Ted Snow
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I use Netscape 7.2 and I have my cookie pref set to ask me about every cookie. I can then check a box as to whether to always allow a certain site to set cookies or not. This way you can allow cookies from the sites you want and not allow them for the sites you do not.
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Create a loop region of the part you want to edit and check the box for render loop in the render dialog box, you’ll probably want to save it as a wav file. Name that particular loop with it’s own name…loop001.wav etc. and repeat for any other parts you want to edit. Then you’ll have each section as a seperate audio file to pull into any audio editor.
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I did this a quite a while back for my logo. I used pan/crop if I remember correctly and moved the pivot point (the little circle in the middle of the pan/crop window) from the center of the text to one of the corners and then rotated the text. I think I had to play around with the positioning also once I did the pivot. I also used a sound effect of a door squeak as it swings down and back and forth. Turned out really nice.
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I wouldn’t think the settings would change your mix, just the overall level of the audio. You might try adding a parametric EQ to the audio track from the camera and try to pull out the noise of the camera. I have done this before with the audio of my old Digital8 camera. It always has a “whining” noise from the head spinning that is picked up by the onboard mic. Find a segment of the event that is quiet and loop that segment. Then do a pretty narrow cut with the EQ and sweep that cut back and forth while playing the loop until you find the offending noise.
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John, for video stuff the “Good” setting will usually be just fine. But for photos I have found that using “Best” works much better. I have now been rendering all my montages at “Best” setting for quite some time. The render time doesn’t seem to be affected all that much and the quality is well worth the little extra render time if there is any. Pans and zooms are much smoother when using the Best setting. As a matter of fact I ended up making my own render presets and use Best for both pics and video work.
As for the flickering, I have had some pics that gave me problems similar to what you describe. What I did was add a second copy of the pic on the track above and add a cookie cutter and cut out just the spot that was flickering and add .001 blur to that. That way the rest of the pic stays sharp and crisp and only the offending flicker is blurred. This can be quite a feat though if you have lots of pic causing problems. -
If you render each individual project to AVI then bring all of those into Vegas to do your final render you can eliminate any pauses and still be able to put your chapter marks in where you want. Then render that final project out to Mpeg2 (check “save chapter marks”) and bring that one Mpeg2 file into DVDA and prepare. Your DVD will then play from start to finish without any pauses and still have your chapter marks.
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Very true. You can and will learn a wealth of info just from this forum. I started out with Ulead Video Studio which came bundled with one of those ADS Instant DVD USB gadgets (uh hem…junk). Absolutely nothing but headaches and hardware lockups. I finally said enough is enough and bought Vegas 4.0 two days before Sony doubled the price after buying out Sonic Foundry. I haven’t looked back since. Vegas has always been rock solid and not one lock-up yet. And from testimonies from other users, it’s the MOST stable video editing platform out there (besides maybe what Hollywood uses). I just started “playing” with it and in no time I had learned my way around Vegas and found it a breeze to do about anything you desire. And if you do get stumped you can pretty much find the answers to any question you have. And if you don’t find it just ask here on the forum and you most likely will get an answer within minutes. MANY THANKS go out to EVERYONE on this forum for sharing their help and knowledge.
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I played with Acid Pro 4 demo quite a while back. Probably not enough to familiarize myself with it enough. What is it that makes it different from Vegas??? Is it mostly the MIDI capabilities? Would be nice if it would do chord progressions similar to Band In A Box. Wow, would be a BITB on steroids.
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Very true…even a Digital 8 camera is better than a DVD based camera.
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Allen is correct. If you’ll notice on the “scams” on Ebay, you might find a high dollar camera for dirt cheap…says it’s brand new. Take a look at the location heading above the listing (I think it’s in blue) that shows what catagory the listing is in. It will usually say something like “wholesale lots, jewelery, necklaces” etc. And will also usually be a ONE day listing. Definate scams to stay away from. Also, any camera in your price range is going to be a single 1/6″ CCD camera which is “OK” for shooting family picnics and such with good lighting but if you really want quality try to go for a 3 CCD camera.