[Margie Marfi]

Thank you Edward,

Yes, there’s a three or four minute chunk that I want to get rid of. There are probably a few more and in the middle of this project. With all the great tools that you and Gary have provided in Excalibur perhaps I need to underestand what a proper work flow should be. With this little 3 cam wedding (per lesson video .. mention was made of 17 inputs! or so.. at this point I would be stark raving mad), started off doing sync. Now think I should have done extract good clips first .. then sync .. with more experience, don’t know how many things I’ll think I should have done first before doing sync. Spent hours trying to adjust sync points before finding out via help index that I could move an event frame by frame left or right using 1 and 3 on the number pad, then two other numbers to move events by pixel … and that’s due to my still learning Vegas. At least I’ve learned some more stuff so what took me hours before can be minutes now. I repaired the piece that I complained about in the video yuck question per your advice with a piece of the better take. Doing some things are scary to do until you do them enough that there’s a comfort level that you aren’t going to destroy what you’re working on. Ex .. opened one of my last edits on this and all tracks grayed out! Just went back to the prior. Then tried to start fresh with chopping all the beginning and ending garbage that was loading up the timeline.

Margie

[Margie Marfi]

Thanks, will try. Must get to regular work.
Margie

[Margie Marfi]

Hi Edward,

Thank you for your response. The gap is more like about 4 minutes. I want to start video in track 2 and use about 1 minute or so, then go to track 1, which is about 4 minutes later down the timeline. If I choose camera 1 where the camera 1 starts, I get all the 4 minutes of track 2 that I don’t want to use. Don’t know if there’s something I need to do to get rid of the chunk of track 2 in between that I don’t want??

Thanks,
Margie

[Margie Marfi]

Thanks, I didn’t know that … but that wasn’t an option that I had! At least I know now so maybe in the future that can change.

Margie

[Margie Marfi]

Hi again Ed,

Forgot, both are the same, just different captures. Do I sync them first with Excalibur? Because even though I put both at the start of the timeline, they are not at the same point in time. My second capture was a more experienced one in that I started the capture before starting the player.

Thanks,

Margie

[Margie Marfi]

Hi Steve,

How would he fix his dropped frame problem? The DVDs are Fujifilm DVD-R 8X that were used to record ..I think mini DV tapes from three different cameras of a wedding. I don’t know the process used by my cousin to do the transfer. Just know what I do which is play them on my camera and capture into Vegas. For these I played them on a DVD player, ran them thru my camera to capture in Vegas. It did help to clean the DVDs … BUT not totally.

Thanks for your help,

Margie

[Margie Marfi]

Thanks Ed,

I’ll try this. I repaired some video of my grandaughter awhile back with still patches on the track above, but that was a short piece. Each of these three are over an hour of someone’s WEDDING (yikes)that my cousin did for a friend, so hopefully is not something that will be redone. I am worried about messing up audio and video sync within the video. Then I’ve been playing my Excalibur training DVD to figure out how best to do that with titling. Am thinking to do my titling intro first, then add the three videos…but then do I add all the tracks that I make to the multi cam? ie if I have 4 tracks for titling and it’s audio plus the three to edit do I have all of them included in the multi cam selection so choose 9?! Arrrrgh.

Thanks for your help,

Margie

[Margie Marfi]

Thank you Liam!!:)

I printing off some of Ed’s newsletters for food for my brain on V and DVDA while having hopes of a response!! Thought it could end up being something really bad like hitting some replay button on the player!! Guess I haven’t used it enough to notice if there is one. Thought about that after the post. Haven’t even checked yet!

Thanks again!
Margie

[Margie Marfi]

Thank you Ralph,

I would bring the jpeg in to the Epson CD printer prgm and it would show up as a white square with my stuff in it. Hunting around I found some kind of transparency tool in the Epson cd print prgm that took away the white square so that then I had my photos on the background that I chose. That happened even when I had a transparent background in PS. Then I found in the Epson prgm an area that you could arc your text! Thank you for the directions. I printed them out and will stick them next to the monitor until I get this straight. Sometimes I feel so dumb! Have to laugh yesterday a coworker grumbled at me then 10 minutes later asked me for computer help for a report she was trying to see .. it was on a minimized screen and at 26% zoom .. so I was glad I could help her … then felt I wasn’t unspeakable dumb….at least not all the time:)

Margie

[Margie Marfi]

Thank you Tom,

I think it’s the learning curve here again. I tried to select and send to front/back and it didn’t work. Then I found some kind of transparency tool menu (in the Epson CD printer software)and that took the white block away .. so then I had the background back with the stuff that I was trying to put on top of the background. I will try to store that little thrill for my next agnst.

Margie