Lee Albright
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Thank you John and Wayne for your insights. Before upgrading I’ll give both your suggestions a try. Thank goodness for the Creative Cow Forums.
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Thanks for the help. I’m getting by by rendering a section of a scene at a time. I know it’s time consuming, but my system works fine, has yet to crash, and serves me well at the moment. However, I knew an upgrade would be necessary eventually and just thought a dedicated graphics could at least get me up to PREVIEW Half or Quarter for the time being.
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Hi Danny,
The scratches I am referring to were on the original 16m film negative. This negative was then transferred to hi-def files through a Rank-Cintel scanner and saved to a hard drive which was used to ingest the material into my Vegas timeline. The hi-def file didn’t create the scratch it just copied it from the 16mm original material.
I still need to know the physical procedure needed to remove the scratches from the hi-def image. I know it should be taken into Photoshop but how do you get the frame or frames out of Vegas into Photoshop and then back into the Vegas timeline?
Thanks.
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Hi John,
I realize Photoshop can be used to remove dust and scratches from individual frames but how do you get the frame or frames that need touching up out of Vegas and into Photoshop? Once they are repaired in Photoshop, how do you physically replace them back in the Vegas timeline at the proper place?
Thanks.
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John,
I did burn only one DVD using DVD Architect.
However, my stand alone DVD player has no option for setting it up for 16:9.
As I mentioned before, the DVD plays in the 16:9 format on my internal DVD burner/player with no stretching of the image. I will therefore try a different stand alone DVD player and report the results. Thanks for your help. -
Oopps!!!
My processor speed is 2.2Ghz not 2.2Mhz as I had erroneously stated in the first post.
Sorry for any confussion caused.
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John,
The company which is transferring my 16mm footate is called the Debenham Media Group. I will be receiving my HD transfer on a Seagate external USB hard drive as an .mov file in the Motion JPEG 2 format. I plan to crop the original 16mm (4:3) to the widescreen 16:9 format. The 19 minute production is a remaster composed of straightforward edits with mostly straight cuts, a few dissolves and simple, non-animated tiltes. I’m using Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum software. I’ll be adding two 7200 rpm internal SATA drives configured in 0 Raid array. My C drive is dedicated to my operating system (Windows Vista 64 bit).
The system should work, eh?
Thanks for your input.
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Hey Steve,
I have 4 Gbs of memory in addition to my 2.2 processor.
I’ll be editing a 19 minute educational project I filmed back in 1976 on 16mm color reversal stock. It’s currently being transferred to HiDef by Stuart Debenham on his Rank Cintel Laser Scanner.
Can’t wait to see the footage in HiDef as the camera original looks like it was shot yesterday…crisp, clean, and rich colors. I should be able to recompose from the 4:3 original to 16:9 and remaster the mono soundtrack to stereo. We’ll keep you posted.
Thanks for your help.
Cordially,
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Hi Mike,
The pan and crop did the trick.
However it took a while to get the hang of working with key frames. After figuring out the ‘Sync Cursor’ button, animating my clip was a snap.
Thanks a million for your help.
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Hey Mike,
I changed my preview window from ‘Best’ to ‘Auto’ with a little bit of improvement. After rendering however, the sequence was flawless. I’m assuming the minor smoothness problem in the preview window is inherant to the software (Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum).
By the way, I’m working in standard defintion for the moment and using an Intel Pentium Dual Core processor running at 2.2 MHz with 4 gigs of memory. I have some new media arriving soon on a hard drive that was transferred from 16mm film to hi def files. I’d like to integrate these files into my project. Although Sony recommends a 2.8 Mhz processor for hi def, what can I expect using my 2.2?
Lee