[Wayne Waag]

Looks like you have bigger problems. The copyright police have taken your video down altogether.

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[Jackie Luffy]

You’ve never stated the type of source material you have or what you want to do with it. If you want to import your VHS footage into Vegas and then do extensive color correction, noise filtering, etc, then by all means, capture to DV or better still, uncompressed AVI. However, if you simply want to convert your VHS footage so it can be “played” on a computer or a TV using a media player, or do simple cuts editing, add transitions, and a few titles, another approach would be to use a good DVD recorder which will do the hardware encoding to an MPEG file (probably better quality than first converting to DV and then rendering). Then use an editor (probably not Vegas) which will easily smart-render to your final delivery file. Regardless of which approach, you also need a decent VHS deck if you want “good quality”, preferably one with a built-in TBC.

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[Wayne Waag]

Import the title into the new project

Exactly, how do you do this? You can import all the media from another project, but I don’t see an option to just select the titles.

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[Wayne Waag]

Easiest way is to simply open both projects (2 instances of Vegas) and copy from one project to the other.

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[Wayne Waag]

First thing to do is look at the recording levels in windows. On the little speaker icon in the task bar, right click and then select Recording Devices. For your input device (microphone), select properties and then the levels tab. If low, then raise to see if that makes a difference in Vegas. When recording voice, the levels should be peaking somewhere between 0 and 6 db using the vu-meter for the selected audio track.

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[Wayne Waag]

I’ve done a little more work on this to further simplify the process. I’ve learned that if you want to increase the “amplitude” of motion that is added, simply increase the values of the Motion Smoothness parameters. The default values are 1000, which actually seem pretty good. I tried values of 5000 and 10000–the result being increased shakiness. Conversely, if you want to reduce the amount, simply reduce the Motion Smoothness parameters. Using this procedure, there is no need to fool around with the log file in Excel.

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[Wayne Waag]

it will take a lot of time, to open every image in photoshop, cut it, then save it

Since apparently you do have Photoshop, you can create an Action for each of the three panes and then batch process all of your images very quickly. Open one of your images in Photoshop and create a Crop preset (WxHxResolution) for each of the three panes. Then create an Action for each of three presets. Create three folders with copies of the images to be processed. Use a rename utility to add a sequence number to the end of each file name. E.g. in one folder, 1 for top pane, in the second folder, 2 for middle, and in the 3rd folder, 3 for bottom pane. Then, once they are cropped, you can put all files into a single folder and they will be in the correct sequence for each image (top, middle, bottom) for easy import into Vegas.

Then batch process each of the three folders using the Actions you’ve created, move the resulting files into a single folder and import into Vegas.

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[Wayne Waag]

Okay, I’ll try to explain better.
I got a lot of images, some of them are comic book pages (you can see them in my previous messages). At first, I need to zoom every picture to a needed block of a comic page. Then, when ALL pictures are zoomed in a right place, I need to apply Ken Burns effect to all pictures at once. But when I apply that effect, my pre-zooming settings replaced with the Ken Burns effect settings. And that is the problem.

In that case, do what Mike suggested. Crop your images before importing into Vegas. Be advised that when you do, your project resolution will be greater than your image resolution. Rather than filling the entire screen you may want to add another track below with some sort of background to ensure that your final comic book image will not look too degraded.

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[Wayne Waag]

When I try to render them there are something like a ghost going after people while moving quick.

For your 50P and 24P events, make sure that you have selected Disable Resample. That may help some, but unfortunately, fast movement and low frame rates will inevitably produce image judder.

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[Eugene]

Yep, sorry, I forgot that I applied track motion zoom on every pic, before I zoomed it in Pan/Crop.

Glad we found the problem.

That pre-zooming stage with Track motion is crucial part of my project. I need to pre-zoom all images one by one in the right spots, and then I need to apply Pan/Crop zoom settings to all images at once (so called Ken Burns effect).
That means that I need to combine Track motion and Pan/Crop zooms (and I got flickering) or I need to use Pan/Crop zoom twice (but I can’t do that, cause applying Ken Burns effect to all images erases pre-zooming settings). So, how can I manage this situation? Maybe you guys have some good advices? 🙂 Anyway, thanks everyone for help, you already helped me a lot.

I’m still a bit confused about exactly what you are trying to do. In any case, pre-zooming with track motion is NOT a good approach since you automatically reduce the resolution of the image to your project resolution. My recommendation is to forget about track motion completely and do everything using Pan/crop settings. Start with your first image, open the pan/crop window, right click and select Match Output Aspect. Then, create your Ken Burns effect using keyframes. If you want to apply the same effect to the remaining images, it is very easy. Simply copy the event, select the other images, right-click, and Paste Event Attributes. The same settings will be applied to the selected images.

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