Is this a really dumb question?

Lijan wrote on 1/25/2011, 8:07 AM
I asked this in another thread, but got no responses......maybe no one knows the answer, or this is a stupid question?

Has anyone else attempted to render/burn a project with different source files in it? (jpgs and video files take with different cameras)
If so, have you experienced problems rendering the project?

thanks

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Tim L wrote on 1/25/2011, 9:27 AM
This shouldn't be a problem at all -- Vegas is very good at allowing all kinds of mixed files on the same timeline: std definition DV video, HDV, AVCHD, etc. mixed with JPG's and PNG's, etc.

However, for best results you may need to resize your photos down to something that's a closer match to your project properties. Put a few 10 megapixel photos directly on the timeline and VMS may choke on the amount of memory it needs (or sometimes it works fine).

For example, with a 1920x1080 project, you might resize your photos so they are about than 1200-1500 pixels high, and however many pixels wide matches that.

The challenge often is just finding a good way to mix the video and photos visually. If you have a 16:9 widescreen video project, for example, most photos will be something closer to a 4:3 shape. You can zoom in on the photos (using pan crop) so they fill the screen -- even though they have to chop the top and bottom off to do it, or you can leave black bars on the side so you don't lose any of the photo.

I'll often put a background photo that fills the screen on a lower track, then add a sequence of photos on an upper track -- with an old fashioned white border on each -- and size them with pan crop so the entire photo is somewhat smaller than the screen.
Lijan wrote on 1/25/2011, 10:21 AM
THANK YOU, Tim for responding. No one on this forum has ever suggested that yet. (re-sizing the photos - and yes, some of them are 10 megapixel.
I've been trying to render my project (1hr, 45 min long) for weeks now. It kept crashing. I now upgraded to VMS 10 and loaded a 6-minute portion of this project onto VMS 10 timeline and now it says memory is low when I tried to render it (didn't say THAT in VMS 9 with this project).

So, how do I re-size a photo? (I'm new as you probably guess).
Steve Grisetti wrote on 1/25/2011, 10:50 AM
Well, it depends.

Do you have a copy of Photoshop Elements, Paintshop Pro, The Gimp or Sony's Photo to Go?

They'll all do it -- but they all do it a little differently.

Photoshop Elements has a nice batch resizing tool that will do a whole folder full of photos in one swipe!
musicvid10 wrote on 1/25/2011, 11:02 AM
Irfanview has a quick, high quality batch tool. Free.
aquaholik wrote on 1/25/2011, 12:46 PM
I second Irfanview. I use it all the time for batch resize, rename, and conversion.
Lijan wrote on 1/25/2011, 7:37 PM
Thanks, will try this!
Lijan wrote on 1/31/2011, 3:29 PM
Okay, I re-sized the JPEGs in this 6-minute chunk of my Mega-project. Successfully rendered and burned onto a DVD to make an AVCHD disc! (actually a DVD-RW to experiment)
Now, to re-size and replace all the 300+ JPEGs left in my mega-project and render/burn THAT successfully onto a blu-ray disc! This is going to take a LONG time..........
I wish someone (like SONY) would have told me about this (Hi Res JPEGs causing render/memory leak problems) when I was first developing this project. :O!!
Tim L wrote on 1/31/2011, 6:22 PM
I think you can try this, though I don't know all the minute details:

1. Use a program like IrfanView to batch resize all your photos. I think somehow you can have it use the same name for the new (reduced) photos but put them into a different folder.

2. Rename your original photos *folder* to something else.

3. When you open Vegas it will complain that it can't find the first XXXXX.jpg photo file. Browse to the folder with the reduced size version of that file, then tell it to use all the other photos in that folder as well.

4. I think at this point your project will be ready to go with the reduced size photos. Not 100% sure, but I think I did something like this a few years ago.

Best to insert step "0" above -- make a copy of your existing project...
Lijan wrote on 2/1/2011, 1:45 PM
Boy, if this works - it will save me hours of work!
Will try it (after saving a copy of original project, of course!)
And will post the results........
richard-amirault wrote on 2/1/2011, 5:51 PM
Use a program like IrfanView to batch resize all your photos.

Photoshop Elements (and, of course, the Pro version) will batch process multiple files just fine. They just need to be all in a seperate folder.
Lijan wrote on 2/2/2011, 10:08 AM
Yep - I'm using Irfanview.....the challenge is to make VMS recognize and replace the old JPEGS with the re-sized ones automatically!
(so I don't have to replace them all manually)
Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/2/2011, 12:08 PM
There are a couple of ways to do this.

The easiest is to close the program and literally move the original photos to a different folder.

Assuming the resized photos have the same names as the originals, move them into the folder where your original photos used to be and, when you re-open your project, the program will automatically swap them in!
Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/2/2011, 12:09 PM
There are a couple of ways to do this.

The easiest is to close the program and literally move the original photos to a different folder.

Assuming the resized photos have the same names as the originals, move them into the folder where your original photos used to be and, when you re-open your project, the program will automatically swap them in!
Lijan wrote on 2/6/2011, 7:36 PM
Great! Thanks for this simple and succint explanation!