[Neal Barlow]

Greeting All,
I do VHS to DVD transfer for clients all the time. I’ve had a hick-up before when I was jumping between 16×9 and 4×3 templates and not watching if I grabbed a 24p template or not. The pull-down has thrown off my audio before. When that happenned I just work the chain to find the problem. You need to make sure that your audio setting and your video settings in export/render work with each other. The Main Concept – while not up dated is good and reliable. In fact VAAST’s freebie of DVD Prep (Shout out to John there – I think that one was yours wasn’t it?) is a great little script that makes things pretty simple.

I think your Windows Movie Maker experience worked and was simply because it has very simple options and the stars aligned for you. Sooner or later though, you will throw it either something too long or not to it’s liking and it will freak or just take eons to render. It’s like using a Black & Decker cordless screwdriver to drive in screws. It works for little things, but man, I wouldn’t want to use it to put in a deck. That’s when you want a real screw gun (Vegas).

I’d be more than happy to share any settings with you for templates I’ve made, should it help…Oh and another great tool to have hand when doing tranfers is “Mark’s DVD Bitrate Calculator” it’s a java dealy that is such a great tool for crunching number for rendering out .mpg for any video length to DVD.

We’re here to help you. 🙂

Neal Barlow
To The Skies Productions
Gh2, Sony Vegas 13, AE6 and Stuff, cause that’s the real secret ingredient.

[Neal Barlow]

I tried using it with my GH2 footage that I run the hack on and it crashes the program everytime I try to browse the clip. It’s not ready for prime-time at all…unless I am missing something. I wonder who Sony Beta tested this with?

Neal Barlow
To The Skies Productions
Gh2, Sony Vegas 13, AE6 and Stuff, cause that’s the real secret ingredient.

[Neal Barlow]

I teach high school Video Productions and then run my own business when not at school. I’ve taught the kids to start on Vegas as an editor because of price point and speed of editing. So I was hoping the announcement this week was going to be some big to excite them, since I sometimes have people turn up their nose at what I teach because it’s not Premiere of Final Cut.

I updated our lab to Movie Studio 13 so that the students were current, but I hate it. I’d rather go back to 11, but I wont in case students by their own version so they can work at home. So much changed in the interface between this and Pro from version 11. Like Freakishly large buttons and not being able to natively create a fade.

At the end of the day, I want students to be good editors and I hold to the belief that if a carpenter can drive a nail straight, who cares what kind of hammer they have…but I want them to also be relevant to an employer or University…

I already have a strict order for saving files and logging footage, so here’s hoping that Catalyst adds to Vegas’s clout.

– Thanks John for your thoughts on FCX.-

Neal Barlow
To The Skies Productions
Gh2, Sony Vegas 13, AE6 and Stuff, cause that’s the real secret ingredient.

[Neal Barlow]

I’ve had to come up with my log-in process through Vegas, which works for my shorter projects. I’ve tried Prelude a couple of times, but to be truthful I didn’t really see the benefit for it unless I was going to edit in Premiere.

Just to clarify John, you really like the way Final Cut X ingests? I’ve haven’t played with it but I run Vegas on Bootcamp so I’ve been tempted to try it out. – Not to hijack the thread here.

I guess we won’t really know what Catalyst truly is till we see some kind of demo.

Neal Barlow
To The Skies Productions
Gh2, Sony Vegas 13, AE6 and Stuff, cause that’s the real secret ingredient.

[Neal Barlow]

I guess I was just hoping for something else.

Neal Barlow
To The Skies Productions
Gh2, Sony Vegas 13, AE6 and Stuff, cause that’s the real secret ingredient.

[Neal Barlow]

John,
I’m running Vegas on Bootcamp with no problem, and was wondering if you noticed an performance issue with VMware Fusion. I had read that it was more taxing on the system running it this way than it was to run it through boot camp; however, talking to someone who is actually running their setup with way gives the best perspective, so I thought I would ask.

Thanks,

Neal Barlow
To The Skies Productions
https://www.totheskiesproductions.com
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