Stephen Mann
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” I was applying it to an ‘event’ and not a clip!”
Remember, you can have hundreds of events from one media clip. Any f/x that you apply to an event, is applied to that event only. If you want to apply an f/x to all events, then apply it to the clip or subclip in the Project Media window.
Steve Mann
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Not really different – just easier. A lot easier – because Vegas makes the swap for you automatically.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I never use the trimmer, preferring to edit on the timeline itself, but your situation calls for using the trimmer to create subclips.
Here is an excellent tutorial By Gary Rebholz from Sony that shows how to add subclips to your Project Media window, and how to organize them into folders:
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegas_pro_trimmer_window
It’s an educational read, but what you want is about halfway through the tutorial starting with: “Now let’s carry the discussion a little bit further “.
For clarification, THERE ARE NO CLIPS ON THE TIMELINE! Everything on the timeline is an event. Clips exist only in the Project Media window.
Vegas also has a Media Manager option, but I’ve never used it, and don’t know anyone who does.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Vimeo Plus also has better AVCHD playback than Vimeo Free.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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If the left and right channels are basically the same, then it’s real easy. Right click the audio event and select “Channels” then “Left Only” or “Right Only”.
Yes, the wiring of the microphone can affect the phase if the XLR connector is miswired.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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This confirms my hypothesis – one of your stereo channels is inverted.
On the phone, the headphone jack is still stereo (for music), so even though one channel of your video’s audio is inverted, your ears will still hear the audio on headphones. When the stereo channels mix in the speaker amplifier for the single speaker in the phone, the inverted channel wipes out the non-inverted channel.
You will find very few pro videos on Vimeo or Youtube using stereo audio. It usually adds nothing to the video and it consumes some bandwidth that I would rather give to the video.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Use mono. I assume that you are referring to the voice at :20, which is stereo. Somewhere in the workflow, one of the channels may be flipped, cancelling the other out when the decode in the mobile phone is converting the stereo to mono.
Rule of thumb, unless otherwise absolutely necessary, play it safe and use mono audio for phone and tablet distribution.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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“I’m trying my best to set the render settings in Vegas so that when I upload to Vimeo, it will not recompress.”
All video hosting sites recompress your files. What Vimeo’s recommendations are doing is to minimize the damage that recompression does to the video quality, but all hosting sites recompress your files.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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“I looked up Proxy Files, and I have been doing my editing that way the entire time”
No, I don’t think that you are using a proxy file. You are re-encoding your video to a lower resolution file. Where in your workflow do you go back to the original higher-resolution media to make your output files?
With proxy editing, you let Vegas make the proxy file and you do all of your editing on the proxy file. When you are ready to “render as” your output, Vegas uses the original full-resolution media files.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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MPEG 4 specifies several things including the MP4 container*, MPEG 4-Part 2 encoding (Divx, Xvid, etc.), and MPEG 4-Part 10 encoding (h.264, AVC, etc.). People use the term MP4 and MPEG 4 loosely.
*The term “container” refers to the way data is organized within the file, regardless of what compression schemes are used.
AVCHD files are often in an MP4 container, so converting your AVCHD to MP4 probably did nothing. And a lot of unnecessary work.
If your PC is underpowered, just use a proxy file. (Look for “Creating Proxy Files” in the Help menu).
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com