Tevya Washburn
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I’ve used a vacuum with a brush attachement on many people’s computers for years. It generally works pretty good. Just be carefull when using stuff like that on the fans, you can break a fin, then you’ve got to replace the whole fan. I like the leaf blower idea quite a bit. It ought to have enough power to knock almost everything out of the heatsynch on the CPU. I’d never thought of it before, but wish I had, would have made some jobs much easier. Again, just be careful with the fans.
–the Fiddler
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On your first question, I’ve had some experience editing DivX videos with Vegas 6. He’s absolutely right, you’ll need to have the right codec installed. But there’s one other thing. With most DivX videos, because of the nature of the way their sound is encoded, Vegas won’t have the sound synched properly when you place it on the timeline. Fortunately there’s a fairly easy workaround. You just need to use a separate program to create a .wav file from the DivX file’s sound. Then import the video to the timeline, delete the sound track, and import the .wav version and line it up with the video on the timeline. Now you’re ready to edit DivX.
–the Fiddler
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I have. In fact I just recently purchased both EffectsLab Pro and CompositeLab Pro. If you go to this page: https://fxhome.com/products/range.html you’ll see on the sidebar they’re having a promotion right now if you buy both. I haven’t used CompositeLab yet, but what I have done in EffectsLab has been quite quick and easy. I’ve had a fair amount of keyframing experience in Vegas, as well as some training in Flash (which uses a very similar keyframe timeline to the FXhome products). With that experience it was very easy to pick up their software. But it shouldn’t bee too hard even if you haven’t had that kind of experience. They’ve got great video tutorials to walk you though things, as well as a great online community where you can get help, as well as post your movies for other people to see and comment on. You can’t beat what you get for the money.
–the Fiddler
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If you’re looking to not pay a lot, try http://www.FXhome.com for some pretty cool software that does some really cool special effects (including color grading like you’re wanting), but doesn’t cost all that much, and is really quite easy to use.
–the Fiddler
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use majic bullet for color grading. even the ones that come free with Vegas are pretty good. Vegas can also do light-rays, though that may not accomplish exactly what you want, it depends on the source video. If you want some very well-priced effects software go over to http://www.fxhome.com and check out their lineup. Its not AfterEffects by any means, but it offers easy-to-use visual effects creation at a far cheaper price.
–the Fiddler
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All of what Dr. Dropout says is true of Vegas 6.0d and Vegas 7.
–the Fiddler
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That’s awesome! Definitely let us know how it goes. (in a new thread since this one’s getting way down on the list). I’d realy like to hear how it goes, both with Vegas, and just in general. I assume there will be a Vegas 7 trial out whenever they release it, you ought to see if support is any better in 7.
I too would like to know why we should think twice.
–the Fiddler
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Yeah, you can’t just say that. Tell us why we should “think twice.” I’ve been drooling over the HVX since before it was released for sales. Everything I’ve seen and heard about it say’s it by far the best value for the money, and memory cards are so much a better way then tapes.
–the Fiddler
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LOL! I hear that man. Though I do prefer Photoshop to any other image editor. Well that’s good to know. I just might have to go back to CoolEdit just for comfort’s sake. I dunno though, maybe for now I’ll just make due with Audacity and wait ’till the come out with the next version of both those packages.
–the Fiddler
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Thanks guys. Anyone else want to weigh in?
I’m familiar with Audacity, but it’s fairly limited in its abilities, or was last time I used it….
–the Fiddler