Stephen Mann
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You need “Motion Tracking”. This is a feature in Boris Continuum Complete 8 (Aka BCC8): https://www.borisfx.com/sony/bccsvp/
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Not anything Vegas would do. What’s the file suffix?
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https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/940494
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You mean like the Cinerama in “How the West Was Won”? I think that was three cameras and three synchronized projectors.
It should be fairly easy, but how would you view the finished product – widescreen TV with letterboxing” treat it like a multicam shoot. Bring each camera into Vegas on two tracks, then use PluralEyes to synchronize. Set the project properties to the desired output, then use Track motion to shrink and move the images side-by-side.
Share an example when finished.
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[Rebecca Davis] “I get audio but no video. The same files play fine in Windows Media Player.”
The PC is missing a codec. You need to know what codec was used to make the file. Look for the free utility “Mediainfo” to get the codec ID. Then find the missing codec.
NOTE – DO NOT INSTALL A CODEC PACK!
Codec packs are written for gamers and usually replace the otherwise good video codecs installed by Vegas. Find the codec you need and install it only.
Windows Media Player uses it’s own codecs.
[Rebecca Davis] “Another thing I noticed was that the files concerned are all files that were MOV that I converted to AVI.”
Make sure the PC has the latest version of Quicktime.
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I don’t know about the others. It’s been a few years since I used either of them. I’ve settled on the Vegas multicam and just do my edits early in the workflow.
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[Charles Flaum] ” but when I tried to pull the intro into the project invariably the intro tracks align themselves with project tracks I didn’t want them to.”
Make sure “Snap” is turned off.
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Vegas can use as many cores as your motherboard can handle. GPU’s are released so fast that it’s almost impossible to keep up to date, but the Vegas use of the GPU is through OFX. All boards from Nvidea are OFX compliant. Just look for one that has a lot of CUDA cores. Some are trying the GTX680 but the GTX670 was just released. A lot cheaper than the 680 but almost as powerful.
Note, though, if you have a screaming fast multi-core CPU, then GPU support may be slower than CPU alone.
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The workflow I use is to make color adjustments at the media level, duplicate the camera tracks and mute the duplicates (saving them for later, if needed). Select the tracks for multicam and make the multicam track. Turn on multicam and edit.
If you need to make some event-level adjustments across many events on the timeline, then use FX packages. Set the event FX the way you want them then save them as an FX Package. Then just apply the FX package to each event where you want to replicate the FX.
It would be nice if you could do this before chopping up the track, but that just isn’t how events work.
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I use both BYO and manufactured PC’s, and I have very few problems with Vegas 11 on any of them. I prefer the BYO computers because of two issues. First the manufactured PC’s usually lock areas of the BIOS that inhibits any hardware upgrades, and second, I have experienced more software problems on manufactured PC’s (HP, e-machines, Dell) than any of my BYO’s.
Also, the O/S that comes bundled with the manufactured PC is so loaded with crapware, some of which cause problems with Vegas, that the first thing you want to do is replace the O/S with a clean install. Which means buying another copy of Windows. Which also means voiding your warranty. Which is mostly worthless anyway since their idea of repairing the PC is to restore the O/S to the as-shipped image.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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