[John Rofrano]

> Actually, no, I think they will make the 64 bit version more than a point upgrade.

I was at NAB 2008 when Sony announced that the 64-bit version of Vegas Pro 8.0 will be FREE to all existing 8.0 customers later this year. Just like DVD Architect 5.0 with Blu-ray support was FREE for all existing DVD Architect 4.5 customers.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

Hi Bryce,

Newer versions of Vegas required VASST to change our licensing and use a new key system. You can upgrade your existing license key for FREE by following the link on the VASST Home Page: NEW Updates for VASST Software and Vegas 8 Users that will take you to a page which will explain how to update all of your VASST software products. You must sign on with the same email account that you purchased Ultimate S2 for this to work. If you have any trouble, please contact VASST support via the email in the Help file, User’s Guide, Read Me, or About Box.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

Sometimes you need to fool the eye. Movie making is all about selling the “illusion”. If you can’t zoom in enough with Track Motion you can help it out by resizing the Pan/Crop to be a little bigger at the same time.

Here is the composite as a project called Grolley.veg for you to study.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

Quicktime Pro definitely supports MPEG-4 with AAC audio. If you already have it, then you’re all set.

~jr

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Hmmm… sometimes Vegas can be very “twitchy” about the editing files encoded with the DivX codec. That might be the source of the problem. I just encoded a file with DivX 6 and brought it back into Vegas and rendered it out again and it was smooth. I only have DivX 6 so I’m not sure if DivX 5 is the problem. Make sure you have the latest DivX codec on your system.

You can test if DivX is the problem by rendering one of the files in a different format outside of Vegas and see if you still have the issue. You could use a free tool like VirtualDub to render one of the files using the HuffYUV codec (also free and lossless). If this works then DivX is the problem.

You could also try opening a new project, place just one file on the timeline and render it to NTSC DV AVI in Vegas. Then see if that render is OK. Maybe it’s a combination of DivX and something you are using in the project.

Cool little camera though. 😉

~jr

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> Hopefully this means that the 64 bit Vegas 9 Pro release is right around the corner!!

You mean 64-bit Vegas Pro 8.0, not 9. Sony said they would release a 64-bit version of Vegas Pro 8 this year and that hasn’t happened yet. I can’t imagine version 9 is anywhere in sight.

~jr

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I have to agree that iZotope RX is awesome, but I would start right in Vegas. Go to the Track EQ that’s on every audio track and start with the [Sys] 60 Hz hum notch using four stacked filters.

~jr

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I don’t think MP3 is a valid audio format for Quicktime. I have Quicktime Pro and it’s not an option there nor in Vegas. I would use the Vegas Quicktime template 100 Kbps Video as a starting point and just change the target rate from 10 to 16 on the Video tab. Those values are specified in Kbps and you want kbps so divide by 10 (168 is 16.8 but decimals are not allowed so 16 will give you 160, 17 will give you 170 which is over what he wants)

I don’t know how you’re gonna get MP3 audio in there. Let’s hope DSE knows.

~jr

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It determines how big a preview window you want to use to view your capture while it’s happening. Nothing more. It has no lasting effects.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

GSpot will tell you a lot about the video but for now, let’s see what Vegas thinks:

Right-click an event with a “jerky” video. Select Properties and then look on the Media tab. What does it say for:

Format: ?
Attributes: ?
Frame rate: ?
Field order: ?
Pixel aspect ratio: ?

Also what is the make and model of the camera that shot the video. If the camera has more than one media type (i.e., mp4, mov, mpg, etc) which type did you use when you shot it? If yuo don’t know go check the camera settings and see. You probably haven’t changed them since the shoot.

Could you post a small sample of this “jerky” video on the web so we can see exactly what you mean when you say “jerky”?

~jr

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