[Norman Willis]

[John Rofrano] “I have no idea why you think you need a PDF file but the iPad can play MP4 videos.”

I don’t mean to be OT, but you guys’ support is priceless. So just to explain, we are all about the first century assembly, right down to the songs. A lot of people want to learn the songs, but they meet in all sorts of different places all around the world, and many of them do not have an internet connection where they meet.

I put together a PowerPoint of some of the more popular songs, with the English on the left, and the Hebrew/Aramaic on the right. I am not Pavarotti, but my first thought was to record myself singing these songs with Camtasia, edit in Sony Vegas, and then upload to YouTube, and embed to our website. But then I realized people need to be able to play this in their assemblies, and because Hebrew is foreign, many of them won’t sing unless they have someone to sing along with. They might also want to repeat the song a few times (either to learn it, or to sing and dance along with it). I don’t know if YouTube has an interactive menu like that, but what I thought was, “You know, what would be really great is if I could just do a PDF, so people could play it wherever, on whatever device, and then sing along with me singing.” So I checked it out, and you can embed audio files in Acrobat. It is really easy. The help files were way easier than the instructions on the internet.

It turned out to be 45MB, which is not real big, so I don’t think it will put us over on bandwidth – and now people can download it once, and play it wherever they are, whenever they want. I realize it is kind of low-tech, but it works.

https://www.nazareneisrael.org/AudioMP3/FunHebrewSongsPDFwithAudio.aspx

That’s just a starter. There is a lot more I can do in Vegas, if I can ever get the time….

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

[Stephen Mann] “Where?”

There is a YouTube app on my iPhone, and I think I can even watch it through the browser (Safari). Since iPad is basically a big iPhone (without the phone) I am 100% certain you can watch YouTube on an iPad as well. I am not sure what YouTube does for encoding, but apparently they figured something out.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

Also, how can I output to Flash? Sorry for all the posts.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

OK, it turns out I do need to output for iPad, because I have to embed the audio files in a .pdf. Is it possible to output for iPad in Sony Vegas?
Thanks.

[Norman Willis]

I’m thinkin’ that is for “other-than-shared-video” (YouTube, Vimeo) sites. Is that correct?

[Norman Willis]

Found it! Right-click, Group, “Remove From.” Then delete the audio.

I wonder if I can mark my own answer as a solution? Lol.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

Is there a button there that says, “Animate”?

Push that.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

Thanks Ifan. I appreciate your kind attitude. However, the issue was specific to version 9. Now that we are on version 10, the issue no longer persists.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

I asked this on the After Effects Forum. They said it can be done in After Effects.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/202/891840

So once I create this effect in After Effects, do I then render it out to a lossless .avi file, and then bring it into Vegas on its own track?

And which type of lossless .avi is best?

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

OK, thanks!

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org