Stephen Mann
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If it was over the phone, he could have heard “MP2”.
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Did you follow the layer naming methodology in the manual?
This is one area of DVDA that could use some improvement and better instructions. (If anyone has a working PSD file, please share it and the DAR file with us).
It appears that all DVDA does with the layers is to put the individual layer into the correct location in the menu and/or button properties, according to the layer name. Also, the highlight layer scales to match your button, which I think is just wrong, wrong, wrong. I should be able to make a highlight layer with a different mask for each button, where I want it to appear. But DVDA doesn’t let me do this. It takes the whole layer and scales it to fit the button.
I don’t think that I am alone in this issue. DVDA is a great program and I haven’t found many things that Hollywood DVD’s do with menus that I couldn’t replicate in DVDA, but the PSD layers feature is just broken.
Steve Mann
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I have two comments- First, I started with Premiere because “that’s what everyone uses”, but I got fed up with the workflow that went something like this: edit, crash, edit, crash.
Vegas has never crashed my PC’s. In fact, I sometimes work for hours without remembering to back up the veg file. (Vegas is a non-destructive editor, meaning that the original media is never altered during editing, the veg file, which would fit on a floppy disc, contains all the editing instructions).
Next, do you want your renders fast or good? I really hope that Sony doesn’t listen to the whiners complaining about the slow renders, because the quality of Vegas renders is unbeatable. Slow, but better than anything else in the price range.
Did I mention that Vegas never crashes?
And number 2.5: Vegas is software only – you aren’t stuck with any particular hardware or potential conflicts. If the PC can run Windows XT, it will run Vegas.
Last, Sony Vegas has, without any doubt, the most common-sense, realistic and workable licensing terms of any other NLE softeware in the world. (This they inherited from Sonic Foundry, and I hope they never change it).
And it doesn’t crash.
Steve Mann
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I did a blind test (admittedly with a limited audience) and the viewers couldn’t see any difference in 5 or 8 Mb/s.
You are correct that others should do their own test, but I was willing to compromise a little quality for playability.
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A DVD player won’t know what to do with an AVI file. It must be MPEG2.
For my work 8Mb/sec is too high a data rate. I burn everything VBR with an average of 4MB/s and a max of 5Mb/sec or less. The difference from 8Mb to 5Mb in image quality with my work (stage productions) is so small that I can only see it if I know where to look – and I’m not telling my clients where to look. Coming up on the four year mark in business and not one client has returned an unplayable DVD yet. (Except for the grandma who couldn’t get the disc to play on her CD player.)
Steve Mann
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Also make sure that your replicator will take DL discs as the master. Some prefer two DVD-5’s.
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I would actually start at the full-size image and pan/crop to the mosaic, then run it backwards to get the desired effect. One track at a time.
Zip – There is no limit to the number of tracks you can put on Vegas.
Steve Mann
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80-tracks sounds like the best way to me.
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That was me.
I just did a shoot where both cameras were close to each other, and both were connected to a Firewire hub on a 2GHz laptop. I had two instances of Scenalyzer running on the laptop and captured live video from each camera into a single Firewire external drive.
Steve Mann
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Dropped frames are almost ALWAYS a result of the computer unable to keep up with the data flow from the camera. Something in your data path is slow. Could be a fragged disc, could be new software or adware, could be your IO mode on the disc.
LP or SP has absolutely nothing to do with it because the data is exactly the same.
Zero dropped frames is the only acceptable number.
Steve Mann