Matt Crowley
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Aha! I had a mouse that occasionally did double-clicks and all sorts of weird things happened. I was able to swap the microswitch inside for one from an old mouse and that fixed it.
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If the recorder’s mic level switch only sets the record gain, then it should not make any difference which level you record at. After normalization, both recordings should sound the same, with perhaps a bit more hiss noise in the low-gain recording.
However, if the recorder applies some dynamic compression or limiting when you record at the higher level then you might get more background noise in between the speech peaks.
The bottom line is: Just use whatever sounds best.
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Is the loop region thing actually causing you problems? If not, then don’t worry about it – it’s standard behaviour for Vegas and doesn’t actually affect most tasks.
If you really are managing to create timeline selections with just a single click (and even outside the timeline) then either you’ve found a very weird bug, or your mouse is doing double slicks or the shift key is stuck or something like that.
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Vegas will need to de-interlace the HD video, resize it down, then re-interlace for DVD output. Make sure you have the deinterlace method (project properties) set to “interpolate” or “blend” (try interpolate if you have lots of motion). Do NOT use “none” for deinterlace method.
You might also need to use the “reduce interlace flicker” switch – I believe that applies a slight softening/smoothing, but it might only work on still images.
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I guess you want to upload 480p to Youtube or similar? Youtube expects 854×480 for its 480p setting.
It seems that the Sony AVC codec doesn’t correctly handle frame sizes that are not a multiple of 16… at least, that’s what I see in Movie Studio HD 10.
854 pixels is not an exact multiple of 16 (many codecs work on blocks of 16×16 pixels), and Sony AVC doesn’t correctly handle the leftover pixels.
The MainConcept AVC seems to get it right, so you can try using that instead. Depending on your Vegas version, you’ll have different options compared to Sony AVC, but you should be able to adapt an existing template or recreate the Sony AVC templates to get the same kind of output. See https://support.google.com/youtube/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=1728585&topic=1728573 for what video format Youtube expects.
Alternatively, you can modify your frame size for the Sony AVC renders to 848×480 or 864×480… however, that might get letterboxed/pillarboxed by YouTube or similar sites.
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It’s possible to re-render the NTSC DVD videos to DVD Widescreen but you’ll get quite a quality loss, as the 4:3 video is probably already letterboxed to be even smaller than the widescreen template will give you.
It’s better to render from your 720p videos, since they are already 16:9 widescreen and they are higher quality.
Even better is to render from your original project to the DVD widescreen format.
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If you make an ISO image, you only have a copy of the DVD contents. You can burn as many discs as you want from that.
If you delete the project files (“veg” file and source media) then you won’t be able to edit or recreate the project. That’s generally a bad thing, becasue the chances are you’ll want to go back and tweak the video, or render it in a different format (eg for youtube upload), or use some of the media files for a different project.
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Do you know what Encore expects for its input file(s)? Sony’s DVD Architect expects separate audio and video streams in MPG and AC3 files, so that’s what Vegas has templates for (the DVD Architect templates).
It sounds like you chose one of the high-def HDV templates. DVDs are standard def only. When rendering for DVD, you need to select MPEG2 as the “save as” type, then choose one of the DVD templates. The “DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream” is probably best, but that does not include audio (see above). You need to render the audio separately as the Dolby Digital AC3 format, and import both the Encore. Hopefully it will use them both without any re-compression.
I have Movie Studio 10 and it doesn’t have widescreen templates for audio and video in one file. If you need the audio and video in one file, you might need to choose the DVD NTSC template and click custom, then change the aspect ratio to 16:9
Phew, was that complicated enough? 😉
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You’ve discovered Vegas’s automatic deinterlacing. For high-motion subjects, try setting your project’s deinterlace method to “interpolate” instead of the default “blend”. This gives a small reduction in vertical resolution but avoids the ghosting you are seeing.
In addition, if you simply stretch a video event to slow it down, Vegas has to make up extra frames somehow, and by default is uses the same blend method to resample the source frames. Try disabling “resample” by right-clicking on the video event on the timeline, then select Switches -> Disable Resample.
This will not give smooth slow motion – you need separate motion interpolation effects such as Twixtor or some trickery with frame rates and intermediate renders to get better slo-mo. The best way of course is to use a special camera with a very high frame rate.
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What’s your destination format for these videos? Youtube, Blu-ray, or just DVD?
If you’re only going to burn to DVD, then you can set the project properties to the appropriate DVD template (probably NTSC DVD Widescreen). Otherwise leave the project properties as they are, and for the DVD render, select MPEG2 as the format, and choose NTSC Widescreen DVD as the template. It sounds like you chose the non-widescreen template, which will letterbox your video into a 4:3 aspect ratio.