Matt Crowley
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Transitions take a lot more processing power to preview compared to straight video sections of your project. That’s because Vegas is decoding 2 video streams and doing blending or other effects (blur, distort etc depending on the transition type) on the 2 decoded video streams. The amount of work that needs to be done depends on the preview quality setting.
You may see some stuttering or jerky playback the first time you preview a transition. Try t o play the transition a few times and it will get smoother as Vegas caches more of the rendered transition frames.
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I think this option applies a very small amount of blur (softening) to still images (photos) so that they are less likely to cause problems when you render to an interlaced format like DVD. If there is too much sharp detail in the photo, you can get a sizzling or flickering effect when viewing the interlaced video.
If you apply this “reduce interlace flicker” option to a video clip in your project (eg an HD clip in a SD project) Vegas will deinterlace the clip so that it can apply the filter.
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Check the size of the PNG images from Carrara. I just tried rendering a 24 frame 1920×1080 PNG sequence from Vegas and each frame is around 5MB (120MB for 1 sec of sequence, or about 960Mbps!). That’s photographic footage from not-too-sharp video, so it’s likely to be larger than animation, and probably a lot larger than simple animation with lots of solid colour or alpha… but even so it might just be the amount of data being read from disk and shunted around in memory.
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Movie Studio’s captions can only be rendered to (embedded in) WMV files. I don’t know if youtube can use captions like this though.
As Aleksey says, there’s no scripting to export captions from Movie Studio.
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Actually, Vegas can do the conversion for you. Check out the “Import DVD Camera Disc” option on the Project menu (in Movie Studio, might be different in Pro). That will let you choose either a real DVD or a folder on your PC containing DVD files, and will extract the MPEG video stream(s) to a new MPG file ready to drop onto your project timeline.
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See replies in your other thread: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/956320
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I bought Movie Studio Platinum HD 10 suite off Amazon a couple of years back when it was current, and I got the same kind of deal – genuine HD Platinum Suite was about the same price as plain old non-Suite. The installers are separate (or you can at least choose which parts to install).
Video tends to have the audio streams at 48kHz, as that’s the normal for DV, DVD, AVCHD and more. 44.1kHz is pretty much only for audio CD. If your audio projects in Ableton or whatever are mainly going to be used in your videos, then record/mix at 48kHz. If you need a 44.1kHz audio file later then you can just render out from Ableton or Vegas as 44.1kHz.
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The split screen feature allows you to do before-and-after comparisons to see the effect of your effects, so to speak. You can also have half of the screen with effects enabled, and the other half “original”
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Check out the “keyboard shortcuts” list in the Vegas help.
Select the event you want to nudge along the timeline, start your loop playing if you need, and tap num-pad 1 and 3 to nudge the event left/right by one frame at a time.
If you’re on a laptop with no separate number pad, check if the keyboard has a numpad overlay using a FN key or similar. For example, my Dell laptop uses FN + 7/8/9/U/I/O/J/K/L/M as the number pad.
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I’ve also used Bulk Rename Utility when I ended up with files from multiple cards and duplicate names. I renamed them according to file date.
The best workflow is like John says – use Vegas Device Explorer to import, or use whatever software came with your camera (Panasonic HD Writer in my case), because that will rename the files, usually by date/time of shooting. Make sure your camera clock is correct!
There’s no way to avoid duplicate filenames on AVCHD cameras because they capture to a Bluray file/folder structure so you’ll always have files like 00001.MTS, 00002.MTS…