Josh Meredith
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Have you tried typing out your text, and then applying the Slide transition called “Slide Out, Left-Right” to the text item on the timeline? That’s what I do when I want that effect.
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When I’m working on a project with a lot of pictures, I adjust the resolution of each one to 72 dpi. I don’t notice any difference between 72dpi pictures and 300dpi pictures, in a standard-def project, when viewed on standard TV screen.
My computer likes it a lot better when I edit with 72 dpi images, too. Having a few dozen 300 dpi jpg’s on the timeline slows things down for me. That is why I lower the resolution to 72 dpi. If I’m only working with a few images, I’ll usually leave them at their original resolution.
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have you tried just placing several text items in a row, starting with 10 (or whatever number you want), and going down to 1, and adding a clock-wipe transition between each one? Then you could just add a beep to the timeline wherever you wanted it.
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This might not be the solution you need, but here are two techniques that have worked for me:
#1: Create the first text item, and then create each subsequent text item by copying & pasting from the original, and changing the text for each one. This way the settings of each text item are based on the first, and they should all line up.
#2: If you’ve already created each text item, and they’re not lining up, go into the settings for the firt one (assuming it’s lined up the way you want it), click the “Placement” tab, and look at the numbers in the X & Y box. Then go through the settings of each subsequent text item, and copy those X & Y settings so that each text item has them set the same. This could be pretty tedious if you have a lot of text items, but it should work.
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As I said before, when I create an MOV, using the DV/DVCPRO NTSC codec, the video plays back very poorly through Quicktime Player 7.1.5.. This is the case whether I create the MOV in Vegas, After Effects, or with Quicktime Pro.
However, if I take that very same file and put it into the Vegas timeline, it looks no different than a DV AVI file.
This tells me that the Quicktime Player’s NTSC playback codec isn’t so great. But at least the MOV files are actually of very good quality, and playback (and edit) just fine in an NLE’s timeline (my buddy tried the same thing in Premiere, with same results).
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I don’t *think* it’s a replay issue. I sent one of these ugly NTSC MOV files to my friend with a brand new Macbook, and he confirmed it looked like garbage on his computer, too.
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There must be something wrong with Quicktime’s DV/DVCPRO-NTSC codec for the PC.
I’ve tried using Vegas and After Effects to render such a file, and both result in horrible video quality.
Then I tried using Quicktime Pro… same result.
Whether I start with an NTSC AVI file, or an uncompressed MOV file, even Quicktime Pro can’t render a decent looking DV/DVCPRO-NTSC MOV file.
I had a friend who uses Premiere Pro do the same thing, with the same awful result.
However… I gave my AVI to a friend with a Mac, and using the same QT Pro settings I was using on my PC, he was able to make a decent looking DV/DVCPRO-NTSC MOV file.
This is not a scientific experiment, but anecdotally, I’d say there is something wrong with the PC version of the codec.
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I’ve farther along than I was in this post, so I’ll post the new issue in a new one.
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Do you have Windows Service Pack 2 on your computer? My laptop came with SP2, and has never had a problem recognizing my HDV camera (JVC HD100). My desktop, however, was still on SP1, and wouldn’t recognize the camera (same problem as you described). The other day, I finally updated my desktop to SP2, and now the Vegas HDV capture screen recognizes my camera.
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Are you actually getting to the capture application, and if so, is it the same capture screen you see when you capture DV? It should be a different capture application for HDV. When I click on “Capture Video”, it presents me with a choice of DV or HDV. Choosing DV takes me to the same capture screen Vegas has used for years. Choosing HDV brings up a different capture screen.
If you’re not presented with the DV/HDV choice, then you’ll have to change something within preferences. I just looked at my settings, and I’ve also got the external-capture box unchecked.