Lee Mceachern
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Thanks Peter. I’ll stick my toe into this deep water and see how it goes…
Cheers,
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Thanks all for your comments. I appreciate the education. Peter, your reference to “Intermediates or Proxies” illustrates how little I know about editing HDV. Does that refer to the delta frames that occur with GOPs (which, as I understand, are part of the HDV compression)? Do you have a reference location, article, etc. where I can get better informed before I take on this HDV project?
Thanks for any advice.
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Maybe it’s my long history with Media 100 before I moved to Vegas for so much of my work, but….. Can’t they put multiple timelines into Vegas? Multiple timelines are a godsend for working on longer form pieces, segmented projects, and different versions of the same piece. Being stuck with one timeline is my only major gripe with Vegas. (I know about nesting; it’s not the same.) Are there any other multiple timeline lovers out there who can help raise a cry to get this into development at Sony?
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You’re right. The original dub was bad. Better to do what you’re doing — get a new dub done and forget all these efforts to clean it up in post. Let us know how it turns out.
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1-inch tape from 1984?! Jeez… you’re as old as I am!
I have never heard of this problem before. I can only think of one very labor-intensive method that would solve it. That being said, I don’t know if Vegas will do this. This can be done in Avid, Media 100, and perhaps some other edit programs. Maybe in Vegas too; someone else can chime in on that.
The suggestion: Go to every problematic “mixed” frame and use it to make a one-field freeze frame. In the edit systems mentioned above, you can export an individual freeze frame of any frame in a clip and you can specify that the exported freeze frame be composed of only the odd field; or only the even field; or a blend of the two. Find out whether the odd or even field shows the image you want and make a freeze frame using just that field. You can then clip off the bad frame and insert the new freeze frame as a replacement. Depending on how many edits you’re working with, this can take quite a while. Note: this technique duplicates each odd or even field, which means you will have only 50% image resolution for a single frame at the end of each transition but my guess is the eye will never notice it. I use this technique all the time to eliminate drop-outs (which usually occur on only a single field.)
Hope I’ve understood your problem correctly.
–Lee
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Thanks for taking the time to answer. I will probably buy a new card anyway because I’d like to operate with two monitors and I don’t think th existing card is dual channel. But the answers here have helped me. Thanks!
Lee
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Thank you, gentlemen. It’s nice to see — again — that it’s safe to display one’s lack of knowledge on this forum.
Lee
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OK, I guess I’m behind the times. But I do keep up with so many suffixes. I must not be enough of a Vegas poweruser. What is a .vst plugin? (I did a quick web search and came up with a lot of plugins but not an explanation.)
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Disconnect everything — outboard arrays, etc. — and try starting up again. If that works, start adding things back until the problem crops up again. You might be able to isolate a piece of hardware where the problem resides. It’s a start.
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Worked like a charm. Much appreciated.
Lee