Roger Matthews
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I notice that the application is actually separate from Vegas. Are there alternative applications, possibly, that I could use instead? If there’s no way to get around this this could get pretty annoying after long enough.
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Thanks! Everything you say makes a lot of sense. 3k sounds like a very good limit.
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I’m not sure if this helps, but try the Smoothness setting in Event Pan/Crop. Putting it at 0 has the program do exactly what you ask in a linear fashion, while a full “1” Smoothness makes the camera do “S-curve” wavy movements as it does its business. It can be subtle, so you might not notice until you see it on a full screen TV.
I haven’t authored any DVDs with Vegas yet so I can’t help if it’s an authoring issue. I’m crossing my fingers Architect is better than Encore (ick).
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For Vegas, there is no question. I’ve always been told jpg is better for photos in general (and with good reason), but for some reason Vegas seems to really like png files over other types.
I couldn’t even try to load my images without crashing Vegas when they were in jpg. Converting to png hasn’t solved all of my problems, but everything works 95% of the time now. I can pan, zoom, crop, etc – you name it. It’s still just a little shaky when the resolution gets higher.
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For now I have decided to just downsize to around NTSC 720×480 (it works now), but I do plan on doing fairly elaborate ‘camera’ moves that will zoom in and out very far on a picture. I have fears of what would happen if I tried to zoom in on 1/5 of the picture of a 720×480 jpg!
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While I don’t doubt the quality of Vegas, is there really a difference in quality when just spitting back footage? When I’m talking about rendering I don’t mean anything like color correction or anything fancy – the maximum manipulation I’m doing for now is converting 16:9 to letterboxed standard 4:3 NTSC.
I am not informed enough to know, but I’d guess that that sort of thing would be hard to mess up, no? Premiere would seem to give me pretty exact renderings of my original footage.
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I suppose that could be part of it.
At least for now I’ve found if I print to tape with just “Good” quality instead of “Best”, I cut down rendering time in gigantic amounts. And the quality on my 30″ TV seems pretty much the same as the original footage.