Timothy Duncan
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I’d be very curious to hear from anyone who has tried one of these USB monitor devices.
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Each video file in DVDA can have 99 chapters. If 99 is not enough, you can split up your files and link the end action of one into the next.
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There’s a script built into Vegas that will turn on TC for all media. Go under “Tools/scripting” to find it. There is one to turn it on and off. This uses the original TC in the clip. If the TC is off, then it was not properly set when captured. When you capture, you have to specify if the TC is drop or non-drop frame. (Most DV camcorders default to DF, and Vegas will default to DF unless you specify otherwise).
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Upgrade to Vegas 6 — you’ll see at at least a 25% increase in speed if not more.
Vegas 5 was not optimized for two processors for hyper threading. Vegas 6 takes full advantage of both CPUs.
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If you are wanting to use the files on the same computer or another computer in your network, you can “file serve” right out of Vegas into the other program.
Check out https://www.debugmode.com/frameserver/
This is a free program and is excellent because it eliminates render times.td
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It sounds like you should experiment with ripple modes. By setting it to “affected tracks” you can put dumbie files on just the tracks you wish to ripple, and in selecting only those events, just those particular tracks will ripple. You can create a generated text media that is blank, and copy it and then group the copies. This works nicely as a work around to ripple just the tracks you wish.
Another quck way to group is to do a “ctrl+a” to select everything on the timeline. Press “g” to make all the clips a group. Next, select just the clips that you do not want grouped and then press “u” to remove them from the group.
Another tip: I typically work with “ignore event grouping” turned on, because I do a lot of J and L cuts (split A/V edits). When I want to move a group as a whole, I press “shift + g” which select the entire group.
Vegas is a completely different type of editing app. It is like no other. To really get full use of it, you have to take the time to learn how it works. Once you do that, you can fly.
Another tip: You can do a “post ripple”. This means you can move or trim something on the timeline, then choose to ripple the timeline after the fact. Go under “Edit” and choose “Post Ripple.”
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I use a Bella DV Vegas Keyboard that has the jog/shuttle built in. I have the Contour Pro and Shuttle, but prefer the Bella as it keeps me from having to reach away from the keyboard to jog/shuttle. I use the jog more than anything else, as I typically perfer J K L keys for my shuttling, and I have it set to highest speed in preferences.
I also use a Wacom tablet and absolutely love it. I have a 12×9 that makes me superfast. The biggest adjustment for me is the lack of a center mouse-wheel which is so greatly utilized in Vegas. For going portable, I have a small Wacom Graphire 4×5 and wish I had spent the $$ for a bigger one. 4×5 is too small and makes my wrist and hand ache after a couple of hour’s use. The larger tablet, once you get used to it, easier it is to be more acurate with the pen, thus enabling you to work considerably faster than with a mouse. (At least — it does so for me). Vegas lacks a long way being a fully keboard driver app, so the Wacom tablet has been a huge improvement in my speed and ease of use. Just keep in mind, there is a large learning curve of getting used to a pen. If you can force yourself through it, it is definitely worth it.
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Hi Dave,
One more suggestion: try to frame serve from Vegas to another application to render and see if that might work.
Get Satish’s frame server here: https://www.debugmode.com/frameserver/Try rendering using the windows Media Encoder with the frame served file.
My thoughts are that somehow the in the render process, the virtual files aren’t getting served up right.
Here’s another option: do a “render to new track” DV AVI in Vegas, then anywhere you get a glitch, cut that track and render just the frames you need until you get a complete version. Export that as a separate DV file for encoding. Not the most graceful, but may get you out of your current bind.
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Remember — the default length of a Boris transition is 1:00. If the transition in your timeline is a different length than this, you’ll have to manually set the duration within Boris.
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Don’t forget that you can nest a .veg and not have to render but once. This way you can get 1200% x 1200%.
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