Rob Mack
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I have no trouble with larger discs but it’s not just the version of windows that’s a factor. Your BIOS must support a larger disk.
Also, I have one ADS enclosure that won’t support larg discs and two others that do. Just to illustrate that there are other factors besides the OS.
Rob Mack
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Okay, tried it and not having that problem. So it’s possible in 6.0d.
Rob Mack
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Actually, the way it’s described it sounds like a combination of the two things.
Rob Mack
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I thought that as well but when I set the split screen to on e half and then added a cookie cutout to the center of the event it shouwed the left half of the cutout. Not the same as it being offset to the left.
However, if I set the cookie on the event but have the whole track moved to the left then all my effects move over there too. Could that be it?
Rob Mack
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This is assuming his dvr can make DVDs.
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You might also find that adding media as a take fulfills the same need.
Rob Mack
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Don’t really know but Vegas doesn’t really install a codec for DV. Perhaps Premiere and Edius installed one of their own, or perhaps one of them has made themselves the default editor for these files. Perhaps the system is querying some Premiere or Edius library before playing the files?
By default, DV AVI files should open right up in Windows Media Player. There’s actually nothing special about Vegas encoded DV-AVI files, as far as I know.
Rob Mack
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I don’t remember what script I used. It was a year ago january. In my case I actually needed real subtitles on a DVD and I had a transcript file. Trying to lay them out in Vegas was just simply the wrong way to do it but because I really didn’t know my way around DVDA Vegas was the first thing I tried.
I did make a little forum noise while I was trying to figure it out but I doubt that I asked the right questions. In the end, the biggest thing I struggled with was the fact that DVDA outputs unicode subtitle files but my favorite notepad replacement didn’t support unicode. The text looked a little garbled and it took me a long time to figure out why. It was forum feedback that eventually solved that. Yay forums!
Ed, it’s interesting that you’re creating PNGs from regions or markers. What would be even cooler is if you could make PSD files with the text created as a text layer. In the end it’s more flexible if you can get into the file and edit the text. The newer CS versions of photoshop have some sort of scriptability, perhaps this is actually possible.
Rob Mack
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That sounds like what he’s looking for.
I authored a DVD piece that called for a subtitle track last year. I had a hell of a time fooling around with Vegas and it turned out that subtitles weren’t nearly so hard to deal with in DVDA – I just didn’t know how to do it when I started the edit project so I tried things in Vegas first. It was actually kind of murderous to import a text file into Vegas, lay it out, and then export it as a subtitle file. The problem was that DVDa couldn’t import the output from Vegas. It was easier to deal with directly in DVDA.
But this isn’t what you’re doing anyway.
The truth of the matter is that you’re going to have to do some shoveling no matter how you approach it. The goal is to import a transcript and convert it to consecutive text media events on the timeline. If you find a good tool to automate it in Vegas (like Ed’s tool in Excaliber, perhaps) then you’d still need to break the transcript down to reasonable sized blocks of text so that they fit comfortably on screen and still read smoothly. And of course you have to get the transcript made in the first place.
You’re already looking at a shortcut. You’ll play a region and then type the text into the region. That covers the transcription and layout all at once. You won’t have a spell checker, though, which is too bad.
If Ed’s script can convert all these regions to text events, and allow you some control of the formatting before you run it, you’re in good shape. However, you might want to get familiar with some alternatives, like the virtualdub process. One thing I think I ran up against was that the vegas script available at the time would convert either markers or regions to a subtitle file. I forget which type it was but it wasn’t both and, unfortunately, I had already typed in all my titles as the wrong type of marker. It was a dead end because the script wouldn’t export what I’d typed in.
You generally don’t want subtitles to be too long, so “Quick Labels” might be perfect. If you have too much text in a subtitle I think it’s too tiring. People are also watching the movie so they have to be able to take in the text at a glance. They’ll get worn out if they are glancing back and forth to read the whole title as they watch the image. You may find yourself going back later to try to break up your titles differently, especially because as you get tired you’ll make longer subtitles.
ROb Mack
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The problem is that he doesn’t have DVDA. This isn’t all that hard to do in DVDa but it sounds like he’s opting to burn subtitles into the video itself. A kind of faux subtitles that can’t be turned off.
This has been asked before and I don’t think that the scripting API actually allows you to put text into generated media. Ed, you would know far better than I if this is true.
There are other ways to skin this cat. One way would be to make subtitle images in Photoshop, one slide per subtitle. It’s not terribly automated but it could be done. You might find it easier to automate in Flash and as long as you save the swf file as a version 5 swf or less, it should import into Vegas.
There might be some sort of usable utility over at Doom9.org…In fact there is. Look at https://www.virtualdub.org/virtualdub_filters. It would require a bit of fussing to get all of this done but the idea would be to render your project, open it in SubStation Alpha, create your subtitles, save them, and then use Virtualdub and the Subtitle filter to burn them into a new file.
To add a little spice to the project, you could probably frame serve out of Vegas to vdub and burn the subtitles in that way. All in all, the complexity here may kill you, but if you get through it you’ll have learned a lot.
Good luck,
Rob Mack