John Rofrano
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I’m not sure what the difference between MJPEG A and B is. Yes the files are larger but they are good quality.
[Edit] OK, I did some Googling and found a readyy good explanation for the difference between Motion JPEG A and B
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> if I understand you correctly,the only truly “accurate”monitor setup for Vegas is one that is linked by firewire?
For SD DV that is true. Firewire or a card like the Aja Card that Vegas also supports for external preview. The Aja cards are also good for HD as well. (there is no HD via firewire though) HD can also use the Windows Secondary Display.
> And are these monitors usually LCD monitors? not CRT’s.
For DV I would use a broadcast CRT monitor. For HD I would use LCD.
> You mentioned that also I would need firewire out. My PC does have 2 firewire ports,would this support the type of monitor set up you are talking about?
Yes, you would also need a Digital to Analog Converter like the Canopus ADVC-110, 300 or the ADS Tech A/V Link, or any DV Deck. Even an old DV camera with passthough.
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> Can you use Quick Time Pro and render from that and obtain a PRO H.264 codec….???
I’m not sure what you mean by “PRO H.264”. Quicktime Pro is the only way to produce an H.264 mov file. Vegas cannot do this using it’s Quicktime support. I’m not sure about the PRO part.
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> Am I even close?
Right on the money!
You can also Ctrl+Drag the end of an event to stretch it’s time and slow it down. Whichever works best for you.
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AAF files are the only way I know of to transfer timeline events. If you want to stay in Vegas, Boris RED is similar to AE and plugs into Vegas and can use some of the AE plug-ins. (I have some of the DigiEffects plug-ins running in both Boris and AE) It may allows you to run whatever color grading plug-ins you were planning to use in AE. Check the Boris site for plug-in compatibility first.
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> but in the render as menu I only see quicktime 7(mov) where would I find quicktime motion?
After you select Quicktime 7(mov), select your template and press the Custom button and on Video tab change the Video Format to Motion JPEG A or Motion JPEG B. Your web guy might even take the MPEG-4 Video but it is an older MPEG4 codec and doesn’t do as good a job as Quicktime Pro H.264.
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You need to render from Vegas in a format that Quicktime Pro supports. What format have you been using? Try rendering in Quicktime Motion-JPEG.
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> How do I know if Im using a sound card or not?!!
If you don’t know… you probably are not.
Go into Start | All Programs | Accessories | Entertainment | Volume Control and choose Options | Properties and select the Recording radio button and press OK. Make sure that any output like “Stereo Mix” or “Wave Out” is NOT selected. Just select the input that you want to record from (Mic in or Line in). You should now be recording from just that input and not the whole project.
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> I used low res intermediate files because I understood that working with full resolution files would be very slow – especially on my colleague’s computer, but even on my computer
Have you found that to be true? You’d have to have a pretty weak computer these days to not be able to handle DV at full res. I assume you are working in a DV project so you may actually be stressing Vegas MORE because you’re asking it to uprez these lowrez proxies to work with them at DV resolution. It may actually be better to work with the DV footage directly so that Vegas doesn’t have to constantly rescale every frame. Have you tried that?
BTW, what codec are you using for the lowrez proxies and how low are they?
How powerful is your computer? In other posts you say you are using Vista and any computer capable of running Vista should not have a problem with fullrez SD DV (when you said you were using proxies I assumed you were working in HD with DV proxies not DV with even lower rez proxies. That’s been unheard of for years now)
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