John Rofrano
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> But if you use the menu sytem in DVD-A and click “Make a DVD, you may not get the best quality correct?
No. I think Charles was assuming you were letting DVD Architect make the mpeg’s for you. The “Make DVD” button in DVD Architect will use the mpegs that you made if it is DVD compliant. I’m really stumped as to why your DVD would look washed out coming from HD but not from SD. Once you made the mpeg2 file, it is all SD so the DVD should look exactly like the mpeg2 it was made from.
Could it be that the monitor you are using to preview on your computer is not calibrated correctly? That’s the only thing I can think of.
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Sometimes it collapses to the bottom of the window. Hover your mouse over the very bottom of the window until it changes into a double-bar with arrows indicating that you can click and drag up to expand the collapsed keyframe window.
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You don’t need a capture card for digital. Both of those cameras are Hard Disk recorders so you could be able to plug them into your PC via a USB cable and drag and drop the files off of the hard drive and start editing.
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A quick google of “jumbotron resolution” shows that (at least some of) these displays are 12′ wide by 9′ high. That’s a ratio of 4:3 not 16:9 which explains why your footage is letterboxed. I would render a DVD at 4:3 and see if it fills the screen. If not, get the dimensions of the jumbotron they are using and render to that aspect.
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You can slow an event down or freeze frame using a Velocity Envelope on the event. I usually like to do an instant replay as well. You don’t want more that one or two of these so ask which are the two best plays that they are most proud of, then repeat the best moments of that play in slow motion (maybe even zooming in a bit) with the words “instant replay” at the bottom. It gives a chance to really showcase their best play.
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Hmmm… there is nothing that I can think of in GearShift that would keep you from selecting None. Are you using version 1.7.3 (that’s the latest). Feel free to send an email to our support about it and we will help you out. Just click the VASST logo and it will bring up an About Box that has a live email link for support.
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I just did a football recruiting video for someone and I used a Generated Media Solid Color with the Black preset on the track above the video. I adjusted the opacity of the color to make it a transparent gray. Then I dropped a Cookie Cutter FX as Rick suggested, using the Circle Cut Out, Center, Blurred preset. You have to keyframe the movement as Rick said but this allowed me to copy and paste that event whenever I needed it.
It went rather quickly because I only highlighted the boy for a few seconds at the beginning of each play. I figured if the coach couldn’t follow a helmet after having it pointed out to him… perhaps he should look for another line of work. 😉 I also didn’t want to insult the coach by keeping it on the whole time like he wasn’t capable of following a play. They really just need to be shown who to watch at the start.
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Hi Glen,
I’m one of the creators of GearShift so perhaps I can shed some light on these issues:
1) If i am editing with m2t files and I add effects, transitions etc, then over a period of time remove the effects, put new ones on, color correct etc, am I losing quality of the original m2t capture files? Are each of these changes generational changes? or is it only when I actually render that I lose quality?
You will only affect the quality when you render. All of the editing in Vegas (and most NLE’s) is non-destructive. That is to say, the original media remains unchanged during the editing process.
2) Not wanting to lose quality, I decided to replace the m2t files with the cineform intermediates. Of course these are huge files, taking up plenty of HDD, and much harder to edit in real time than the m2t files. It seems to be unanomous on forums that AVI files are easier to edit. I don’t find this the case at all. Any ideas why?
The lower compression and increase in file size switches the burden from your CPU to your hard drives. Since the drives have to stream more media they now become the bottleneck. So while it’s easier for your CPU to edit its harder for your hard drives to keep up.
3) using proxies in gearshift seems to be the best way to edit HDV. I have a trial version, but I can’t figure out how to replace m2t files with PAL DV but without getting the cineform files and the GSP files thrown in.
To just work with M2T files and DV Proxies in GearShift, go to the HD Media dropdown box and select None. This will keep GearShift from creating the Cineform intermediaries.
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Excellent! I’m glad you got it working. Hey it’s a give and take… our first questions should have been XP64 or Vista64? But next time, you can bet I’ll ask. 😉
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OK… well XP64 is your problem. I thought you were talking about Vista 64. You might want to go to the Microsoft site and see if they have a version of .Net Framework 3.0 that runs on XP64. Then install it yourself and try the Vegas install again.
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