[Robbie Gould]

Mike:

Thanks very much for that file! It definitely got me started in the right direction, and cleared up some misunderstandings I had about the way that text events work. However I am not fully there yet. I just took a look at the Raising Arizona opening and what I really liked about it was that the letters “shrank” from an initially HUGE size…. as if they were occupying the entire screen. In Vegas terms, it’s as if the transparent part of the letters was taking up the entire text box at the beginning of the event, and the scaling brought it down so it was a normally sized title on the screen (with black around it.)

My problem is that I can get the font size only to 800, and then I can try to increase it from there with positive scaling. However I can never seem to get it so that transparency takes up the entire screen… it is either too small or it suddenly happens that black is taking up the screen.

Do you have any advice as to how to accomplish exactly what I’m going for?

thanks in advance,
gould

[Robbie Gould]

End Action will probably work just for now.

Man, I just spent all night rendering and burning, and was about ready to send it off, when I realized that all of the footage was completely interlaced.

I *HATE* the way interlaced footage works.

So now I’m gonna re-render the entire thing.

Any recommendations? Should I render it to a .avi file with 2-3-3-2 pulldown, then let DVD Architect do the translation to an mpg?

Gould

[Robbie Gould]

Actually, I AM strugglign with DVD Architect…. I rendered each segment of the film as a separate .mpg …. will I be able to make it play as a single movie now?

This interface is a little confusing to me.

Gould

[Robbie Gould]

Doug,

I think I have solved the problem. What I originally did was to start a new DV NTSC project, and load all of my individual project files (9 in total) that make up the film into that. Then I tried to render it with the DVD Architect codec from this file.

Don’t ask me why I did this, it seemed logical at the time.

What I am instead doing now is rendering directly from the individual files themselves, as mpg’s and avc3’s, then I’m gonna stick it all together in DVD Architect.

I will surely look into the things you mention. Right now I think I have things under control…. I will post back here if I run into some problem with the DVD Architect itself.

My system is 4 gigs ram, dual core 2.39 ghz pentium, it seems to be rendering to this codec at about 2.5 minutes per actual minute of footage…. seems like a fair rate, no?

Gould

[Robbie Gould]

Laslo, thanks for your response. I’m still not sure how to handle this though. What program should I use to convert the AVI?

I have tried putting it into VirtualDub and then saving it again as an .avi. That ALMOST worked… I can get the file into Vegas and it seems to work, even goes onto the timeline. But when I try to play the file it often freezes or even crashes the program.

Clearly Vegas does not like this file.

What program should I use to change this file to an MJPEG or even uncompressed .avi?

Gould

[Robbie Gould]

Also, AutoGK uses VirtualDub to do the conversion.

I seem to remember something about VirtualDub files not working right in Vegas… am I imagining this?

More importantly, is there a fix for it?

Gould

[Robbie Gould]

Thanks guys! Worked perfectly.

Sony should be paying you guys for helping to show schlubs like me what a great program Vegas really is.

Gould

[Robbie Gould]

I don’t have an answer for you, but I have noticed the same thing with projects I used to do in Adobe Premiere 6.5 — white looked fine, red looked jagged.

I’d be as interested as you are in finding out why — or better yet, how to fix that.

[Robbie Gould]

Thanks, I will try this!

Gould

[Robbie Gould]

Interesting. Thank you for your help!