Rick Mac
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OK, I think I understand what you are getting at (I think).
You can still use steps 1-3 from my previous post.
Just use the play feature to ruff in your envelopes, then go
back and manually fine tune them by adjusting your points on the timeline.The reason I suggest this method is because if you pick more than one band to adjust, some of the bands get covered over by other bands. This makes it difficult to manually adjust the hidden bands. By using the play method you can adjust several bands by accessing them from the EQ Effect box rather than the line on the waveform. Then after roughing it in you should have some seperation between the lines on the waveform which you can then manually adjust on the waveform.
Somthing you could try is to manually adjust one band. After that band is adjusted you may be able to see the hidden bands. If so, you can now write in points for the others.
You do understand how to use points to create an envelop?
You create 4 points. The 2 on the ends stay at 0 level (no change). You then take the two inside points and either raise or lower them to the gain setting you prefer.Do you have a audio editing program such as Soundforge or Audition. If you do there is a easy way to make a slection on the timeline for the section needing eq, and sending that out to your audio program. From there you can make your changes to the eq. After saving the file inside of your audio editor it will be updated on your Vegas timeline.
If you have such a program and would like the details on this let me know.I hope I’m at least giving you some ideas here.
It is quite late now so I will close.
Regards, Rick.Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Gordon,
Here is a workflow for you that will allow you to write automation envelpoes as you playback from the timeline.
1)Select your audio tracks “effect button”, then select the
“track eq button” Set the frequency for each band, such as
band 1 100hz band 2 250hz and so on.2)Go up to Insert at the top of your screen and select
“Audio Envelopes” select “FX Automation” This opens the
Effect Chooser Box.3)Put a check in EQ Gain for each band you want to adjust,
and click OK.4)Now you are ready to play your project. Hopefully you still
have the EQ Effect Box open. If not re-open it and keep it
floating on your desktop. We will be making our adjustments
using the EQ Effect Box. Play your project, as you adjust
the gain on any band you put a check in, your gain
changes will write a gain envelope for you for as long as
you click and hold. As soon as you unclick your mouse the
gain envelope will go back to 0 gain. If you did not like
an envelope you wrote, just go back in the timeline before
the mistake and go back into play and write a new envelope.5)After you have written all your eq envelopes you can just
put The timeline into play and watch it recreate all your
moves for you.Hope this helps.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Viewing your output on an LCD monitor is still different than
viewing it on a NTSC video monitor. If your primary audience is watching on a TV then it is best to external monitor to a video monitor. Some of the differences are:Video monitor’s are interlaced, LCD’s are progressive. This means that motion looks different on LCD’s as do graphics. Graphics that look perfectly good on a LCD monitor may flicker when shown on a (TV) video monitor.
Colors look different on Video Monitors than an LCD Display.
Video Monitor are underscanned. Don’t think LCD’s are.Of course any monitoring device is only as good if it is properly calibrated. The best NTSC Monitor in the world will not help you if it is not properly setup (calibrated).
There are other areas where they are diiferent.
However, in the future as more homes are watching progressive HD, LCD’s start making more sence to me.Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
I would suggest that you contact Sony Tech Support.
Perhaps they can shed some light.Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Take a look at this link.
Hope that helps you.
Regards, Rick.Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Think they set up a small trampoline which the actors did there various jumps on. Without moving the camera they shot it again with the trampoline removed from the shot.
Then in editing they used the masking tool to cut out the trampoline and show in it’s place an empty floor. Part of the trick is cutting in after the actor has jumped from the trampoline. Also shooting from a low angle makes it look higher. If you want to go a bit further you can make the camera appear to pan with the action by adding a empty track above your your two clips (live action and clear floor clips) and making them chlid tracks of the empty track. Then use the parent tracks “track motion” to move both clips at the same time in sync with one another.
Another way of doing this effect is called rotoscoping and is very labor & Time Intensive. Basically it requires you to remove the trampoline frame by frame.Hope this helps you.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Nesting has worked very well for me without changing any settings. I did have a problem on a very long and complex project when I went to render it. However, DSE managed to fix that problem by having me set the maximunm number of render threads to 1 and setting RAM preview to 0 when I went to render. These two settings are found under the video tab under options or was that prefrences.
I have nested audio portions many times without any problems at all.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Here is a link to a tutorial that can help you better understand video levels, and how to read your scopes in Vegas.
https://www.wideopenwest.com/%7Ewvg/tutorial-8.htm
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Video has limits as to how bright your TV will display without distortions on the screen. Your autolevels in photoshop is setting maximum whites for photographs. This may be be to bright for video. In broadcast video we even have what is called legal levels for the whites, blacks and color saturation. If you exceed these legal levels you can have problems with your display, in some cases buzz in your audio, and certainly no broadcaster will air it. Check into Photoshop’s help file for legal video levels. Hopefully you will find the correct workflow there.
Also, Vegas has a broadcast filter which you can apply to the master video track to keep your video levels legal.Perhaps someone else can come along and give you some advice on creating legal video levels in photoshop.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[TalbotGrad] “Once the audio is done on one computer and vegas project is there any way to import the audio only with envelopes and nodes into another vegas project. (The video will stay the same)”
After the video guys does his cut, pass that veg file to the audio guy. Then after the audio editor does his thing he can mute the video track (tracks) and save the project under “project name_audio” file name. Then the video editor can pull that .veg file into his timeline and there you will have your audio from the audio guy show up as a track on the video editors timeline with all those volume changes effects etc. If later you need to adjust somthing with the audio from the audio guys project you just right click on its track and pick open in Vegas. That will open a new instance of Vegas with the audio guys project (all tracks showing)ready to edit. Make your changes and save. The updates will be applied to your Video guys timeline. This is called nested projects and is very cool. You can also use nested project in the same manner to save graphics, or condence a project with many tracks.
Hope this helps, Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377