Rick Mac
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Larry,
Can you tell us a little more about your problem?
What kind of file, jpg tiff png ? Is it a fullpage or keyed over
another track? Was it created in Vegas or imported from another program?Just to clarify, you have looked at the graphic in Vegas 6 and it looks good, only a problem in Vegas 7?
Lastly, have you tried various preview window quality settings? What was the result of that?
Push come to shove you could email me your graphic and I could take a look at it in Vegas 7 here.
Regards..Rick.
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Generally speaking,
If you intend to view the finished product on a TV, set project settings to interlace, and render interlaced. If you will be viewing on a computer go progressive. Sometimes in a interlaced project the field order may need to be reversed.Good luck.
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Eric,
My day job has me doing NR quite often for our shooters. I use Audition (cooledit) at work to cleanup location audio and it is a great program for this.
I prefer the Noise Reduction workflow over the hiss removal option.
One really cool thing you can do is tell it how much NR to do in any given Frequency band. For example, why process the bass and upper bass frequencies. Target the frequency band where the hiss is. This gives you less artifacts overall. Hiss is going to be most noticeable in the mids and upper mids where your hearing is most sensitive. Try targeting
2000-6000 hz. Better yet, learn how to use the spectral view to locate the frequency range of the hiss. The objective is to reduce the hiss to a livable level. In most cases the total elimination of the hiss creates artifacts and unnatural sound. Follow the workflow mentioned by previous poster but add this step after you capature profile. Directly under the Noiseprint window you will see a window with a straight line. When you move your cursor within the box you will see the frequncy the cursor is at in a little box under the second box. Move to 2000HZ and click on the line (this adds a point to the line). Now place another point just to the right of your first point. Now Go up to 6000HZ and put another two points. Now click and drag your 1st two points on the left side all the way down. Then go to the right side and drag down the two far right points all the way down. Now what you will see on the line is a big bump from 2000-6000hz, and nothing below and above that range. This tells the program to Noise reduce only from 2000-6000Hz. Now set your Noise Reduction Slider to 50% and close the NR Window. Out on the timeline highlight 15 – 20 seconds of clip and go back to NR window and click OK.
This will process the highlighted section. Play thru it to see if 50% reduction is good enough. After listening test you can undo and highlight the entire clip for processing or sliding in a higher ratio on reduction slider. One last tip, EQ is not a good way to get rid of hiss. As you found out already you end up with very muddy sound. EQ’s are great for enhanceing the audio track or applying a high pass filter around 120HZ to get rid of low end rumble. By the way, a little eq lift by a few db around 2000-4000 can make your vocal cut thru better if it is a bit muddy.Hope this helps, good luck, let your ears be the judge, and no when to stop processing.
Later..Rick.
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Raymond,
Try the explination again. Kinda confused as to what you have and what you want to do.
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Pan/crop button. Look up Pan crop in Vegas help.
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Arthur,
Forgive me if someone has already suggested this ( I have not read the entire thread ). Your CPU ussage is way to high and should not be.
Since you get better framerates going out to external firewire I would be looking very hard at my Video Card Driver. Sounds to me like the problem is there. I would go to system/device manager and see if I have an exclimation mark beside my video card. If no mark I would download the latest drivers for my video card, uninstall my current card. Then rebbot. Do not let plug and play install drivers. Run the installtion program for new drivers. If that does not help try installing another video card if you have one laying around.Let us know if that helps.
Regards, Rick.
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Can be done in track motion. Many tracks can have glow outline shadow added by adding a empty track to topmost layer and making tracks under it children of the the empty parent track. Go into Parent Track motion of parent track and apply glow shadow etc.
Regards Rick.
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Yes you can. The easiest and fastest way to do it is with a script.
If you would like to send me your email address I could forward one
to you. Or you could go over to a well none Vegas guys website where he
has tons of free scripts on his site. Here is the google search you need
to do to find his site.Our national bird+Vegas
Regards, Rick.
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Dax,
Hate to tell ya this but removing hiss from a music track is going to
cause artifacts and degrade the quality of the music. There is no simple
solution here. The problem is that music contains a very wide frequency spectrum. Any cuts you make with an equalizer is going to affect your music in that range as well. Most likly cutting deep and wide enough to get rid of the hiss is going to put a big hole in the music track, and at least change the musical balance of the mix.There are programs (plugins) that are designed to reduce hiss and noises in a audio track. Sometimes they can be affective but they are not one button wonders. You cannot just click one button and automatically get good results. You have to understand how the program works and what kind of noise you are dealing with. You want to make a surgical strike but even with these tools usually you sacrifice something (artifacts).
There are no free rides when doing noise reduction.Here is a link to a free audio editor program that has noise reduction tools.
https://audacity.sourceforge.net/download
Take your time, be careful, and usually the best policy is not to totally reduce the hiss but reduce it to an acceptable level. Let your ears be the judge, and it is very important to monitor changes on a high fidelity speaker system, not computer speakers.
Regards, Rick.
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You need an mjpeg codec on your computer to view it.
To Quote Edward Troxel:
If Vegas cannot see your video it simply means the proper codec has not been installed. The first step is to use something like GSpot to determine what codec was used. Next locate, download, and install that codec.
However, you’re saying “But other programs can see the video fine!” Here’s an answer as to why that may be happening:
Vegas does not use the Directshow subsystem for codec management because of reliability issues with Directshow. Fully implemented codecs for Windows work with Vegas.
So… if Windows Media Player can see it fine but Vegas can’t, odds are that you have a Directshow codec installed. One possible solution would be to use something like VirtualDub to convert from the Directshow codec to something that Vegas can read.
Now for the solution, thanks to Edward again for previous post:
If you can’t open .avi files created by still cameras, you will need to install an MJPEG codec that Vegas can talk to. This is a good option that I know has been used by many people:https://www.morgan-multimedia.com/ubb/forum1/clicks_db/download.asp?file=m3jpegv3.exe
(Costs $20 at: https://www.morgan-multimedia.com/buyitV3.htm)
or https://www.mainconcept.com/products.shtml has one for $19
Here’s a possible free one:
https://www.free-codecs.com/download/Midvid_JPEG_Video_Codec.htmWithout an MJPEG codec of some sort, Vegas cannot read those files. MainConcept also has one that is inexpensive and good quality; others can be obtained from Morgan Multimedia or Matrox.