Terry Esslinger
Forum Replies Created
-
The blue triangles in the upper left and right corners are the handles for moving the fade (transition) area. The white one in the lower left is the ‘snap offset’ I have never used it so I did a little research and found this explanation by Grazie last year: It offsets the Snap. The Snap is the point at which Events will be “felt” to snap to each other. You will also see the vertical Snapping Coloured line indicating as much. So, if you wanted to Snap two events, but one inside the other, you would offset the snap. I’m not sure that I know any more about it even after I have read that.
-
IMO track motion can get a little confusing, especially if you want pics in different places and on the same track. Thats why I recommended event pan and crop. If you are zooming in then I believe that you want track motion as you will not lose resolution as you do with pan and crop (or is it the other way around? Now I am confused.
-
Just drop the photos on a track above the video and make them the length you want (click drag the right side), the size you want ie pic in pic (pan and crop). Vegas looks from the top down.
-
Appears to have picked up the pace considerably now. Noticed it was real slow yesterday.
-
Explain what you mean by ‘more effective’?
-
As well as what John said, can you see the same defects if you play the tape back in the camera?
-
You could try downlaoding the trial version and installing it and see if it works?
BTW did you mean 400MHz of ram?
Also 30 G out of 120 is not much free room. -
Your transfer company should have been able to fix that for you.
-
One more thing: you reiterated that MPEG is highly compressed, then said the computer saves the original file as an MPEG
Yes MPEG is highly compressed and no I did not say (or mean) that the computer saves the original file as MPEG2. I also have a PD 150. So I basically have the same set up that you do.
There are two separate capture applications (what Sony calls the internal app and the external app) Which one opens depends on what you tell it you are capturing HD or SD. You get SD DV.avi from the PD150. It must be captured with the SD capture app (I think it is the external). Your other cam produces HDV output which is a type of MPEG2. I am not great at these differences and someone else on this list might be able to give more specific info there. But I believe it will capture M2TS files. Both files are about the same size (13GB/hour) It would seem the HDV file would have much more information (data) in it than an SD file so to be about the same size it has to be much more compressed. The HDV video was aquired as MPEG (M2TS) and captured without changing it. The HDV uses a GOP (group of pictures) technique that I am still not straight about but basically it only really has one complete frame for every 15 frames it captures. The frames before and after are what I call ‘delta’ frames. They only record the changes that occur from that frame (I frame?) to the next. That is why a drop out is so deadly, it effects 15 frames (1/2 second) and is very noticeable. Butthis is how it compresses. When you render a time line with HDV footage on it to SD for DVD you rerender it to MPEG2. But it still looks much better than your SD footage rendered to the MPEG2.
I don’t know if I have made any sense at all here as it is getting late and I need to go to sleep. So thankfully, I’ll quit. -
Yes you can see live what you are recording. But you cannot see a chromakeyed background at the same time(althougyh I have never tried it – disclaimer)