[Terry Esslinger]

Depends on what kind of noise. Distortion is very difficult to decrease. A continuous noise such as a buzz or hum may be able to be reduced/removed with Sony Noise reduction. If you don’t have that then try Audacity (a free sound manipulating program. Distortion is more or less a trial and error even in the best of cases.

[Terry Esslinger]

If you are going to a dvd with this why did you render it as WMP in Vegas? DVD is MPEG2 -always-. Your best flow is to render in Vegas as Mainconcept DVDA MPEG2 with no audio. Then render again the audio only as AC3. Then drag those files into DVDA. At 70 min DVDA will probably not have to rerender. I think that your quality issue stems from too much rendering!

[Terry Esslinger]

[Bruce Quayle] “Is there an easier way to see the name of a clip on the timeline rather than having to right click it and then click properties?
IE: Can I get the clip names visible by simply highlighting them?”

Go to -view- click -active take information-

[Terry Esslinger]

Thanks for the quick info.

[Terry Esslinger]

John (or anyone else),

So you should take your HDV footage (from FX1) and capture it and work with an HDV time line (1440×1080 60i) This is interlaced, upper field first (I believe)
When you have fininhed editing your project you need to render it and that depends on what yourt end player is going to be (right?)If you are going to DVD it has to be MPG2 (either SD or BR). Lets assume SD for the moment. Do you need to take into consideration what type of television it is going to be played on as to what the settings are? That is progressive or interlaced? And if you do not know what tyupe of television will be used what do you do? What if a progressive scan or non-progrssive scan DVD player is used?

Now I understand that most newer DVD players are progressive scan and that the trend is toward digital LCD, plasma etc TVs. But there are still a lot of CRT TVs out there. In fact I have a very nice Mitsibishi CRT 65″ HDTV (rear projection)

[Terry Esslinger]

You did not say whether you followed my previous advice to render to a new track. I’ll explain a little further.

If you have your four video files on the same track, one playing right after the other, you will also have the associated audio tracks beneath them. They are synced with the video ion the time line I assume? When you render the 4 video tracks to a new track (RENDER TO NEW TRACK) you should get a new audio and video track that are one big event each (one video and one audio)and they should be synced.

You then delete the original tracks. Now you only have two tracks with one event ion each track.

You then render tis project in two stepsd. First the video by choosing to render to MainConcept DVDA MPEG2 with no audio. You name and save this as xxx.mpg.

You the render the project again this time using the AC3 audio setup. You name and save this IN THE SAME FOLDER as xxx.Ac3 (same name)

You then open DVDA, drag the xxx.mpg file into the program and the audio xxx.Ac3 will follow automatically and will be synced.

Hope this helps

[Terry Esslinger]

Take a look at this. Might give a clue:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/882137

[Terry Esslinger]

I believe you have yto have DVDA in order to have the AC3 choice.

Sounds like you have a corrupted media problem in your time line. Try this: render your track to a new track. This will give you a track with a single event. Delete the old track and see if you can then render your project. Might want to copy your project first so that you can go back and make other changes if this doesn’t work.

[Terry Esslinger]

If you want a blur a section of a clip thjere are a couple of ways.
The easiest is probably just to S(plit) the clip at beginning and end of section desired and applly blur to the section.
To use keyframes, run your cursor to the point you want the blur to start. Set your blur and set a keyframe (should happen automatically). Then run curser to where you want the blur to end and remove the blur. This should set another keyframe. NOW the key is to set each key at “hold”. This means that the parameters that you set for the keyframe will be held until the next keyframe and then will abruptly change to the new parameters. Otherwise gradual changes will occur throughout the whole clip. You set the properties of the keyframe by right clicking on the diamond keyframe.

[Terry Esslinger]

You need to render your edited video out as Main Concept MPeg2 and AC3 audio – two separate files. Then place those files into Architect to burn DVD. Mpeg2 is DVD language.