[Laszlo Kovacs]

Hmmm…

Not sure, but you could give a try:

Set track motion to default.
Use event pan/crop:
Maintain aspect ratio: NO
Stretch to fill: YES
Width: 720
Height: 480 (sure- you loose the extra 6 lines)

If you still have interlace problem (flickery motion) increase or decrease y-center by 1 – so upper/lower fields get into their places.

Some time ago I succesfully used similar technic to convert upper field first footage to lower field first to match the standard DV-avi field order.

Hope that this helps.

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

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[Laszlo Kovacs]

[toneystone] “I dont have DVD Architect yet with my Vegas”

Oooops…

I thought you have…

Sorry, I have no idea about nero vision express, I never used it.
But I bet, it must not refuse to import already DVD compliant stuff
(such as mpeg2, ac3/mpeg audio).
Again, I’m not sure about DTS.

Sorry if I could not help.

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

I never used nero vision.
My audio is always stereo, but yes, it’s ac3.
😉

I just BURN all my disks with nero regardless of it’s
type – be it DVD video, DVD, svcd, or cd.
I’m happy with nero, becasue it allows me to do some
special things, example: a video DVD containing
additional data (not sure about supporting this method
by others…)
I used nero for years now, and almost without problems.

DVDA just prepares the DVD, that means it creates the
necessery files into a video_ts folder (vob, bup, ifo files).

Nero does not too much care for the contents of these files
(at least it seems to do so).

So, if you’re about multichannel audio, render it with vegas,
author and prepare the disc with dvda, and burn it with your preferred burner (may be nero, but could be DVDA itself).

Hope I could help.

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

You could create it as color gradient:
black-transparent-transparent-black
and place it into the topmost track.
Or better create your “border” in photoshop.
You can also use masking.

There are number of ways to achieve this 😉

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Hi,

cluster sizes do not affect performance a lot, but
the ability to use/waste the drive space.
The clusters size is the smallest segment on the drive
you can allocate.
For example:
You have 4KB cluster size, and you have to store 1KB of data ->
you have to allocate one cluster, which is 4KB, in that you store
1KB, so 3KB wasted.
If you generally store lot of small files, decreasing cluster size
you get more drive space (less wasted space). If you sotre huge files, such as DV AVI, wav, etc., decreasing cluster size only
pumps up the size required to administrate the files on the drive,
thus you loose some space.

If you mean stripe sizes, it DOES affect of a RAIDs performance.
Assume we’re talking about RAID0 with 2 HDDs.
The dataflow is divided between the 2 disks, so theoretically you get “one” drive performing 2 times faster. Knowing that a drive can perform faster in burst mode (transferring larger data blocks is faster) you should set up the stripe size according to this.
So, that size depends on your drive.

I recommend to set up the RAID with different stripe sizes starting 32KB up to the biggest available.
Each time format – benchmark, and see which gives the best performance.

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Hi,

I always burn with nero, DVDA just prepare.

Sorry, I have no idea about DTS.

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Hi,

Some time ago I needed to edit DivX format video.
I had installed the DivX5.0.5 codec, and some other
codecs I use (actually lame mp3, divx, xvid, morgan mjpeg v3)
No others (I hate codec packs, they often have trojans within).

I could load the divx video to vegas 5 timeline, but it was painful.
Audio out of sync, seeking a frame took seconds.
I’d recommend against editing divx directly.

I used the virtualdub to convert the video to mjpeg/uncompressed audio, that was editable fine with vegas.

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Not the “next” but the OK button.
Insert a button that links to the
next menu (slide), if you have more
buttons, make sure that the “next”
is the default.
Doing so ensures that you just have to press the “OK”.
The menu’s end action tells the player what to
do if the end is reached, the default is hold, I think.
You can set it to LOOP if you want, but this makes only
sense if you have something motion on the page.

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Another way is that you set the slides length to a value
that is surely more than needed.
Let’s say change the page every 30 sec, make the slides
3 minutes length. When playing, pressing “next” skips
the remaining time of the current slide.

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For projecting pps/ppt files I’d recommend a using
a notebook.

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K.L.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Hi,

Have your still on the preview.
Set “preview (best full)”
Click that little disk icon above the preview to save snapshot to file,
or the documents icon to save to clipboard.
Import your still to your graphics editor (open the file or paste).

Depending on the picture you may need to apply some sort of deinterlace
(photoshop has such filter)

Do your graphics editing – that’s all :))

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K.L.