[John Rofrano]

[Nguyễn Tiến Thành] “Thanks for reply , but I need something like this 🙁 “

Then you’ll need to buy After Effects. Vegas Pro has no notion of a camera or any way to add behaviors like bounce.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

You should post pictures using the IMAGE UPLOAD button because most people won’t download a random zip file to their computer.

If you just want to make that black film strip frame around the video you could use the Mask tool in Pan/Crop to draw it, or you could create a matte in a graphics editor that has an alpha channel where you want the video to show through.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

[Linda Long] “Here is a link to two files I was trying to use:”

Hi Linda,

Those files are Photo JPEG and do not contain an Alpha Channel. What you have is Matte video that can be used to mask the Wipe video. You need to:

• Place the 99175_goldenFiligree_HD1_Alpha.mov video on the top track.
• Place the 99175_goldenFiligree_HD1_DA_Wipe.mov video on the track below it.
• Place your background video on a track below both of those.
• Change the Compositing Mode of the top track to with the matte video to Mask (Multiply)
• Change the second track with the Wipe to be a Compositing Child of the top track.
• Add the Mask Generator to the Alpha matte Event to make the black turn transparent.

Here is a picture of what you should see:

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

[Wayne Waag] “Vegas pro only reads the alpha channel from an uncompressed avi.”

Actually, Vegas Pro handles alpha channels in QuickTime MOV files just fine. The link you pointed to in your post had to do with MOV files created in Avid. No one supports Avid’s alpha channels because they are backward. Vegas Pro supports QuickTime alpha channels with the Animation codec, the PNG codec, and ProRes 4444 codec in addition to uncompressed.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

What codec do the files use? Open them in QuickTime Player and use Ctrl+I to bring up the inspector windows and see what codec the video uses. It needs to be able to carry an alpha channel in order for Vegas Pro to see it.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

[Therese Kim] “I’ve been trying to pull the front fan out, so I can access the heat sinks (to dust them). The top-left screw holding down the fan was removed, but the fan won’t come out.”

You are going about this the wrong way. Removing the front fan is not going to help.

You need to Google for “mac pro service manual” and download a PDF copy and read about how to do this. You need to remove the memory and loosen the memory cage and slide it towards the back to get the heat sink cover off.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

[Martyn Cerny] “But with the 8 bit format my colours get glitchy through out the preview also after render, but with 32 it doesn’t glitch that much.”

Use whatever works for you but 32-bit color will change the look and you were complaining that the look was changing, that’s all.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

You didn’t tell us about your source footage (other than you used Action! which means nothing to me) but you seem to have several settings wrong.

I’m going to assume that your source is progressive footage captured from your PC screen during game play. Given that assumption:

• Your project is set up as interlaced which is wrong for progressive source.
• Your project doesn’t specify a deinterlace method which is wrong for an interlaced project.
• Your pixel format is set to 32-bit which should only be used for 10-bit source which I doubt highly your game footage is (this is why your colors are shifting).
• Your render settings are not taking advantage of available bandwidth because it’s set to constant bit rate.

I would:

• Set your project up as progressive.
• Use 8-bit pixel format
• Render to VBR using Two pass with 24Mbps max, 16Mbps average bitrate

See if that improves things.

Also, your subject talks about AVI files but you are rendering to MP4. So I don’t understand that. Is your source AVI?

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

[Bill Davis] “I didn’t see much of this as actually running any higher than normal speed. Is there a specific sequence that where you notice what you’re talking about?”

I believe they are talking about the effect that starts at 3:02 with the cheerleaders.

[Bill Davis] “I suppose you could get something like you describe by slowing the on-set music playback by a fixed amount, then increasing the playback by a similar amount in post, but at the end of the day, to keep the beat, the action is doing to have to match the tempo of the song or the beat will drift over time. “

+1

I believe you nailed it, Bill. It looks like they recorded it much slower and then increased the speed to make it look normal. This allows you to do moves that you never could do because you can’t react that fast normally but at 1/2 speed it’s very easy to do. Also you move differently when you are moving slower so the moves look unnatural when sped back up to normal speed giving it that jerky feel. Nicely done. (the whole video is actually nicely done)

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

[Wayne Waag] “BEWARE! You must first copy everything from that hard drive that you want to keep since everything will be erased.”

Yea, if you don’t want to loose everything I would convert it. Microsoft has instructions on their web site:

Convert a hard disk or partition to NTFS format

~jr

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