John Rofrano
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You could drop a Sony Timecode FX onto an Empty Event and mask off the parts that you don’t want. The timecode will start counting when the event starts and end when the event ends. Just extend the event on a track above all the others and position the time using Track Motion.
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> Obviously I am not into 24p but if you can’t watch 24p whats the use in doing it.
Well you can watch 24p. Just not on an analog TV.
> What basic am I missing here?
Oh it definitely has a different cadence than regular 29.97. The pulldown frames are not “real” captured frames. They are duplicates of the existing 24 frames. Pulldown is sometimes refered to as 2:3 pulldown because it duplicates the 2nd frame, then the 3rd frame after that, then the 2nd frame after that, etc. to bring frames 24 up to 30. This process maintains the slower cadence of the original 24p so it does give you a different feel.
Also don’t forget that normal DV and HDV is interlaced, meaning there are 60 fields interlaced together to create the 30 frames that you see. This is commonly referred to as 60i. Capturing motion at 60 interlaced fields per second, and capturing motion at 24 progressive frames per second, gives you different motion. The 24p is discrete samples while the 60i is two samples in time displayed together at 30 fps. Creating 60i from 24p will never look the same as captured 60i because 24p has only 1/2 of the samples of motion.
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It will add pulldown frames to make up the frame rate difference. This shouldn’t affect the video much since a standard NTSC DVD player would add the same pulldown in order to view it on an NTSC TV anyway since all NTSC TV’s only support 29.97. You have been watching 24p movies on TV like this your whole life. (unless of course you are in a PAL country in which case you’ve been watching 24p at 25fps)
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You can only use MPEG-2 on a DVD that is to be played in a DVD player so just use the NTSC or PAL DVD Architect template and your footage should look great.
If you want to make a DATA DVD with no quality loss you will need to use an HDV or AVC template with the same resolution and bitrate as the original footage. You will only get about 20 minutes of video before a standard DVD5 will become full.
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Only you can answer that. If you just want pre-made overlays get Essentials. If you want to make your own, get EffectsLab Pro. Personally, given the choice, I would buy EffectsLab Pro.
Don’t forget there is a free demo of EffectsLab Pro so you can download it and try it out before you buy. I’m a big believer in try-before-you-buy. This way there are no surprises.
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Yes Ultimate S Pro contains StillMotion with additional Photo Montage features. Actually, StillMotion is a “lite” version of Ultimate S2 Photo Montage. In Ultimate S3 and now in Ultimate S Pro we have continued to develop the Photo Montage tool and so Ultimate S Pro contains a much more powerful Photo Montage tool than StillMotion. It’s like StillMotion on steroids. Ultimate S Pro also has MotoFoto which is another tool for building photo montages with flying pictures in motion. The two can be used together to create some really exceptional photo montages.
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The DVD spec requires MPEG2 so no form of Quicktime file will ever work. Just render using MPEG2 using one of the DVD Architect templates and you should be OK. You will need a DVD authoring program like DVD Architect to create a DVD that will play on TV.
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Yes, Vegas Pro is quite capable of compositing the Action Essentials video with your original footage. You won’t need anything else.
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You’re welcome. Media players use a special mode called “video overlay”. This overlays a small section of screen with video. I’ll bet the settings only affected that mode which is why they only affected media players.
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> The issue is that there is zero difference, in playback rate, between Best/Full, Good/Full, and Preview/Full.
That probably indicates that your CPU is having difficult rendering Full frames regardless of quality. So in your case it doesn’t matter how much you lower the quality from best down to preview, the resolution is limiting the frames that you see.
There are two settings being affected. One is quality: Draft/Preview/Good/Best. The other is resolution: Auto/Full/Half/Quarter. If you drop your resolution to half or even quarter, you should start to see different frame rates between preview, good, and best.
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