Matt Crowley
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Make sure there are no stray Track Motion keyframes either. It’s possible that at some point along the timeline, a track motion keyframe shrinks/shifts the track slightly and you end up with a letterbox type effect.
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What settings were you using to render your video? It sounds like you have selected one of the codecs or presets under the AVI format that are not suitable for HD work. The “NTSC DV” presets will only give you standard definition output.
Try rendering using one of the “Internet” presets under the “Sony AVC” type. There isn’t a preset for 24p but you can manually change to 24fps if you really want. However, your camera probably records 60p so the “Internet 30p” presets will probably work best.
EDIT: looks like John just beat me to the question…
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I use Movie Studio 10 and usually only scratch the surface of what it can do on most of my casual projects. It’s impressive how much no-nonsense editing power and flexibility you get for a very modest price. Here in the UK, Computer Shopper magazine has rated it their best-buy video editor for ages.
Mark, you might need to work on the audio levels in that video. The voice-over is at quite a low level and could do with a boost. You might be able to get away with simply increasing the gain/level on the audio track or using the “normalize” feature, but it might need a bit of dynamic compression as well. This is one of the standard audio effects in Vegas – experiment with the settings and presets.
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If you make a long selection and do a RAM render, Vegas will shorten the selection if it does not have enough RAM to complete the render. Full-screen or large previews take more RAM than small (eg quarter) previews.
You can set the amount of RAM dedicated to RAM previews – go to Options>Preferences>Video and change the RAM Preview value. Don’t kame it too big or you won’t have enough RAM left for everything else.
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You can also set the overall preview playback speed to something lower than 1 (normal rate), by dragging the little orange triangle under the Rate slider next to the transport controls. Right-click on the triangle and you can select 0.5x or 0.25x normal rate. Hold Ctrl and drag for fine adjustment. I’m using Movie Studio so the layout might be different in Pro.
After setting the speed, hit space/play as normal, and the playback will be slower, although the audio will be a lot lower in pitch so it might be difficult to make out the speech.
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I got Movie Studio Platinum 10 on Amazon last year (well before version 11 came out), new boxed and well below the RRP. At the time, version 9 was still available but not much cheaper, and 10 was much better. I’d suggest to just get the current retail version 11 unless you can get a copy of 10 much cheaper. There’s not a huge lot between them in terms of features, especially if you don’t need HD or 3D.
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The Movie Studio editions are fairly powerful for the money. I use Movie Studio Platinum 10 as it includes DVD authoring/burning and enough customisation for me.
Platinum 11 is probably the one to go for if you don’t need the advanced features of Pro (multicamera editing, scripting etc) but want plenty of options and flexibility for smaller projects.
Download the 30-day trial and see if it can do what you need. Try doing the same kind of things in Movie Studio that your friend’s doing with Pro.
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This happens in Movie Studio 9 and 10 too. As far as I know, it’s just the way the render/encode process runs. This does NOT affect the actual video file, which plays fine.
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If you are only seeing a part of the video frame in the Vegas preview window, then you need to adjust the preview settings or make the preview window bigger. Try setting the preview size to “auto”, or right-click on the preview and enable the “scale video to fit window” option.
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If it’s only one or a few images that you need to update, you might be able to do it with the “replace media” option.
Find the affected image in the Project Media view, right-click, and choose Replace. Then select the same image file (which you’ve just updated from Photoshop) and Vegas will “replace” it’s cached version with the new version.