Mike Kujbida
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COW Coins
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For batch resizing, get IrfanView. It’s free and the batch conversion/rename tool gives you several different options including new file size and format.
Image size depends on how far you want to zoom in on the original image. You’re in PAL territory so video is 720 x 576. Assuming you shot at the max setting of 3008 x 2000, this means that, keeping the original size, you could easily do a 5X time zoom without any loss.
I just finished a grad video where most of the digitals were 1280 x 960. As long as I didn’t expect to zoom into a head & shoulders shot of one person in a group of 20, I was fine.
Mike
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To add to Lance & Lee’s excellent suggestions, look at your output on the vectorscope. If all you ever see is a small dot in the very centre of it, then it’s guaranteed to be black & white and the flickering you’re seeing is a monitor issue.
Mike
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Make sure you do the “full” install (all authoring components) instead of the automatic way.
Mike
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Glad you got it sorted out Ralph. You taught me something new too as I’ve never tried extracting loops and didn’t know it wouldn’t work.
Mike
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You’re taking a 4:1:1 signal and converting that to a 4:2:0 signal. Then you’re taking that 4:2:0 siganl and re-converting it so yes, you’re definitely losing quality.
Adam Wilt’s site has some good pictures as well as explanations about 4:1:1 and 4:2:0.2 ways to maintain quality.
The first is to render out each section as an avi and then bring them back in for the final edit. This will involve some recompression but, if you’re not doing anything other than joining the 3 clips, it will be minimal.The other option is to open 2 copies of Vegas. Call #1 “final edit”. In the second copy, load in “pre-ceremony” and do a copy-paste into #1. Then open up “ceremony” and “reception” respectively and repeat. Now save and do your final render. With this option, no rendering is necessary until you’re ready for the final one.
Mike
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Ralph, out of curiosity, do other CDs work OK for you? I’m wondering if it’s just this one CD that’s a bit flaky.
Mike
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Hi Ralph. Make sure the “Action” in the drop-down menu is set to “Read by track” and not “Read by range” or Read entire disc” as these options will result in what you described.
Mike
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First of all, I have no idea why you titled your thread “color correction”.
Sonic Foundry is the name of the company that originally developed Vegas, Sound Forge, Acid, etc.
They sold the company to Sony a little over a year ago. They are still in business, just developing different products.Mike
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Right-click in the track header – duplicate track.
Right-click track 1 – channels – left only.
Right-click track 2 – channels – right only. -