Peter Wright
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Tom,
I agree you don’t want to start cutting the main track, but it would still be easier to add the shorter clips by using separate tracks above. You never need to put them on the same track – Vegas will render the whole lot into a single video when you’re finished.
Here’s how I would proceed:
I’d create several video and sudio track pairs above the main track. Not necessariy one for each other source, but enough to be able to see the separate components. The track immediately above the main track I’d reserve for “other” clips which are intended to be in the final programme.
Here are some Vegas functions which will come in handy –
In each track header there is a Mute button, so you can switch any track(s) off or on again during editing. This is useful when you want to view something on a lower track that would otherwise be lower in precedence than a track above.
If you want to temporarily switch off a single event rather than the whole track, right click > Switches > Mute.Numerical 8 moves an event vertically up to the neat track, Numerical 2 moves an event downwards. When you’ve found a short clip you want to include and synched it up, you can use Numerical 2 to move it down to the “other” clip track above the main one.
I would loosely arrange all the other clips in their approximate position, using as many tracks above as is necessary, then go through viewing, synching, deciding …
Hope all that isn’t too confusing …
Good luck – and yeah, George Best was the greatest. I was playing amateur football in England in the sixties and still remember how he dazzled us.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
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Use a higher track for the short clips, and they will take precedence.
Vegas can have unlimited tracks, there is no need to confuse it by putting more than one clip in the same space on a track.
If you must have it on the same track (why?) you can render to a new track from the two tracks already mentioned.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Although Vegas has it’s own 3D compositing, it deals with 2D frames and brings everything back to a 2D plane. It cannot, as far as I know, take any advantage of a 3D graphics card, in fact it will probably work worse with one.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Select the events and hit Ctrl U to ungroup, or Ctrl G to Group.
OR
There is a button at the top to Ignore Event Grouping )Ctrl/Shift U)
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
There are important differences.
Gearshift creates proxy files – these are DV avis which are purely used whilst editing, to make smooth editing possible, then before creating output files you replace the proxies with the original m2t files. You can do exactly the same thing without Gearshift – render DV files for the same purpose, then before output change the name of the folder the proxies are in, or some other way of making Vegas unable to find them, then pointing Vegas to the m2t files instead. Gearshift just automates this process and makes it easy to switch back and forth any time. I’ve used it a lot and its great – the main disadvantage is that Vegas does take a while to render the proxies, so I try and do this while I sleep.
Connect HD creates intermediate avi files which are full resolution HD, and these are used instead of m2t files, right through to output. Being less compressed, they still allow reasonable preview rates
They are about 3 times bigger than the originals (Proxies are about the same size as m2t files) but they can be created during the capture process, saving a fair amount of time.
With a 1.7 latop (I use a 1.6 one) the Gearshift way would probably be better, since the Cineform intermediates would probably not preview smoothly.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
This is one of the asdvantages of HDV shooting while we’re waiting for HD delivery methods.
You can zoom in a fair way and not reduce quality at all, so go for it!
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Not sure about the price, but I’ve heard that the Tascam US-2400 is capable of emulating the Mackie Control.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Don,
If the vehicle idling is reasonably constant, there are a few ways which can be effective.
One is to use the Track EQ and reduce the frequency which covers the vehicle sound.
A little trial and error whilst playing a looped portion of the timeline helps here.
This may of course affect other parts of the audio, so little is often better than more.Perhaps the best way is to use Noise Reduction – but this is an extra plug-in which works in either Vegas or Sound Forge. Basically you take a sample or “footprint” of the offending sound on its own then “extract” this by a variable percentage from the rest of the audio – again a little at a time is best – often a slight reduction repeated several times works better than trying to do a large reduction all at once.
The secret with any noise reduction is being careful not to unduly affect the foreground sound you are trying to keep.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Hi again Don,
If you’re referring to us four “mug shots” up there, we’re not staff!
We are all independently working in the video field, using Vegas, and our position here is purely an honorary one by invitation.
Anyway, I’d be happy to look at your DVD if you don’t mind sending it to Australia – email me at ariad [at] iinet [dot} net {dot] au and I’ll send you my postal address.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Yes, Seth – my MD is the “old type” so I have to play it realtime connected thru my sound card.
However, as with all time taking operations like rendering, I always have plenty of other things to do while they’re completing ….
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au