[Mike Kujbida]

“It depends on the player. There is metadata in the mp4 file that tells the player the orientation. Some codecs respect it, some don’t.”

Thanks Steve.

[Mike Kujbida]

Mark, surprisingly enough GSpot doesn’t make a recommendation.

And here’s what MediaInfo says about it.

General
Complete name : D:Captured FilesEmily-dogsMVI_2182.MOV
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : QuickTime
Codec ID : qt
File size : 9.79 MiB
Duration : 3s 303ms
Overall bit rate : 24.9 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2013-02-18 18:46:33
Tagged date : UTC 2013-02-18 18:46:33
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Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Baseline@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=15
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 3s 303ms
Bit rate : 23.1 Mbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.836
Stream size : 9.09 MiB (93%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2013-02-18 18:46:33
Tagged date : UTC 2013-02-18 18:46:33
Color primaries : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4, SMPTE RP177
Transfer characteristics : BT.709-5, BT.1361
Matrix coefficients : BT.601-6 525, BT.1358 525, BT.1700 NTSC, SMPTE 170M

Audio
ID : 2
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : sowt
Duration : 3s 303ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 619 KiB (6%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2013-02-18 18:46:33
Tagged date : UTC 2013-02-18 18:46:33

[Mike Kujbida]

As previously mentioned, I’ve used the chroma keyer FX with great results.

[Mike Kujbida]

[mark thompson] “However I have NOT heard QuickTime Pro works from a credible enough source yet.”

I only use the free QuickTime player (7.6.8 as previously mentioned) and guarantee that I can load, play and edit files from my daughter’s iPad (2 I think) and iPhone 5.

[Mike Kujbida]

[Diane Sosnoski] “I went to Oldversion.com. It’s necessary to install an ad based downloader to proceed with the download. I’m nervous about doing that so I’m holding off …”

Diane, I truly detest it when sites do things like that to software that used to be so easy to download 🙁

“but I looked at the Apple website and it’s possible to download Quicktime 7.6 for Windows there. Would you advise that?”

I checked my Dropbox folder and it turns out that I had saved 7.6.8 in there.
You can get it at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20488019/quicktimeplayer768.exe
Try that version and see if it solves your problem.

“Another issue I have with the ipad is that the videos I shoot look fine on the ipad but are upside down on other PC based devices. I know I shot them correctly. (A separate issue from Vegas.)”

I’ve had that happen to me too and have never been able to figure out why it does that. Interestingly enough it’s only Apple devices that I’ve had this problem with.

[Mike Kujbida]

Here are two suggestions from the Sony Vegas forum. Credit Rory Cooper for the first one and Spot for the second.

#1.
Try using the lava media gen track 2
Colors light grey and dark grey = you don’t want it too harsh
Set layers to max
Frequency x 25 + – y6 + –
Animate offset and progress very slow motion
Add a solid white new track 1 cut a mask for your area from white = “you don’t want the heat everywhere” make this a parent composite multiply mask
The parent track composite select displacement.
Select flip input surface
Drop the opacity of the mask to regulate the amount of the fx
Your video track = 3

#2.
Using a height mode on an overlaid track would also create the effect.

[Mike Kujbida]

This is an old thread and a new way has come up to make doing this a lot easier.
Thanks to Gary James on the Sony Vegas forum, there’s a MUCH better and easier way.
This works best if you copy the VIDEO_TS folder from the DVD to a folder on your internal hard drive first.

Vegas allows you to open up a DVD .IFO file. This imports the entire .VOB chain for both video and audio tracks.

Click File / Open, then navigate to your VIDEO_TS sub directory and enter *.IFO in the File name input field. For a regular DVD you will see a VIDEO_TS.IFO, and a VTS_01_0.IFO. Select the VTS_01_0.IFO file and click on Open. Don’t try this on a DVD disk because Vegas will try to build an .sfk file containing audio peaks in the VIDEO_TS directory.

[Mike Kujbida]

I found out that newer versions of QuickTime do not work properly. I have 7.6.8 on my Pro 10 machine and I can import iPad files with no problem.
You can find most older versions at https://www.oldversion.com/windows/quicktime/

[Mike Kujbida]

This isn’t a DOF look, rather I had to blur out the background behind the interviewee because he was way too close to the TV set and there was no room to move him further away from it. I created a mask around him, feathered the edge and adjusted it whenever I changed the shot. Once I got the original mask made, it was very easy to zoom it in or out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyaQ-eAIOmM

[Mike Kujbida]

Get the files off your flash drive and onto an internal hard drive, preferably not drive C.