[Mary Waitrovich]

Thanks. This info is very helpful.
In the past I have only used arri and lowel light with halogen bulbs. I note that the most affordable lights have florescent bulbs. Are they just as good or should I avoid them?

[Mary Waitrovich]

I had a similar problem when I first upgraded to Vegas 9. Turned out to be an issue with the main production drive in my machine. I’m still not sure exactly what the issue was(something in QT was having trouble with the file path) but I can encode to other drives on the machine, so all is well for me. Try rendering to a different drive.

[Mary Waitrovich]

Norman,
Make your video in Vegas and render as .avi (at DV quality for best results).
Open a new project in Flash 8 and choose File>Import>Import Video. Follow the wizard and you will end up with both a .swf and .flv file.
The .swf file is the Flash “movie” that loads and plays the video file which is the .flv file.
You might need a few more details on how to use Flash but this is one way to get started. Hope this helps.

Mary Waitrovich
UW-Madison

[Mary Waitrovich]

I think the way you have to do this is to render your desired scene sections separately and have the end action of each return to the menu. If your files are large, this wouldn’t work because you would have to have the whole movie to play continuously, and the separate section to come back to the menu after playing. There might not be enough room on the DVD for this.

Perhaps someone else will have a better idea.

Mary Waitrovich
UW-Madison

[Mary Waitrovich]

Norman,
I have a lot of experience with captioning video for the web and on DVDs in a higher education setting using the Sony products. Here is an example of a short online captioned video:
https://www.bussvc.wisc.edu/acct/TEWeb/training/video.html

World Caption, a Quicktime open source captioning application developed here at UW-Madison is mac only, but I’ve used it quite a bit after rendering in Vegas and it’s pretty easy and quick to use. It’s free and can be downloaded here:
https://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=6525

I’d be glad to provide any other information that might be helpful to you.

Mary Waitrovich
Digital Media Coordinator
UW-Madison
mary.waitrovich at doit.wisc.edu

[Mary Waitrovich]

Yes, I too have been wondering how he is doing since his accident and hoping very much that he is doing well. Would really appreciate an update from anyone in the know.

Mary Waitrovich

[Mary Waitrovich]

Kat,
I tried to email you off the forum to share some info, but your profile email bounced back. I’d like to resend my message if you would send one to me: marywait at tds.net

Thanks,
Mary Waitrovich
Digital Media Coordinator
UW-Madison

[Mary Waitrovich]

I had trouble rendering .mov (only)files after Vegas 9 Pro install. My problem turned out to be related to the hard drive I was working on. If you have more than one hard drive available, it might at least help your trouble shooting if you try rendering to a different drive.

Good luck,
Mary Waitrovich
UW-Madison

[Mary Waitrovich]

I’m not sure why this is happening. I suspect it has something to do with Camtasia’s codec vis a vis PowerPoint. I use camtasia for screen capture a lot but never to capture a moving powerpoint. One solution I can see is to skip PowerPoint. Export your slides as individual .png files (you can do this in the PowerPoint save as menu). In Options>Preferences on the editing tab you can set the duration of each image and of the overlap (try .5 or 1 sec) before you add all the images to the timeline. Then you slideshow will be quickly reconstructed and you can render in your desired format.

Good luck,
Mary Waitrovich
UW-Madison

[Mary Waitrovich]

In addition to the other advice, you might try setting your project properties (and rendering to) progressive scan rather than interlaced.
Mary Waitrovich
UW-Madison