Rick Shorrock
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Actually, if you have Sony Soundforge, when you are in Vegas, right-click on your audio timeline, or a portion of it that you’ve sliced for editing, and click ‘Open a copy in Soundforge’. Soundforge will open your clip and you can edit the audio from there, save (it will save a copy of the changed audio file back in your Vegas project) and Vegas will reflect your changed audio back in your timeline. Douglas Spotted Eagle has a plethora of plugins for Soundforge.
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I used to have this same problem with Newtek’s Toaster Edit software. The problem the editors that worked under me had was they were nesting too many projects into a separate project, and not clearing the temp files. So tell your friend to delete the pre-rendered files (find them by going to File-Properties) while Vegas is opened. Then have your friend go to C-Documents and Settings-All Users-Programs-Sony Vegas and delete the temp files there. The computer gets filled with all the junk that you have to clear out from time to time for smoothe operation.
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John, do any of the photo’s have diagonal lines in them? Or a diagonal design in the photos themselves. It almost sounds like you may have an encoding vs. display problem, possibly due to inferior cabling going from your DVD player to the television. Similar to the moire’ pattern effects during moving video, that you used to be able to correct by switching from RCA cables to S-video. That may be a long shot, I know, but I was watching “Kung Fu Panda” the other day, both in 1080i on DVD and 1080i on satellite. There was a moire’ pattern effect in one scene involving a long shot of the palace roof, which features a diagonal line type effect, even though I’m using Monster HDMI cables, both from my DVD player and Dish HD satellite receiver. So I’m wondering if this could be an encoding problem.
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Rob, this is what I do—and it works every time—to record DVD’s from my timeline in Vegas.
1. I downloaded the free Debugmode frameserver from https://www.debugmode.com/frameserver. youi’ll have to install it in your plugins folder inside Vegas. This way, when you have your project open and all your effects rendered, you can click File-Render as-Debugmode frameserver. This will open some more boxes asking where to install the file and what RGB settings you want. Pick RGB32. When you click okay, the software will install a ghost file on your hard driver wherever you told it. In this manner, you don’t have to render your entire timeline into a suitable avi file that has to be encoded into MPEG2 later.
2. Use Tsunami MPEG Encoder (TMPEnc), which can be bought at https://www.tmpgenc.net, to change the ghost file into an .M2v file, along with a .wav file for your audio. There are alot of great controls on TMPGEnc, such as variable bit rate settings, that will allow you to fit more video on a SL DVD. I do church videos all the time in the CQ (Constant Quality) mode at 6000kb/sec, with dancing and skits and such, and can produce a quality 90 minute video.
Make sure you don’t push the limit on your video space you need on your disc, however. You need to leave a little space for menus, if you need them, and button navigation. You can also save some space by rendering your audio separately in Vegas as an .ac3 file. This will take up less space on your DVD than if you used a .wav file.
Not knowing what app you’ll be using to burn the DVD’s, I am offering generalities at this point. But I hope the info I’ve given here gets you pointed in the right direction. -
Steve, there are some really cool audio editing and conversion apps out there on the ‘net. One of them is Levelator. You can download it for free from https://the-levelator.en.softonic.com/ . What Levelator does is takes differenct volume levels of audio in the same track—say, two people talking that have varying levels of audio—and levels them out to one audio level. All you have to do in Vegas is render your audio part of your timeline into a 48Khz PCM audio file and import it into Levelator. Levelator will output a file that has the same name as your import file, except it will also add ‘output’ onto the file name, right on the same harddrive that you imported your file from. Then you just have to import it back into Vegas and match it up on your timeline, using your original audio track location as a key. Then you can mute or delete your original audio track from your project. This might help you solve your problem with three video’s having different audio levels.
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Yeah, rendering uncompressed if you’re going to ultimately encode to Flash works great. There’s also a freeware app on the ‘net called Super that will change just about any video file into anything else. It’s what I use for Flash encoding, either to FLV or SWF.
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Thanks for your help, John! It works great! I have to tweak the size of the banner some more, but you can see what it looks like by going here:
http://www.bigbytevideo.us
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I imported the 956×200 banner as A JPEG into Vegas, but on my external monitor, Vegas puts the banner into a 720×480 box with black all around the banner. I will try to adjust my project settings to 956×200 and report back. Thanks.
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Thanks for the input, guys. I forwarded the forum to the hardware store owner so he could see for himself.
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Rasmus,
This may sound like a work-around, but you could always use an external MPEG encoder like TMPGEnc (Tsunami Mpeg Encoder), which I regard as one of the best out there. Just google it and you will find the download site. It used to be about 50 bucks. Then you can get the Debugmode Frameserver from http://www.debugmode.com. This will allow you to create a small ghost .avi file from your Vegas timeline, when you select ‘render as’ as Debugmode frameserver. Then you just open TMPGEnc while the Vegas program is still open, and select the ghost file you just created with the frameserver. TMPGEnc is great because you can select constant or variable bit rates, variable GOP adjustments, and other adjustments to tailor your output. TMPGEnc will create a separate .m2v and .wav files from you ghost .avi file. This way you don’t have to render a huge uncompressed .avi file before you try to render to MPEG 2. This is the method I follow when I encode for DVD delivery and it works great.