Peter Wright
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Each Track Header has an “Bypass Motion Blur” Icon – switch this on for tracks you don’t want blurred.
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Grazie, no apologies please – many including me will be grateful.
I’ve always felt a bit “clumsy” with the bezier tool, and one of the skills I’ve lacked is to easily pick off the points I want – so often everything, or more than I want, gets selected, so thanks for the tip.
(Talking of improvements – one thing I’ve always wanted to do is to zoom in tight for those really fine adjustments…)
cheers
Peter
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There’s a split screen icon above the Preview window – turn this off.
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There are a choice of ways, depending on how you work.
The Vegas internal capture works fine, but it does not currently do scene detection, which some like to use.
The Cineform capture can detect scenes, and also can do almost simultaneous creation of Intermediate avi files for editing. If you are going to work this way, this is a considerable time saver, as creating them after capture takes a fair while.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
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When you say “they will switch”, how are you doing this?
There are several ways …
You can use a composite envelope on the top track to reduce its opacity to nil when you want the lower track to show through.
You can Split the top event and delete the parts where you want the lower track to show through.
You can split both tracks and move the sections you want to retain up to a new track.
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You can automate the whole process by using Excalibur or Ultimatte S, making it extremely easy and fast.
Peter Wright
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MPG is not really designed for editing – it can be done, but preview playback with such a compresed format can be un-smooth as you’re experiencing (The other apps you mentioned are optimised for playback rather than editing).
To test that the final result will be better, drag to select a short loop region in the timeline and press Shift B for a Ram Preview – this should be smooth and in synch. -
At full quality you can get 60 to 90 mins easily, depending on the complexity of menus etc, but it is possible to get more than 2 hours by reducing the bitrate.
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The video on DVD is MPEG2 format, which takes up far less space than DV avi.
Capture in Vegas is in fact a transfer of digital information, so there is no quality variation – you do this later when you render to the required format, whether it is for tape, DVD or web streaming etc.
13 Gb per hour is the normal amount of space required for DV video – even though your material started as Hi 8, there is no point on compromising its quality at capture time.
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… or you could move your speakers further apart!
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I’m not sure what you mean by “15Gb video” – is it a rendered avi, a project, an MPEG2?
Some symptoms may be related to data on an external drive becoming unavailable – this does happen with firewire sometimes – when you say the video is on E drive – is everthing on that drive, or could there be some components on an external.
– just having a few guesses ….