Matt Crowley
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You can try to reduce the number of rotations (for transitions like 3D fly in/out), the distance etc. Other than that, there’s no way to slow down the transition without making it occupy more time – ie have more overlap on your events.
More overlap is not a problem for still images because you can make them as long as you need.
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The terms PAL and NTSC really only apply to analog TV broadcasting, and the way the signals are modulated in the transmitter.
When used in a digital video editing context they are usually taken to mean the frame size and frame rate that correspond to those used in analog broadcasts (720x576x25fps for PAL, 720x480x29.97fps for NTSC).
Although there is a difference in the color formats for the analog systems, there is no color distinction for digital video editing.
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Your media player and/or graphics card settings will affect how the video looks when played back on a PC. The WMV might be created with studio levels (16-235) but chances are Media Player and/or your graphics card settings will stretch this out to 0-255 (computer RGB levels) during playback.
You can try using the Color Corrector plugin as John suggests for editing but bypass/remove it during render and compare the output video with the original footage.
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I completely forgot about Device Explorer. It’s in VMS 10 too, but is not very flexible. AVCHD files get renamed to 00001_yyyymmdd_hhmmss.mts (where 00001 is the original clip number) and they always get imported to My Documents\Imported Media (you can’t choose a different folder).
I had tried that when I first got VMS10, but gave up on it in favour of the software supplied with the camera or simply copying from camera/card in Explorer.
Bulk Rename Utility appears to be very similar in functionality to Renamer, but with a different interface.
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It sounds like there isn’t much you can do apart from manually delete each incorrect event on the timeline and drag the correct video into its place, or revert to a version of the project from the laptop before you started work on the desktop copy. Get into the habit of saving the project with a new name every so often, like Ski Holiday 1, Ski Holiday 2… that way you have a set of backups that you can roll back to if something goes badly wrong.
As far as I know, Vegas doesn’t care about the structure of the PRIVATE, BDAV etc folders on an AVCHD camera’s flash card/disk. I either just use Windows Explorer to copy the MTS files to my working hard drive (then sort and rename as needed), or use the camera’s software to “extract” direct from the camera and auto-rename the video. I use Panasonic’s HD Writer, which is clunky but renames the 00001.MTS scheme to YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.m2ts (the date/time the video was shot) and guarantees unique file names.
I have also used a handy free utility called Renamer to batch rename the 00001.MTS type names to the same scheme as the Panasonic software – the format for the renaming is very flexible, so you can use “file’s modified date” for example.
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PS get into the habit of either renaming your media files (maybe the number plus something descriptive) or using the supplied camera software to transfer and auto-rename/date the files. It gets very confusing after a while with multiple files of the same names… 00001.MTS 00002.MTS etc.
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If you haven’t done any/much editing since the clips got mixed up, then simply close the mixed-up project, copy the project file from your laptop again (think of the laptop copy as a backup) and then, when Vegas asks for the missing files, manually browse to the correct folder.
Alternatively, you can manually re-assign the media files in your project. Go to the Project Media window, right-click on the first incorrect file and click “Replace…” then choose the correct file. You’ll have to do that for all the incorrect files.
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If the logo is a static image (not animated), you can render it as a single PNG image and use that in projects that need the logo.
Just start a blank project using the settings you plan to use in your projects, insert your logo graphic onto a video track and get it lined up using track motion or pan/crop. Apply any required effects (shadow etc). Make sure there’s nothing else below the logo (i.e. black background).
Then set the loop region to a single frame of the logo and Render As, select Image Sequence and use the PNG template. You’ll end up with a single PNG image that you can then insert into any project that requires the logo. This of course can be stretched out to whatever duration you want and takes the least rendering effort and disk space.
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I’d guess that whatever video decoder you’re using for this format (codec) is overlaying a graph of something like bitrate or CPU load as it does the decoding.
Are you using ffdshow as the decoder? If so, open the Video Decoder config window and UNcheck visualizations. You might have the graph option enabled.
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Default Layout returns window positions to the factory defaults – I think it’s the same as Factory Reset but only affects window positions/docking.
However, it won’t get your effects window back if you mistakenly dragged it outside the Vegas window or under the taskbar. Try unlocking and collapsing your taskbar (right-click on taskbar, uncheck the Unlock option, then drag the top edge of the taskbar down so it collapses to a thin line. Reverse this process when you’re done) and looking for the effects window there.
This might also happen if you change desktop resolution during editing.