[Steven J casey]

Any shot of a big guy wearing coveralls and a hockey mask.

The Amityville house being lit up by lightning.

Any Julia Roberts movie. (lol just kidding)

[Steven J casey]

Yeah, I know what you mean about copy protection. But in this case it’s a training video about the cleaning of dialyzers, probably not real hot on the black market. lol Except for those guys who steal kidneys and leave the victims in a tub of ice with a note to call 911 immediately. (the dialysis industry gets a big kick out of that one)

[Steven J casey]

Thanks for the info guys. There’s a place here in Nashville that I’ve used a lot for CDs but this is the first real need for DVDs. I definitely need to shop around though just to make sure I’m still getting a decent deal on the matter.

thanks again,
steven

[Steven J casey]

That looks really cool as well. I’ll be calling some of these companys in the morning for more info. Thanks guys!

Steven

[Steven J casey]

Ha! That seems so obvious now that you said it. Brilliant. Thank you my man, thank you.

Steven

[Steven J casey]

More cool stuff. What do you think of that steddiepod? The features look great! Think it does a good job of all those different things?

sjc

[Steven J casey]

Looks like good stuff. Thanks for the info.

Steven

[Steven J casey]

I’m using the velocity envelope with four nodes. Say at 1:00 I want to hold a freeze frame for 30 seconds so that a pop up message can be read without the video proceeding. I created a node at 1:00, added node two directly under node 1 and set it to zero velocity. Then at 1:30 node 3 is set at zero velocity and node 4 directly over node 3 brings us back to 100%. It creates a notch where time stands still. All I had to do was split the audio track even with node 1 and move the downstream audio (right hand side) to line up with node 4, which kept everything synched up. Problem I’m having now is I’m having to place more of these in the middle of things, with existing “notches” in place on both sides of the cursor. When I add more velocity nodes it causes everything downstream to move out of place where I’d carefully set these zero-velocity points. Maybe the better workflow would’ve been to split everything and use snapshots for the freeze frames instead of velocity envelopes?

The other thing that I can’t figure out is that I’ve tried to split the video file and create snapshots at this point, thinking that once split, auto ripple would lock everything together. But, upon splitting the track, it’s chopping out about 10 seconds of the video to the right of the cursor. It’s done this with ripple turned on and turned off, so I’m confused as to what is causing this.

Thanks Gary.
Steven

[Steven J casey]

…importing from disc…is this the same functionality that is in the Movie Studio Version? I was asking about that just a couple weeks ago. Very cool if they’ve included it in Vegas now…

[Steven J casey]

Thanks for the feedback. Also, should’ve mentioned that the reason I’m looking at firewire cards is we already have a high end audio interface that’s firewire. It’s certainly cheaper to buy an adaptor card than another audio unit. But it’s good to know that the firewire 800 won’t make any difference considering it’s double the money.

steven