John Rofrano
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Nero 8 (and probably 9) has a nasty habit of intercepting DV files and causing applications not to be able to play them. For example: Boris RED and Nero 8 cannot exist on the same PC for this reason (acknowledged by Boris as a Nero problem) So if this person has Nero Burning ROM on their PC they might want to uninstall it and see if it fixes the problem.
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> i notice that the NTSC widescreen format is 720 by 480. Last time i checked, widescreen is 16:9, and if you calculate through, 720 by 480 does not simplify down to 16:9.
Video does not always use square pixels so you can’t just multiply the width and height and get 16:9. You have to take the Pixel Aspect Ratio (PAR) into account. This means that the pixels do no represent a square like on your computer screen but rather a rectangle. At 720 x 480 NTSC widescreen (16:9) has a PAR of 1.2121. If you do the math, you’ll see that 720 x 1.2121 = 873 wide. So NTSC widescreen is really 873×480 in square pixels which is almost 16:9.
As for your rendering problem, it is important to keep everything in the same aspect. Your project should be NTSC Widescreen, and all of you media should be cropped for widescreen and your final render should be NTSC Widescreen. This is the only way to keep everything looking correctly.
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I would just drop all of the VEG’s into one big project as nested projects and render the whole thing to MPEG. This is the easiest way.
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If this is truly an “archive” I would not modify the video in any way. I would simply transfer it to digital format in it’s existing state. If these are old VHS tapes you might want to upgrade to a Canopus ADVC-300 because it has built-in time-based correction (TBC) and filters for cleaning up bad signals on the way in.
I would not use Neat Video or Instant HD on the archived footage. Here’s why: just 5 years ago, we didn’t have video cleaners like Neat Video. You may have used some 2D or 3D noise cleaners from VirtualDub and they may have done a pretty good job. 5 years later, Neat Video comes along and it can do a better job but you don’t have the original source anymore. You now have a modified / cleaned up source that doesn’t have the original noise to process. You have forever sealed the quality of that footage to the clean-up that was done 5 years ago. What about 5 years from now? There will be tools that are better than Neat Video. If you alter the “archive” now you will not be able to use new tools in the future to get a better result later.
If I were you, I would save the unaltered source as an archive and then if you want to clean it up with Neat Video or any other tool, you do that as a separate project that doesn’t alter the source. This gives you the option of going back 5 years from now and doing an even better job.
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Close your project, look for a file with the same name as your audio and an extension of .sfk and delete it, then re-open your project and Vegas will rebuild the peaks.
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Select all of the files in the media manager and then click on the diskette icon on the media manager toolbar labeled Save Tags and Properties to Selected File(s).
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What you need to do is add a Volume Envelope to the music track. (right-click on an empty area of the music track and select Insert/Remove Envelope > Volume Shift+V). The volume envelope will start as a solid purple line across your music track. Then double-click on the volume envelope to add a point, move right a little bit and double-click to add another point, then pull the 2nd point down to lower the volume. Do the same to raise it again later. You will have four (4) points for each time you want to duck the volume.
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I have a tutorial on my web site: Creating a Split Screen using a Mask that uses the mask tool in Pan/Crop along with the position tool to take two subjects that are center screen and display them side-by-side. I’m not sure if the Movie Studio version has the Mask feature. If it doesn’t you will need to drive the mask with a black & white image on a track above which complicates things but still works.
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You could do this with a displacement map driven by the noise generator. The trick is to make the noise movement emulate heat raising. I would get some footage of real heat rising off of the road to use as a guide in creating this effect.
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