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John Rofrano
February 11, 2009 at 12:13 am in reply to: Widescreen WITH blackbars

> I must have done it but i cant remember what i did to make it like picture 1.

Go into Pan/Crop and hold the Ctrl key while you drag the top of the frame down to whatever wide aspect you’d like the video to be. (Ctrl overrides Lock Aspect Ratio)

If you want to squish the video like you did in the top picture use Track Motion instead and disable Lock Aspect Ratio before you change the size. The video will squash into whatever aspect you’d like.

~jr

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John Rofrano
February 11, 2009 at 12:05 am in reply to: mpeg-2 encoding problem

> I have a large quantity of analog video captured with an ADS Pyro AV link Pro into uncompressed AVI, and I’m attempting to compress it down to reduce storage space.

Actually, the ADS Pyro A/V Link captures DV video which is compressed at about 5:1.

> I’m using Vegas 6 for editing, but I am using TMPGEnc 2.5 to do my encoding to Mpeg 2 (due to Vegas’ disappointing lack of a batch converter)

Have you tried: Tools | Scripting | Batch Render?

~jr

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John Rofrano
February 11, 2009 at 12:01 am in reply to: AVCHD encoded MP4’s

> Well, I got this Sanyo Xacti HD which is a full HD/AVCHD cam

Actually the Sanyo Xacti HD not AVCHD at all and nowhere on the Sanyo site does it make any claims of being AVCHD. The files are just a non-standard form of MPEG-4.

> But now I also have a lot of files to do so will look into Upshift as Streamclip won’t batch convert.

AVCHD UpShift won’t work because it only works with AVCHD compliant files. You can use Super(c) to batch convert a bunch of MP4 files to pretty much any codec that you have installed on your PC.

~jr

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John Rofrano
February 10, 2009 at 11:48 pm in reply to: Correcting for the sharp “S” sound at the beginning of a word

> Sibilance

That too… 😉 (i was never a good speller)

~jr

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John Rofrano
February 10, 2009 at 11:45 pm in reply to: Bipassing Scene Detection When Capturing?

> 1) How can I capture in one long clip which is what I would like

In the HDV capture window go to: Prefs | General tab and clear the check next to: Enable HDV scene detection.

> 2) Does anyone know if this “scene detection” is based off a time code that is marked every time I hit the record/stop button or is there some specific lenght of time after the stop is hit that the software considers it a new clip??

It’s based on timecode so every time you hit start/stop it makes a new clip.

~jr

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John Rofrano
February 10, 2009 at 7:51 pm in reply to: Correcting for the sharp “S” sound at the beginning of a word

The term for this is “sibilants” and the process is refered to as “de-essing”. In Sound Forge go to: Effects | Dynamics | Multi-Band and use the [Sys] Reduce loud sibilants (de-esser) preset. Only apply it to the parts that need it (i.e., don’t blindly apply it to the whole wave)

~jr

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John Rofrano
February 10, 2009 at 6:04 pm in reply to: Magic Bullet Editors Alternative

> Does anyone know if the latest version of this plugin still slow a molasses?

I believe the latest version uses the GPU on your graphics card and is quite a bit faster for people with very powerful graphics cards.

> Can someone recommend and alternative?

Our VASST ReelPaks give you a similar set of looks which use FX that are native to Vegas and render fast.

~jr

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John Rofrano
February 10, 2009 at 12:32 pm in reply to: The Lengthy Vegas Process

I’ve never worked with the JVC cameras but Vegas Pro does have a HDV 720-24p (1280×720, 23.976 fps) project template that seems ideal for what you want to do. This is what I would use and then render to whatever format you need to deliver to. In other words, if it’s DVD use the DVD Architect templates, if it’s Blu-ray modify one of the 1920×1080 templates to use the lower 1280×720 resolution.

~jr

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John Rofrano
February 10, 2009 at 12:24 pm in reply to: Best Format for Import

I don’t know if it’s the “best” format but I use the Quicktime Animation codec all the time to move between After Effects and Vegas at 1920×1080 and I haven’t had any quality problems.

~jr

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John Rofrano
February 10, 2009 at 12:22 pm in reply to: Media Manager – Edit Palette – Change Number of Rows and Columns

That sounds like it may be a graphics card drawing issue. Make sure you install the latest drivers from your graphics card manufacturer. The check boxes should be showing up under normal circumstances.

~jr

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