Stephen Mann
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That will be tough because the blood is almost the same color as the shadows. Here’s the best that Photoshop can do with it, and you will see some areas that aren’t blood, such as on the fingertips. Those are easily masked out in Photoshop, but in a video you would need to keyframe the mask position. If you record your color change in an action, you may be able to automate much of the process in Photoshop.
Steve Mann
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You never said what camera you have, but if it had an HDMI output port, then it is likely in 4:4:4 colorspace. You can use an HDMI recorder like the Atmos Ninja, but other than transcoding, I don’t know how to increase the bitrate. Also, note that ProRes is specific to FCP and you won’t find ProRes in the “Render As”templates. There is a tool that I have not tried that may help: FFmpeg customized for broadcast and professional usage
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“… so I need to record to an external recorder to boost the bit rate and color space to meet the cable companies requirements.”
This won’t change what the camera records. Just because HDV is 4:2:0 colorspace and ProRes and Avid DNxHD are 4:4:4, your video is still 4:2:0.
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Like John, I am having trouble following what you want, exactly. You may want to look at subclips. Here’s an excerpt from my personal wiki:
Trimmer
I hate the trimmer
Almost every NLE out there is inspired by the ancient days of analog video. We used to put a tape in a source deck, scroll through the tape to the beginning of the cut, set an IN POINT, then scrub to the end of the cut and set an OUT POINT, hit the Assemble Button and watch the source deck wind back the tape, tell the destination deck to be ready, start to play and trigger the record deck to start and stop recording.
(phew)MOST NLE software mimics this model to make it easier for the old farts to migrate from the Analog paradigm. You load your footage into a source/trimmer window, set IN/OUT points, then move the video to the timeline. Vegas started as an audio editor, and treats video as audio… The whole clip goes to the timeline, where it becomes an event, and you trim it there.
The Trimmer and Timeline panes are unrelated by design. The timeline represents your entire project with all its edits and effects and transitions.
Everything on the timeline is an event – there are no clips on the timeline. The Trimmer window is designed to work solely with a single media clip at a time.
Personally I never use trimmer/source windows and consider them an extra step. When I am trimming the video why not do it on the timeline?
If you prefer the Trimmer Window, here’s some tips:
Preferences Go to the “OPTIONS” drop-down menu at the top of the screen and select “Preferences” and the “General” tab, and check “Double-click on Media opens into Trimmer instead of Tracks,” and files you double-click in Vegas’s Explorer will go to the trimmer instead of the cursor on the timeline.Subclips You can easily create “subclips” in the trimmer (actually it’s better in the trimmer than on the timeline). This is particularly useful if your original media is nonlinear – that is, you need bits and pieces scattered over the file. Set an in-out point for each bit then click on “Make Subclip” and give it a descriptive name. The subclip appears in the Project Media window and can be used on the timeline like any other event. The subclip is not actually a piece of the original media, it’s just a shortcut to the in/out points you set on the original media. (Like any other event).
Steve Mann
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The drive that the veg file is pointing to does not exist, so it doesn’t even try to “find”.
Go into internal preferences (warning, you can truly screw up Vegas here which is why it’s hidden). Filter on Path and make sure that “Projects Folder Path” points to an existing location.
Steve Mann
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When it comes to Codecs:
1) If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
2) Never, ever install a codec pack on your Vegas system.Steve Mann
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Yes, “Include Audio” should be unchecked. I also use Mark’s Bitrate calculator, and I tend to round down. So if Marks says a Max of 2,104,100 bps, I enter 2,104,000 into Vegas. Mark’s rate and my rounding down has been good for me in most cases. Once in a while, maybe one time out of ten, I have to tweak the max down to make the files fit on the DVD without DVDA trying to re-encode it.
Steve Mann
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It took me ten years to not feel like a newbie. I am a slow learner.
Do you have DVDA? I have made hundreds of DVDs using DVDA with no problems.Steve Mann
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I shoot stage productions and 2 to 2.5 hours is not unusual at all. You use a bitrate calculator to determine your VBR bitrates, plug those into Vegas and make the MPEG and AC3 files for DVDA.
It just occurred to me that you are probably including the audio with the video file which is in no way DVD compliant. Which is why your authoring program is re-encoding it.
Why aren’t you using DVDA?
Steve Mann
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“Also, the DVD authoring program is taking Vegas MPEG-2 and compressing it further to fit on a standard DVD”
This wouldn’t happen if you made DVD compliant video in Vegas. Are you using DVDA? Any recompression is bad, but letting the DVD authoring program do it is introducing an unknown codec and parameters into the process as well as an unnecessary encode.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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