[Nick White]

Well until something better comes along:
Place the amount of text in a clip so that the frame is just full, both vertically and horizontally. Pan/Crop so that at the very start of the clip the text is _just_ off screen at the Bottom. Then at the end of the clip’s pan/crop timeline, make it _just_ off the Top of the frame.

Place another clip on a separate track. Make it start exactly halfway along the first clip. Again fill the frame with text. Do exactly what happened in the first clip. So just as the last line of the first clip’s text is halfway up the frame, the second clip’s text is also halfway up; it started at the bottom just as the last line of text left the bottom of the screen.

AFAICS Every clip has to be exactly the same length, and the two keyframes must be right at the start and finish. Otherwise some really weird stuff can happen. DAMHIKT.

In the end you will reach a clip that has the last text, filing it or not, and that just scrolls off.

I am but an egg, and I am sure this can be refined with compositing modes etc, but it works and it’s simple.

Nick
Head: Hertz Music

[Nick White]

Mike.I have to assume you are talking Pro, not Studio

Nick
Head: Hertz Music

[Nick White]

Mike. Thanks for your help.

I am a bit confused. I the wrong place.

I can’t find a placement tab. I started in the text editing pane, which pops up as soon as I place the text clip, and could not find it there. So I tried Video Clip FX, but although I can set X,Y values and rotation, the trouble is that what shows is only the text that will fit on the screen. Trying to scroll more than one screen’s worth just results in truncated tops and bottom of the text.

Nick
Head: Hertz Music

[Nick White]

Ah thanks Steve. Interesting. I might have a bit of a look around about its history.

And I agree, when some specialised product is bought up by a large company, basically to absorb it, it’s usually its shark in the pool moment.

Nick
Head: Hertz Music

[Nick White]

Thank you for that. I will give it a go when I get back to the multimedia PC…..specialising hath its downside….

Nick
Head: Hertz Music

[Nick White]

I agree that it needs clarification, but that option will ONLY be there if you have used that yellow-marked loop region. Otherwise it’s greyed out. I also think it’s not default

Nick
Head: Hertz Music

[Nick White]

Thanks John. You were the guy that pointed me to Cineform as a lossless encoder IIRC.

I did install GoPro’s offering, but it made no difference. Still get the same error message. I have tried moving the dll around, but still….

So basically ATM Vegas does not contain the CF codec, but still has the option?

Where should the codec (from whatever source) reside to get Vegas to see it? As I say I have tried various ideas, but still nothing. eg,,,,where does your successful codec reside?

I need to post a couple of follow ups to other posts about your replies…I was a bit defensive….you’re a steady guy….thank you 🙂

Nick
Head: Hertz Music

[Nick White]

Thanks for the reply.

HAH! And that makes it different from everything else video?! Video work is one _great big issue_ in the workflow. 😀

Thanks for the heads-up. Can you elaborate or provide leads? All I have heard is that it is a lossless cod(ec) that seemed to be available to Vegas.

Nick
Head: Hertz Music

[Nick White]

[Sam Caino] “I’m home now on my Sony Vaio with 12 gigs of ram and the original h.264 files are working fine.”

???? I looked at the specs of the HP machines and they are not powerful compared to what you would seem to have yourself.

Nick
Head: Hertz Music

[Nick White]

Again I am assuming you are talking preview, not playing after render.

Sorry I was not telling you anything you have not already tried 🙁 I know how frustrating it can be.

Well to put it in perspective, I have just invested in 8GB of RAM in an Intel I7 machine, with a 1TB WD Black HDD for data and a 500Gb one for Windows 7 64 and installed apps. I decided to bite the bullet because I am getting back into Audiovisual stuff and hope to really slog at it. This is now actually not a top of line multimedia machine at all.

It does make things a lot easier, although even then it will trip a bit if I start adding tracks, cross-fades and FX to video, unless I again tweak my settings. That of course is the other thing: you start adding that stuff and each one really adds to the load, unless you go non-realtime with FX. HANDBRAKE TEMP

However I was working on a quad core machine with only 1GB of RAM, and that got by with only a few tweaks. Before that, yes, I struggled. In the end I accepted that the preview was just that, set a small size in both Project Properties and Preview Quality. I don’t think there is a magic bullet and I don’t think you will get much difference in other programmes. I have tried a couple and had the same sort of trouble. They had their own solutions, that in one case was rather elegant in theory, but IIRC just a bit weird in practice.

Actually if you have the time to set aside and have a cup of coffee, pre-rendering the segment you are working on does wonders fro just watching a bit of video. I used that a fair bit on a slower machine, swapping constant frustration for having to relax and wait for a few minutes. Again, if you choose your render size and quality, it will be quicker. You probably know that and are still unhappy….:(

And seriously, if multi-track Audio taught me anything, a standalone machine with NO avoidable background processes running makes a huge difference when things get stretched: no network, no scans, no AV, no FW. For a lot of the time they take up little and then suddenly dive in and do something, maybe even directly affecting a file you are working on or rendering etc.

Nick
Head: Hertz Music