Rob Strobbe
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A theme is just a menu design — a predefined collection of fonts, graphics, and position settings. One theme doesn\’t have any more limitations on content than another.
Rob
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If the above solutions don’t change anything, try running DVDA as an administrator.
Rob
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The default button style is determine by the theme currently applied. If you want your buttons to automatically be text, then use a theme with text buttons (I believe DVDA ships with only one) or make your own theme.
Rob
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I suspect that your generated media window is either a) docked in with other windows and one is covering it up or b) positioned somewhere on your desktop (maybe even off screen) where you can’t see it.
Check all the docking areas — including behind the preview window. It might even be wedged between its normal docking area and the preview window’s docking area (there are three total) but sized too small for you to really notice. If you find it, click and drag the vertical column of dots in the top left to tear it away.
Rob
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Divx is primarily a delivery codec, not an editing one. In order to save space, it throws away information and expects the playback device (in this case, Vegas) to reconstruct some frames based on other frames. Sometimes Vegas doesn’t do so well with such codecs.
You’re best off using either DV or a not-so-lossy codec like Lagarith or Huffyuv. Another option is to install ffdshow which may or may not allow Vegas to read your Divx files better.
For the record, they’re not “dropped frames” — that’s a totally different situation which happens when video is captured. In your case, the information is there — Vegas is just having trouble reading it.
Rob
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Not sure, but I think perhaps the trouble may be not in which codec Vegas uses to encode a file, but in which codec DVD Architect uses to interpret it. Could very well be that the file is fine — DVD Architect just thinks there’s something wrong with it because it’s trying to “read” it with one of those errant codec pack codecs.
I haven’t experienced this with DVDA (I stopped using these kinds of codec packs a long time ago), but I’ve had other software be unable to read a file properly. Then once I dumped the codec pack and got my system back to normal, that same file opened fine.
Rob
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“Does anyone know if it can be done with Vegas Pro?”
Not with Vegas alone. The technique is called “morphing,” and it involves setting up points on two or more images / videos and telling the software which areas one one should “morph” into which areas on the next. Far as I know, there is no “magic” way to set up such an animation. It is painstaking work — especially if you want it to look really good.
Search for “morphing software,” and you will find lots to choose from — all the way from free to hundreds of dollars. If you want to work inside Vegas, there is a program called WinMorph that can be used as a standalone as well as a plugin that works in Vegas. Though I’m not sure which is the most current version it works with.
Rob
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Try uninstalling, then reinstalling the .NET framework.
Here’s more info on this from Sony’s knowledgebase
Rob
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Above the preview window is a button with a circle on it — half shaded, half not. Click that once.
Rob
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Not exactly “deformation,” but setting a track’s Compositing Mode to 3D Source Alpha and then playing with its Track Motion will get you a similar look. So long as you’re using Vegas Pro and not Vegas Movie Studio. (The latter does not have 3D track motion.)
Rob