Ryan Roberts
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Yeah, just render a wav. Wavs are what almost every DAW runs on anyway, and you won’t lose any quality, or “go down a generation” as they used to say, by rendering to .wav
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Thanks for the info, Chris.
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I got it now, thanks guys.
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This is kind of hard to explain I guess… You know how you can select a bunch of files in Windows (on the desktop for example, by clicking somewhere, not on any files, and then dragging the mouse over all the files you want to select? That’s what I want to do. Right now, clicking and dragging over all the clips I want to select in the Vegas timeline will create a new rendering region. Just open a project in Vegas and drag over some clips and you will see what I mean.
I don’t want to drag to set the rendering region though, I want to drag to select a bunch of clips (the way dragging works on Windows desktop. Maybe this just can’t be done with Vegas?
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Thanks!
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Ok, well the files are all in VOB right now. I pulled them off a DVD to my computer. I didn’t think you could import VOB files to Vegas? Am I wrong about that? I’m still using Vegas 8. (The video is a recording I made of a bunch of my old stuff with an external DVD recorder, so no worries about copyright infringement here)
Ok, scratch that, I get it now. Thanks!
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Ok, well the files are all in VOB right now. I pulled them off a DVD to my computer. I didn’t think you could import VOB files to Vegas? Am I wrong about that? I’m still using Vegas 8. (The video is a recording I made of a bunch of my old stuff with an external DVD recorder, so no worries about copyright infringement here)
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Thanks Aleksey!
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I just think enlargement will be unavoidable. When I burn a DVD Vegas will enlarge the footage to the proper DVD resolution anyway, won’t it? And then, if by some awesome stroke of luck, I get selected to be shown at Sundance, I will need to transfer it over to SONY HD CAM, so it will get enlarged again. So I just think it’s unavoidable.
What about projecting the video, and then recording it with a high resolution video camera? I could probably afford to rent a HD cam for a day. Anybody ever try something like that?
The iPhone 5 sounds like a great idea, especially since my Glide Gear came with a special mounting bracket for cell phones that I could also use on a tripod, but unfortunately it looks like even a used iPhone 5 would cost more than a brand new GoPro Black.
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Thanks for the info and encouragement, guys.
Pillar boxing is an idea. I guess standard dvd resolution is 720 x 480, and I’m shooting in 640 x 480 so I wouldn’t have to blow it up at all. That said I don’t like the way pillar boxing looks, not sure if anybody really does. Also, since I’m gonna be doing pan/scan/zoom, some of the footage will get blown up anyway.
Yeah I’d love to buy a great new camera. It’s amazing how far technology has come. I remember the first camcorder I ever bought, back in 1993, was strictly VGA resolution, and cost $2200–craziness. I was looking at buying a GoPro Black (I think it’s about $400), which supposedly goes all the way up to 4K resolution, and can do pretty high frame rates in lower resolutions so would be great for slow mo. But really I have absolutely no money. I’m unemployed and on unemployment. With the props I need to buy, and renting a hotel room for the final scene, as well as a glide gear stabilizer and some extra battery packs, I’m pretty much maxed out here.
I hope that’s not true about Sundance requiring a certain MB/s rate. I read through the submission requirements a couple times and didn’t see anything about that. Also, they encourage young film makers to enter. I can’t really image a teenager who isn’t wealthy having access to a CineAlta or something like that.
Does anybody know anything about a pro piece of hardware that might do a good job at enlarging? They must exist right? I do have to say though that Video Enhancer does a great job. You can add brightness contrast saturation denoising and sharpening filters to the footage while it is being enlarged, and if you apply them tastefully (I’m a graphic designer by trade and have a lot of experience with restoring photos), I think the footage can almost look better blown up than the original.