[Laszlo Kovacs]

While you preview it in vegas, and DVDa, you see it on the computer monitor, displayed as graphic.
If you play it back from DVD, the player software uses video overlays of your videocard, which may (and probably does) have
different brightness/contrast, gamma and color saturation settings.

Create a DVD containing color bars, and calibrate your DVD player software so that you see the same colorbars as vegas show it to you.

Then compare again brightness, saturation, etc. 😉

Hope I could help.

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

I’m not familiar with V7, but an idea:

Probably you have more capture devices, let’s say a TV card,
which vegas can’t setup properly.

Plug in your camera to firewire, set it to “vcr” mode, start capture program, and in the video menu choose something like “microsoft dv-vcr”
This can be done after the error message.

Then you’ll able to capture from your camera.

Hope I could help.

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Hi,
are you using the defaults?
The default prepare folders name (c:documentsandsettings\…etc…)
may be too long or can contain charachters that DVDA does not support – I mean on localised versions of windows.
I had similar problem, and setting up a prepare folder solved this issue. I named it like “c:\mastering”

Hope I could help.

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

I’m just right here, and am also interested.

Dropped that mail for you 😉

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K.L.

ps. rem

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Hi,

Another way is to creat it as graphic.

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

[Grasshopper] “hit “flip horizontal” and you are now on the opposite side of the screen”

That’s OK, if he wants to be over a compeletly mirror-symmetric
background – in addition when he(A) drops, he(B) drops too :)))

If I understood everything correctly.

But if he has a normal background (like a room with a table and some furnitures) – and he(A) wants to raise pot before he(B) drops…

:))))

He has to shoot 2times.
At least I would do so.

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

[FrankDeth] “For instance, if I wanted to film myself playing cards with myself.”

Hi,
you can do this without croma-keying.
First film yourself on one side of the table,
let’s say you’re on the right side.
Shoot the film.
Then go to the left side, and film again.
Important: don’t change the light, don’t change
anything on the camera.
So you really need only pan/crop and 2 tracks
for merging playing card with yourself 😉

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Hi,

Noone seems to answer, so I put my opinion here, which may or may not be correct.

[The Old Fart] “you have much more control if you encode it in Vegas rather than DVDA.”

That’s correct.

[The Old Fart] “If this is so then I should be using Vegas rather that DVDA. Correct?”

Of course. Yes.

[The Old Fart] ” think that I should encoded everything as dual pass”

I tried it some time ago (in Vegas4 age), and I did not see any improvement in quality using standard DVD bitrates.
It just took twice the time to render 😉

[The Old Fart] “I often have stills in these projects”

If you have only stills, you are probably OK with progressive.
But if you have some interlaced stuff, I’d prefer to stay interlaced.
Because: with deinterlacing you loose some motion information.
(You may see this motion as horizontal lines if play an interlaced video on a progressive display without deinterlacing)
If you loose it, you’ll never get it back.

I’m not sure if I could help, in addition I can’t answer your other questions 🙁

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

What applies to vhs quality applies to Video8 as well, however Video8 is somewhat better than vhs.

Check this thread:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_thread.cgi?forumid=24&postid=870073&univpostid=870073

Hope I could help.

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Hi,

google for divx repair.
Repair first then give another try.

Hope I could help.

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K.L.