Tevya Washburn
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Just thought of something else: does Sound Forge have surround mixing/encoding. I know Audition does.
–the Fiddler
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Are you sure it’s composite? Because unless my lysdexia is just kicking in, composite is an old-school VHS-quality (RCA connectors). If it’s component (three separate lines for one video signal) then it can carry HD. In which case I assume you’d just need some kind of adapter?
–the Fiddler
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Or if you have Photoshop, just import the images into Imageready. In fact, Imageready can import Quicktime video files. I’ve made some GIF animations that way: export as quicktime, import the video to Imageready, then export as GIF (after some tweaking of course).
–the Fiddler
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That’d be way cool. But I know nothing about scripting, and doubt I’ll have the time to get into it in the near future.
–the Fiddler
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Thanks man. I guess that works. Kinda strange to me that there doesn’t seem to be a way to just lock a track. Maybe in 7?
Anyway, your method should do just fine, though it’s not quite as easy as just clicking a button or whatever. Thanks again.
–the Fiddler
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Well if you want royalty free stuff (meaning you can use it about anywhere including in something you’re selling) a good place to start is with a sound effects package. Sony makes a great one they advertise for use with Vegas (though you can use it anywhere). https://www.sonymediasoftware.com/loop_libraries/ShowLoop.asp?SPID=399
You can buy all 10 volumes on that page. Or they have it broken down into two smaller packages that are cheaper. There’s two links on that page I gave you. They also have samples. These are way high-quality.
If you’re looking for free to use for just personal stuff (non-commercial) there’s a bunch of varried web resources. A good post on this on another forum can be found here: https://fxhome.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=24147&sid= (Click the “Sound/Music” link under “Contents”)
–the Fiddler
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The second thing you said was right. If you want it to recognize parts as 16:9, you need to render those parts out as 16:9. If you do it all as one 4:3 project it will be letterboxed and the screen will display it as 4:3 letterboxed down to 16:9. This means that on a widescreen TV, you’ll have the black areas on the sides to create the 4:3 area, then that signal will have two black bars on top and bottom encoded into the video to make it 16:9. This means only the very center of the widescreen TV will even be showing your video.
It’s generally fine to mix 16:9 and 4:3 on the same DVD, they just need to be kept as separate videos on that DVD (so that each is rendered from Vegas at the aspect it was filmed at). Though you could probably just use a playlist in DVDA to make them play one after another as if they were just one video.
–the Fiddler
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Gary, can you explain why Vegas is setup the way it is, and why the settings you suggest make a difference? I know DVD’s have a lower volume and that, but the default just seems way low. I’ve been cranking mine up to -31 as you suggest, but am still not sure if that’s a good thing to do?
–the Fiddler
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Sounds like you’re getting compression artifacting if problems are showing up in fast motion or transitions. Up your minimum bitrate to 4,000,000 and your average to around 6,000,000 that should help a lot. You might also try rendering in progressive, though this is a prefrence based on your TV and where you want to show the DVD.
–the Fiddler
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Usually the best place to start with this kind of problem is to do a complete uninstall of the program (in this case Vegas, & I’d do DVD Architect too, assuming you have it, if I were you). Then go to the windows update site windowsupdate.microsoft.com and make sure everything is updated. Then re-download the 6.0d installation file and do a complete fresh install. If that doesn’t fix it, then start looking for other options. In my experience, this fixes about 80-90% of similar problems that are unique to a given program.
–the Fiddler