Rob James
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Not true that you have to use Vista. Just buy the XP Pro disk separately, and format the Vista drive and install XP. Make sure they give you your Vista disk though, as that’s part of the parcel in the laptop deal. In case you want to install that OS in the future. You can also buy your laptop from your local computer shop, they will still install whatever OS you want in. The bigger chains like Best Buy and Future Shop won’t, so I won’t buy from them anymore. I agree with the advice to upgrade to Vegas Pro 8.0, that will last him for quite a while into the Future. It’s very nice the surprise you’re planning for your husband, wish my wife was so understanding about my gear purchases. Lastly, I highly recommend a second hard drive, not only for storage of mass HD footage, but also as a great place to store an image of the C: drive should anything happen. The C: drive can be small even 20 gigs, but make the second drive as large as you can afford. Personally I don’t store ANY data on my C: drive…….only the OS and the programs are on that disk. A perfect image of my C: is on another drive, as well as all my songs and video footage. Should a castrophy occur you’ll be up and running again in half an hour.
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Both excellent suggestions, Mike and Lazslo. I’m going to try both of those tips. What I have done in the past is simply apply a zoom video transition to the generated text. As in this example https://www.robjames.net/Pirate.wmv I never noticed any problems or wobble in the text, in either the finished MPEG2 or that .wmv version. So I’ll do a few tests and see which one yields the best results. Once again thanks for the tips!
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Hey Will,
That audiocard is more than sufficient for Pro audio recording. Right now 24-bit 96khz is the highest resoloution for audio, but you certainly don’t need to record at that level. As all CD’s are burnt at 16-bit 44.1khz. If you do decide to record at that high resolution you will need to dither down your end project using Professional Mastering Software like Wavelab or SoundForge, to 16-bit 44.1khz. I use the MOTU 24 1/O, https://www.motu.com/products/pciaudio/24IO/ it too is a FireWire audiocard, and I can easily go down to 0 latency, so you should have no trouble with latency. If you look at the link you provided you will see it has analog outputs on the back of your unit. To connect either to active monitors or to an amp then on to your speakers. Hope this helps. -
Hey Sheldon, if I understand you correctly, all you want to do is have a larger preview window? If so, simply undock the preview screen and drag and drop into your second monitor. Then size it to fill the whole screen. Vegas will remember this setting automatically. About using a third monitor I don’t know, as my Matrox Parhelia video card supports only two monitors and a third S-Video out (for a TV) But viewing on a TV is not something Vegas supports, as far as I know, other than via the FireWire cable on your Camcorder and then your Camcorder connected to a TV, via analog RCA cables. I could be wrong about that. But I’m sure one of the resident gurus like Gary or Ed will have a more solid answer for you.
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Yes Vegas will do it, but as everyone already mentioned, you need good lighting. Halogens are excellent for that purpose! But if you are serious about green screening I suggest two things. Invest in professional green screen. I just bought a large chunk of this stuff https://www.eefx.com and the stuff is beautiful. Extremely well made with a foam backing to eliminate wrinkling. Next invest in Ultra Key, it is the most user-friendly green screening app. out there! It’s perfect for you, because you don’t have good lighting. You click on shadows and wrinkles (with your mouse) and it calculates all the subtle differences in the shades of green for you. Mistake proof!! Not to mention it comes with incredible moving 3D backdrops and JPEGS. Try the demo out at https://www.seriousmagic.com Has to be seen to be believed!! If all this is outside your budget, then evenly lighting your existing green screen, and using Vegas is your best bet.
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Thanks Eric, I appreciate the info and advice. But those solutions I know of and are way too time consuming for me. As luck would have it I found the perfect PowerPoint to .AVI converter called PowerVideoMaker Pro by https://www.presentersoft.com/ and the demo is downloadable. More than long enough to get this job done.
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Ok thanks Mike…………..guess it’s not possible then, as Open Office doesn’t have the option to export to .avi Only flash, html and pdf. Hmmmm……well I’ll just tell my client it can’t be done, unless he wants me to re-construct the entire project in Vegas. Once again thanks for your response.
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Ok a quick update. Flash seems to be the only moving format to export to and I now know Vegas imports Flash. I’m still unable to do it though. Is there anyone out there that has actually done this, got it to work? Documents in both programs sheds no light on the subject. The strangest thing is, the Flash animation it creates has nothing to do with the PowerPoint presentation, nor are the slides created, even in the presentation. How can that be? Weird mystery to me. I must be doing something wrong, but I can’t figure out what.
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Thank very much Mike, U DA Man!! Got it installed now. One question is Flash the format I export to? Does Vegas import Flash? Thanks for the quick response really helped me alot.
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1. Use closed headphones. (Ones that cover your ears completely)
2. Bring the volume down on the click track, so it’s audible enough to play on time with, but not dominate.
3. Turn down the volume on the headphone amp. Make sure your input level is good and hot though. So you are recording a loud signal, but only hearing a soft signal.
4. Lastly, if you are still getting bleed from the click track (And you shouldn’t be) Use the audio editor of your software to remove the click sound in the passages where there is no acoustic guitar playing, simply by dragging the start and stop locations.