Peter Wright
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Smart Render is excellent – it recognises the minimum changes that are necessary and retainds the rest. When using Fit to Disk, it will need to re-render all the movie clips at a new bitrate to make them fit. If this is likely to be needed, it’s best to put avi files into DVDA so thay only get encoded to MPEG 2 once. Re-encoding MPEG2 to MPEG 2 can reduce quality.
The other way to go is to use a bitrate calculator when encoding in Vegas – this will workout your average and max bitrates to make a given duration of video fit on disc.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
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To change thumbnail to your still – Select the button – in the right Button Properties panel / Media, locate the Thumbnail Media Line. Drop your still from DVDA Explorer onto this line.
To change the default name of a button, select that button’s text, click “Edit Text” below the preview window, then type in the Person’s name.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
File > New > Menu based.
Above the left hand panel there’s a + icon for Insert Object – the last item on the dropdown is Introduction Media – use this to insert the First Play Clip – should have a star on to confirm it’s first play. When Previewing to check this make sure you select Preview > Preview Disc.
Drag each of the other clips to the menu – position and size them.
To find an appropriate head shot on the thumbnail highlight that button, select Media in the righ hand panel, click on the drop down next to “Start Time” and drag the slider till you find the desired frame.Hope that’s enough to help – feel free to ask more questions.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Yes – thanks Ted. If it were possible to achieve, 80000 would probably melt the disc!
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
The bar you refer to is for preview purposes. If you want to “really” change the rate of an event, hold down Ctrl and drag the right hand edge. Making the event longer slows it down, shorter speeds it up.
There are other ways of affecting playback rate, but try that for starters.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
After selecting Render As / MPEG 2, click the Custom tab and you can chenge settings as you wish. If you create a template you’re likely to re-use, give it a name and save it – it will now appear on the list of presets.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
An average bitrate around 4800 – max 80000 should do fine.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Sorry – a space in the Copy/Paste caused an error – try this:
https://members.iinet.net.au/~ariad/Vegas%20Manual/
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Hi Christopher
The Manual .exe will unzip to a pdf on any PC. If you take the exe to a printer they will be able to unzip and print.
If you want to print your own, I’ve just uploaded it to
https://members.iinet.net.au/~ariad/Vegas Manual/
Have fun learning Vegas – be prepared to find some operations much easier than FCP!!
Another great source of tips is Edward Troxel’s newletters – click on the icon on any of his posts.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
In case it helps, here’s the advice I followed – courtesy DSE:
Here’s how you get your system to see the Z1.
1. Go to Control Panel/System/Device Manager
2. Click on the AVC devices, you’ll see a connected device
3. Right click, choose UpDate Driver. You want to MANUALLY search for the new driver
4. Browse to Sound, Video, Game controllers.
5. In there, you’ll find Sony, and Sony something else, I don’t recall. You want the SONY folder
6. In the Sony folder, specify the DVHS driver, and you’ll be set.Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au