[Lawrence Farr]

I have no idea what may have caused the issue but if the video and audio plays fine in another media player and you’re on a desktop system, just re-record the audio from the media player into Vegas or another DAW.

It can be a bit tricky to setup but many desktop audio cards have a “stereo mix” or similar input device that will record what you hear (it may be disabled, right click on audio devices and “show disabled devices”), play the video in a media player and record the audio in real time from there into Vegas or another audio workstation.

Just make sure to play it through the audio card and not some external USB speakers or an ASIO device. The cards will only record “what you hear” if it’s passing through the system card.

You’ll have to sync it back up to the vegas video but it all may be less frustrating than trying to figure out what went wrong. If it’s from a video there should be a clear start point so it won’t be too hard to sync up. If you can hear it play correctly anywhere, record it and use the new audio track in Vegas with the vid.

P.S. I’m no video pro, I’m an audio engineer, I’m just trying to “give back” a little for all the great help I’ve gotten here. Good luck.

[Lawrence Farr]

For basic shapes use the cookie cutter. For more advanced shapes use a graphics app and drop the graphic in. Below the link shows a cookie cutter with a circle that has some transparency. It has arrow heads and similar also. For more advanced shapes I use Corel Draw and export as PNG with transparent background.

Just a solid media event over the picture.

https://dawsession.com/pics/2010-10-07_2137.png

[Lawrence Farr]

Thank you. I may have to grab that. I’ve figured out the raw basics but some of the more advanced things there is what I’ve kinda been struggling with.

I know it can do way more than what I’ve done with it, which is very little.

Gracias John…

[Lawrence Farr]

I’ve always struggled with the ProType Titler. Are there any really good tutorials for it out there?

Thanks.

[Lawrence Farr]

Thanks. I actually just tried the plug and the upload failed. I’m actually glad it failed because the vid was pretty screwed up.

I’m going to render it per your instructions and try that.

P.S. I’ve notice that some rendering directly to some compressed formats will change cropping and some other things. I’ve seen that before with WMV and it just did it again with MP4. Not sure why, but in the past I’d render to AVI first and then to the compressed format. I may have to do that here.

Anyway… thanks. This place is a great source of information.

[Lawrence Farr]

Thanks you John. I’ll try that next time. Do you upload manually through YouTube or use the free plug or some other method?

Thanks.

[Lawrence Farr]

Thanks. I’d never heard of that before. I’d been using Windows Movie Maker.

[Lawrence Farr]

Well, kinda. It was in Vegas 32 that it first happened so I tried the 64-bit version, still no luck, re-installed Vegas, no luck, tried to capture using Windows Movie Maker, no luck.

Finally I did the repair thing and it was fixed. But DV capture in my case was broken for the entire OS, not just Vegas. Vegas is the only thing I ever use for capture so trying with Movie Maker was just a logical part of the troubleshooting process and it kinda led me to the solution.

I recalled that DV capture in Windows has always been part of the OS. I don’t recall ever installing any special drivers to make it happen in XP, Vista or anything so I figured that repairing the MS multi-media software, contained within Live Essentials in this case, would do it.

[Lawrence Farr]

It appears so. DV capture is, I guess, all tied into Movie Maker and all that which (it seems) is all tied into the Windows Live Essentials components.

I use a Canon GL2 and it scared the bejeezus out of me. I thought my camera was broken or something. I also have an older Sony handycam with DV that I hadn’t used for awhile but I couldn’t find the power supply to test it.

But repairing Windows Live Essential fixed it.

[Lawrence Farr]

This thread has been very informative. I recently bought a stock Gateway system from Best Buy and it’s working pretty well with Vegas Pro so far. I just need to add a second internal hard drive.

Here is the system… https://www.gateway.com/systems/product/529668656.php It came stock with two DVI video outputs was one selling point for me although it lacked firewire ports (I had a spare FW card). It was about $1k and I’m happy enough with it so far but next time I’ll probably ask advice here first.

But this off the shelf system is allowing me to enjoy Vegas much more in realtime than I could previously.