Mike Kujbida
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Look at Vol. 1 #11 of Edward’s newsletter Doing a Color Pass.
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This is Vegas. Don’t worry about it.
Before you think I’m being flippant, I’m serious.
Vegas really doesn’t care what the the original aspect ratio size is as it will automatically scale it to fit the project properties.
I deal with 720 x 486 files from my other NLE (dpsVelocity) as well as from animation files (Maya).
Vegas hasn’t once complained about or given me grief about the difference.
BTW, because of this, there’s no need to go through any of the steps you mentioned.
You can do a “Match Output Aspect” if you want but, IMO, it’s not really necessary either. -
No, you can’t do fades in DVDA. Any extra audio or video FX have to be done before you bring it in.
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I’m puzzled. Your source material is 16:9 so why are you bothering to render to 4:3? Just leave it at 16:9 and your problem goes away.
BTW, because of the different aspect ratios (widescreen = 1.2121 and normal = 0.9091) there’s no way to get around your problem. When you try to fit 16:9 source into a 4:3 project, assuming you’re doing a “stretch to fit”, you will lose the side information. -
This link will take you directly to his Sony Vegas Plugins download page.
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The “industry standard” (and I use the term loosely) says it’s supposed to be -20dbfs (decibels full-scale) but I’ve seen it spec’d as high as -12. YMMV.
Google an article titled “The Deadly Analog to DV Audio Level”.
As I recall, it dealt with this issue and more. -
Using or rendering to WMV files is what’s slowing your machine down, not the “fade handles”.
Vegas, like most NLEs, works best with DV-AVI files which is what you really need to capture to for editing purposes.
As far as the “fade handles”, are you referring to the (extremely short) audio fades at the beginning and end of each clip? If so, that’s normal, nothing to worry about and, once again, nothing that would make editing or rendering painfully slow. -
You most certainly can. I’m a corporate producer but I’ve done this with things such as opening titles or sequences where all I need to do is change a date or a few shots. Save it as a veg file, import it into a new project and change the media as desired.
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I’ve run into the exact same issue and eventually gave up trying to get them to match 🙁
My thinking was that, since I’m going to video anyway, a properly calibrated NTSC monitor is my only concern.
If you’re worried about calibration for printing or web purposes, then pick one monitor to set up properly and use it as your reference. -
Sorry Rob but, since I know nothing about Flash yet, I can’t help you out.
I thought Vegas had limitations on Flash though. AFAIK, it only imports up to a certain version.
As far as Open Office, I think the poster in the original thread was looking for an app to convert PowerPoint to AVI for subsequent Vegas import.