[Nathan Halder]

John: I apologize for taking so long to follow up . . .

I was in the process of getting a new computer so I didn’t want to mess around with un/reinstalling Vegas.

On my new system, in which I have never downloaded any Cineform products, I made a fresh install of Vegas Pro 8 and am able to render using Cineform’s intermediate codec. So if anyone is having a problem, uninstall your NeoScene products, uninstall Vegas, and then start fresh. You should then be able to use the supplied Cineform codecs.

[Nathan Halder]

Thanks to both of you – that worked! Sorry about the subject line – old post. Cheers.

[Nathan Halder]

Thanks John. I contacted Cineform and they told me how to completely remove the Neoscene reader. They then suggested reinstalling Vegas 8.0 and seeing if Vegas would let me use the Cineform codec in rendering the HDV intermediate codec. Thanks for the input.

[Nathan Halder]

John: Thanks for always responding so quickly to help out those us who get easily confused. Here’s another one for ya . . . if I render my 7D MOV files as HDV files as opposed to the Sony YUV HD, aren’t I losing resolution? The footage was shot in 1080p, 24p, and on the Canon 7D, that’s 1920×1080, right? I thought HDV was 1440. Thanks.

[Nathan Halder]

Thanks John.

Any indication Sony may support Adobe Flash in 10 or later releases?

[Nathan Halder]

Thanks Jerry, that is easy!

[Nathan Halder]

Mike: Thanks so much! There’s so many little gotchas.

I thought I started the project as an NTSC DV Wide screen. I went in and changed the PAR to 1.2121 and applied. That changed the picture size. But then I had to go to each clip and change the PAR as well. Thanks!

[Nathan Halder]

Don’t worry – I blame Apple not Sony. That’s why I went with Vegas in the first place.

When I open it it Platinum, it’s squeezed to 4:3. If I go into the Pan/Crop tool and change to “output to source aspect” it goes to 16:9 but still looks squished (like anamorphic?). I would prefer to use Pro 8 (unfortunately I don’t have the money right now to go to 9) because I can only do 4 tracks in Platinum 9.

If I install 7.6.2, I think I read in a previous post by you, Mike, that ITunes won’t work. If I do that, can I just reinstall the latest QT after importing to Vegas Pro or do I need to keep the older version of QT until I’m done editing?

[Nathan Halder]

Thanks for the ideas John. I’ll put in some learning time on the ProType Titler tool.

[Nathan Halder]

John, thanks for the reply. I have Platinum 9, which only offers up to 4 video tracks and, I think, unlimited audio tracks.

The parent/child compositing tip sounds like a better way to go when you have unlimited tracks because you don’t have to render. Is there a parent effect as well as a parent motion?

Your tutorial looks helpful and that was one of the first things I wanted to do with Pro. I miss manipulation the “z” plane in Platinum.

Thanks again.