Rob Mack
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Your photo editing software can create the stills for the HUD but if you want to animate them you probably should do that part of it in afx. You might, maybe, be able to do the animations in Flash. Vegas can import Flash 4 swf files. In any case, do some short tests before committing to a long process. You’d probably get better transparency in afx.
Rob Mack
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Totally impossible, even on Wine. Vegas just uses way too much of Windows’ infrastructure.
Rob Mack
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It turns out that holding down the F key as you pull edges of events around does the same sort of ripple as a control+drag does in PPro.
You need to pick your battles with this sort of thing. The manner in which ripple editing works between applications is largely inconsequential, but the fact that you couldn’t easily figure out how to do the same thing in Vegas…that’s a bigger issue.
Vegas shouldn’t have the exact same keystrokes as a competitor, but it should be as easy as possible to figure out how to do things. In general, people always hate the other software because they can’t work as fast in it so it’s important to make those transitions as painless as possible.
What I’d really most like to see is status bar hints at the bottom of the timeline, or somewhere consistant. This was something I used to love about Corel Draw, and Photoshop is fairly helpful in this regard too. Having some contextual information about the various modifier keys available at the moment would be very helpful.
One major turnoff in Vegas is the fact that the timeline cursor moves to wherever you click in the timeline. If I select an event, the cursor jumps there. I’ve always hated that.
Beyond that, Vegas needs to have overwrite and insert modes, even if current users wouldn’t use them.
Rob
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Depends on your preferences. I prefer to leave Ripple editing off in Vegas and I never have to switch it back on. But that’s just the way I want to work.
I like the manual Post Edit Ripple because I can decide whether to just move my track, My track and all markers, or everything on all tracks plus the markers. I find this very flexible, But perhaps if Vegas could do inserts and Overwrites maybe I’d turn automatic ripple back on.
Rob Mack
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Simplest way I know is to put the gradated bar on an empty layer above the background. Turn off the visibility of the underlying layers. Save and drop onto the vegas timeline. You’re done. Transparency always comes up automatically for me, no fuss at all.
The one caveat is that “Maximize Compatibility” needs to be on in the photoshop prefs. This makes it so that the PSD shows up as-is, without having to flatten it.
Rob Mack
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It just takes the incoming data and puts an AVI wrapper on it. It doesn’t reencode.
Rob Mack
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Jeff,
I talked to Satish a few monthes ago about adding an image sequence export feature to his frameserver. He liked the idea and did the programming. You can download the new frameserver, version 2.5, from http://www.debugmode.com
Rob Mack
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Glad it turned out okay.
Happy New Year,
Rob Mack
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Well, I wasn’t aware that an MPEG3 file could contain video. Generally, Vegas doesn’t do too well with file types that are mainly designed for sharing rather than editing. For example, DIVX encoded AVI files are trouble for Vegas. Sometimes these delivery formats are designed to thwart your efforts to edit them, other times they’re just cumbersome.
You have a couple of options. One is to find a VFW codec for your files that will allow Vegas to edit them. The other option would be to transcode the files to an edit friendly codec. I’m not sure what you’d use to do the transcoding, maybe the player can do it, maybe Windows Media Encoder could do it.
Hopefully someone will post here with specific advice. All I can give is suggestions about where I’d look.
Rob Mack
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Well, it sounds like you’ve got the file names and paths correct, so I’d look into the USB drive’s ownership and permissions. I thinks Vista is a bit more fussy about this.
I’m guessing that the error you’re getting is misleading. It might really be that Vegas can’t write to the USB drive. Or maybe there are folders specified in the project setting from your XP system, and those folders don’t exist in the Vista system.
There is also the possibility that this media uses a codec that you don’t have installed on the vista system.
Rob