John Rofrano
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COW Coins
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Is you project set to 800×600? It should be. If it’s not, this is why it looks different in the render from the preview. Set your project to 800×600. Make sure the crop on the generated media that you are using to letter box is correct. Right-click it in the Pan/Crop tool and select Match Output Aspect. Then resize it to go well beyond the edges so that nothing below will show through the edges. This should eliminate the lines you are seeing.
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> I was under the impression that we had the latest codec. Could someone shed some light on this because Quicktime Pro uses it.
Unfortunately, Vegas does not use any of the codecs from Quicktime Pro. You need to use the Sony AVC or Main Concept AVC render types to get h.264. Alternately you can render to a lossless format and then encode in Quicktime Pro using h.264.
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I suggest you use some other program to render the DivX files to a format that Vegas can edit. DV AVI is a good format to use. A program like Super(c) can probably re-render the files for you.
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> Why do you advise against ‘the codec packs’?
Because they install themselves as the default codecs overriding any codecs that you might already have and may, in fact, use “inferior” codecs to the ones you already have which may reduce the quality of the videos you can produce. In other words, you might have high quality codecs that you paid for but the ‘pack’ will replace them with freebie versions. Not something you want.
The codec packs are great for building a home theater PC where you want want every codec in the world on it so it will play any video you throw at it. I would not use them on a video editing PC.
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If you are referring to the text following a path… No, Vegas 5 can’t do this. You’ll need to upgrade to Vegas Pro 8 to use the ProType Titler or buy a plug-in like Boris Graffiti or a standalone text program. In fact, Boris Graffiti LTD came free with Vegas 5. You might be able to do this with Graffiti LTD (hopefully you installed it)
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> DivX, apparently.
Well… that’s your problem. Vegas does not support DivX or Xvid.
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> is there some tool that lets you add a predetermined length of time or delete a certain empty timeslot without manually moving everything?
Yes there is:
- Position your cursor to the place on the timeline that you want to insert time
- Select any Track (i.e., click the header strip on the left)
- Press Ctrl+A to select all tracks
- Select the menu item Insert | Time…
- Enter the amount of time you want to insert and click OK
This should insert the amount of time you specified at the current cursor position on all tracks.
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> Just curious, how are you transferring the film?
I was going to ask the same thing. The problem you have is that you don’t have a reference that you can trust. I’m not sure how you know that the transfer into Vegas is OK.
The first thing you need to do is calibrate your computer monitor so that you can trust it. I use a Spyder3Elite but you don’t need something that expensive but you do need something that is hardware based and can accurately calibrate your PC monitor.
The second thing you need to do is what Steve said, which is to use an external CRT monitor (or at a minimum a TV) to color correct on the actual device that it will be viewed on (which is a TV). Vegas can do external previews via firewire through a digital to analog converter like a Canopus ADVC-110, but you can even use a digital camcorder that allows passthru out to a TV that is hooked up to it. This is what Steve asked you to search for i.e., how to externally preview your video via firewire with Vegas.
You will also need to calibrate the external CRT monitor. There is a good tutorial on Video University called “Color Bars and How To Use ’em“. It is extremely important to have an external video monitor for color correcting and that both your computer monitor and external monitor are correctly calibrated. Only then can you determine what the video actually looks like.
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You have successfully diagnosed that it’s an audio problem. Does it happen at the same point every time? Is that point where the WAV files are? What are the specs on the WAV files? (ie., sample rate and bit depth?) You need to try and find what it is about the audio that’s causing this error. Try rendering the audio in sections to narrow it down.
~jr
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