Mike Kujbida
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COW Coins
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Does this have to do with my encoding software (DVD Santa)…
Most of us here use DVD Architect so, for $30, I’m not expecting too much.
…or am I not rendering with the correct settings in Vegas?
Try rendering it out as both a DV-AVI and an MPEG-2 and compare DVD Santa’s results to see which one you like better.
For render settings in Vegas, try these steps:
DV-AVI:
After you’re done creating everything, click on the first image in the sequence, right click and choose elect Events to End and then right click again and choose Switches – Reduce Interlace Flicker.
When rendering, click the Custom tab next to the Template box and select Best in the Video Rendering Quality box in the Project tab. This should (almost) always be used on a project with stills as it helps maintain image quality.MPEG-2:
Since this is obviously under an hour, go for the maximum bitrate possible. Once again, click the Custom tab next to the Template box and select Best in the Video Rendering Quality box in the Project tab. Now click the Video tab. Set Video Quality to High (31). Click the Constant bit rate option and change this number to 8,000,000.BTW, both of these can be saved as custom templates by clicking in the Template box in the Video tab, entering a new name and clicking the floppy disc (Save Template) icon. This allows you to recall them again and again without having to go through all these steps.
I do this all the time and I have at least 25 custom templates I’ve created that I re-use. -
Don’t bother converting to a fixed size. Use the percentage option instead. By changing this, you’ll be able to see exactly what you’ll end up with before you do it. For example, shrinking your 2592 x 1944 image to 30% of original gives you 778 x 583 which is close enough. This way, you still have some room to zoom in to crop if you want to.
Keep in mind that images shot vertically will either have large black borders on each side or will have to cropped to fill the frame.
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“Is it because its dimensions are larger? Or because there are more dots per inch?”
It’s a combination of a whole bunch of things. If you ever shot footage with a VHS camcorder, you may have wondered why the movies you rented looked much better than anything you shot yourself, even though the TV was the same. It really boils down to the old expression GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out). Not to say that your camcorder is garbage. It’s just that, in comparison to a Panavison film camera with a highly experienced crew,it will look substantially better.
“Are there any batch converters that can convert the resolution of multiple images at once so they are all the same size?”
IrfanView (it’s free) does a great job of doing this.
You mentioned in another forum that your images were 2592 x 1944. Considering that standard (NTSC) video is 720 x 480, the only reason to stay with an image that large is if you planned to zoom in A LOT on an image. -
Are you using the full version (not Movie Studio) of (at least) Vegas 6.
If so, nested vegs are what you want to do.
Save #1 as project1.veg
Save #2 as project2.veg
Start a new project and import project1.veg and project2.veg just like you would with any media.
Drop them on your timeline and save as project1-master.veg
You should know that, if your original had multiple audio and/or video tracks, everything will be still there but it will now be one track each of audio and video.
You can still edit it by right clicking the video portion and selecting “Edit Source Project”.
This will start a new instance of Vegas with the original project. Make any necessary changes, re-save it and both project1.veg and project1-master.veg will be updated. -
John, as you probaly know, avi is just a wrapper for a number of different codecs.
From your description, the only thing that comes to mind is that the avi might be a DIVX or, even worse, an XVID file, neither of which Vegas really likes.
If no one here has any suggestions, I’d go to the Videohelp site and browse around there for some tools that may get you through this.
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“i know how to build dynamic ram preview, but shouldnt it load the clips to ram automatically?”
Sorry but no. That’s just the way Vegas works. You have to build a new dynamic ram preview each time you want to do it.
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ScenalyzerLive will do this for you and it’s only $39 U.S.
From the site:
TIME-LAPSE CAPTURING
* With ScenalyzerLive you can use Time Lapse Capturing to create impressive effects that can be used in your final video.
* Record e.g. one hour of a Sunset and then use ScLive to capture the video into an e.g. 15 seconds .avi file which will show the sunset 240 times faster. -
As always, Google is your friend 🙂
Subtitle Workshop, right from the source. -
“…it zooms into the picture and actually seems to distort it a bit.”
How large was the original image? I’ve done this thousands of times and never had any distortion issues.
It will zoom in very slightly due to the correction being done to the pixel aspect ratio conversion (square to rectangular) but, once again, it’s nothing I’ve ever worried about. -
“But I’m intersted in simply fading one out and fading in the next”
By that, I’m assuming you mean event #1 fades in, stays up for a few seconds, fades out, event #2 fades in, etc.
Am I correct?
Unless you have a specific reason for doing this, as a viewer, I would find it extremely distracting. Any slide show I’ve ever done has event #1 dissolving (proper terminology) into event #2, event #2 dissolving into event #3, etc.If I’m mistaken, then definitely go for Excalibur. A lot of folks around here use it and are extremely happy with it.