Matt Crowley
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Making an ISO file in Vegas or DVD Architect is useful if you want to create a master image for disc duplication, or to be able to burn more copies later.
This ISO image is an exact copy of the content of your output DVD – ie your rendered video and any DVD menus and extras. It does NOT contain your project or source media files, so you should back those up separately. Don’t delete the project and source media unless you are never going to do any more on the project and really need the disk space.
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Movie Studio HD does not allow projects or renders larger than 1920×1080 so you are stuck if you need 1920×1200 (16:10 instead of 16:9). However, it will allow you to import video and stills larger than 1920×1080. Vegas Pro allows larger frame sizes but they are normally only used for cinematic post-production.
1920×1200 is not a standard HD format anyway (it would probably get pillarboxed on TV or youtube/vimeo/etc playback), so you might be better off either cropping the footage (unless that chops off your game’s status/OSD panels) or setting your game resolution to 1920×1080 and aspect ratio to 16:9 instead of 1920×1200 and 16:10.
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This works in Movie Studio 10, so I assume it’s the same in Vegas Pro versions…
Change the keyframe interpolation “Smoothness” to 100% for all your pan/crop keyframes, and you’ll get a fairly smooth curve between points instead of the standard straight line movement. I’f you already have keyframes, you might need to change them individually.
It’s not quite the same as bezier curve paths and the like, and you need to tweak and preview to get the motion right, but at least it’s better than straight line movement.
If you want all your keyframes like this, you can set the “internal preferences” values for “Track Motion Default Smoothness” and “Pan/Crop Default Smoothness”.
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What you are talking about here is not actually motion blur – that can be added separately or as an effect.
You are seeing frame or field blending, which is what Vegas does by default when frame rates do not match. This can usually be avoided by using the “Disable Resample” option as Danny describes.
On top of that, the default deinterlacing method (used when you have interlaced footage in a project that you are rendering to a progressive output format) is “blend fields” which does much the same thing as the “resample” feature. Changing to “interpolate” for deinterlacing forces Vegas to drop alternate fields and make up the output frame from a single field. This often gives cleaner results for high-motion footage.
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In Movie Studio 10 (and presumably Vegas Pro 10 and later), you can set your in/out points as you described (or by dragging in empty space on the timeline), then select the loop region by either pressing Shift+Q or double-clicking the loop region header above the ruler, then pressing Delete.
There’s no need to select the events themselves. In fact, you need to deselect all events first, otherwise only the selected event(s) gets affected.
That’s still a bit cumbersome compared to your description of FCP… but there’s only one more keypress (Shift+Q) in Vegas.
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Are you seeing blank boxes for your video and audio on the timeline? It sounds like you have accidentally switched off waveform and frame display. On the View menu, make sure “Waveforms and Frames” is enabled.
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I also use Movie Studio HD 10 Platinum so I know it works. Good you mentioned “save markers” though – I noticed that I have “Auto-save trimmer markers” enabled, and I guess that’s probably the default setting since I haven’t changed it.
In Movie Studio you can add markers and regions to media in the trimmer, and you can see those media markers in the media on timeline, but you cannot promote them to normal timeline markers since there’s no scripting support.
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No, this must be done on your soundcard’s mixer panel, or the Windows sound mixer app. Vegas has no control over where the sounds comes from, except for selecting which soundcard to record from if you have more than one card (eg motherboard sound and a firewire interface).
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Open the clip you want to review and mark into the trimmer window. Play it from there, and insert markers by pressing M (and optionally typing a description) at any important points.
Then when you drag that clip to the timeline it will have the markers in the newly created event. The media markers will be in the media rather than part of the timeline, so they will move with the event. You can still snap the timeline cursor to these media markers in the same way as timeline markers.
Look up “media markers” in the online help for details.
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It really depends on what audio hardware you have, but you need to look in your soundcard’s mixer recording settings for something like “Stereo Mix” or “What You Hear”. Select that and set the record gain slider to whatever gives good record levels (on Vegas’s record level meters) – this is often maximum on the gain slider.