Couple of questions....

Celia wrote on 8/2/2008, 10:16 PM

I am working on a slide show & have used the Pan & Zoom effect on many of the pictures. When playing back, the zooming is quite "choppy". I also notice the "choppyness" on some pictures that I "faded" in.

Any suggestions or ideas as to why this is happening and/or what I've done wrong???

thanks so much

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Earl_J wrote on 8/3/2008, 5:21 AM

Hello Celia,
when you use the timeline to view the video, Vegas is calculating each frame of video as it comes to it... so it is "video on the fly," so to speak.
To see how it will look for real, render just the pan/zoom portion (for speed's sake), and view the completed video - during rendering, all the computations are executed and recorded in the codec you selected - avi, wmv, mov - and that should smooth it all out.

Until that time... Earl J.

OhMyGosh wrote on 8/3/2008, 7:23 AM

Hi Celia,
The 'choppyness' is usually from too small of a processor in your computer, or not enough RAM memory. In addition to what Earl suggested, you can highlight the section you are interested in (the less RAM, the smaller selection should be), then go to 'tools' on the menu bar and choose 'Build Dynamic RAM Preview' (Shift + B). That should allow you to see that section in real time. Also, make sure you have your preview window settings on Draft-Auto, or Preview-Auto. Let us know if this helps. Cin

Celia wrote on 8/3/2008, 9:24 AM

Thank you Earl & Cin so much for your help --- I had the Preview set at Best so I changed it to Draft & it now runs smoothly. I'm new at this so I take the easiest solution.

"Rendering" is still confusing to me but I'm learning with your help & I'll be back with more questions.

Also wanted to ask -- is Color Balance (Video FX) the same (or similiar) as Color Corrector in the Pro edition?

Have a wonderful day,
Celia