[Terry Esslinger]

BTW – DV and HDV are both about 13GB per hour. HDV does not take up more space until you start to edit (depending on your editing flow).

Terry Esslinger

[Terry Esslinger]

I assume you capturd the stills from the video by using the ‘snapshot’ icon in the preview window. Was your preview setting set at best-full. You need to have it set there for taking the stills. These stills ar, of course, at video resolution and do not stand up to a lot of zooming.

Terry Esslinger

[Terry Esslinger]

I am not infrongt of my editing unit at the moment but I believe gthat you can double clkick in the empty space which will select it and the hit delete. I believe that if ripple editing is turned on that all the subsequent events (Vegas’s name for clips) will move as a unit to close up that empty space. I believe that gthere are scripts available that with one action you can close all empty spaces on the time line.

Terry Esslinger

[Terry Esslinger]

One possible way. Set your Normalize level in preferences. Then individually normalize each audio clip. Could be a PIA if you have a lot of clips. But each clip should then have their highest level adjusted to the level you set in preferences. You might need to play with Compressor before the Normalize depending on the individual clip.

Terry Esslinger

[Terry Esslinger]

First, how arde you doing the rolling credits?

Terry Esslinger

[Terry Esslinger]

[Liz Margoshes] ” have a Pentium R (M) 1.20gig processor and 1.24gigs of RAM, which I guess is considered “slow” for video editing* so maybe that’s the problem”

I assume that yoiu mean 1.2MHz processor. That is rather weak for video editing but it can be done. Probably won’t come close to handling HD though except amybe with Gearshift.

[Liz Margoshes] “As I say, they both play great in Win Med Player but not when I import them into Vegas.”

I assume that you are watching the video in Vegas in the preview window? With the weakness of your computer make sure that the preview is set to at least preview(auto) or lower.The quality of the picture will degenerate but will play closer to full rate. BTW, the output that you render will not be affected.

Terry Esslinger

[Terry Esslinger]

Place the pictures on their own track.
Resize the pic to the needed size using pan/crop
Use track motion with keyframes to move the pic along with the scrolling credit. Be sure that smoothness is set to zero and linear motion.

Terry Esslinger

[Terry Esslinger]

I remember a problem similar to this that was corrected by updating the BIOS on the MoBo.

Terry Esslinger

[Terry Esslinger]

Unfortunately dpi doesn’t mean anything useful in video parlance. What were the pixel sizes?

Terry Esslinger

[Terry Esslinger]

With my Pentium 4 processor I set it at 2 due to hyper threading. What would the setting be with the newer core 2 quad processors
So the setting would be the same for the P4 with hyperthreading and a dual core without HT?

Terry Esslinger