[László Kovács]

Thanks for the warning!

I take music from Audiojungle (now Envato) if I need.

https://audiojungle.net/

Just buy the music, no subscription, no problem…
I never needed, but I know there are stock photos, webdesigns, AE templates, and many other things too.
They never stole my money.
Spread the word 😉

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László Kovács

[László Kovács]

Hi,

This is my opinion only.

If you plan to stay with Vegas, probably V14 is the next step. I upgraded from V10 this year.
(The path was V10–>V13 (for $200, but with free upgrade to V14) –> V14

V10 to 13 upgrade gave me absolutely nothing.
The benefit, I was hoping to get was the GPU acceleration, which was a failure.
All builds of V13 suffered from bugs, which basically made me impossible to use GPU with V13.
I really appreciate, that these bugs were fixed in V14. (Which does not mean V14 is free of bugs – ot isn’t)

The AC3 pro is the one thing I really miss, but there is a legal workaround, which does not require any hack.
I can render the sound to uncompressed wav.
Than that import to Vegas 10, and having DVDA 5.2 beside V10, I can render a nice AC3 pro.
I think the same is possible for you with V12 and the corresponding DVDA.

What I usually do is possible with stock Vegas FX, so I can’t say anything about mercalli and such.
But with my FullHD content, and few (up to 5 video) tracks, some color corecting effects and sometimes some blur,
I get 25fps preview, and near realtime renders – sometimes a bit faster, or just a little bit slower.
All this with an aged i5 3570 and a Radeon 6970.

So a 15 min fullHD render with V10 took hours, and this was cut down to couple of minutes.
A 80 min render for DVD took 2..3 hours, dependeing on the content, now this is 35..40 minutes. (With GPU enabled).

So this was a gain for me.
If I were you, I would download the trial of V14 and try it and discover, if it gives any benefit to you.

Best regards

László Kovács

[László Kovács]

You are very welcome :-))

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László Kovács

[László Kovács]

Hi,

I never met timecode in audio, Mikes post makes it clear why…

But I tried to do what you did:
Split the event, and added velocity envelope to the second.
Added some points to the envelopes, that basically made sure, that audio got out of sync from video.
The last point of the velocity envelope was set to 100%. After that point I did split the event, so if you follow me, now you have 3 events too.
From the third event remove velocity envelope. (Right click / insert remove envelope and remove check mark from velocity…)
Now drag this third event few frames away from the split point.
Does it get pink? For me it did ?
This usually means, that Vegas thinks AV sync is destroyed. what a surprise, it really is.
Right click audio or video, and choose synchronize by slipping.
I think you’re done 🙂

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László Kovács

[László Kovács]

Hi,

Make 2 splits.
1 – at start where you want to apply event velocity
2 – at the end of that scene

BEFORE you do the velocity thing.
Apply velocity change, and tweak the ending/starting timecodes so that they are continous.
Sorry, my english doesn’t allow me to explain it better. 😉

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László Kovács

[László Kovács]

Hi,

It’s on otpions / preferences / video tab.
“Show source frame numbers on event thumbnails as” –> Timecode

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László Kovács

[László Kovács]

Hi,

I don’t see the problem. Can you post an image, where everything is fine?

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László Kovács

[László Kovács]

Hi,

In this topic I gave some hints:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/1013010#1013012

That should work you as well 😉

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László Kovács

[László Kovács]

Hi,

I would not say it is the best way, but I would do so if I had to:
I would apply Track compressor, but not at master FX, but at track level instead.

You can try tweaking the preset: the higher the “Amount” is, the higher the maximal amplification, the lower the “Threshold”, the lower is the level, when amplifications steps in.

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László Kovács

[László Kovács]

Hi,

if I understand right, your avi’s aspect slightly differs from your project’s aspect, so that the avi would not fill up the whole screen.
If you have “Adjust source media to better match project settings” enabled in project properties, some croppping may be done.
Is that the case?

Best regards

László Kovács