[Stewart Bourke]

Folks,

Thanks for the very helpful info so far. From further investigation, and also from the comments here, it would appear that the standard chromakeyer in Vegas may not be the best? Would there be third-party plugins that might be recommended? If it were to make much of a difference I would invest in such a plug-in, as I would expect to be using it on an on-going basis. However, if the general belief is that the included keyer is about as good as one gets then I will stick with that.

Thank again.

[Stewart Bourke]

Pressing J,K,L on the keyboard will allow you playback at different speeds. J plays backwards, K pauses and L plays forward. Repeated pressing J or L will speed up the reverse or forward playback…

STBO

[Stewart Bourke]

John,

Just out of interest, if you have the same media used in a number of projects do you copy it into each project’s folder? I do this – I know it is duplication – but it means I have everything in the one directory structure…

Thanks

Stewart

[Stewart Bourke]

VMS 9 does not allow you change bit rates etc, but VMS 10 opens up the ‘custom’ button when you go to render, and in there you have all the options you need.

When you choose ‘render’, and select the DVDA mpeg template, there is a ‘custom’ button which opens up a dialogue window to allow you set the bitrate options. In here, you can select ‘variable Bit Rate’ and specify your min and max values. This facility, along with the bitrate calculator mentioned previously will allow you maximise the DVD’s available space. Unfortunately it will mean re-rendering your video…

This facility is one of the many reasons to upgrade from VMS 9 to 10…

[Stewart Bourke]

Would you have any idea how this is represented in terms of keyboard shortcuts. I could not find a keyboard shortcut that scrubs as if I am dragging the scrub slider. The nearest I could find was holding down ‘K’ and then using ‘J’ or ‘L’, but it is still not the same thing..

Many thanks..

PS – the first show with the QT/Qlab combiantion was on Sunday – looked absolutely superb – thanks again for all the info on the QT stuff from the previous thread…

[Stewart Bourke]

John,

Just wondering if shuttlepro handles the scrub left/right facility in vegas. I have a bella keyboard with the job wheel, and you are correct – editing without one now seems alien. Unfortunately the bella does not handle scrubbing, which I believe is down to the way it is implemented in Vegas)..

Thanks

Stewart Bourke

[Stewart Bourke]

John,

Thanks for all the advice.

I have spent the evening experimenting with all the various options in custom and have come down to the Sony AVC, mp4, 4mbs progressive scan, pixel aspect ratio 1.0000 and the colour fx you mention and the output looks and sounds superb in QT on both the apple and the PC and in qlab as well.

Very satisfied

Thank you.

Stewart Bourke

[Stewart Bourke]

John,

Thanks for the reply. I have logged a question with qlab as well to ask them. From the Vegas perspective I am interested in any ‘gotcha’ other people might have encountered in rendering for qlab (or apple in general). I was trying out quicktime rendering in Vegas and the size of the generated file is huge..

The video I am rendering is about 4 mins long – one stereo track and three video tracks – a mixture of still images (jpg and png), some moving (wmv) and some particle-illusion effects I created in PI and then imported – all rendered in SD.

The resultant .mov was just shy of 4GB – whilst the .wmv is approx 35Mb

I left all the rendering options at their default values…

Is this normal?

Thanks

[Stewart Bourke]

Walter,

Many thanks and I am clearer now on the difference between the video-payback app and show-control. I saw the 17″ referenced a couple of times. The 17″ with 2.66Ghz CPU and 7200 rpm disk looks like the way to go.

Thanks again

[Stewart Bourke]

You might have a look at the stuff the guys over at https://www.outerspace-software.com have. I came across their tools recently and am starting to use blufftitler and bixelangelo to animate text and writing, and it seems to be able to do some prtty cool stuff with textures – maybe you could animate your text with a sewing texture in bixelangelo and then import it into Vegas?

Stewart Bourke