what smart resample does and the blurry frames are the interpolated frames (which you turned off).
> I was also wondering about deinterlasing interlased footage for better slowmo, how is this done?
If you change your project propertied to progressive, Vegas will deinterlace before it interpolates the frames. This may give you better results.
You also might want to try Supersampling (look it up in the Help) This is normally use to smooth animation that has it’s frame rate changed but it may provide some benefit to your slo-mo video. (warning: supersampling increases render times dramatically)
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I’ve been editing with two displays for years and would never go back to only one. I’m currently using two 19″ widescreens so to 20″ should be perfect. (It’s really a personal preference)
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You need to fine tune the mask. Did you use the Sony Chroma Keyer tool? If so, you turn on the Show Mask Only option and adjust the Low threshold and High threshold until the mask is black and white with no shades of gray. It’s the gray in the mask that’s causing the background to bleed through.
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> Any suggestions for a cleaner look are appreciated!
One suggestion is to use the blurred image itself as a border. In Vegas you would place the image on a track below and add a Gaussian blur then when you resize the image on top the edges will be filled with a similar background. In Photoshop you would do this with two layers blurring the bottom one and resizing the top one. It looks a lot better than black borders. You can even feather the edges of the top layer to make it blend smoother.
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> I wonder if there is a way to be sure that it will run well on Vista 64?
The only way to be sure is to ask the manufacturer and as I said, Sony claims that Movie Studio Platinum 9 does not support Vista 64. So you’ll have to try it and see if it works for yourself on your PC.
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Hi Carson,
Actually the Bump Map is your problem. You want to use a Height Map to make the text conform to the height of the waves. You need three tracks to do this. The first (top) track is the height map material. In your case it would be the water. The second (middle) track is the Text and the third (bottom) track is the water again. Change the composite mode of the top track to Custom… Height Map. Change the text track to be a Compositing Child of the top track and ten just adjust the amount of amplitude with the Height Map FX.
Your timeline should look something like this:
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