Stephen Mann
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Vegasaur has an audit feature that may catch this. But it looks for event problems because there are no clips on the timeline.
I’ve never seen the problem you describe – do you have GPU support turned off?
Steve Mann
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“Is there such a thing?”
No, because there are no clips on the timeline – only events.The Vegasaur tool (reasonably priced and indispensable here) has an event selector, but I’ve never used it. I just point and click.
Steve Mann
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Here’s something I threw together using the Slide Transition and the Linear Blur.
Steve Mann
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YouTube seems to be a moving target – it’s upload specs “evolve”, but I use the same media to upload to either hosting service.
Steve Mann
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You can use Track Motion to display each track in a different area of the preview, play the video and every time you want to switch cameras, hit “M”. Later, go back to each marker and hit “S” to split all the events at the marker. You don’t have to mute, just delete the unwanted events.
Steve Mann
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We have four Dell laptops here and never a problem with them. Don’t know about Dell desktop PC’s since I always build mine.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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” I’ve brought the video into the safe area.”
How? I suspect that this is your problem. The safe area is only a recommendation. It means everything inside the safe area will be visible on practically all viewing devices. This goes back to the days of CRT televisions where the edges of the TV were usually covered with a bezel because the edges of the image were distorted. Especially early color-TV’s which had round picture tubes. But most digital displays will show the full frame or within a few pixels. If you used track motion or pan/crop to “shrink” your video into the safe area, then you created the black box around the video.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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[Brent Holland] “Should the .vf cause me more sleepless nights?”
Probably not – .vf files are the Vegas Movie Studio project files. (Like the .veg file for Vegas Pro). But it’s the lasf suffix at the end of the filename that Windows cares about. You can have all the ‘dots’ you want in the filename, as long as the last one is correct. In other words, myfile.10.12.1955.avi.mpeg.mp4 is an mp4 file.
But, in Windows applications, you can force the wrong file suffix by enclosing the filename in quotes.
I suspect that you still have Windows set to the default of hiding file suffixes – in my opinion for the completely computer illiterate because it causes more problems than it supposedly solves.
Steve Mann
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It’s just experience. I made Karaoke discs for my daughter with this trick. On most music CD’s the music is stereo, but the vocals are almost always mono. (Movie sound tracks also – the dialogue is almost always mono). By duplicating the audio tracks, making one the left channel and the other the right channel, then invert one. You are left with the stereo bot the mono vocals are negated. It’s not perfect, and it introduces some distortion in the music, but it’s perfect for a teenager’s Karaoke party.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com