[Laszlo Kovacs]

[Gary Kleiner] “You might try a combination of high-end cables and hallucinogenic drugs :-0”

:))))

But you can also google for “Mike Crash”.
He made a filter called dynamic noise reduction,
which implements some sort of smoothing in time.
Thus reducing noise without degrading sharpness,
but destroying some motion information…
You have to find the right balance.
Sometimes useful stuff, I had luck with it.

You can try smartsmoother too, but
with dnr you have better chances
if it’s about noisy stuff.

Also built in sharpen, colorcorrector/secondary
and brightness/contrast are for enhancing your video.

Combining these effects you have countless possibilities
to “extremely” enhance your video.
But be careful – if you go too extreme the result
can get worse then the bad original.

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

What about sony-border effect?
Or create a border with tranparent background
in photoshop and place it over your video?

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

In nero when you put audio files into the compilation,
they will be instantly converted to 44.1 kHz 16 bit stereo uncompressed as an audio cd can hold only this type of data.
Don’t expect audio cd to be 5.1 channel 😉

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

https://ask-leo.com/windows_xp_home_or_xp_pro.html
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx

These are about that xppro has multiprocessor support,
but home does not.
I’m running on pro so I don’t know – but if that’s true
better choose xp pro.

Anyone here running vegas on xp home?

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

[The Old Fart] “I know that the sharpen tool often doesn’t produce acceptable results.”

Don’t be afraid of sharpen. Just try it.
It can subjectively enhance (a bit) a blurred image.
Consider that lost information (image details)
cannot be reproduced (as seen in high-tech tv series such CSI:
they can get a high-detailed image from 4 pixels using a sharpen
tool – that’s what we can not do ;D )

When you apply sharpen, first make sure your preview window is
720*576, preview is set to best.
Look for a frame, that does not have too much movement, because
sharpen also enhances edges that are cused by movement/interlacing.
Set up the sharpen tool so.
Because of the interlace issue in preview,
render a few seconds of your video to see how it REALLY looks.

Modify sharpen value if necessary.

I hope i could help.

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

I’m working almost dayly with old vhs tapes.
Sure, if you capture something from such a tape,
it does not have a real resoulution of 720*576, BUT
it’s surely better than 352*288.
At least you can see the difference, the material
kept in 720*576 is much better seen on a TV, than
another reduced to 352*288.

I’d recommend to keep it highres.
Don’t choose bitrate under 5Mbps, or you’ll see
compression artifacts.

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Hi,

[toneystone] “Can I combine the video file that has audio with another audio to play in sync?”

Sure.
But you have to ensure a/v sync in vegas.
(In DVDA I don’t know of a way to alter the position
of the audio.)

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Did you try to convert your gifs into png?

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

[Alan Lacey] “Do you understand what the ‘stretch to fill frame’ button does?”

As it says. It stretches the the image you pan/crop.
To make it more clear:

Let your project’s size 720*576.
Let your image size 100*100.
When you get this onto the timline, it will be enlarged to 576*576.
You can then crop a part of this image: in this situation the image
size does not change, but you see the cropped part only.
Set the width/height to 10, x/y center to 5 and “stretch” to NO – you see the upper left corner of your image, but again it’s enlarged by a factor of 5.76 so actually 57*57 pixel on the screen.
Now set “stretch to fill” to YES, what you get is that the of image
fills the projects frame size, 720*576, so you see again a 576*576 picture. If you switch “maintain aspect” off, it will get wider to fill horizontally too (image distorted:)).

What you really want is the opposite effect: making the picture to look smaller. You can do this by cropping a LARGER area then the image actually is.
So, your image is 100*100, you want it to be displayed as 100*100 then you have to crop as follows:
Set “Stretch” to YES, width to 720, heigth to 576. That implements some “zooming out”.
Until now I didn’t discovered, that you cannot extend the cropping area to be larger than 8 times the original image.

Another option for you is to use track motion to display your logo in a size sou need.

It’s usage is more intuitive, try it 😉

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Stretch to fill stretches to fill frame what you crop.
If your image is 32*32 pixel, set pan/crop to stretch,
but width to 720, height to 576 (since you are living in PALland:))
Play with the x/y center to position your logo.
If you want the logo to be smaller increase the crop with/heigth.
Or decrease them if you want the logo to be larger.

Hope I could help.

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K.L.