[Wayne Waag]

[John Rofrano]

I’m just as confused as Bob. Isn’t the whole purpose of renaming files to “loose the file name” in favor of a new one?

Not necessarily, you may want to simply add an index based upon however you want the files sorted while retaining the base name. The next sentence from my post was:

If you want to rename with an index number, use something like Renamer, where you can sort according to date or whatever, and then add an index number as either or prefix or suffix, so that the base name for each file remains unchanged.

In this manner, you can always “rename” the files once again, deleting the index, and you end up with the original name which at least for a particular camera is (usually) a unique number. I believe this is exactly why you are recommending use of the Bulk Rename Utility. Bottom line is that I think we are all on the same page.

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

Glad you figured it out in Gimp. Next to Vegas, Photoshop is the almost indispensable piece of software for me–even the $10 a month for the CC subscription seems well worth it.

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

[Bob]

I don’t know why that merits a “Beware”.

The “beware” was from a previous post about using Windows Explorer for renaming.

Then right click on the first file you want to rename, change the name, and Windows will automatically add a “(1)” at the end, and will number the rest in order.

Beware. The problem with this approach is that you lose all the file names.

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

I believe this is what you want.

If so, you can download the png I created in Photoshop here.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n8tn61dz01t108u/eds%202.png?dl=0

Regarding Gimp, I have never used it.

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

Exactly. Just place the new png on the track above, and only the video will be shown in the white portion from the track below. The blue gradient will remain.

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

I would use Photoshop. Open the image, make selection of white lettering using magic wand, reverse the selection (Ctrl_Shift_I), then copy. Create a new file (Ctrl-N) making sure the background is Transparent, then Paste. Save as PNG and your’re done.

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

Well, this has been a learning process… The recorder I bought was a stereo recorder. The lapel mic I have is a mono mike… so, I had sound in my left ear, but not in my right ear… Was not fun editing…

In the future, if you have a stereo track but only one channel of audio, you can right-click on the event, select channels and then choose which channel you want to use. In essence, you’ve converted it to a mono track.

I’m sure it’s something that I don’t realize that I’m doing – but I get to the place where I’m out of alignment

First, make sure that “Ignore Event Grouping” is not selected (Ctrl-Alt-U). There’s an icon on the lower tool bar. A more foolproof way of insuring aligngment is to add the second audio as a Take to the original audio. For example, I often use a Zoom recorder. Using Pluraleyes, I sync the Zoom audio event to the corresponding audio event from the camcorder. BTW, if you’re using the original version 2, always select the option for “Allow Subframe audio offsets” to insure the best accuracy. Once Pluraleyes has done its magic, I then have a script which will which will add the synchronized audio from the Zoom as a take to the audio track from the original camcorder. Since it’s easy to always restore audio sync to the video in the original file, you now have a foolproof way to insuring that the second audio will remain in sync. Now you can split the file, move parts around, etc. and the 2nd audio will always remain synced. If you’re interested in trying the script, I’ll post it.

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

Isn’t there a way to render directly from Vegas using Handbrake? I couldn’t find any guide to do so, thanks!

Yes. Here’s the link. https://www.vegasvideo.de/vegas-2-handbrake-en

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

Good information. From your screenshots, I see that you are using Bandicam, which I know absolutely nothing about, except that there have been quite a few threads over the past couple of months or so also complaining about Vegas not reading Bandicam files. For whatever reason, the use of Bandicam produced media files is problematic in Vegas, including the Pro versions. My recommendation is to convert these video files into something that Vegas will read. It may be as simple as demuxing the video files into its elementary streams and then remuxing, so that there is no encoding. FFMPEG can be quite useful although it requires use of command lines. There are lots of other video conversion programs available. Perhaps someone else can make a recommendation based on their use of Bandicam. Or alternatively, you could just render the audio portion of each file (preferably using wav format so that there is no quality loss) and importing these as a separate track onto the timeline.

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

Again, a screenshot from MediaInfo of your video file would be useful, since it would indicate which audio codec is being used. If it turns out your audio codec is ac3, then it might be a licensing issue which prevents reading the audio. Again, post a screenshot from MediaInfo.

wwaag