Rick Mac
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[Thomas Wildgen] “One thing, the waveform on the audio line does not correspond to the audio I am hearing (using the computer speakers) but it still is in sync with the video. Is this a symptom?”
Very well could be a symptom. Sounds like your computer’s soundcard is either running at a different audio sample rate than Vegas, or your soundcards internal clock is wacky.
I have seen where on some systems that the audio as you perseve it coming out of the computer speakers are in sync at the beginning of playing the project but quickly lag behind the picture after as little as 20-30 seconds.
Is this what is happening to you?What kind of soundcard do you have and when you go into Vegas’ prefrences audio tab, what device is chosen for output (playback)?
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Peter,
What happens if you mute one of the tracks?
If you can hear either track with the other muted you
have a phase issue between the two tracks of audio.
Post back and let me know. Let’s look at that first.Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Holding down CTRL-SHIFT when starting Vegas should reset it to “factory defaults”.
That should bring back your timeline.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
ST,
After capture, when you pull the footage onto the timeline
is it still out of sync?Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Tom,
You can have Vegas automatically set your project settings to match your media. Here is how to do it.
1) Click on your project settings button, make sure that you
are on the video tab. Direltly across from your templates
box you will see three buttons, a floppy disk, a X, and a
folder. The folder is the button for “Match Media Settings”
Click on the match media button, and browse to a clip that
is of the type you want vegas to set it’s project settings
to. Select the clip and click the open button. Now your
project settings will match your media.2) Pull your media onto the timeline and edit.
3) Render project to the format that you need.
Now that being said, I don’t expect this to fix your out of sync problems. I suspect that we have some file types and codecs that don’t want to play nice with each other. I suspect that all is fine until you try to render your media to a different type of file. As an experoiment have you tried rendering your project out to the same file type as your captured media? If that renders out in sync then your project settings are not the problem and we must look closer at our render settings. Test that out and get back to me.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Tom,
Here is a link to a tutorial on how to use the pan/crop tool.
The first part tells you how to fill the screen with your still. Then it goes into how to zoom in and out of your stills using the pan/crop tool. You will have to register at the site before you can view but it is free. Bookmark this site as it has a ton of free tutorials covering Vegas. They also sell some of the best videos and books for Vegas that you will find anywhere.https://www.sundancemediagroup.com/tutorials/pan-crop.htm
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Kent,
If your dvcam has a mic input and you will be using an external microphone your audio will be just fine. However, I would steer away from using the built in mic on the camcorder. Your built in mic will pick up the motor noise of your camera, and will hear a lot of the room making it sound hollow.
That being said, if you have no other options but to use the bulit in mic, place it no further than two feet from the person narrating as to reduce the hollow room sound.
As far as reusing your dv tape for audio recording (no problem).
Regards, Rick
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Vegas is a full featured editor. At many task it is in my opinion quicker and esier than FCP. However, FCP has a lot of preset wizbang drag and drop. In Vegas you have to create the wizbang. Do yourself a favor, If you are going to be editing with Vegas drop by http://www.vasst.com and pickup some training materials. Then stop by jetdv and pick up a copy of Excalibur.
It really kicks Vegas into high gear. Here is the link https://www.jetdv.com/excalibur/home.phpI think you will like Vegas especially if you invest a few days with the instructional videos from vasst.com.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Steve,
When I first started out with Vegas I also purchased the Pyro.
The price certainly looked good. To make a very long story short, After several weeks and two units later, I could never get the pyro to work correctly. Then I did some research and purchased a DataVideo Converter and it worked right out of the box. That was about 5 years ago and it’s still working great.For now, just go ahead and capture directly from your DVcam to your computers firewire port using Vegas capture.
As for your problem with the audio, if you can see the audio waveform on the timeline but cannot hear it, then you need to go into Vegas Preferences and make sure that your computers soundcard is selected as the audio device.Regards,Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[Chuck Manly] “Will the AV to firewire capture quality vary from camcorder to camcorder?”
Most likely.
[Chuck Manly] “Is there a big difference between using composite yellow or s-video cable from the VCR to the camera”
Yes, the S-Video gives a better quality picture.
[Chuck Manly] “What capture settings do I need so the video will stay the same size.
Vegas is trying to make it 720 x 480 at 1536kbps which is putting too much video beyond the safe zones.”Safe zone markers in the preview window are used to tell you if your graphic titles are safe. Your picture itself should extend well beyond title safe.
[Chuck Manly] “I dropped 6 frames on this 2 hour capture. Is that good?”
That’s fine. Most likely dropped those frames due to a glitch on your video tape. When you consider that 30 frames equals 1 second of video, you dropped less than half a second for two hrs of capture. That’s pretty good.
[Chuck Manly] “Is making a DV copy of any real value?”
You bet. DVD’s are easy to damage and may become unplayable after just a few years. DV tapes are small and higher picture quality than standard def DVD’s.
As far as render settings, I will let someone else field that one.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377