Rob Strobbe
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I have the same Preferences option in Vegas Pro 8 — I can set event thumbnails to “None”, “All”, “Head, Tail”, or “Head, Center, Tail”. I seem to recall that the option has changed a bit in Vegas Pro 9, but I can’t remember how. ?
Rob
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Check the manual / online help for “Adding a Scene Selection Menu” and then the subsection about one that returns to the scene selection menu after each chapter.
Essentially, what you’re going to do is add the same movie to the project multiple times and change the In / Out point for each copy. That will turn each chapter into a full-fledged media item. And DVD Architect will reference the same file for each copy, so you don’t have to worry about it using extra space.
Rob
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It’s not a bug.
Look at it this way: When you add a video to a DVD project multiple times, you’re creating multiple titles. But since each title has exactly the same content (same video stream, same audio stream), it can reference the same VOB(s) for each title.
But when you added another stream to one of those titles, it’s now different from the others. DVD Architect has to, according to the rules of the DVD format, create a different VOB for that title. You’ve specifically told DVDA “create these titles with just a video stream and an audio stream, but create this other one with a video stream, audio stream, and a subtitle stream.” It has no choice but to create another VOB (or set of VOBs if the first one is over 1GB) for that title.
“My impression is that there are very few people using subtitles with DVDA.”
Sure, there are. But this issue only presents itself when someone is both 1) using multiple titles that reference the same file, and 2) adding a new stream to some but not all of those titles.
Rob
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You might want to be a little more specific.
Rob
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To be honest, if you’re doing stop motion, I think you’d be much better off importing your your files as image sequences. I assume your image files are numbered in some way? If so, go to File > Import > Media. In the Import dialog, select the very first image in the sequence, check the box labeled “Open still image sequence,” and enter a range if it’s different from the default. (By default, Vegas identifies what it thinks is the last image in the sequence. Then hit Open, and Vegas will insert all of the images as a single event. I believe it uses each image as a single frame, but of course you can time stretch the event(s) if you want them to remain on screen longer or maybe just change the frame rate for your project.
Rob
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“I would have hoped that Vegas would make a mouse-hold-drag selectable (predetermined obviously) as to what function it performs.”
If I understand you correctly, enabling the Selection Edit Tool (fourth icon from the right on the tool bar) does exactly what you want.
Rob
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No, but you will have the option of using the darker gray that you saw in the Tips and Tricks newsletter.
See under Editing and Workflow Features in the Vegas Pro 9 specs. I’m pretty sure we’ll have the choice between that and the old style.
Rob
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Pan / Crop is an event level function. Only track level keyframes (Track Motion, FX applied to the track) show up beneath the track.
Rob
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Couple options:
1. Instead of trying to fade the event(s), use track-level envelopes. Composite Level envelope for video, volume envelope for audio. Also, apply FX to the track instead of to the event(s).
2. (Assuming you’re using a recent version of Vegas Pro.) Save this collection of split events to a VEG file and then bring that VEG into a new project. Vegas will treat this as an event that you can then move, fade, whatever.
Rob
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Right-click the track and choose Insert > Insert/Remove Envelope > Volume. You’ll get a line (the envelope) that represents the volume for that track — dragging it up raises the volume, dragging it down lowers the volume.
To affect only part of the track, double-click the envelope to add points and drag the points or the line between two points to change the volume.
Note that anything after the last envelope point will have the volume of that point, so be sure to add a point at the end of your “silent” section so that the rest of the song doesn’t get its volume level.
Rob