[Stewart Bourke]

Graham,

That looks great – thank you. I too would never have thought of a mask. I was too focused on trying to get some sort of gradient. Would it be possible to get a copy of the project file to have a look at?

many thanks again for taking the time to give it a go.

Stewart

[Stewart Bourke]

Grazie,

Many thanks – anything that I can use as an example to experiment with would be great.

I had to resize it to get it down to < 1.5mb size specified for this forum.

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I am intrigued how a mask would work here – surely I need to apply e.g. colour curves in a graduated way?

Many thanks agsin

Stewart

[Stewart Bourke]

Folks,

Thanks for all the answers.

First, I am recording AVCHD. I have confirmed that the menu setting for the frame-rate is set to 25FPS Progressive. However, the manual does have an asterisk beside this setting, and says that it records 25P as 50i. Mediainfo says that it is 25 FPS, interlaced, top-field first.

In vegas, the project properties says 25 Pal, interlaced, upper-field-first.

I will try various render settings and subjectively try to judge which is correct, but I would really like to understand what is the correct way to handle this as i would hate to give out discs which don;t look their best, or behave correctly.

Really confused…

[Stewart Bourke]

This does not bode well for VP13 – please don’t let them have messed about with the main GUI structure…

[Stewart Bourke]

Eqra,

You need to give a load more info before anybody here can even try to help. People on this forum are extremely generous of their time, but you need to specify the problem in more detail:

a) What are you trying to do exactly?
b) What have you tried?
c) What are your sources?
d) What are you trying to render to?
e) What version of the software do you have?
f) What are your machine specs?

Only than can people help you.

STBO.

[Stewart Bourke]

you can install the two side by side – there will be no problem – I have 10 and 12 on the same machine.

12 will open 10 no problem, however if you have any third-party fx installed in 10 you will need to install them in 12 as well.

Be careful saving however- if you save a 10 project in 12 you will not be able to open it in 10 any more.

Stewart

[Stewart Bourke]

I would suggest buying them both if you can – they are two different products that compliment each other.

[Stewart Bourke]

Stephen,

What you are looking for here is projection-mapping. You can do it manually – especially if you have a single projector, but if you want to create masks and simulate multiple surfaces you should really be looking at a projection-mapping application that allows you create masks, surfaces etc. By having multiple surfaces you can have different sources playing onto each surface. The surfaces can all be displaying on the same area – but you could for example, have your background on surface 1, then have an animation on surface 2 etc..

If you have apple – madmapper or GrandVj are two applications that spring to mind – GrandVJ also support windows.

Manually will be very, very time-consuming… I tried it and gave up – have been playing with GrandVJ for a while now – V2 has it built in.

Just one point to note – at 150ft – even indoors you will need a decent projector. For example (and I know it is a totally different situation) – the ‘India gate’ projection referenced in Abhi’s post used 4 x 22000 (yes 22K) lumens barco projectors..

At 150′, any standard lens will create an image so large it will be almost invisible even in very low-light. You will need a projector with a long-throw lens, and at 150′ it will need to be bright – I don’t believe many of the conventional consumer projectors would work satisfactorily from that distance.

For example, a Panasonic PT-DW6300US at 150′ throw will create an image of approx 25′ diagonal. That device pushes out around 6000 lumens, and costs around €5000… I would certainly recommend renting something decent.

There maybe more informed people on the forum here – I am only a hobbyist, but these are my experiences…

Stewart

[Stewart Bourke]

Dave,

Thanks for the detailed answer.

However, my question was to understand why Steve felt that having slower render times due to completely empty tracks was not necessarily a bad thing. This does not seem to make sense to me.

Stewart

[Stewart Bourke]

Steve,

Could you elaborate please? Why would spending time rendering nothing, but adding to an overall render time not be a bad thing?

Thanks,

Stewart