[Shawn Bossick]

In your project properties tab, did you match the media settings with the little film icon at the top right of the properties box.

Open a new session in Vegas. In your project properties tab, there’s a little film icon at the top right of the properties box. Click it. Windows explorer will open up, at that point you will click on the file you want to work on. By doing this Vegas matches all of it’s properties (Attributes) to your file.

Hopefully this will work for you.

[Shawn Bossick]

I’m not in front of Vegas now so I’ll do my best going off of memory. For you to view it in Vegas at it’s best resolution switch your mode to Best mode instead of preview mode. This will now make it look it’s best within Vegas. Now rendering out is another scenario. On your project properties make sure your render settings are set to best & not good, both video & audio tabs you’ll need to select this. Now you will still need to render it out with a few more manual steps. You can render the file out as a Sony Mp4. Select the same frame rate & size as source I.E. 23.976 ? 1920 – 1080 ? Then you should have some where around 8,000,000 data transfer bit rate to obtain a high quality video.

[Shawn Bossick]

Barry my second description will be a total of 2 clicks for you to do what you want to do. One click to split your file, on your normal track (without crops) And one click to move your clip down to the next adjacent track which you have setup for your crops.

2 clicks in total.

Have fun!

[Shawn Bossick]

Thanks All who responded!

OK, I will upgrade & see if that solves the problem.

[Shawn Bossick]

Thanks Steve for answering!

Even before I installed the new updated version, QuickTime would crash when rendering. This is one of the Reasons why I updated QuickTime to pro, was for this very reason, however nothing changed. I can’t render .mov files. Vegas crashes.

And yes I am using 11 why ? is that the problem ?

Thanks!

[Shawn Bossick]

Thanks John! Very nice of you to answer all my questions!!

[John Rofrano] “The only thing that would have been affected is the motion. Obviously it’s playing 20% slower so maybe that is what’s not looking right.”

Really, hmmm that should have worked then ?

I have twixtor, so are you saying just take the 30p footage, drop it into my 23.976 timeline apply twixtor then set velocity to 80% & that’s it ? Done ?

Last question being that I shot it in progressive mode after reviewing your responses, the JPEG or TIFF actually sounds like that would be the best conversion IF I don’t mind the 20% slowing down factor.

Again John thank you, Ive been on & off this forum for years now & you have helped me several times, THANK YOU !!

[Shawn Bossick]

Barry you can do this all within Vegas without anything else. I’m not in-front of Vegas right now so I’m doing this from memory.

2 ways you can do this. 1 when your done setting the crop the way you want you can right click the clip & select copy, then you can go to another clip, right click it then select paste event attributes, do that to each clip. 2 which I think would be better for you is to go all the way to the left of your timeline where the track numbers are at, right to the right of the numbers there are a set of icons, hover your mouse over the second icon which is a square icon, it will say track motion, simply use the track motion to set up your crops the way you want them to be, every time you drop a clip on that track it will have the crop the way you want it, when you don’t want it simply put it on another track, so you will have 2 tracks, 1 set with the crop you want & one set without it.

Have fun!

[Shawn Bossick]

Hi John!

Thanks for responding! Yes I tried it with resample on as well.

If the footage was shot in 30p progressive mode & not 60i, when I convert the 30p to 23.976 wouldn’t Vegas drop frames in-order to get the footage to 23.976 ? Or does it keep all the frames & is able to blend fields together ? Being I shot it in progressive mode I didn’t think that was possible ?

I’m not real educated in this area though so I’m asking.

question 2 was my thinking wrong in converting the files to a JPEG sequence so there weren’t going to be dropped frames ? since the footage was going to be mixed down to progressive I thought that would work ? But it doesn’t look right ?

How would you convert it John ?

Thanks again!!

[Shawn Bossick]

This is what you need to do in-order to see the entire image. On your clip in the timeline to the far right of your clip ( the ending) your will see a plus sign & a square box. Click the square box, that opens your pan & crop window. The window that opens defaults to position verses mask, the options to change between the 2 are at the bottom left of this window. Since it defaults to position you can now go to the top of this window & click to open the presets that are available for you to choose your output setting. For instance if you are rendering to 16/9 widescreen simply choose the preset that say’s 16/9 widescreen. Sometimes this will crop the top & bottom of your picture, if this happens there are 2 things you can do. 1 is you can drag the box in the window to re-locate what your picture is showing. You will have to make sure your tools are set to lock. I’m not in front of Vegas right now so all this is off of memory. There are tools in the far left you can engage & disengage. like enable snapping. 2 you can see that once you changed this setting the numeric values at the top left of this window has changed, you can use these numbers to output WHATEVER size you need, by simple putting in whatever numeric value that’s needed. so you will be able to see the entire picture if that’s what you need.

Have fun!

[Shawn Bossick]

Render your audio file only to a wave file at 44.1 kHz then take your audio file drag it into Nero & make an audio CD
Nero is what I use to make audio CD’s & or data CD/DVDs