[Mike Kujbida]

Using Chroma Key and Chroma Blur in Sony Vegas

[Mike Kujbida]

Have a look at the Two Cats From One tutorial from Matthew Chaboud of Sony.
I’m sure you’ll get some ideas from it.

[Mike Kujbida]

“I dont know if Ed has one or not”

Of course he does 🙂
Creating a PIP using Track Motion

[Mike Kujbida]

Carson, the short answer is to make sure NOTHING is running that shouldn’t be running during a render. That includes being connected to the net.

I read on one Vegas forum a while back about one user who never bothered to disconnect during a render.
Unfortunately he also had Windows update set to automatic.
You can guess what happened.
Near the end of a long render a render, Windows decided it needed an update so it did – automatically. By the time the guy realized what was happening, the update had installed and, as usual, the computer re-booted and he lost his render 🙁

Here, from Sony, is the LONG answer. While some of is may not be applicable, the list of services is. HTH.

Answer ID 1101

My program will not start.

Question

The program will not start up.

Answer

First, find what is running in the background. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del at the same time and you will see a list of the programs currently running (some users will have to hit the “Task Manager” button). Move over to the Processes Tab and click the “Image Name” heading at the top left of this window , you would be able to view these items by alphabetical order by user/system. Once all these items are arranged, look under the User Name column for items that are listed as belonging to your User Account.

You only need to leave running the following;

For Windows XP:

explorer.exe
taskmgr.exe

Under the User Name “SYSTEM”

System Idle Process
System
smss.exe
csrss.exe
winlogon.exe
services.exe
lsass.exe
svchost.exe
spoolsv.exe

For Windows 2000:

explorer.exe
LSASS.EXE
mspmspsv.exe
mstask.exe
SERVICES.EXE
SMSS.EXE
SPOOLSV.EXE
stisvc.exe
svchost.exe
System
System Idle Process
taskmgr.exe
WINLOGON.EXE
WinMgmt.exe

Windows 9x and ME:

You would only need two of these items to keep your computer up and running. These would be Explorer and Systray. You could End Task on everything else in this list. Some things may be stubborn, and you may have to close out of them two or three times before you are able to get rid of it. ***Be careful when you are closing out of these tasks that you DO NOT press Ctrl+Alt+Del two times in a row as it would cause your system to Restart and start this process over.

After doing so, here are a few other steps to try:

Do you have any Anti-Virus Software on your computer? Make sure you update this software from the manufacturer, then run a full system scan. If you do not have any Anti Virus Protection, it is suggested to either purchase or download a copy and install it onto your system as a preventive maintenance.

When was the last time you had updated your Computer’s Drivers from the Manufacturer’s Web Site? You would be able search for any newer, updated Motherboard, Sound Card, and Video Card drivers. Also check for any Peripherals that would be installed (i.e. Printers, Scanners, Card Readers). If you have an outdated or improper driver loaded, you may not be using that device correctly and it could potentially be causing problems.

Lower your hardware graphics acceleration. Go to your Control Panel–>Display–>Settings–>Advanced–>Troubleshooting tab to do this.

Disconnect all USB and firewire devices from the system, along with all dongles.

Change the mouse.

Install the latest version of DirectX, located here.

Un-Install the software using the Add/Remove Programs utility in the control panel, then Re-Install from the latest update available here.

(Note: If there is not an update available for the product, you may still want to try the uninstall and reinstall from the same installer/CD that you installed from initially.)

[Mike Kujbida]

Edward does indeed have the tip on his site.
How do I open AVI files create by still cameras?

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Odds are that you’re clicking in the area below the timeline which will split all tracks.
Click on the specific event you want to split and it’ll work the way you want.

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Jorge, I have a pair of 17″ IBM Thinkvision LCD monitors. They were not my first choice but I work for a community college and, at the time of purchase, we had a computer agreement with IBM so that’s what we had to go with.

I’m in the process of building a new computer for personal use and my monitor will the the 24″ Dell.
A lot of Vegas folks are using it (sometimes 2 of them!!) and it gets rave reviews.

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How are you capturing into Vegas? Firewire, I hope.
I shot some stuff a few weeks ago with a DVX-100 and got both channels of audio.

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I went LCD 2 years ago and don’t regret it at all.
I still have an external video monitor for colour correction but that’s it.

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Sony’s download page is the full version of Vegas (and all their other apps too, for that matter).