[Mike Thompson]

Thank you. I will try that.

[Mike Thompson]

The clicks are definitely added after importing two or more .mp4s into a new project.

They appear in random places, and they are not in the original. It’s not a sound card issues because once they appear, they appear in the same place.

They are visible in waveform once you figure out where they are, and it’s clear from their ‘texture’ that they’ve been superimposed on top of the original soundtrack because they have a higher frequency. If you don’t believe me I will take a screenshot next time it happens, but they are plainly visible and audible, and they have happened in other projects too now that I think about it.

[Mike Thompson]

A thief? Wow.

What if I told you I was driving a minivan full of students from the college to the field trip. Am I allowed to play music during the journey? Or is that ‘broadcasting’?

The fact that you aren’t willing to consider these issues really surprises me, but I’m not surprised you’d rather say “Go away and stop bothering us”. Pathetic response.

[Mike Thompson]

That’s sad, but I understand your position. I already have a hard drive and CD collection chock full of music, so I’m not in the least bit interested in learning how to acquire mp3s.

What I find so sad is when amateur movie makers are coerced or bullied into using utter trash royalty free electric keyboard sounding crap music because of legal paranoia from people such as yourself. I have already found some great (copyrighted) soundtracks which I intend to use. They will go down really well because people know the songs, and it really gives the video so much more life when you use real music.

If you killjoys had your way we’d all be listening to computer generated commercial filler music with our vids. Can you imagine how sad that would be? It would really suck.

I guess I’ll just have to work through my music collection the hard way and make a note of those tracks that I could use. But I sure as hell won’t be using royalty free nonsense, and I sure as hell know my video will be 1000 times more engaging if I use decent, well produced, well known, and unfortunately well copyrighted music.

It’s funny you think 50 is public. What if my video were for 15 people? Or 5? Or just 1? Would you still tell me to use royalty free. It really bugs me that pro royalty free people don’t understand the role of music in adding atmosphere to their movies.

Oh well, I’m sorry this is a bit provocative, and I understand you can’t encourage me to use copyright sources, but you surely must see how deprived our audiences would be if we were to use the crappy royalty free stuff that some of you advocate?

[Mike Thompson]

Thank you. I’m not looking for royalty free. In my experience there’s nothing ruins videos more than crappy royalty free music, and I pity the videographers who have to use royalty free stuff with their wedding slideshows and whatnot. I need proper music, and it helps when people recognise tracks. That’s why Holywood pays for music licenses.

I am not showing to the public, please let’s not turn this into a copyright/royalty free debate. It will be shown in the evening, for fun, to 50 college kids.

I want to know how people go about finding the good tracks. Is there a well know list of songs that most frequently appear in films?

[Mike Thompson]

Thank you, those are sensible work arounds. I also save the project as a unique filename just before the seemingly destructive ‘create multitrack’ operation.

When I switch to a different camera, it obviously creates a new event in the timeline. At the moment the default is a straight cut from one cam to the next. IS there a way to set the default as a fade/merge instead? Like over 1 second? Sorry I don’t know the technical terms.

Or are fades a bit naff? I don’t see them on TV much, but equally I don’t like the jerkiness of a simple cut, even if it’s in time to music! Thanks for any tips

[Mike Thompson]

Thanks. I have quicktime pro. I don’t get it, can anyone tell me how to get this recognised in vegas pro (latest update – 9c)? Thanks

[Mike Thompson]

Don’t buy the extreme i7, it’s hugely expensive for only an incremental improvement over the 920. My 2.6ghz 920 runs happily at 3.6ghz just by taking the multiplier to 21 x

Search around, find some reliable overclock settings that others have used on a certain motherboard, and off you go. Don’t think that overclocking is just for experts. I’m no expert my system is a lot faster than stock

[Mike Thompson]

Thanks John, that’s helpful. I am thinking about getting a video cam, but I’m worried that it’s not gonna get a whole lot of use except for making windsurfing movies. Until I have kids perhaps….

[Mike Thompson]

I would have used quicktime or virtualdub to create a time lapse avi from all the raw jpgs (open image sequence).

That movie would be at the native resolution of your jpgs.

Then I’d import that movie into vegas where you can do your pan / crop business.

Easy peasy