John Rofrano
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It looks like you are capturing your video at a slower frame rate then you are rendering it in Vegas and therefore Vegas has to “make up” the missing frames. For example, if your captured at 15 frames per second and output at 30 frames per second, Vegas would have to make up half of the frames by blending two frames together to approximate the frame in between. The blended frames would cause ghosting like you are seeing.
The solution is to capture and output at the same frame rate (i.e., use a render template with the same frame rate as the source). It might be a good idea to set your project up to use that same frame rate in the project properties to. This way everything always stays at the same rate.
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It sounds like the problem is with Quicktime and not Vegas. I would try uninstalling Quicktime completely, reboot your computer, then re-install the latest Quicktime and make sure you can play mov files. Then try Vegas again.
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Make sure you have the latest version of Vegas 7. Red frames in MPEG2 files is a known issue with Vegas and they are still fixing it in Vegas Pro 8.0c. You might want to download the trial of Vegas Pro 8 and see if it fixes the problem for you and consider an upgrade if it does.
The only solution I can think of is to convert the VOB to an AVI file using a codec that doesn’t use interframe compression. Something like DV or M-JPEG would be best. Understand that VOB is a delivery format, not an editing format. Converting them to an editing format is always your best option.
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Yes you can if you use the right tools in Vegas. The easiest way to repair a bad green screen is with the Secondary Color Corrector. Set it to only affect the color of the screen and then use it to change the color to a better green. You may need to apply it several times in a chain at very narrow color width to get all of the screen to change but I find that this is the best approach. The Secondary Color Corrector also has a Mask option where it will just show the Black & White mask that it is using. You can then use it as a mask on another track if you’d like.
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That is one awesome sounding laptop and it looks like it should be great for editing video. There is nothing magical about transferring you projects over. You just need to copy all of the project files along with the source files. XP and Vista have a utility that will do this for you. On XP you can find it at:
Start | All programs | Accessories | System Tools | Files and Settings Transfer Wizard
What you might want to do is purchase a small hard drive like this Western Digital My Passport Essential and backup your files to it and then restore them to the new laptop. They come in sizes from 160GB – 500GB. The advantage here is that you will have a backup of all your work and will hopefully continue to backup your work on a weekly basis for safe keeping. (I am a big believer in backup and use Acronis TrueImage to back up my hard drive daily!)
I personally keep each video project in a separate folder with the project veg in the root and all of the source files and other media in subfolders. This way I can easily copy the whole folder to a backup or archive drive and know that I have everything. Some people keep their project files under My Documents and their source files scattered all over their hard drive. I do not recommend working this way but that’s just my personal preference.
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Offline editing is the process of working with video or film that is not the original. Usually it is a proxy that is easier to edit and after your edits are complete there is a “conform” stage where the edits are applied back to the original footage before making the final print. This is done all the time to edit film.
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It sounds like you missed Step 5: Process Camera Edits at Markers on page 21 of the infinitCAM 1.6 User’s Guide. This will undo the multi-camera window and convert your markers to edits on a Master track.
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Yes, I meant from an HDV frame. Actually stabilizer software works well in this situation because you have lots of room to crop the edges.
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Hmmm… missed that part. Usually this is because of a missing codec. I’m not sure why Vegas is not displaying the video (sorry).
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Download the ProRes codec from Apple and install it.
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