[Rob Weidenfeld]

Thanks, Michael… I’m not using the included software, and the camera doesn’t have firewire. I capture with Firewire when using my tape cameras also, but this is a hard drive/flash media camera, and there’s no way to “capture” using Vegas, as far as I can see.

[Rob Weidenfeld]

Well, there you go. I didn’t know you could do that, and that solves the problem. Thanks, Edward!

[Rob Weidenfeld]

Thanks everyone for the info. It appears, with my equipment, that what I’m trying to do is impossible.

I guess I need something like Serious Magic, with it’s “live output” feature.

With Vegas, I guess, you can’t affect live video, you can only use video FX (chroma key, specifically) on a video event in the timeline… or am I mistaken?

Again, thanks for the help!

Rob W.

[Rob Weidenfeld]

George,

The still thing won’t work, as I’m trying to showcase the motion menus. I hadn’t thought of the VIDEO_TS folder, though, that might just work! Thanks for your response!

Rob

[Rob Weidenfeld]

[Fuddam] “very smooth

good stuff :)”

Thanks! I appreciate you checking it out.

[Rob Weidenfeld]

Thanks, Marc… I can make the PNG/VEG files available. Check on that same page in a day or two and I will put them in a ZIP file.

Thanks for the comments.

Rob

[Rob Weidenfeld]

[jeditdv] “I would have to give that an “it depends”. Exactly what all was part of the AVI file? Were titles part of the file or where they added in DVDA, for example? The title would probably benefit from uncompressed. The standard video probably would not (especially if it was a DV-AVI source).”

The AVI file was created from two images repeated, each one slightly different so that it created movement. Other than alternating lights, the two images were exactly the same and contained the text for the DVD title. The only thing I dropped onto the menu in DVDA were couple of image buttons.

Sounds like maybe I could have gotten away with DV-AVI, but since it was only a 60-second clip, the added quality of uncompressed may have helped out with the text, without creating too huge a file…?

Thanks for your help!
Rob

[Rob Weidenfeld]

[jeditdv] “I think you should render your menus to DV-AVI instead. As soon as you add any buttons/titles/anything else to your menu, it will have to be re-rendered to contain those objects. Therefore your MPEG2 menu is now being re-rendered to a new MPEG2 menu containing the extra objects.”

Thanks once again, Ed. I went a step further and rendered as “uncompressed” AVI and it looked MUCH better, almost crystal clear. Would I have had the same result had I rendered to the much smaller DV-AVI? I wish I could go back to my last project and fix the menu, but it’s already in the customer’s hands! Ah well…

Thanks,
Rob