[Mike Kujbida]

Quake for Vegas is what you’re looking for.

[Mike Kujbida]

John Rofrano has a Select Events From Cursor script on the VASST site that will select all the events on all tracks that are under the current cursor position and to the right of it.
It was written for Vegas 4 so you’ll have to open it up in Notepad, change the line that says import SonicFoundry.Vegas; to import Sony.Vegas; and resave it.

[Mike Kujbida]

Select either the audio or video track by clicking on it and then click the U (for Ungroup) key.
Modify as desired.
To regroup them, click one event, shift-click the other one and then click the G (for Group) key.

[Mike Kujbida]

Those who do know can’t say due to NDA.
Those that don’t know can only speculate and get everyone’s hopes up.

[Mike Kujbida]

Assuming that there’s a gap that you want to get rid of, double-click in the empty area to highlight it and then press CTRL+Shift+F (all tracks, markers and regions) aka post-edit ripple.

[Mike Kujbida]

You need an audio card with independently controllable multiple ins & outs to be able to do this 🙁

[Mike Kujbida]

[James Williams] “I know this is another topic sorta, but is it my imagination that the vegas text is not as crisp as some other editors? Is there a special way you guys handle text.”

First of all, read and follow the article Great Titles with the DV Codec.Great Titles with the DV Codec.
Second, when you’re creating text, double the size of it in the Freame Size window boxes. That is, change it from 720 x 480 to 1440 x 960.
I’ve found that this makes things a bit crisper, especially around the edges.
Thanks to DSE for the tip 🙂

[Mike Kujbida]

I always render to my projects to dv before i mpeg them.

I work the opposite and always render to MPEG. This way, I have a lot more control over things like bitrate, 2-pass, CBR vs. VBR, etc. in what I’m feeding to DVDA.
If I need an AVI as a backup, I can always do it later but, since I save all other related files as well as the VidCap files (I always do batch renders,just for this reason) and file the tapes in a safe place, I can always rebuild th eproject if I have to.
The color sample issue is another reason for doing it my way.
By it’s very nature, DV footage is 4:1:1 colour.
On the flip side, still images, graphics and titles are 4:4:4 colour.
When you render your timeline to DV-AVI, all your 4:4:4 material gets transcoded to 4:1: colour space. Then it gets furhter compressed to the 4:2:0 colour space of MPEG.
By rendering directly to MPEG, you avoid a conversion step, resulting in slightly better quality of the images/graphics/titles in your final product.

… i was under the impression it was always on and i should push this button to in effect bypass the blur setting.

Nope. It’s off until you enable it.

What setting do you guys use in preferences an setup?

There are probably over 100 choices. Can you be a bit more specific?

The only changes I generally make are the paths to the various render and temp directories/folders as I don’t like everything going to C:\My Documents.

For render purposes, it’s either some form of MPEG-2/AC-3 or NTSC DV-AVI.
Depending on the project length, I’ll use a bitrate claculator to create a custiom MPEG-2 preset so that I can get the best quality out of my video.

[Mike Kujbida]

[James Williams] Part2
Does the motion blur setting on the track header effect multiple renderings.

By default it’s disabled so, unless you enable it, it won’t affect anything.

[Mike Kujbida]

What about the software that came with your DVD burner?
My experience has been that it usually has a lot of different templates.