[Mike Kujbida]

Hi Steve. I just looked in the index, it said p. 341, so that’s what I typed. Turns out p. 357 is for scripting.

Anyway, on to your problem. I just tried it and had no problem doing exactly what you want. In the Keyboard prefs, I click on the script I want to assign (in the Available Commands box – I already had my scripts loaded under Tools – Scripting) and then choose the shortcut I want by clicking in the “Press new shortcut keys:” box and entering the desired shortcut combination. Press “Assign” & “Apply”. Done.
Let me know if that works for you.

Mike

[Mike Kujbida]

I always render with the DVD NTSC video stream setting.
This does make it a 2-part process though as this is just the video portion. You’ll need to render the audio separately.
Most folks use the default (Dolby Digital) AC3 template.
As long as you give this file the same name as your video (myvideo.mpg & myvideo.ac3), DVDA will load the audio clip once you’ve selected the video clip.

BTW, if you’re new to Vegas, I highly recommend grabbing all of Edward Troxel’s newslettters. They’re an invaluable resource.

[Mike Kujbida]

Vegas 5 manual – p. 302
Vegas 6 manual – p. 341

Options – Prefs – Keyboard.
Customize away 🙂

[Mike Kujbida]

Are you sure it’s real black (hand over the lens) and not a lack of signal? If it’s the latter, that might explain the mumbo jumbo as you need to start capturing on a stable video signal. It’s for this very reason that I let tape roll for at least 5 sec. before anything critical.

[Mike Kujbida]

You’ve got things mixed up just a bit.
“Mainconcept MPEG2” shows up in the Save As box while “DVDA video stream” is in the Template box.
The Template box is where you select whatever option you want to use for creating the necessary file for your final DVD. In here, you can select regular video, widescreen, 24p and a lot more.
The Custom box to the right allows you to customize any option even further and, if you want to, save the preset (as a lot of us do – I have 6 custom DVD presets myself).

Mike

[Mike Kujbida]

Jason, try this tip that was on another Vegas forum some time ago. Good luck with it.

Mike

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I split the audio track into separate clips for each speaker, and opened in Sound Forge as take. First I normalised it as the levels were WAY down, then some Eq to kill anything not needed and add some boost at 100Hz and dips at the room resonance. Then used wave hammer at Smooth Compression preset. Saved it back to Vegas, then opened that take in SF as a take again and applied Wave Hammer at Medium Compression preset. Saved that back to Vegas and dragged that take into a new audio track. Then switched on Invert Phase.
Now at this point all you get is rubbish. Slide the track gain down on the highly compressed track, I found a sweet spot at around -12dB but it varied from speaker to speaker.

1. Select All, then Copy the audio.
2. Paste to a new track, invert the waveform, and apply moderate compression.
3. Reduce the new track volume so that a preselected “quiet” area is about 50% of the level of its corresponding area in the original.
4. Paste Mix the new track into the old. Renormalize if necessary.

There should be a noticeable improvement in clarity and echo reduction because you have applied negative feedback to the areas where the echo is most objectionable. Too high a compression or too high level of the feedback track will give a “pumping” effect, however.

I used this trick in Vegas and was amazed how clean I could get it by playing around with the compression release time and threshold adjustments on the alternate track. The release time adjustment was the biggest help in overcoming the acoustics delay and still preserving the proper dynamics in the main audio.

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[Mike Kujbida]

Glad it worked for you Gordon. I wasn’t near my Vegas PC at the time so that was off the top of my head 🙂

[Mike Kujbida]

Turn off “Quantize to Frames” and see if that helps.

Mike

[Mike Kujbida]

Sounds to me like you still need to render the audio. Use the AC3 template. Use the same name as you did for the mpeg-2 file and it’ll link properly in DVDA.

Mike

[Mike Kujbida]

What you’re seeing is the Vegas default display. However, any row can be dragged to the desired position. In your case, click on the header for the video track and drag it below the audio track(s). Done.