[Matt Crowley]

I thought I had done this before, but I can’t get it to work either. If I select multiple events and try to shuffle them, only one event gets shuffled.

Grouping the events to be shuffled does not work properly either (in Movie Studio 10) – Both events move, but only space for 1 is created during the shuffle.

[Matt Crowley]

For that sort of image retouching, you just have to use a proper image editor like Photoshop. Video editors are not designed to do that sort of work. This is going to take time no matter how you do it, unfortunately. Clone Stamp is the proper name for that tool.

[Matt Crowley]

Watch out when using Paste Event Attributes though – you end up pasting more than the effects. Pan/Crop, the event switches and maybe more also get applied to the clip you paste to.

It’s probably better to save the FX as a preset and apply that to other events. If you have multiple FX that you want to copy, save them as an FX package (Save As on the plugin chooser window).

[Matt Crowley]

Start with one of the Internet presets (eg Internet 360-30p 16:9 for widescreen) as your project format, and render using the corresponding Internet preset with the Sony AVC codec. This will give you an MP4 file suitable for Youtube etc.

[Matt Crowley]

I don’t know about GPU usage, but for the keyframing you may have accidentally switched off Cursor Sync in the keyframe area of the effects windows. Look at the left-hand end of the keyframe area and you’ll see a small I-beam cursor and padlock icon. That toggles keyframe/timeline cursor sync on and off.

Edit: just realized that (in Movie Studio 10 at least) the Sync Cursor option only enables/disables Timeline to effect window sync. Effect window to timeline sync seems to be permanently active. Maybe that’s what has been deactivated on your system?

[Matt Crowley]

It looks like blending (due to bad deinterlacing, possibly in your MTS>AVI conversion) or resampling (due to different frame rates).

What formats are the source videos, and what format is the project/output?

You can try disabling resampling on the video clips that are not at the project frame rate. This will reduce any ghosting caused by Vegas synthesizing frames to match framerates, but you may get a bit of juddering on smooth/fast motion.

Set your project to the highest resolution and framerate of the cameras and select Blend or Interpolate as the project deinterlace method (experiment to see which works best).

[Matt Crowley]

Here’s an idea of what the Movie Studio 10 trimmer looks like with the trimmer preview enabled:

[Matt Crowley]

Doyal, are you previewing on a separate monitor in Movie Studio? If not, then get the preview window so it’s docked separately to the trimmer window by clicking the video preview tab, then dragging the dots at the left of the preview pane to the right until the preview pane occupies its own space to the right of the trimmer’s docking area.

I think this is the default layout, with the video preview always visible. That leaves you less space for the trimmer, explorer etc, but you can always see either the output video (during preview or timeline editing), or the trimmer preview (when working in the trimmer).

I got used to this behaviour with the Movie Studio 9 trial, before buying version 10. I don’t really use the trimmer preview now, because the video preview doubles as trimmer preview (if you switch off the new trimmer preview).

The new trimmer preview sits above the trimmer video/audio strip, so it’s small unless you devote a fair bit of vertical space to the trimmer window.

[Matt Crowley]

Splash Player works so well because it uses the GPU (graphics card) to decode video, and GPUs are quite effective for decoding video. However, Vegas doesn’t (yet) use the GPU for decoding so all the hard work is done in the CPU, and that means there’s not a lot of CPU power left for editing if you’re trying to decode several streams of AVCHD on a modest spec PC.

[Matt Crowley]

This is often caused by using media (video or still images) that do not exactly match the project aspect ratio.

If you add a 3:4 or 3:2 aspect photo from a digital camera to a 16:9 widescreen project, you will get black bars at the sides.

If you add DVD media to an HD (or web format) project you’ll probably get black bars top and bottom.

You can crop the media slightly in Vegas to make it exactly fill the frame. Just click the pan/crop icon in the right-hand end of the event on your timeline. In the pan/crop window, right-click on the frame with the big F on it, and select Match Output Aspect. You’ll see that either the top/bottom or the sides get trimmed slightly to make the event fit into the project size.

You can also try the “Adjust source media to better match project settings” in the project properties, but this doesn’t adjust all media (I think it doesn’t adjust still images, only video).