[Michael O’connor]

Thanks for the guideance. I appreciate it. Have a great weekend!

[Michael O’connor]

Hmmm.Thanks for the thought Edward, I’ll check that out but I believe it does show in the original … it’s brighter… and that is what I’m trying to paste to the next event(s) so they will look alike. I had a question for you. Ihave seen some of the videos you link to sometimes and they are really clear and load fast… I have a 3 minute mpg1 video I’m editing to a minute or so for a guys web site, but whenever I render it to mpeg again the file is so large it takes a while to download. I dont think people will want to wait on his site that long but when I try to render it to mov it looks horrible. What is the best way to do this? Maybe I don’t have the correct settings? Thanks.

[Michael O’connor]

When I started Vegas as you suggested it asked if I want to reset all vegas preferences to default values…..I said yes. It also has a check box for “delete all cached application data” which I did not check as I wasn’t sure … in any event it still won’t paste attributes. Should I have checked the box?

[Michael O’connor]

Thanks, I’ll give that a try.

[Michael O’connor]

Thanks for the response. I have tried what you suggested several times Mike and it still doesn’t work. I went back to Vegas 4 and it works fine. CMALLA: what do you mean by deleting my preferences file? Thanks.

[Michael O’connor]

Thanks for the comments guys. I need to play with it some more. It seems sometimes when I put the cursor on the timeline at the mid point of the picture, I see the picture full size. Then I open pan/crop and resize and reposition the picture, then when I play it back, the entire time it plays back, the picture is at the size and placed as I wanted. Then another time when I do the exact same thing (or at least thought I was), when I play it back, it starts out as it’s original size, and moves to the new size and position. I’m sure it has something to do with key frames, but haven’t figured out what I’m doing…or not doing… Shouldn’t I be able to start out at any point on a picture, open pan/crop, and be able to re-size the photo as desired without having to set key frames? If so, I must be setting key frames without knowing it. ):

[Michael O’connor]

Also I am trying to do this; size down a jpeg to place it at a certain point within the frame, and then be able to focus on one part of that sized down picture and zoom in and out and give the picture movement without the frame size that I sized it down to, changing. I have accomplished this several times, but not by design, more by accident. When I try to do it, it sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. What are the proper steps? Thanks.

[Michael O’connor]

Guys I know this isn’t my post but here are a couple of ways I use cd vs dvd… I have clients that I do corporate info videos for that they want put on business card sized cd’s. For that I render the video as a multi-media and mpeg1. That gets about 4 to 5 minutes on a 50 mb cd. I also do some videos on cd for businesses that feel not everyone has a dvd player on their computer.

[Michael O’connor]

Thanks Gary. I have a player that doesn’t offer that function so I didn’t think any did … we’re all in our own worlds (: Thanks for the info. I actually have DVDA4 but haven’t gotten the hang of it yet. I jumped from v1 to v4 and the learning curve is more than I have had time for. I’m sure once I use it more it will be much better than v1. Have a great New Year!

[Michael O’connor]

Thanks for the info. I haven’t been doing a lot of pre-renders and that’s why I was suprised to see so many files with that designation. Happy New Year Edward!