Mike Kujbida
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COW Coins
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Those are interlacing artifacts and (most likely) won’t show up on your TV.
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“Vegas 8 does not seem to have the MPEG4 option.”
It does. You’re just looking in the wrong place 🙂
Select “MainConcept AVC/AAC (*.mp4)” in the “Save as type” box and the “Apple iPod 640×480 Video” template.
Render and upload.
I’ve seen a few YouTube videos done with this codec and they look great!! -
Wayne, it’s my understanding that Sound Forge was originally designed as a CD mastering tool and I know several folks that still use it primarily for that purpose.
Multitrack capability wasn’t added until the newest release.
It was never meant to be a dedicated audio editor as that’s what Vegas was for.
Vegas was originally designed as a DAW (and that’s when I started with it).
Video wasn’t taken seriously in Vegas until version 3 and, as we know, has grown “just a bit” over the years.
Strip away all the video stuff though and it’s still a DAW with all the tools it had back in version 1.
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My question is why you’re bothering to do this in Sound Forge when, as you said, Vegas already has a Volume Envelope tool that you like?
Personally, I’ve alwyas used Sound Forge as a mastering and clean-up tool as, IMO, that’s where it’s strengths are. -
Preroll is only used if you’re batch capturing.
The tape goes to the selected in point and then backs the tape up 5 sec. (the preroll) to ensure proper picture lockup by the time the edit point is reached.
Note that this requires at least 5 sec. of continuous time code before the edit point to work properly.
Also note that batch capture only works if tape timecode is continuous from the start of the tape to the end.
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File – Import – DVD Camcorder Disc always works for me.
This options works on full size discs as well as the miniDVD discs for which it was originally intended.
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This is the way Digital Juice does some of the the custom wipes in the Editor’s Toolkit package so there’s no reason why it won’t work for you.
Make sure to save the gradient as a PNG file though (over top of a transparent background) as you keep the alpha channel this way. -
“But you can also hold down Ctrl in Premiere and drag the end of a clip…”
Do that in Vegas and you’ll end up with a sped up (Ctrl drag left) or slowed down (Ctrl drag right) clip 🙂
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OK. It’s an older laptop but you should still be able to capture without dropped frames.
10 gigs of drive space isn’t much and C:/My Documnets is the absolute worst place to capture to.
Assuming you have a USB port on this device, buy an external drive (they’re very cheap these days, even at places like Costco) and capture to that. I do this all the time at work and have done 3 hr. captures (live events) with 0 fropped frames.You’ll neeed to make sure that the drive is formatted NTFS (most still come formatted FAT32) to avoid the small file size limit.
Use the Windows Help file (search on NTFS) to walk you through this procedure. It’s quick and painless 🙂After that, go into the preferences in VidCap (the capture program for Vegas) and change the location of your captures to the new drive.
Be advised that, unless you change this location, it will capture to the same location every time.Whenever I start a new project, I create a master folder for ALL media that will be used in this project.
I set up folders inside of this master folder for captured files, music, graphics, etc.
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The maximum number of dropped frames capturing through firewire should be zero.
What are your computer specs?
Are you (hopefully not) capturing to drive C?
If capturing to another drive (preferable), how large is the drive and how much free space is on it?
Is the drive in PIO mode or UDMA (preferable)?