Stephen Mann
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“Would you be able to share some of the other alternative means of doing so?”
You could put the actress on a greenscreen and key her into the background.
The way that big budget filmmakers do it is to shoot the scene twice. Once with the normal motion talent and again for the fast-motion background and composite them together. It’s not unlike greenscreen, but you use the cookie cutter to open the hole in the middle of the fast-moving scene to show the normal talent through from the track below. Only three precautions here – you have to shoot the scenes as close to each other so that the lighting doesn’t change. Next you have to choreograph the fast actors to “make a hole” for the slow person so that they don’t appear to be walking through her. Last – the camera can’t move.
If the camera does need to move, then your situation just got a lot more complex. In addition to the first two precautions above, you need to introduce motion-tracking. You can do it in Vegas with Boris Complete (BCC7) [Hint – sign up for one of their webinars, they often offer webinar attendees a discount for participating], or with AfterEffects. I believe that After Effects has a template for just this effect, but AE has an absurdly steep learning curve that is matched by its price.
Good Luck…
Steve Mann
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Ctrl-C on the desired button, open the next menu page, Ctrl-V.
Steve Mann
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First you should be running 10d.
If You Tube is your goal, then MP4 and WMV are the wrong formats.
Render As “Sony AVC” (*.mp4,*.m2ts,*avc,) with the Template: “AVCHD 1920×1080-60i”.
Now click on the “Custom” button beside the template drop down menu.
In the window that pops up, copy the following settings exactly, and if there is something that you see that isn’t listed below, such as boxes to be ticked/unticked, leave them unticked.
VIDEO TAB:
• Video Format: AVCHD
• Frame Size: High definition (1920×1080)
• Profile: High
• Entropy Coding: Cabac
• Frame Rate: 29.970 (NTSC)
• Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1,0000
• Bit Rate: 16,000,000
AUDIO TAB:
• Audio Format: Dolby Digital Ac-3 Studio
• Sample Rate (Hz): 48,000
• Bit Rate (bps): 128,000
• Audio Coding Mode: 2/0 (L,R)
SYSTEM:
• Format: MPEG-2 transport stream (.m2ts)
PROJECT:
• Video Rendering Quality: BestBEFORE EXITING THE WINDOW, go to the top where it says “Template:” and put in your own name for the template. (I use “YouTube 1080p”) then hit the save button (the button that is a floppy disk icon). Now you can click OK.
The next time that you want to render with these settings again on a different video, you can easily because you saved a custom template: File, Render As, “Save As Type”, select Sony AVC. In the “Template” drop down menu select “YouTube 1080p”
Steve Mann
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“As I already wrote in earlier thread,”
Under what name? This is your first post here.
Everything you describe could be a memory or a driver issue. Vegas 10 uses more computer resources than Version 9 and it appears to make more calls to routines in the video drivers. Your computer was already not working properly since Version 9 “stops render randomly along the process”, then it’s no surprise that Version 10 is having more problems.
Your PC was broken before you installed Version 10.
Run memtest and prime95 stress-test. (Both are free and easily found via Google). Then run DriverDetective(DriversHQ.com). I don’t know if DriversHQ has a free version. I bought the one-year subscription and it’s kept my PC out of trouble.
Steve Mann
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There’s a couple of ways to speed up the main talent. The easiest would be to have your talent act in slow-motion, then speed her up to normal in post.
Steve Mann
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It’s been a long time since I worked with audio CD’s, but have you looked at making regions? I believe those translate into tracks on an audio CD.
Or I’m wrong again,
Never mind.Steve Mann
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You do realize that what you’re describing is analog noise and fadeout? Cell phones have been all digital for at least five-years.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Got to be a mistake. Adorama is the only retailer at this price – everyone else is $500+. the Adorama price is even cheaper than the educational price.
Buy them while you can.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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[i]”I guess I don’t agree with the idea that by uninstalling a program one should expect to have created problems with the registry.”[/i]
Normally, there’s no problem. but some programs, like Vegas or Photoshop (really, any expensive program) will leave a secret breadcrumb when you install the demo version. This is used to prevent people from deleting a demo program and re-installing it to reset the demo clock. Uninstalling the program does not delete the breadcrumb.
For future use, you never need to uninstall anything from Sony when upgrading.
Steve Mann
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You upgraded your RAM, Motherboard, Processor and video card – that’s a new computer.
If you replaced the motherboard, then you *must* re-install Windows. If it works at all from the old installation (since I assume that you’re using the original HDD), I would be surprised.
Windows and the registry are tightly connected to the hardware interface in the motherboard BIOS.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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