[Nigel O’neill]

When shooting outdoors, it is always a good idea to use an ND filter and/or polarising filter. You might need to try a few different angles to get the best result.

In a shot such as yours, adding a touch of contrast and a bit of colour curves will help take a bit off the edge of the blown out highlights.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 11 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

[Paul Whitlock] “could you tell me how to open several .veg files into a single master .veg file”

Create a new file and then simply drag and drop your veg files on the timeline using Vegas’ explorer. Save your new file and call it something like master1.

Note: Whenever you update the nested subfiles and reopen the master file, Vegas will regenerate new proxy files for the nested files that have changed. It just means your master project may open up a bit more slowly.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 11 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

[Joao Souza] “Let’s say I take a snapshot, when I import it, it has less quality, looks a little bit ou of focus/ darker and position is not the same, it moved a little.”

Interlaced scan refers to one of two common methods for “painting” a video image on an electronic display screen (the other being progressive scan) by scanning or displaying each line or row of pixels. This technique uses two fields to create a frame. One field contains all the odd lines in the image, the other contains all the even lines of the image. A PAL-based television set display, for example, scans 50 fields every second (25 odd and 25 even). The two sets of 25 fields work together to create a full frame every 1/25 of a second (or 25 frames per second), but with interlacing create a new half frame every 1/50 of a second (or 50 frames per second).

To display interlaced video on progressive scan displays, deinterlacing is applied to the video signal.

When you take a screen shot, you are effectively only getting either one of the two sets of scans.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 11 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

Personally, I am holding off going to Windows 8 for at least 1 year. For a video editor, as John has stated there is no real need to move to Windows 8 for the touch screen features, unless plugin developers deliberately head that way.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 11 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

They will get postage stamp sized video if they want any quality 🙂

[Nigel O’neill]

I have rendered up to 4 projects simultaneously in SVP10 and SVP11 with Ultimate S Pro 4.1 without any issues. My preview does stutter but that does not translate into the final product.

What are you delivering in? DVD? File?

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 11 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

A CODEC pack such as K-lite is probably the worst possible thing you can install with Vegas.

Is there any chance you can get the video files recaptured?

Being able to view the files successfully is not an indication of their suitability for editing.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 11 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

[John Rofrano] “DJ who’s playback device is a bit off (“

I experienced that for the first time at a recent wedding. I noticed he was able to adjust the pitch to better mix tracks. It is a real pain when they do that.

[Nigel O’neill]

If you hold down the CTRL key whilst clicking events, you can move specific events.

If you want to move everything from a certain point on on one track, right mouse click and choose Select events to end, and then drag.

Lastly, to select a range, hold down shift, click and then click again elsewhere. All events in between will be highlighted. Drag.

These tricks also work between tracks. CTRL click two tracks then right mouse clicking select events to end highlights both tracks from the point you started to CTRL click.

[Nigel O’neill]

[John Rofrano] “ven on a 40″ 1080p HDTV about 25% of consumers see NO difference between Blu-ray and DVD (and another 30% don’t feel the difference is worth paying more for)””

Hmmm…when I watched my first bluray movie, “Spiderman 2″ (I think) on Blu-ray, there was this scene outdoors on a bridge with the main character with his squeeze. The detail of the leaves in the background was unnerving to the point of distraction. Then again, it could have been the 46” Sony TV.

I often buy the dual DVD/bluray sets and play both. Bluray content is stunning. I has delivered a couple of weddings on bluray. The in-laws get the DVD, the couple keeps the BD!