Matt Crowley
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It’s not difficult to remove pan/crop, but there’s no shortcut as far as I know. Just open the pan/crop window for the affected event, delete any keyframes you’ve added (so that you then have only 1 keyframe at the beginning of the event), then select that keyframe, right-click on the video in pan/crop and click “Restore”.
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Do the source WMV files (that you converted from MKV) look fine when you play them back in media player? If not, then you need to convert them properly before using them in Vegas.
Unless you have a specific reason to render to 30fps, then stick with 25fps to match your source. If you render at a different frame rate, you’ll either get some ghosting/blending of frames (resampling enabled), or slight hiccups (resampling disabled) in the rendered video because Vegas has to make up extra frames.
If the source video files are interlaced (click on one in the Vegas explorer and check its stats at the bottom of the explorer window) then you need to specify an deinterlace method for rendering as John explained.
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If you can play the video in the timeline and/or trimmer, then you already have the codec you need. I don’t know about the capture though.
Do you see frames/thumbnails for other video formats? Do you see any audio waveforms?
Also check to see if you’ve accidentally turned off the display of thumbnails/waveforms on the View menu: View>Waveforms and Frames.
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You may have accidentally turned off video thumbnails. See https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/925693 for the solution to that.
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If you ungroup an audio track from its video, remember to re-group them after tweaking the fades (G).
To temporarily ignore the grouping without actually ungrouping video/audio, click the “Ignore Event Grouping” toolbar button or press Ctrl+Shift+U to toggle this. It will let you move, trim, fade etc on only the audio or video.
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I believe the Vegas Movie Studio stabilizer is based on a cut-down Mercalli (could be mistaken). The full Mercalli stabilizer is not supported in Movie Studio, which is what I think the topic starter was talking about.
The NewBlue stabilizer works with Movie Studio. I seem to remember playing with the trial a while ago and found it worked well, and it can fill in the blank edges that result from shifting the shaky frames back into place. The Movie Studio built-in stabilizer hides the edges by simply zooming in a bit to crop them out.
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You can download the Vegas Pro or Movie Studio 30-day trial and try the camera’s files yourself on your PC. That’s really the only way to be sure how well it will work.
H264 video requires a fairly well specified PC to edit smoothly. I don’t know about the C10, but I understand some MPEG4/H264 cameras produce slightly non-standard video that Vegas may have trouble with.
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Yup, Movie Studio 10 has a built-in deshaker/stabilizer that can help smooth out shaky footage. It cannot work miracles though. I have used it on handheld footage to good effect, but if you try to iron out too much movement, you will get significant cropping of your footage because of the way the stabilization works. Vegas does not “fill in the gaps” around the footage where frames need to be shifted a lot to correct for shake. You need a more professional deshaker for that, or try the powerful but not-so-easy-to-use Deshaker plugin for the VirtualDub video editor.
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More answers to the same question on this thread https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/925607
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Video tracks are like layers in Photoshop. The lower tracks (layers) will only be visible though the upper track(s) if the upper tracks have transparency.
Your text probably has a black background. You need to change the background colour to transparent so that the lower track shows through, and the text appears on top of the lower track (I guess this is titles on a video).
Either use one of the text presets that has a transparent background (the grey checkerboard appearance) of edit your text media’s background colour (on the text media generator window’s Properties tab) to be transparent.