Peter Wright
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You answered your own question before I could ….
You can switch Quantize to Frames on or off (sometimes it’s good to switch it off for fine audio editing) from an icon above the toolbar. To put the icon there,
Options / Customize Toolbar – locate the icon in the left habd panel and click Add->Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
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“Fit to disk” will calculate the highest bitrate possible for the amount of video you want to include. Two hours should look ok.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Yes.
If you have rendered the video as a Video Stream, you now need to render the audio, either as ac3 or wav, giving it the same name as the video and putting it in the same folder. DVDA will now find the audio track and play them together – you may need to delete then re-add the video so that DVDA can “find” the audio.
You did not describe what kind of menu you have created, but menus will generally not have any audio unless you specifically add some.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
I gather that you do need to make an actual DVD, otherwise you could simply burn the original wmv onto a DVD as data, and this could be played on a PC, but not on a set top DVD player.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Vegas 7 defaults to having video and audio grouped, which I personally like, so deleting one will delete both.
To avoid deleting both, select either and hit “U” to ungroup, then delete as desired.
Alternatively, the clip can first be opened in the Trimmer where you can use Tab to toggle Audio only, Video only or both before dragging or sending to the timeline.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
… also what settings did you use to render for DVD?
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
If the subject is moving, chroma keying with a green or blue background is by far the best way to remove the background. To add a drop shadow to the remaining subject, click Track Motion in the Track Header, then check 2D shadow in the time line at the bottom. You can vary the size, colour and blur of the shadow.
If the subject is not moving, you can remove any background by using Bezier Curves in Pan Crop. If the subject does move, even slight movements of a “talking head”, you can use keyframes to follow this movement, but it is very time consuming.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
If you’re capturing either DV or HDV, then either USB2 or Firewire can handle the job fine.
The fact that F/W uses the CPU less and has a higher sustained data rate is technically correct, but unless using the alternative results in dropped frames, why worry?
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Yes it’s easy to forget that the Synch Cursor button has been left activated.
When I remember, which is most of the time, I always turn it off again once I’ve finished doing a deliberately keyframed sequence, so that I don’t set up an inadvertent keyframe as you seem to have done!
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
It may be because Mini Discs use a CD sample rate of 44,100 Hz whereas DV is 48000.
You could try resampling in a program such as Sound Forge or Cool Edit, but anyway, Vegas is a fabulous tool to fix this up – you can split, stretch or shorten easily.
First thing I’d do is synch the beginning, then go to the end and Ctrl drag the edge till the end coincides with the camera audio. This doesn’t necessarily mean that everything in between is IN, but if you check at regular intervals, maybe every 5 mins, you can split and Ctrl drag. I used this method to make a 2 min 40 sec performance synch with a previously recorded 2 min 53 sec track.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au