[John Rofrano]

Oh, that wasn’t clear from your post. Well… WMV is what it is. If you’re willing to go to 20MB/sec then increase the data rate on your WMV renders. If you’re getting 10MB at 1.5Mbps double it to 3.0Mbps. Like I said, WMV is what it is. If you want to use a better codec you need to be willing to render to a different format.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

There are probably free scripts around that you can use to accomplish this. Or you can purchase a script plug-in like VASST Ultimate S Pro or Excalibur to get these kinds of functions and a whole lot more.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

What the different types do is documented in the help file and pretty much the same way they work in Photoshop or any other graphics package.
I usually just leave it on Gaussian.

Why you would want to use them is if you wanted to add motion blur to your video for any reason. It is specifically good for animations that have discrete frames that are too clear. The motion blur makes them look more natural. BTW, these settings will do nothing until you add a Motion Blur envelope to the Master Video Bus track so don’t worry about the settings if you are not using a motion blur envelope.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

You might want to try using the Sony AVC or MainConcept AVC/AAC templates. They are MPEG4 and should give you very good quality at low bitrates.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

Yes there is. Probably the easiest way is to use the Sony Cookie Cutter FX and have it cut out a circle or square or other shape in your video revealing the track below. Then just put whatever you want to replace the area with on the track below and you’re done.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

Also, if you have a problem area on your green screen that can’t be keyed out… add a Secondary Color Corrector before the Chroma Keyer and use the Secondary to fix the off-color of green to match the rest of the screen.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

Vegas does not use your graphics card for playback so buying a new one won’t help. Vegas uses pure CPU power and a 2.13Ghz is at the low end of the scale. If these files are highly compressed that could contribute to the problem.

Your two options are to get a more powerful computer or render the video to a format that Vegas can preview faster. If these are SD quality files, rendering them to DV AVI would be the fastest format for playback.

If the customer brings the file with them and expects to see it immediately (i.e., there is no time to transcode) then your only option is to get a more powerful PC. 🙁

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

I would set the project up 1920 x 1080i and render to BD as that as well. The 1440 x 1080 will look fine because it has a pixel aspect ratio of 1.3333 which brings the true resolution to 1920 x 1080 anyway. The 720p footage will be scaled up by Vegas and it is what it is. If it looks noticeably different I would not use that camera next time but it will probably look fine.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

I usually create these as my background in Vegas. In other words, in Vegas, drop your DVD background on one track, drop your video on the track above and use Track Motion to create a picture-in-picture. The Sony Border FX can be used to feather the edges so that they blend. Then just render a 20-30 second loop to be used as the DVD menu video.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

You need to have at least Vegas Movie Studio Platinum to work with HD and the Canon Vixia HV30 is HDV which are .m2t files so I’m not sure where the AVI files are coming from unless you are shooting in DV mode with an HDV camera.

The .m2ts files are AVCHD. I know Vegas Pro 8 can render this and I’m pretty sure the latest Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9 can but I don’t know if VMSP 8 can. Look for a render type Sony AVC (*.mp4;*.m2ts;*.avc). If you don’t have that they your version cannot output .m2ts files. I would download the trial of VMSP 9 to make sure it has that before you upgrade.

~jr

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