[Nigel O’neill]

John

You may want to try the following:

Temporarily disable any firewalls running on your PC, including Windows own.

If that does not work, you can try the following which also works for Windows 7

1- Click the Start Button, type devmgmt.msc in the “Start Search” box and press Enter.
2- Expand the “IEEE 1394 Bus Host Controllers” node in the device tree on the right hand pane
3- Right click the host controller node select “Update driver software …”
4- Select “Browse my computer for driver software”
5- Select “let me pick from a list of device driver on my computer …” and Check the box before “Show compatible hardware”.
6. Choose the second option—1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy), and click next to update the driver.
7. Restart the PC and see if the camera is recognised.

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[Nigel O’neill]

Scott

To insert chapters on the timeline in Vegas, press M and give the chapter a name. Do not place a chapter point right at the start of the timeline.

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[Nigel O’neill]

Scott

Are you inserting markers or chapters in Vegas?

Nigel

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[Nigel O’neill]

Scott

Can’t say I have experienced your markers issue. I regularly place chapters on my timeline and they generally come across fine into DVDA, although I have to ‘Insert Scene Selection’ on the imported file to then be able to see my chapters.

I have created fantastic backgrounds in DVDA, including full motion backgrounds using video and/or photo montages. The quality of the photo/video being used as a background has to be high to begin with. Perhaps you are losing quality during the save process in photo shop.

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[Nigel O’neill]

Aaron

You could be missing some video codecs. If you are using the Explorer tab in Vegas and select your AVI, the properties of both the video and audio streams should appear at the bottom of the window. If you see information about the audio stream but not the video stream, you are most likely missing the required video codec on your PC.

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[Nigel O’neill]

Victor

I have to concur with Mike that the problem could be with your installation.

I don’t use Vegas Movie Studio Platinum, so I cannot comment on the Advanced Render settings. Vegas Pro does not have such a button to my knowledge.

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[Nigel O’neill]

Let me understand this is your problem:

From the main menu you select File > ‘Render As’
You then select Save File as Type: MPEG-2
You can select DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen, but the ‘Custom’ button remains greyed out.

Is this correct?

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[Nigel O’neill]

If you are using the DVDA templates, you need to include audio in the output under ‘Custom’ settings. There is a check box that by default is cleared. You need to select it and save the template.

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[Nigel O’neill]

Thanks Theo

I have now played around with the curves, but it appears to be a bit of a hit and miss affair. I had used curves in the past, but for extreme colour effects. Never thought I could use it for this purpose!

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[Nigel O’neill]

I ended up using the PAL DV WS project template and setting the media properties of the 1080i footage to PAL DV WS to match my DV WS footage. I then rendered out to DVDA PAL WS and then brought that into DVDA.

I have not detected any issues of squeezing or stretching with the pixel aspect ratio, given than HDV is 1.333 and DV WS is 1.4568. This may be an issue, but I could not spot it with the naked eye. Perhaps my more learned colleagues on this forum could comment.

Using this combination, the strobing/tearing artifacts are now gone in both the HDV and DV footage. I have some slight letter boxing top and bottom, but that is an acceptable trade-off and will be partially hidden by overscan on most TVs.

I came across an old post in the DMN forum which suggests setting Field Order: Progressive + De-interlace Method: Blend.

https://forums.digitalmedianet.com/cgi-bin/readwholethread.fcgi?forum=sonic-foundry_vegas&post=070431112137.htm&toppostid=50820

I have not tried this simple fix as I have to deliver this project within a week. I have already spent 2 nights rejigging my veg project files and re-rendering. To my naked eye, the HDV footage seems slightly more crisp and ‘pops’ a bit more which I can fake by slightly oversaturating the DV WS footage if I want to. I have not taken that option (yet).

Given that most of the footage was taken indoors in a poorly lit church and an even more poorly lit reception, the difference is not so obvious. My next issue will be removing noise from gain as my cameras were all running in excess of 15db at the reception! But that is another battle.