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John Rofrano
November 18, 2008 at 6:20 pm in reply to: Working on 1 project with 2 hard drives?

> Would changing the home external hard drive to J: also fix the problem?

Yes. This is the recommended method regardless of application and is the easiest and quickest to implement. If you plan to use removable drives it is “best practice” to have those drives be assigned the same drive letter on every system you use. Maybe use R: for “removable”.

~jr

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John Rofrano
November 18, 2008 at 11:38 am in reply to: Sony Vegas 9 & stabilization plugin

You are using the Movie Studio version of Vegas and Movie Studio is not supported by Mercalli. The reason is that Mercalli uses Vegas Scripting to work around limitations in the Sony plug-in API and Movie Studio doesn’t support the Vegas Pro script API. You will have to use something like Boris FX or Boris RED to stabilize footage with a plug-in. Otherwise use a stand-alone stabilizer.

It would also be helpful in the future if you point out that you are using Movie Studio in your posts. While it is easy enough for us to deduce this now because Vegas Pro 9 doesn’t exist, it will get very confusing in the future when it does exist. There is no such thing as “Vegas 9″… there is Vegas Movie Studio 9 and Vegas Pro 8. Thanks.

~jr

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John Rofrano
November 18, 2008 at 11:30 am in reply to: Blurry/pixelated child layer

You need to use Pan/Crop to zoom in. Track Motion will always convert the image to the project resolution BEFORE it does any movement which is why you are seeing pixelation when zooming in. Never zoom in with Track or Parent Motion; only zoom out. Pan/Crop will zoom in and use all of the resolution in the image as it zooms.

~jr

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John Rofrano
November 18, 2008 at 4:51 am in reply to: Boris RED doesn’t work with Vista 64

Peter,

No luck. I did a total uninstall, downloaded the latest 4.3.1 “try-n-buy” and installed that. Same exact problem. The interface never completes painting and it locks up. I have to kill it with the task manager.

Here is a screen capture of what the interface looks like: Boris RED 4.3 in Vista 64

Notice the preview window never finished painting. This is the exact same PC hardware that works when I boot into XP. I have two partitions… XP Pro works, Vista 64 doesn’t. 🙁

I got the following diagnostic information from Boris BLUE when I asked it to test my OpenGL Hardware:
Graphics Card: GeForce 8600 GTS/PCI/SSE2 OpenGL Version: 2.1.2 Driver Version: 6.14.11.6925 Available Texture Memory: 2276 MB Max Texture Dimension: 8192 x 8192 Physical CPU count: 1
Shaders: C:\Program Files (x86)\Boris FX, Inc.\Boris BLUE 2.5\Shaders\
Hardware Status: Supported Critical Testing: Successful.
In fact… now that I think of it… when Boris RED was working, the last thing I asked it to do was test my OpenGL Hardware because the interface was acting funny and it froze and never worked again after that! So it worked briefly after CS4 was installed until I tested OpenGL. Does that give your developers any clue? (other than BLUE works so what is different about BLUE?)

Any ideas?

~jr

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John Rofrano
November 17, 2008 at 8:21 pm in reply to: Render output is bad…using Camtasia…HELP

Great! Glad it worked out.

~jr

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John Rofrano
November 17, 2008 at 5:40 pm in reply to: Vegas 8.0c Safe Area

I agree with you. It’s not your CPU. With SD content you should not have any preview problems unless you are using a plug-in that is really dragging you down. Plug-ins like Magic Bullet and Neat Video will slow things down considerable.

~jr

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John Rofrano
November 17, 2008 at 4:36 pm in reply to: Why can’t I reposition source media post-crop, post-chroma key?

I would use Track Motion to position the chroma keyed subject after it is cropped. This should work as you expect.

~jr

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John Rofrano
November 17, 2008 at 4:34 pm in reply to: Render output is bad…using Camtasia…HELP

> They wanted a WMV file for the end result
> The camtasia project was recorded at 1024×768 AVI.

Did you create a WMV file at 1024×768 resolution? That should look best. Start with a bitrate of 512K and increase it in 512 increments until it looks the way you want.

~jr

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John Rofrano
November 17, 2008 at 4:26 pm in reply to: Vegas 8.0c Safe Area

You didn’t tell us what CPU your computer has or how fast it runs. Also are you working in SD or HD? It makes sense that using the safe overlay may slow down preview. It’s more things to render. It sounds like your CPU may be minimal for the work you are doing. Vegas does not use your graphics card so it falls all on your CPU.

~jr

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John Rofrano
November 17, 2008 at 4:22 pm in reply to: removing black background behind images in Vegas 8

Place a Generated Media Solid Color using the “White” preset on the track under the logo.

~jr

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