John Rofrano
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As Steve said, Vegas uses raw CPU power and nothing else so get the most powerful PC you can afford. Quad Cores will help with rendering times. Here are the specs from my editing PC that I built a year ago. It’s very stable and has plenty of power for Vegas.
For the future you might even consider an 8 Core PC because Vegas will being coming out with a 64-bit version that can use 8 cores. That will be my next machine.
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Obviously DVD Architect doesn’t like something about that AC3 file. You were on the right path to convert the audio. I would do it in Vegas using the AC3 5.1 Surround template. This way you will be sure that it is encoded correctly for DVD Architect. You may have to figure a way to get it into Vegas first like converting it into 6 wav files.
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Hi Rob,
You want to add a Volume Envelope to your audio track. You can do this by simply selecting the audio track and pressing the Shift+V key. This will insert a purple/blue volume envelope line. Then Double-Click anywhere along the line to add an envelope point. You can then move the point up and down to adjust the volume.
To raise or lower the volume in just a section make 4 points. The two outside points will maintain the existing volume and the two inner points will create a gradual envelope to the new volume.
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Anand,
You can add as many Boris RED presets as you like to Vegas. Do as Peter suggests and find the FX you want from the Library Browser or add them yourself. Change any parameters you’d like and then apply the FX in RED. Once you return to Vegas, give the preset a name and press the diskette icon to save it. A new preset will show up next to Default in the Vegas FX window.
I have BCC Chroma Key and BCC Matte Cleanup applied as a single preset which I saved under the name “Chroma Keyer”. Then when I want to do any chroma key work in Vegas, I apply this preset to my video event and when I go into RED everything is set up the way I like it. It’s a great time saver. Do this for all your favorite RED FX.
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> all i can see is the different shading between the video tracks and audio tracks… the video is darker wich says to me its highlighted for some reason and it was never like that before, trouble is i dont know how to get it back!
Could it be that you pressed the MUTE button for the video track? Or if you have multiple video tracks and all are dark then maybe you pressed the SOLO button for a video track without video? Maybe post a screen shot for us to look at?
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Vegas does not snap to embedded media markers. You’ll need to place your cursor over the marker as was suggested and have the events snap to the cursor.
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> I need a setting that squishes the wide picture into a 4:3 frame.
That would look terrible. If you shot HDV then your source is 16:9 widescreen. If you want to preserve the aspect you need to render to PAL Widescreen. If you want 4:3 you need to physically CROP the media to 4:3. Stretching it will look horrible. If I were you I’d render in widescreen and let it letterbox for people who have 4:3 TV’s. Otherwise you need to crop all of the events so that they match a 4:3 aspect making sure you don’t cut off parts of the image you want to keep (unless you framed for 4:3 and are sure that all the important bits are in the center of the frame).
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> Since no need for both on a system…install vegas pro, then uninstall vegas platinum…doesn’t matter which order.
While I agree with Steve that it SHOULD not matter, the safest way to do this is to uninstall Platinum first and then install Pro. The reason is that Sony has shared FX and sometimes the uninstallers will remove something that the other program needs. I’m not saying that this WILL happen but it CAN happen and that’s reason enough to uninstall first and then install what you really want on your system. Why tempt fate?
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Vegas cannot edit any file just because you have the codec for playback. There are certain video formats, particularly some DivX formats, it simply won’t edit. If this is the case you’ll need to convert your video into a format that Vegas can edit.
First you need to know what code is being used. There is a handy utility called GSpot that will tell you which video and audio codecs are used by a file but more importantly, it will tell you if you have these installed. Once you know what video codec the file is using you can do one of two things. If the codec is not installed you can install it and see if Vegas can open the file. If that doesn’t work then you need to use some other utility like VirtualDub or SUPER to re-encode it into a format that Vegas can handle.
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I just tried creating a WAV file using that template and at first I did not get an error message but it definitely ignored the template and created a 16-bit stereo file. I even opened it in Sound Forge to confirm the properties. They next time I tried using a looped section and I got the error message too. I believe you have found a bug in Vegas Pro 8.0. I would report this to Sony.
I saved the file in Sound Forge and got the 8K, 4-bit, mono file I expected.
~jr
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