Richard Swain
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Hi Bob,
I have never used the zoom tool – to zoom the timeline use the mouse wheel. This zooms the timeline about the timeline marker. I don’t know of any way to make that toolbar larger.
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It looks to me like your original video clip is black and white – not color. The timeline video doesn’t show the result of any filter you have added, although, in this case it doesn’t look like you have any filters applied. You can try play with the Vegas Color Corrector and maybe enhance the contrast some. Also the lighting in the background (behind the pip on the left) could have been better. What was the original video – film or tape?
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Hi Ralph,
Before rendering, in the preview window is the video in color? A photo of your timeline would be helpful. Also what version of Vegas are you using?
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Are you looking at the image in the Video Preview window? Flips for me.
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I have been using Neat for many years. There is a trade-off of grain removal vs image blurriness. Sometimes you can play with the temporal and spatial settings and find something which works. Generally I let the image clarity win and allow some grain. I have found that Topaz Video Enhancer AI does an incredible job of removing the grain while not blurring the image. It is an expensive option. Topaz has a free trial. It is not a plugin for Vegas. I run the newly captured video (I capture mostly 8mm, S8mm and 16mm) through the Topaz software and take that output (an MP4 file) as the input to Vegas. The software is a resource hog – likes a good video card and lots of memory, but works great. Grain is the big issue with 8 & S8 film. Dirt isn’t “noise” and isn’t removed by either product.
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Try using the Sony Color Corrector and the Vectorscope window. Starting at the top of the Color Corrector (Low) grab the “-” eye dropper and click on the darkest (hopefully black) part of the image in the video preview window. Then grab the bottom (High) “-” eye dropper and click on something white in the preview window. Once you get your black points (“Lo”) and white point (“Hi”) set, then using the vectorscope window, click (and hold) on the “+” in the center of the “Mid” color wheel and move it until the vectorscope display is in the center of circles. Small moves are needed here. When selecting the image to use (in the preview window) I like to use cars or trucks – the tires are a good black. Stay away from the shiny chrome for the whites. Puffy clouds are ok as are shirts, ladies shoes, trim on a house etc.
It takes patience, but works great. Sometimes, if the wrong film is used (indoors vs outdoors, or older Kodak Ectachrome) it may be impossible to remove all “cast” color.
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Hi Jeff,
I have built many computers, however about 2 years ago I decided to purchase a new system. I went with a dual Xeon system with 48 GB Ram, Multiple SSD drives (C: and D:). The performance was not what I expected – Vegas doesn’t seem to take advantage of the dual CPUs. The manufacture shall remain nameless (household name with a tilted first letter). Anyway about 4 months ago I decided that I had had enough and started looking. A friend has a Boxx computer, so I went there. I purchased their Apex 3 system. It is an I9, 32 GB RAM ( I added an additional 32 GB), 500 GB M.2 C: (boot) drive, 2 TB Hard disk, NVidia RTX 4000 video card. I have added an additional M.2 drive (very easy to do). All this ended up be within your budget. The system boots quite fast, and can (with Vegas 18) can render 4K video at full frame rate. I transfer film to video for customers. The 8mm film is rather grainy. I use a filter from Neat Video to reduce the grain. It is a CPU hog. With my old system (dual Xeons) I was only able to get real-time rendering with the Video Preview set to Draft/Half. With my new system I set the Video Preview to Good/Half. Big difference in the quality of the preview video. The only downside to Boxx is the lead time – I had to wait about 10 days from when I placed the order. I really like the new system. I run multiple video applications (Vegas and Photopia) along with Word and Excel all at the same time with no problems (other than the grain video filter issue).
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Hi Seth,
I agree with Francolis, an equalizer is your best bet. However, I’m sure you have your reasons to make them sound “alike”, my observation to you is that the environment of the two tracks is completely different – female vs male, tiny room (on board the aircraft) vs a huge room at the airport, two different voice accents, etc. If, when you recorded these announcements, you also recorded some background ambiance sounds, what I would do is record your own announcements on top of the existing background.
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Hi Luigi,
Sonar is good – I have been using that for years, but I like the filters available for Vegas and I use Vegas a lot more that all other A/V programs, so there is less “remembering” time for Vegas. I don’t have any problems using the VST filters on Vegas. I have been using Version 18.0 from when it was released – generally without any problems. I’ve been using the VST filters from when they started supporting them. I guess one last think to try would be to reinstall Vegas – which I know is a real pain. One quick question – did your VST filters ever work on this install/computer? Are you close to the minimum memory limit for Vegas? That might cause a problem.
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Have you tried reinstalling the missing effects? If not, try one set. Make sure to restart the computer, the see if it is found. Maybe there is something about one of the set which is preventing all effects from being found.