[Tim Neighbors]

thanks Graham.
What is vegas’s Favourites?

I’m thinking Media Manager is best for what I’m trying to do, but am not familiar with Favourites.
I do a lot of projects for a few clients, so I would love to create a library of old, categorized, easily accessible clips for each of the clients so I don’t have to open and dig through old projects anymore. What do you recommend?

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Yeah, I usually zoom in and drag either the marker or start flag of the region to separate them so I can rename one or the other. If you leave your cursor there, it will snap back into place.

Your first wish is already something you can do. Within the trimmer, you can select multiple regions by clicking one region flag and then holding shift and clicking another region flag. This will select all regions in between. then right click on one of the regions and create subclip. This will create subclips for all of the regions and drop them into whatever folder is currently selecte din the Project Media Window.

I personally don’t like to work with subclips in much because they currently don’t allow you to bring back footage that wasn’t included in the region that you made the subclip from. Instead, I usually double click regions in the trimmer one at a time and hit the “A” key to drop them down onto the timeline. This gives you a sequence of segments of the source footage that are not restricted like subclips are. Hope that makes sense.

also, if you want to get really fancy, do yourself a favor and buy Vegasaur. I think it costs $100 but if you use Vegas a lot it is worth $1000. In Vegasaur there is a tool called “Markers” that allows you to do all sorts of automated things with regions, like (on the timeline) automatically cut away everything that is not in a region and close the gaps between them with one click.

I’m afraid I don’t understand your second wish.

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Declan,
Beautiful, thank you so much for taking the time to put together this response. In some ways I like this more than Vegas …in other ways not. These platforms should learn more from each other.

Out of curiosity, is there a way to navigate around on the viewer window timeline? -zoom in and out in time, forward and back in time? With a long clip open in the viewer it can be a bit crazy trying to hunt around when each inch of the timeline represents 30 minutes for example.

Thanks!

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The person who did the recording is baffled as well. He sent me the raw files at my request so I could see if I could fix them. Last I heard he was going to contact the hardware manufacturer. I hope it’s fixable but I suspect it is not.

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Interesting. Something else to experiment with.

Just to follow up with this for the benefit of others, I was able to do a quick controlled test with different cameras in this same lighting. Some cameras clearly handle it much better than others. In fact for most of the cameras we were using, it wasn’t a problem. Only my A7s (first gen.) had this issue noticeably bad. I was able to improve it a bit in camera by picking a different “color mode” in the camera’s picture profile. I found “Movie” worked the best of the different color modes. Also, underexposing the shot helped. Reducing color saturation did not help.

In post, using Vegas Video, I was able to fix the problem surprisingly well using the “saturation” plugin. I isolated the color of the unwanted patches on his face and pulled most of the saturation out of that color. Since that particular color didn’t exist elsewhere in the shot it didn’t affect the rest of the frame. With more work, one could even go further and try to isolate that color and then change it into the desired color by rotating it’s hue and reducing saturation.

As of now, that is the best I can do with this. Maybe a better solution exists. …or maybe this is just a shortcoming of this particular CMOS sensor.

I hope that helps someone.

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Thanks for the response. This was actually shot in SLog2. One thing I’ve tried to do in the past is to turn down color saturation in camera, though it’s difficult to know if it helped because I’ve never been able to do a controlled test. As of now I’m guessing that it is clipping the color saturation early in the chain so adjusting color saturation probably isn’t helping. I think making a request for more makeup might be a little out of line for me since the show is primarily done for the audience and not for camera.

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Thanks for the response. Is there a certain type of light that I should try to discourage them from using? Why are some cameras able to handle this situation so much better than others? What is meant by “blue channel blue-blue”?

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If I’m understanding correctly what you want to do, Vegasaur can do it. I think it costs $100 or so but it’s well worth it if you do a lot of video editing. With the vegasaur extension installed in Vegas, so to the Vegasaur tools –>timeline —> markers. It will allow you to do all sorts of automated things with markers and regions, including trimming away all but sections on the timeline that have been regioned.

Vegasaur also adds a tool to ‘close gaps’ between selected events, so after you use the markers tool to cut away all the non-regioned stuff, you can then select all and click that button and remove all of the empty space between the now-isolated events. Two clicks instead of potentially 30 minutes of work!

This is a good workflow and it’s what I’ve been doing for years.

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I’ve had this problem when working with Canon footage …namely footage from a 5D mark iv
It seemed to be an issue decoding that camera’s codec. One solution may be to transcode that media into a different codec and replace it.

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I’ve experienced craziness like this where the software just doesn’t seem to like a particular sound file (perhaps it is a different breed of a recognized codec or something). What I’ve done in the past to get around it, is to render out the sounds that are having problems from vegas and bring the renders back in to replace the problem files. If you have the problem sound effects on an isolated track, you could even just solo that track, get out one good render to a long .wav file or something, and then bring that file back in and drop it on the timeline, deleting the problem files events from the timeline. …or however you prefer to do it.

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