Rick Mac
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[videodude] “Any other suggestions?”
If all else fails, reformat your harddrive and do a clean install of the Operating System. Of course I’m talking about the OS and not a restore disk that may have come with your computer. As DSE said HP’s software package adds alot of programs running in the background and you need to get that stuff deactivated. The resore disk will not give you a clean install. I may be corrected on this, but I don’t beleive that Vegas runs very good on Vista yet. XP is I think the better choice at this time. If this computer also lives on the internet it could be infested with adware, spyware, and whoknows-what-ware which can completly criple your computer.Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Spot,
Thanks for fielding my question.
I was rack-focusing my brain trying to figure this one out.
Of course I did have my doubts that trying to mix I & P into a
master project would retain the settings for both.I think what I will do is to create a Interlaced Master Project and for the segments that require Progressive, pre-render as progressive.
Or I may just do the entire thing progressive. Before I do that I will render out a test segment both I & P to see how much resolution is lost.Thanks for your time and best regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[Grasshopper] “I thought it might be a good idea to put the wireless on one channel and the ME66 on another one. It sounds like I was way off base with that idea.”
Your not off base. It’s still a good idea espically if you can get it in close. It might save you if you get an few hits on your wireless. But I would not make the shotgun my primary mic.
By the way, find your worst windows for street noise and throw a few blankits if you have them.
Let us know how the shoot goes. Good luck.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Did you set your render quality to high quality? The default setting is good. If you rendered using the default try selecting custom at render box and change quality setiing from good to best and try another render. Maybe someone else might have other ideas.
But you are very right the uncompressed version is way sharper.
The DV version is blocky.By the way, cool effect.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Grasshopper,
The Senneheiser-66 is a shortshot. Not much reach. I have one at work and I can’t tell you how many times the guys in the field think they want to use it. Most of the time I end up having to pull a rabbit out the hat due to the mic hearing to much room. It has worked good for us a distance of 2-3 feet in a normal room. I would not even try it at all with a echo/reverberating room.
[Grasshopper] “DSE, are you talking about only putting the blankets in the corners no matter how far away they are from the talent. I do plan to go back to the room tomorrow with blankets, microphones and cameras in hand to experiment. What have I gotten myself into!”
I hope DSE stops back by to put his two cents in on this one. If you have enough blankits to totally isolate the talent that might be the ticket. If you do not, I would do as DSE suggested and hang your blankits a couple of feet from the wall. The reason for this is that the blankit soaks up way more sound this way. The sound has to pass thru on it’s way to the wall, then an air gap (think of this an an after burner), then back thru the blankit. If you mount it directly against the wall it is less effective.
Acoustics are a wonderful thing.[Grasshopper] “I like the idea of throwing some blankets on the floor out of camera range.”
I like it to. Good idea. The floor has a lot of early reflections that can color the sound. This will give you a more focused sound.
[Grasshopper] “What have I gotten myself into!”
Don’t feel alone. We have all been there before and most likely will be again.
Sounds like you have things well in hand. Your ideas for handleing the situation are good. Just be sure to monitor that wireless real good. Trying to fix dropouts can ruin your day.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Spot has given you some great advice. I would only add to put the blackets on the walls closest to the talent vs the other end of the room. Given the choice of a Lav or a shotgun I would go with the Lav.
My experience has been that unless you are able to position the shotgun fairly close to the talent it will hear more of the room than the lav. Directional lav’s can do wonders if you position them correctly and your talent does not turn his head away from the lav to far. Be sure that your lav does not rub against any clothing and it’s also a good idea to strain-relief the cable at the mic capsule end.
Monitor you audio at all times, and if you are using a wireless lav I pray it is not a cheap-o. Better to have a quality wired lav than a cheap wireless. With wireless you really do get what you pay for.Good luck.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
By useing keyframes to start and stop the effect.
You will find the keyframes window at the bottom of the effect window after you have selected an effect.
Lookup keyframes in Vegas help for better understanding of them.
You might also do a search of the Vegas Archive, keyword “keyframes”.Regards, Rick.
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[Jorge Mansur] “I would like to know if I add 3megs of memory into my system ( AMD 5000 with 1gig mem)I will have a better response during preview on external monitor.”
The amount of RAM in your system is just one of the factors that determine framerate playback from the timeline across a transition or just in general. From a hardware standpoint, the Speed of your processor, Amount of RAM, and Hardrive Speed all play a part. I beleive that the most overlooked item in this list for most users is the harddrive.
First, you should have a dedicated video drive that is seperate from your operating system drive. Even better would be a RAID setup for your video drive that consist of 2 drives striped together. It is amazeing how much faster framerates are when you have 2 drives working together on it.Next there are many things within Vegas that can effect your framerate. For example, does your project settings match the type of video you have on the timeline. Let’s say that the video we captured is NTSC 29.97 720X480 interlaced lower frame. If we set our project settings to 720X486 or progressive scan, our framerate will drop.
For that matter I am sure that you have discovered that you can set your preview to several quality settings. The higher that quality the lower the framerate. I generaly work in preview quality full until I add a graphic that requires I look at it in a higher quality mode.
Let’s say that your captured clips are NTSC DV, and you are scaleing the video down to 320X240 for the internet. Just the act of scaleing it down in your project settings can cause a drop in your framerate.
Lastly, if you have added any effects to your timeline you will have a drop in your framerate. For that reason I generally cut my video first without effects and then add them before I’m ready to render.But back to your original question. Adding RAM is also a good thing.
I beleive you might see a bigger improvement by creating a RAID drive for capture and playback. Heck, RAM is cheap. Do both.Regards, Rick.
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Dear Newbie,
Welcome!
Here is a link to a fine Edward Troxel Tutorial on the very basics of editing in Vegas. I would suggest that you read all of the newsletters at his site and also visit VASST.com tutorial area.
There is a ton of info and how to’s at thier sites.
Happy reading.This link to begginer tutoral
https://www.videoguys.com/Vegas_Tips/TTS01-10.pdfThis link to all Troxel Tutorials
https://thetroxels.com/vegas/forum/viewforum.php?f=5Regards, Rick.
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Sounds like your render drive is formatted as FAT-32 instead of NTFS.
Simply put FAT-32 has a rather small file size limit. If you render your project to a harddrive that is formatted FAT-32, you will hit that limit just minutes in and then Vegas has no choice but to break your render up into several small files.Your Video drive for both capture and render should be formatted NTFS which will allow you to render very long, big, files.
Regards, Rick.