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Man, that’s perfect George!! U Da Man!! Sounds so much better now……………thanks George! Now I’m wondering if the wave from the Menu 1 background will be too low, on the finished DVD? Because DVDA will be encoding that to AC3 in the Preparing phase, and you can’t set Custom settings, the way I did in Vegas, in DVDA. Am I correct? I guess I’ll have to burn a DVD to test that. I guess I could render that background audio to AC3 from within Vegas, before it even gets to DVDA, using the Custom settings? Pretty sure, that will work………….anyways, thanks so much for your help George!!
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Thanks George, for your response. Ya, ok so that means no I can’t adjust the start time in DVDA. Ok, I’ll re-render my song in Wavelab, minus the click track intro, that I used to sync audio to video in Vegas. I was hoping to re-use the same song file, but I’ll just re-render a second version of the song. Again, thanks for your timely reply, it saves me a lot of searching within Architect!!
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Hey Jonathan, not much you have to do special, other than let Vegas know where your plugins are. Did you install the VST version of Mercury or the Direct X version? Or perhaps both? Either way, where the plugin .dll’s went is dependent on your host software. So if SX is your host, for instance, they will be in C:/ProgramFiles/Steinberg/CubaseSX/VSTPlugins. So all you need to do is go to Options in Vegas and choose Preferences. Once the dialog box opens choose the TAB called “VST Effects”. Now either in the “Default VST search folder”, or the “Alternate folders 1 or 2”, hit the browse button. Navigate to where your Mercury Bundle plugins are. They may also be in C:/ProgramFiles/Waves/Plugins. Once the folder is selected, it will take some time for Vegas to go through all the plugins and determine which can be used in Vegas, and those that cannot. When you get messages saying this plugin won’t work with Vegas, say ok. This is normal. It has to go through all the plugins in that folder. Those that won’t work in Vegas, it will tag, and you won’t have to go through that procedure again. Lastly, once it’s run through all the plugins, hit “Apply” and close that dialogue box. All the Mercury plugins will be now available for use in Vegas. Hope this helps?
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Hey Chuck, both Vegas and Ultra Key will do what you want, but I find Ultra Key much easier for that task. It’s designed for that purpose and that purpose alone. Super easy to use and intuitive. The main reason it’s better, is you can monitor your “Live” camera input, and ensure your lighting is optimal. As you probably already know, a great key is dependent on proper lighting. With Ultra Key, you can see your subject and even put a background on him or her for testing. Adjust your lights so there are no shadows. Then when you record the actual footage, it will just be your subject and the greenscreen. Allowing you to add whatever background you want in Post Production. Whether that be a still image, video footage or a 3D software background. But like I said Vegas will do the job as well, as long as your lighting is perfect.
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Well this is a bit of a work around, but it might be good enough for you. You could play your audio track in Windows Media Player, and set the visualization to “Bars”. Then use Camtasia to capture your entire song playing. Load that video into Vegas. Be sure to have at least “one bar” of just click track in the beginning of your audio track, so you have something to sync up the Camtasia video, with your initial audio track in Vegas. Because Camtasia’s audio won’t be as pristine as your initial audio track. Other than that I can’t think of any way to do it.
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Ah ok Leslie, I understand you now. The confusion was completely on my part. Fuddam, ya no worries……….let’s put it past us? Your point about interactivity is well taken as well.
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Fuddam, I have the deepest respect for your opinion, and your talents in Vegas. I’ve seen your posted works and have learned a great deal from most of your posts. Unfortunately, you seem not to respect my opinion. Ok, fair enough! You go ahead and use PowerPoint for corporate Presentations. I certainly won’t. Oh and by the way, dude, I don’t drink coffee!!
Don thanks for the support, it’s appreciated. I don’t see what the big deal about PowerPoint is? To me it creates amateurish and simply unpolished presentations. On the other hand, I’m an extremely big fan of Vegas. Simply LOVE it! I would be curious as to know what software you used to convert PowerPoint into .AVI though, for future reference?
Leslie, so great to see another convert. Tell me is it truly a trade secret, or is it something we can all know? Not that I would ever use PowerPoint to embed video……….but curious minds just have to know. -
Tell them that PowerPoint is crap!!! That you can do a Fantastic Production in Vegas, that can not only be burnt on to DVD, for distribution to their whole company, but encoded into .WMV to play on any desktop or laptop computer! Tell them they are behind the times and if they want a slick Production, to allow you to Produce a GREAT product on Vegas. If the answer is “No”, personally I’d drop the project. It’s your call, but it’s your name on the final product!!
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For compressing vocal tracks I use RVox Comp by Waves, but that is a very expensive effects bundle. If you can afford it I highly recommend it. For free VST effects, try Kjaerhaus’ Compressor. https://www.kjaerhusaudio.com/classic-compressor.php Also there are some nice free effects at Voxengo’s site, a very respected effects vendor. https://www.voxengo.com/downloads/ Try the Marquis Compressor I believe it’s still free.