Rob Strobbe
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“I have chapter button with 25 chapters on it.”
What does that mean, a “chapter button with 25 chapters”? You mean you have a chapter (scene selection) menu for a video that has 25 chapters?
Where are you trying to edit this name/number?
If on a menu, just select the textbox with the name/number, press F2 (or right-click the box and choose Edit Text) and select / delete the part you don’t want.
If you’re trying to get rid of the number on the chapter marker itself (on the timeline), you can’t.
Rob
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Did you get Vegas Movie Studio on a disc or as a download? If as a download, are you sure downloaded DVD Architect Studio and not DVD Architect Pro? If you installed DVD Architect Pro, VMS will not be able to launch it.
Rob
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For the record, those “markers” are called keyframes.
Rob
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By “MS” I assume you’re referring to (Vegas) Movie Studio? If you’re referring to Microsoft, you’ll have to be more specific.
Anyhow, I don’t know what tutorial you’re referring to, but you cannot “finish a [Vegas] project in DVDA” and then render it in Vegas. They are separate programs that work with different kinds of project files. DVDA cannot open a Vegas project, nor vice versa.
You edit a project in Vegas or Vegas Movie Studio, render that to a file, and then bring the rendered file into DVD Architect in order to author a DVD.
Did I understand your question correctly?
Rob
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It’s not playing track one. It’s playing whatever is visible. Think of tracks as “layers” of your video, and you’re looking at those layers from the top. Wherever on your timeline you have an event on track one, it will hide anything on track two (three, four, etc). If there is a point in your project where you have an event on track two but not on track one, then you will see whatever’s on track two. The main exception will be when your events have areas that are transparent.
When you render your project out to a video, all of the tracks will be composited into one with Vegas hiding / showing all of the tracks as you have edited them. So when you look in the preview window, what you see is what you get.
If you just want to see a lower track for previewing purposes, then hit the Mute button on the higher track that’s hiding it. (The Mute button is on the track header and looks like a circle with a line through it.) Click the Mute button again to unmute the track.
If you actually need the lower track(s) to be visible in the rendered video, you have several options.
1. Split the event on higher track and delete the parts you don’t need.
2. Right-click the higher track and choose Insert/Remove Envelope > Composite Level. You can then add points (double-click the line) to that envelope to adjust the opacity of the envelope.
3. Right-click the higher track and choose Insert/Remove Envelope > Mute. Similar to #2, but Composite Level lets you have varying degrees of opacity. A Mute envelope is simply on or off.
4. Bezier masking — this is an option in the Pan / Crop tool (if you’re using Vegas Pro) that lets you “draw” areas you want to cut out or reveal from an event.
5. A few other options — the list so far is enough to get you started, I’m sure. 😉As for speeding up clips, right-click an event and choose Insert/Remove Envelope > Velocity. There, you can drag points up to speed up the event and down to slow it down.
Enjoy.
Rob
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You have the preview window in “Split screen view,” in which it shows part of the window with FX applied and the rest without. FYI, this has no effect at all on your rendered output. It only affects what you see in the preview window.
To turn it off, click the Split Screen View button above the preview. It looks like a square with a gray circle, and half of it is darkened.
Rob
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Hover your cursor over the bottom edge of the window until it becomes two horizontal bars with an arrow pointing up and an arrow pointing down. Then click and drag up.
Rob
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“Is there a possibilty I have lost my pack of codecs that vegas recognises (as they were all fine in the last machine)?”
Probably.
If Vegas doesn’t recognize them, then they’re probably not “standard” codecs (at least not in the world of editing). Most likely they are Divx or Xvid, but only you can tell us for sure.
That said, ffdshow is a good option for getting non-standard codecs working in Vegas — and without installing codec packs which, frankly, usually cause more harm than good.
First, figure out what codecs are being used by those files — GSpot’s good for that.
Next download and install ffdshow. Then run its VFW Configuration app. There, locate the codecs on the Decoder tab and change the third (maybe it’s the second?) column from Disabled to libavcodec. Exit out of the VFW Configuration app and start (or restart) Vegas.
Rob
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Nope. Unlimited.
By the way, “timeline” refers to the general work area. What you added to that area are called “tracks.” 🙂
Rob
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It is probably either:
a) docked into one of the various window docking areas. Check among your Video FX, Media Generator, etc windows. All of the dockable windows (including the Video Event FX window) have a vertical line of six dots in the upper left corner; click and drag that line to undock the window.
b) undocked and floating somewhere you can’t see it. Maybe on another monitor if you have more than one or way at the bottom of the screen hiding under your Windows taskbar. You can click and drag the top edge of the taskbar down to see if your FX window is under there.
Rob