[Phil Peacock]

Hi Paavo

Just head to ‘File/Property’ and select the video tab. There you can change your property parameters via template or customised.

You may have to fix things up in your project timeline if you have any track motion or frame cropping etc. but for the most part things should be fine.

Save your project first and if you are not sure about things, save a second copy first and work on it before committing to your new edit.

Easy. See how you go.

[Phil Peacock]

Hi Patricia

In light of no other response to this dilemma of yours let me suggest something.

Your two hour video is never going to fit onto a DVD at any ‘watchable’ quality; I am afraid the file is just too big. A DVD fits 4.7 ish GB of information and your video sounds way too big for this in my experience.

Now, most home videos go on for way too long so firstly I would suggest you take a good hard look at your video (which I am sure you are quite rightly very proud of) and, if you have the time and the inclination, see if you can take to it with the erasure and cut it right back to critical footage.
If you are keen to keep the video the way it is then think about using a dual-layer DVD (if your burner supports that medium) or even a USB, which many media players and even modern tvs can handle these days. If using a USB you will need to render into a different format though.

Ask your family if possible, what their tv systems are capable of playing.

I am sure there are other solutions. Maybe others can help you out here.

Good luck though and great that you are enjoying this ‘hobby’ of yours. Oh, and I always find a small whiskey helps to soften the swearing!

[Phil Peacock]

Could you not just save your edited sound track as a ‘master’ veg file and then with each new project place your video events where you want them and ‘save as’ a new veg file? This way you will still have your original ‘master’ for re-use as many times as you want.

[Phil Peacock]

Have you tried reconnecting the device to your computer since last you used it? It sounds like an OS problem rather than a SVP issue.

Even turning your computer off, connecting the device and then turning the computer back on may give it the ‘kick’ it needs.

Otherwise head into (in Windows anyway) your Control Panel/Sounds/Recording and make sure your device is selected. Then maybe have a look at your Audio Device preferences under Options. Good luck.

[Phil Peacock]

Gotcha. Well, as I understand it, the process you have identified is what should work. Once you have selected the region on ALL tracks that you want to delete, and making sure that ‘auto ripple’ is toggled on, simply select the topmost clip’s region for deletion, hold shift and then select the bottommost clip’s region for selection, hit delete and it ‘should’ result in what I think you are hoping for.

Good luck.

[Phil Peacock]

I take it you are familiar with ‘ripple editing’? ‘Control L’ is the keyboard short cut or use the toggle switch on your toolbar. This is a valued attribute of NLE editing.

Just be careful you do not move clips out of sync!!

[Phil Peacock]

When you say it goes out of sync when you play it, what do you mean exactly. It is likely that, if your computer is not up to scratch, then when you play the timeline, especially if you have created any vfx or other content, then your preview player will be showing dropped frames. This results in the audio playing but the video lagging.

Have a look at the attached image of the Video Previewer window. Make sure where I have Preview Quality as ‘Best (Full)’ you have maybe ‘Preview Auto’ selected. And when playing back, check the area I have circled at the bottom. This will show you the frame rate that is actually being played back. It is likely to start to become less than your clip’s frame rate as you progress through the clip and the computer starts to struggle.

Usually, changing the first criteria (Preview Quality)will assist playback.

Let us know how you go.

[Phil Peacock]

Not sure on this one but, since you have no other takers as yet, I am going to suggest it may be a video board/GPU issue. It may be starting to fail perhaps?
Any way you can test?

[Phil Peacock]

You like throwing in some curly ones don’t you! Ha ha.

Well, my initial reaction was, there are gaps on the timeline and we are seeing your underlying solid white track showing for a few frames. But I don’t think this would be the case because of how you have constructed the project, presumably with 26 plus tracks with individual PIPs? And I still think the original flashes were done on a seperate track overlay, rather than on the same track carrying the PIP. The flashes appeared to be less ‘confined’, as it were, to the actual restraints of the image size of the PIP.

So, what is happening?! And you will hate me for saying this but your original intro is still the best! If I could slow down your sample video it might be easier to see what is going on but I am afraid it is much too quick to analyse in any way. Can you post the .veg file. What version of Vegas are you using?

So you ain’t finished yet!

[Phil Peacock]

Like Stephan I often don’t use the trimmer but if that is what you are using then, after the ‘I’ and ‘O’ shortcuts, another keyboard shortcut is ‘A’ which adds the selected region of the clip to the timeline as an event at the point where your cursor is.

If you are editing on the timeline then, after selecting the portion of the event you wish to keep, right click it and select ‘Trim’ or simply hit ‘control T’.