Stephen Mann
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Here’s a tutorial I wrote last year. It’s abut more complex than you need, but it might help.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1421565/How%20I%20make%20a%20DVD.doc
Steve Mann
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This is normal. You have used up all the preview RAM and Vegas has to build the preview frames in the HDD. If you only have one HDD, then things will really get slow. To prove or disprove this, change the amount in your preview RAM setting.
Steve Mann
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That’s a tough one. You can try splitting an event of just where you want the person walking, just one or two steps. Use event pan/crop to keep the person the same size during that event.
Steve Mann
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I think I follow you. I would shoot the person walking against a large blank wall, preferably a greenscreen. Then look for two nearly identical frames, for example when the right foot hits the ground, then cut that out and loop it. Dropping out the background would be more difficult because I am sure that a 24-ft greenscreen is in your budget. You could rotoscope each frame. Export the event only as a JPEG sequence then use something like Photoshop and Topaz Remask to drop out the background.
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I feel your pain. I was the technical manager at an Ikon Documents Company (are they still around?) for a few years in a prior life, and I can appreciate how slow the legal industry moves with technology.
The problem is surely codec related. You may have to do a re-encode with an external program until you figure out the problem. I wouldn’t expect SCS to put any engineering effort into a rarely used format.
Steve
Steve Mann
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Search the forum for “low memory”. The question had been answered dozens of times.
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Dave – I was going to suggest that you could only do this with a script. I don’t have UltimateS from Vaast (I think John wrote it), but it comes highly recommended.
Roger – If it’s on the timeline, it’s an event – not a clip. This is important for two reasons. First, on the timeline, an event points to the media (clip). You can have multiple events on the timeline from the same clip. You can trim the event, add a bunch of F/X to the event, and even pan-crop the event. But you never touch the media (clip). This is non-destructive editing. And you can have more events pointing to the same media with each doing something different from the other events. Second, if you search the help file for “how do I do xyz to a clip”, you won’t find anything.
Steve Mann
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I can’t think of any way to do this. Or why I would want to.
I am also no sure where you are changing the field order since there are three or four places where you can do it, but the only one that really counts is in the encoding template.
Also, all media on the timeline are events – not clips.
Steve Mann
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