[Michael Morone]

Thanks very much. It definitley helped.

[Michael Morone]

Okay, I understand. Thanks very much for the quick response.

[Michael Morone]

I changed the smoothness to 0 and it worked! Thanks!

Just wondering though, what does the smoothness option do? It seems pretty smooth to me with it being set to zero…

Thanks again!

Michael M.

[Michael Morone]

Thanks, that cleared things up for me.

[Michael Morone]

Thank you very much for the quick response and the clarification.

I have one more quick question:

[jeditdv] “When rendering to AC3 format, the volume will be automatically reduced.”

Is the reduction of the volume constant throughout the entire track? When it reduces the volume, does it reduce the volume in such a way that the result is similar to moving the track volume next to the time line down or is it more complex than this? I hope my wording isn’t too confusing.

I am asking this becuase I am wondering whether I can just render the avi audio to AC3 without equalizing the volume manually. I’m not sure which would give a better result but I can compare later.

Thanks again for the help,

Michael M.

[Michael Morone]

The best way to solve your problem is to go to the “Options” menu, and click on “Prefrences…”. Go to the “Editing” tab and you will see 3 checkboxes at the top. I suggest that you UN-CHECK the “Enable looping on events by Default” option. You should then CHECK the “Collapse loop region when no time selection is present” option. Things should get easier.

Here are some other things you might want to be familiar with, concerning “looping” and selecting areas:

When what you described occurs, you can press the “loop Playback” button on what Vegas calls the “Transport Bar” (Immediatly under the timeline) Another thing that’s nice to know is if you right-click what Vegas refers to as the “Marker Bar” (this is the bar right above the timeline and the ruler) you have the option to “Loop Playback” (same thing I described that’s on the Transport Bar), “Set Selection to View”, “Set Selection to Project”, and Select Loop Region”.

You can either play around with these things yourself to see what they do or you can look it up using the Vegas Online Help, provided with Vegas. The Online Help describes everything I have just described (in a clearer manner too!).

I hope this helps,

Michael M.

[Michael Morone]

I spoke too soon when I posted the previous post. The only reason it looked a lot clearer is because it was the second Windows Media Player window that I opened on the same computer. For some reason that brought the quality way down. I don’t know which is better. Does anyone? Anyway, I am going to go with the box checked and hope for the best. Whatever the quality difference is, it can’t be that much.

[Michael Morone]

Thank you so much. I was looking everywhere for the original properties of it and I just couldn’t find it. Thanks again.

Michael M.

[Michael Morone]

Well, it seems to me that making the box checked for “Write sequence display extension” is a good idea. I did 2 tests. I rendered avi video into MPEG, with the box checked and with the box unchecked. The MPEG video that was rendered with the box checked came out significantly clearer than with the box unchecked. Someone please tell me if I’m doing something wrong, but I’m going to go ahead and ignore the template’s suggestion to leave it unchecked and stick with the clearer video.

Michael M.

[Michael Morone]

How do you determine whether the original video was interlace or progressive?
Original Video Stream Properties:
Attributes- 720x480x24
Format- DV
Frame Rate- 29.970 fps