[Kelly Griffin]

Hey Daniel,

Unless I’m missing something, Vegas will do all that for you. That’s one of the bafflingly cool things about Vegas that still impresses me after all this time.

Just lay the clips (OOOOPS, sorry, “events”) onto your timeline and render it and you’ll see what I mean.

[Kelly Griffin]

Oooh! Oooh! Pick me! Pick me! I know the answer!

🙂

Just select all clips, and “U” for ungroup.

Then, select all video clips except the first one, and then delete them.

Then, grab the right edge of the first clip and just extend it to the end of your audio edits.

Bodda bing.

[Kelly Griffin]

Sorry, by “supers” I just mean anything “superimposed” on your footage.

Check the alpha channel on the still image you’re trying to “super” over the footage; I suspect you either don’t have one at all or the black (zero alpha) area isn’t actually zero (?)

–Kelly

[Kelly Griffin]

Hey Robert–

First thing I’d check: On your supers, RT-click > “Properties” > “Media” > “Alpha Channel”… have a look at if selecting “Premultiplied” (or one of the other selections) helps.

–Kelly

[Kelly Griffin]

“Control-G”, too.

–Kelly

[Kelly Griffin]

Hey Nick–

Well, because MOI asked the very same question when I started, I got a pretty thorough reply back from John Rofrano and saved it. Here’s what’s pasted from my Vegas cheat sheet:

Project Settings: These are for the human while editing. Vegas (unlike many other NLE’s) will dynamically show you everything as if it all matched the project properties. For example, if you set them to progressive, Vegas will deinterlace any interlaced footage on the timeline on-the-fly to show you what your project would look like as if it were progressive. This is why I usually recommend that your project properties match your render properties because only then will you get true WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). Sometimes you can’t do this because you are rendering to multiple formats. Then I recommend that you set your project to match the format of your source. Having your project match the format of your source has an added advantage that Vegas doesn’t have to convert anything on-the-fly and so playback performance is better.

Even/Media Properties: These MUST be set to match what the media really is. They should only be changed if Vegas interprets your media incorrectly. (e.g., Vegas thinks your media is Upper Field First when it’s really Lower Field First). NEVER set these to something that doesn’t actually match the real media because this is how Vegas knows if it needs to deinterlace or change the field order. (e.g., don’t lie to Vegas and tell it something is progressive when it’s not, the results won’t be pretty). The only exception is if you are using a plug-in that asks you to change these settings. Once such plug-in is BCC UpRez which asks that you set interlaced footage to progressive because UpRez will handle the deinterlacing for you.

Render Properties: These can be anything you want and obviously should reflect your final desired format. This how you turn 16:9 into 4:3 or interlaced into progressive. If you’ve set your project up properly and all of your media is set properly, rendering should never surprise you and always give you what you asked for.

–Kelly

[Kelly Griffin]

Stephen–

I just responded and uploaded a culprit WAV file and a corresponding “good” AIF of the same thing. I don’t see my post anywhere, so please let me know if you don’t get them and maybe I could e-mail them directly to you (?)

They’re about 4MB.

Thanks for your help!

–Kelly

[Kelly Griffin]

Hey Steven,

No, no codecs installed. I’ll try what you said, but this is just so bizarre (and frustrating).

–Kelly

[Kelly Griffin]

Brian,

For things like your issue, I’ve found that sometimes I can hide stuff easier if I use a bigger chunk of what I’m trying to hide; in other words, your little cap may be more noticeable hopping around all by itself rather than if you were able to include more of the neck of the bottle with it as well. I realize your bottle may be clear, but if it’s a dark green or brown or black, you might be able to get away with it.

–Kelly

[Kelly Griffin]

George, I’ve been running into the same thing lately, but it may not really be there… Have you tried playing the MP4 on a different computer than what you rendered it on? I know that sounds bizarro, but I spent hours trying to diagnose why it was happening to me and everything looked fine when I happened to play it on another laptop.

Maybe?

–Kelly