Fun with regions

fongaboo wrote on 8/10/2001, 9:37 PM
I use Vegas often to cull 'video loops' out of a long AVI file.. Two questions about this:

1) Either with regions laid out along the tracks, or in the trimmer, is there any way to have it export the multiple regions to separate files the way SoundForge does (or did in 4.5 at least)? If not, can SoundForge 5 do this now with video files and crop the video as well as the audio? Cuz right now I have to select each region individually and choose Render.. Kind of tedious..

2) I often work with stretches of material that already has lots of jump cuts in it and use the regions to extract one of those cuts. If I resize the event to start and end at the beginning and end of the cut that exists in the material and double-click it I often end up with one black frame at the beginning of the file. This is no good because the resulting file is intended to be 'looped' in another application.. If I lay the whole piece out on a track, don't resize, but designate the region within it, I often get the last frame of the cut before at the beginning of my resultant AVI that I render. I have tried to snap to grid and set the grid to frames, and this seems to help a bit, but doesn't guarantee that this won't happen. In fact it seems I have to begin the region on the frame ahead of the one I really want it to start with. What am I doing wrong?

Comments

Rockitglider wrote on 8/10/2001, 11:35 PM
I don't know an answer for the first question, But on the second with the render problem, you might try zooming in full to single frame level editing, and that will give more accurate selections, and you could open a second session of Vegas, and copy the region from the original to a new blank window in the second Vegas thats open, and paste the region there then, preview and edit it there before you render it.

Vegas allows more than one session at a time to be open.

Hope this helps.
Rockit
Cheesehole wrote on 8/11/2001, 7:33 AM
1st question: no, Vegas can't do batch rendering of regions, but it would be awesome if it did. I end up with hundreds of regions that all have to be individually rendered. Very inefficient in that area.

2nd question: I always drag IN point of my region a little bit into the clip to ensure that I don't get a black frame. I don't know of any other way.