Peter Wright
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Try using Pan Crop to zoom in or out.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
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Vegas may be comparitively cheap but it is fantastic value. It has many features that no other NLEs offer, and is IMO the most fluidly smooth program for editing. There are many Vegas users with experience with other programs – I used to use Premiere but wouldn’t dream of going back.
With Vegas you would not need Audition – it started life as an Audio only multi tracker and is in a class of its own in this respect.
The bundle you mentioned sounds good, but its worth also including DVDArchitect if DVD is likely to be your output medium. It dovetails beautifully with Vegas – you can set Markers in the Vegas Timeline and these will automatically become Chapters in your DVD.
Also, the Vegas community here and on other forums are extremely supportive and helpful.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Glad you got it sorted with your brain intact Arthur.
Your experience will be very useful for many – widescreen is still in its infancy and I’m sure many more are going to encounter similar problems.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
>”In Media Studio Pro 7, you can trim the video even if it means milliseconds…”
In Vegas you can enable “Quantize to frames” under Options, which is sensible if you’re trimming video, and this means that cuts will always be to a whole frame, but if you disable this you can work right down to sample level – handy for some audio trimming. Use your mouse wheel to zoom in and you’ll see.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Thanks for the clarification Liam. What sort of situation would benefit from Supersampling?
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
I would stay widescreen all the way, from Vegas Project properties to Render settings, to DVDA Project Settings.
To make SD pics fit into the 16:9 shape, you can either:
Use Pan Crop – Right click / Match Output Aspect. In effect this will cut off the top and bottom, but you can slide the frame up or down if the central crop isn’t what you want. The downside of this method is that because you’re using part of a 4:3 pic to fill a 16:9 frame, this zooming-in will cause a loss of resolution. Supersampling may help minimise this loss.
OR
Leave them as they are, which means you have them at their full height but with a blank space either side. You can either leave this as black or fill with a colour, gradient or some other still or moving image such as texture loops.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
If you select the audio track and hit V you will see a volume envelope running along the track. Double clicking anywhere on this will insert pivot points which allow you to ramp volume up or down by dragging.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Maybe a setting on your TV – if it’s set to auto convert standard footage this may not suit actual widescreen material.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Start with the Vegas Film Effects – this can include Dust, flicker, hair, jitter and scratches. To apply more than one, apply the effect a second or third time
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Yes, I think the terms are quite interchangeable these days.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au