Stephen Mann
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You’re worrying about a few Gb of disk space when terabyte drives are around $60 today?
If you *must* trim, then you can render a region to a new AVI file then edit that file.
Steve Mann
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Render to new track creates a new file, where prerender is subject to disappearing without notice.
Steve Mann
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No. But you can import a text file into the Vegas Text Tool. Just highlight the text and hit CTRL-C, move to the Vegas Text Tool, click on the first blank line and hit CTRL-V.
However, I use VideoTagger Premium from Electric Happiness to make my credits from an Excel file. It’s not free, but not expensive either (I think it’s like $35.00). You set up default fonts, pick a style, and make an AVI file to drop on the Vegas Timeline.
Steve Mann
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The first thing I would do is get rid of Vista, Microsoft’s second-worst O/S. My system was challenged just to do HDV previews with any F/X. With Windows 7 it’s a lot faster now. By the way, hard drives are so cheap now, so go buy a 500Gb drive and Windows 7 upgrade. (There is a Microsoft approved method of doing a clean install with an upgrade disk. Just skip the step where the install asks for the product key. This will install Win 7 as a demo. Then reinstall it as an upgrade, and this time, you do enter the product key.)
“Vegas is supposed to utilize GPU cores but I see that a GPU monitoring app such as GPU-Z shows almost no GPU utilization–though all eight cpu cores are running Vegas at 95% +. Vegas tech support says that 6 times normal time is not unusual.”
Vegas support of GPU for preview only applies to AVCHD on the timeline, and then if you have a decent processor, you will get better performance with the CPU only.
When you apply any effects, including color correction, which affects every pixel on every frame, then you can expect slow performance during preview because the processor has an awful lot to do.
RAM preview is your friend here.
Steve Mann
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I really never use takes in video tracks, but audio takes frequently when recording voiceovers or music video lip-sync tracks.
I can play a video from one track while recording audio in other tracks at the same time. If I don’t like something on the audio, it’s an almost instant reset to the start and record again as a new take over the old.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Exactly. Tr it yourself. Open Vegas, create a video track, drag any media to the timeline, then right-click-drag some different media to the same timeline and you will get the option to “add as take”. Do this a few times then position the cursor over your pile of takes and click on the “T” key to cycle through them.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I was able to do it in DVDA with masking, but there are two significant restrictions. First, it only works with two menu items, and second the background has to be a solid color.
I use the button-01-highlightTrans with the color set color the same as the background, but the trick is that the overlay for button one (a black square) masks the image of button two. (And vice-versa)
The problem is that DVDA simplifies the mask and will not permit discontinuous button masks. That it, if I have three button images and want to mask one and three to expose button image two, DVDA “joins” the mask regions in the PSD file for buttons one and three into a single mask. Covering (masking) button two in the process.
I am still not convinced that I can’t do it in DVDA, but that was my first attempt.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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“Takes” are layers of media on top of each other, and only the top “Take” is used. If you add as takes, then select the event and press the “T” key to cycle through the takes.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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“Crash” is an extremely broad term. Describe how the “crash” presents. What O/S are you running? Exactly *what* were you doing when Windows crashed? Does it occur predictably at the same point in your media or following the same steps?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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If you just want to make it “Karaoke-like”, then just use the text generator, and in the text generator select center-bottom as the position.
1) Add a new video track above your background video.
2) Insert markers at the beginning and end of the region where you want the text to appear.
3) double-click on the new video track between the markers to create a region. when you insert Generated Media here it will take the region length as the generated event length).
4) Right click on the new track in that region, then click on “Generated Media”, select “Text Media”, then type your text.Keep in mind that I am not in front of my Vegas computer and I rarely use Generated Media (preferring to use Photoshop), so this is all from memory. But it should steer you in the right direction.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com