[Rick Hughes]

Graham … do you use preset manager, or do you manually drag files using windows explorer.

[Rick Hughes]

Tried it again after booting PC .. still the same .. they appear in top right pane of Preset Manager, but when I select and then “add to system” they should appear in bottom right pane … they don’t.
This is following the preset manager instructions ….

However this time I did it with Movie Studio closed …and when I booted it up the presets were there.
Assume there is a bug in it … or maybe just does not work that well with Movie Studio 64bit

I now have 100+ presets … sure I’ll only use a few.

I got all of these from the 3 links in the you tube post … could be real neat way of getting some smart effects without extra filters.

If you want a copy I’ll upload files – they are very small all 3 packs are under 0.5MB

[Rick Hughes]

Another question on this … tried a couple of audio edits … open copy in Soundforge .. when I return to Vegas the timeline shows “Media offline”

Is there something extra I need to do ?

[Rick Hughes]

OK .. that looks like it save me a few steps -I was saving importing, and then applying mute to exiting audio

I was looking for a new new audio file on the project timeline, which I see is not the the way it works.

I just tried … and it works … one thing that is unclear pressing ‘t’ does toggle the audio files, how can I tell which is active, there is no ‘name’ unless I go look under properties .. would have thought it would add the name.

If I render assume it will use the currently active only ?

[Rick Hughes]

Here is Mediainfo

General
Complete name : E:\Users\Rick\Desktop\BL.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 153 MiB
Duration : 56mn 24s
Overall bit rate : 379 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2013-05-10 14:04:08
Tagged date : UTC 2013-05-10 14:18:44

Video
ID : 1
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L3
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : 20
Duration : 56mn 24s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 256 Kbps
Width : 352 pixels
Height : 288 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.222
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.084
Stream size : 101 MiB (66%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2013-05-10 14:04:08
Tagged date : UTC 2013-05-10 14:18:44
Transfer characteristics : BT.601
Matrix coefficients : BT.601

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 56mn 24s
Source duration : 56mn 24s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 50.9 MiB (33%)
Source stream size : 50.9 MiB (33%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2013-05-10 14:04:08
Tagged date : UTC 2013-05-10 14:18:44

[Rick Hughes]

well in the pages I Google’d when asking Q’s such as ‘what video codec to use’

I have no axe to grind about DivX, but on many resource pages there seemed to be common thread that for Streaming Video application DIVX was the choice, with comments such as strong colours, small file size & fast rendering.

As mentioned I do not have it installed …I purchased it before I had Vegas, so not used it for a while, if there really is no benefit to installing it then I won’t

[Rick Hughes]

On a related issue – previously I paid for a copy of Divx-Pro
Since PC re-build it is not installed, is there any reason I should not install this codec ?
Will VMS use it OK ?

Divx seems pretty well respected for creating web based footage (YouTube etc)

Not installed it yet – it installs a Div-X codec pack

[Rick Hughes]

I also have K-Lite codec pack, as well as some extra such as Div-x and Lagarith

[Rick Hughes]

As an addition … (to move fwd) I used CUDA converter to convert to a DV file …
Again no joy … when I try to drop this format file on time line it tells me I need to install full install of Apple Quick Time ? why is this, I do not want to edit or save in mov format >

DV is an open standard why is VMS asking me to install Quicktime (I don’t want to )

[Rick Hughes]

Thnx