[Wayne Waag]

I had to convert the original video to MP3 so Vegas would let me hear it.

Sounds like you’ve already solved your problem by transcoding it to an MP3. As to why that one particular file did not work, it may have been corrupted for some unknown reason. Seems likely since Vegas would read the first 30 sec and then quit.

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[Wayne Waag]

You need to provide information on the type of audio file that you are using. Best thing would be to do a screenshot from MediaInfo. Can you simply “play” the audio file in Windows Media Player? If so, you may have to transcode your file into a format that Vegas likes such as wav.

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[Wayne Waag]

Even with your system specs, it shouldn’t take all that long to render. It sounds as if your system “hangs” before the render actually starts. To help diagnose the problem, you need to provide screenshots of your Project settings, Media Properties, and Render Settings, as well as an screenshot of your timeline. Without such detailed info, we can only guess at best.

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[Wayne Waag]

So, is there a way to make one mono track into a stereo track.

Its very easy in Vegas. Simply select your mono file, enter Ctrl-M (Render to New Track), select the Wave, 48Khz, 16 Bit, Stereo, PCM template and render. It will create a new stereo track on your timeline. My question–why do you want to do this in the first place? The resulting audio, when rendered, will be the same.

Only downfall I have seen so far is that when you start cleaning up your audio tracks, Pluraleyes looses the ability to use them. So when/if things get out of alignment you get to do it the “old” way…

Once you have synchronized your tracks, you need to Create a Group for them (select your tracks, then enter G). Then, if you move one track, the other will move along with it, so long as Ignore Event Grouping is not selected.

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[Paul Gregory]

After reading and re-reading your first and now last post, I just don’t see where you have a problem that requires another bit of software. It’s really simple for what you say you want–just use folders as JR suggested. Holidays are sequential–day1, day2, etc. You have photos–videos. day1-photos, day1-videos, etc. What could be easier. Go through each folder, and get rid of what you don’t want. Delete photos–do basic cuts editing for your video assets. Once finished, begin assembly editing. First day 1. Begin with a story line. For holidays it’s pretty easy–its usually sequential. Tell your story by adding photos and the edited video clips. Unless I’m missing something completely, no offense, but I believe you’re overthinking the problem–just get on with it and do it and have some fun.

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[Wayne Waag]

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. Once you have selected the first file, added (1), and hit enter, the remaining files will have the same name except the changed index number. 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.

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[Mark Burton]

Thanks for the information. I suspected that Lightroom would support this but have never taken the time to learn (IMHO) its dreadful interface. I’ve only used it for image correction and geo-tagging. My understanding is that Lightroom has more of a Library structure where media can be located almost anywhere, whereas the old version of ThumbsPlus I’ve been using is based completely on folder structure. At least you can still purchase Lightroom–at least for now.

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[Wayne Waag]

Don,

Again, you haven’t provided a lot of information. However, I see that you did your filming at 30P. If that’s the case, then you should keep it at that frame rate and figure out WHY you’re getting the “judders”. Delivering content at 1080 60P is problematic since its difficult finding devices that will even “play” those rendered files. On the other hand, you might do a test render at 60P and if your problems disappear, then you know that you are animating too quickly and you need to slow it down or try Video Super sampling and/or Motion Blur as suggested by John Rofrano in a previous reply.

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[Bruce Richard]

Here’s an example of work by John Meyer that I referenced in my previous reply.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0nqu_n-7MM

Brilliant!

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[Wayne Waag]

Good question. For stills, it’s no problem. I’ve been using a database program called ThumbsPlus for the past ten years or so and it will sort according to pretty much whatever you want including time and date taken, which is very useful if you have photos from multiple sources. I’m pretty sure that Adobe Lightroom will do the same thing and probably others as well.

The problem will be your video clips, for which AFAIK there is no standard Exif info like for photos. Here’s what I do that may work for you as well. If you use a Sony or Panasonic camcorder, software is available that will import each clip and rename it with the date time stamp–e.g. 20150815163400. First, import these clips into Vegas, and then export the first frame of each clip with the name of the clip as a jpg. I use Vegasaur which can do this very quickly. In essence, these represent a thumbnail for each video clip. Since each video clip is now represented by a jpg photo, you can easily change “date taken” in the Exif info from the name of the file using freeware called ExifToolGUI. At this point, you could merge your video thumbnails with you photos and easily sort everything according to time taken–photos as well as videos. I guess its a bit kludgy, but it does work and it’s actually pretty quick once you’ve done it a few times. If interested, I could provide further details.

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