Peter Wright
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You need to use Windows controls – if you have the speaker icon* on your task bar, double click to open this. Options / Properties / Recording then OK will show the various recording level controls. Enable the one you need and adjust as necessary.
An even better way is to feed your audio to the sound card via a mixer, then you can have hardware control whilst you record.
* If not, then Control Panel / Sounds and Audio Devices – check “Place volume icon in the taskbar”
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
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I use Explorer myself – I have a folder for each project and within that folder are separate folders for Captured Video, Audio, Stills, Renders etc.
If you use “stock” or library footage a lot, and much of this is stored on DVDs I guess any database would help to index them – I know that Media Manager is just such a data base and the tags allow you to have many different links to the same media, but if it can’t find media because it’s on a shelf on a DVD it has to have some way of telling you this.
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I’m not a MM user myself, but if files are labelled offline, it generally means they can’t be found at their “last known address”.
Is the drive they are on internal or external – and is it always given the same letter?
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Rendering to wav is the best way to go unless you are pushed for space on the DVD.
AC-3 is compressed, so it takes up less space and sounds almost as good as PCM wav audio, but if you have plenty of space there’s no reason to compromise the audio. (If you go this way, make sure the project settings in DVDA specify PCM Stereo under Audio).
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Are you using an external monitor with DVDA?
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Are you using the option to render Menus as progressive?
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Sorry if this is too obvious, but did you set project properties in DVDA to AC-3 5.1 Surround ?
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Jim, the thumbnails in the timeline are only intended to be “representative” frames – the exact frame that is shown will obviously be different depending on how much you’re zoomed in at a particular time. As Ed says, the Preview window is what you should be using – this is not a workaround, it’s how it’s meant to work.
(Tried looking at Batdance but it’s marked “removed by user”.)
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Good luck Morten!
The thing about using Regions to create subtitles which can be switched on/off on the DVD is that, as far as I’ve understood, you get very little control over font, size, colour, position, outline colour etc., whereas in Vegas you have full control.
As an example – I’ve just been sub-titling a piece of drama where there was overlapping dialogue, where two people were talking at once. In Vegas I was able to move one caption up a little and have it on screen whilst another different colour caption came up for the second person’s speech …
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
If it’s subtitles permanaently on screen that you’re after, I’ve done this for many projects using Vegas.
Firstly, I have several templates in Generated Media / Text set up with appropriate looking and bottom centred text. I drag one of these to the timeline then type or paste the new text.
Having created one, it’s Ctrl/Drag to create a new title alongside the first one, then replace the old text with the new, and so on to the end of the timeline. I’m only a two finger typist but I can do a half hour program in a day. A well known “not for profit” captioning service in Australia would charge well over $1000 for this, so I’m well in.Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au