Stephen Mann
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Your eyes are the absolutely WORST color-determining devices on the planet. Your brain is the culprit. If you are looking at a white dress, you brain will *make* it white, whereas a colorimeter will know that it’s really a pale blue.
(This is also why you can *never* use the LCD monitor on your camera for accurate color determinations.)
I decided to get the Color Munki. It’s a bit more money than the others mentioned in this thread, but it also profiles my printers.
Note, while it’s impossible to calibrate consumer LCD monitors to the NTSC gamut*, the colorimeters come close [enough].
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Black is an illusion – look at your black screen in the dark – it’s really gray.
White depends entirely on the color of the backlight.
Contrast is dependent on the viewing angle.Steve Mann
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Could be a data dropout. As suggested, try capturing again.
Steve Mann
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“Definitely a Vegas bug.”
The fact that hundreds, perhaps thousands of Vegas users do not have this problem pretty much negates your statement. A bug has to be repeatable and predictable. If you can outline the steps needed to reproduce the “bug” *and* any other user can duplicate the problem, then you have a bug that can be fixed.
Low Memory is a WINDOWS issue. Search the forum for “low memory”.
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Does no one ever search the forum before asking the same question again?
Search “Low Memory”.
Steve Mann
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Let me make sure that I understand what’s happened.
You did a capture and some editing on Computer “A”
You saved the project (xyz.veg)
You took the xyz.veg file home and opened it with Vegas on computer “B”, and it can’t find the media.Am I right so far?
You just need to go back to Computer “A” and copy te media files, or do a save-as and check the “copy media” box.
Steve
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As Danny says, it sounds like you just clicked on “Save”. This saves the project file (.veg) only. when you do a save, make sure the “Save Media” is checked, and a copy of the original media will be created. I personally don’t like this method because the copied media has a new cryptic filename and if you are going from an office computer to your home computer using this method, you will very quickly build a library of copies of the original media.
My method is to copy the original media once.
In Vegas you are NOT editing the media files. The .veg files contains all of your editing instructions and generated media. This is a strength of Vegas because multiple editors may collaborate on a project and as long as each workstation has a copy of the original media, all the editors need to do is exchange .veg files. (Small enough to be an email attachment).
Steve Mann
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Or, re-encode the MPEG2 file *with* the markers.
Steve Mann
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Who Really Makes the Disc?
Realize that most media is produced by a relatively small number of factories, located in several different places. These factories are mostly present in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, China and India. There are more, but those are the largest ones. The best media generally comes from Japan, Taiwan and Singapore. The worst typically comes from China and Malaysia.
The blank disc brand name on the package means almost nothing. Apple is a great brand, but they do not make their own discs, instead outsourcing to a company like Mitsubishi Chemicals. Common companies like Memorex, Maxell and Imation all outsource to media vendors. Mitsubishi also makes the discs for Verbatim, etc.
It is the media ID that is important, as it reveals the disc manufacturer. Unfortunately, this is not written on packaging or anywhere else. Companies want consumers to be oblivious to this sort of behind-the-scenes information. The Media ID is also used by your DVD burner to determine the burn parameters which includes the maximum burn speed. Never, ever burn your DVD’s at the maximum burn rate. (You will make a lot of coasters if you do). Pick a speed in the middle; 4X or 6X is my personal limit.
I recommend that you use the freeware “DVD Identifier” to read the media ID to learn who *really* made the discs in your box:
https://www.afterdawn.com/software/cd_dvd/dvd_tools/dvd_identifier.cfmSteve Mann
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How is this different from the level meters in Vegas?
Steve Mann
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Neat concept, bad example.
There’s nothing more wrong than a website that starts blasting music at full volume as soon as it loads.But, you asked about formats…
Consider that the SlideshowPro website says that “The SlideShowPro Player for Flash component requires one of the following versions of the Flash authoring application (Macintosh or Windows): Adobe Flash CS3 (and up), Macromedia Flash 8, or Macromedia Flash MX 2004.”
It would seem to me that you would create the best quality file you can from Vegas and let Adobe Flash encode the appropriate FLV file for you.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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