Simon Laidlaw
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Yes, oops, slip of the keyboard! Number 5 exits edge trim mode so don’t press that! As Graham says it’s 4&6 to move one pixel 🙂
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on a numeric keyboard highlight the event then use 1 to move left and 3 to move right.
4 and 5 moves one pixel left and right
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Here are the settings I use for Youtube.
It’s not an exact science but after much trial and error I feel these give the best quality picture in the smallest file size. Note this is for 24 fps footage
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Two things to try straight away. The most important to to roll back your Quicktime to version 7.5 I use 7.5(861)
The second is to delete the content of this file
C:UsersuserAppDataLocalSonyVegas Pro12.0Media Pool Thumbnails
These two things stopped my system from crashing immediately.
Others have suggested right clicking the SVP12 icon, clicking on properties then compatibility and checking the box Run this program in compatibility mode and selecting Windows Vista. I didn’t need this final step as the first two solved my similar issues.Let me know how you get on. I have MC6, FCPX too and would always do a project on SVP12 given the option.
I also no longer render using GPU as I have found that occasionally quality suffers and it’s not worth the risk for the time it saves.
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Might be worth checking which version of Quicktime you have installed. I had a similar problem after upgrading to Quicktime 7.7.4 When I rolled back to QT 7.5 the problem was fixed.
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I am assuming you are currently in a 16:9 project and are looking for something wider.
You might find the best way is to create a new video layer above the footage and create the black bars effect you are after in that layer.
Very easy to do using filler and then mask tool.
With your video footage beneath that you should have a unified look.
Although Vegas is probably the best NLE to use when using multiple clip sizes it it always better to keep them the same as much as possible.
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Philippe
It sounds like you are doing everything right so my only suggestion is that, if this is a one-off project, it might be worth downloading the Sony Vegas 12 trial version and see if it works with that.
You can always go back to version 7 after the trial period runs out. You don’t need to uninstall v7 to run v12 (unlike FCPX and 7)
I think that once you have used v12 you’ll want to upgrade though!
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Agree with Bob.
It does sound like the normalise solution would not be the best for you here. Compressor gives you greater control but it is more time consuming.Think of normalise as a quick fix for web video and compressor as the elegant but slower broadcast solution!
Whatever you pick you’ll still need to ride the volume on the timeline. You’ll be pleased to hear that Vegas has easily the most intuitive volume adjustment of any of the big NLEs
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In later versions of Vegas once the DNxHD has been extracted you simply re-boot the computer and you’ll find the codec under the Quicktime render settings.
Don’t know if this will work for v7 but take a look. It might already be there.
Just to be clear. You go Render as: then find Quicktime, customise Template, on the ‘Video Format’ drop down one of the options should be AVID DNxHD codec.
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You might also want to try the ‘Normalise audio function’ (found by right clicking the audio envelope then going to the switches menu).
This detects the audio in an envelope and increases / decreases the loudest part to to a maximum of 0 DB.
This is too loud for broadcast and you still need to ride the levels a little bit but it gives you a good platform to start from.
