Just Getting Started

StudentFilmmakers wrote on 1/11/2009, 2:46 PM
I just installed the software and will be doing some testing. Any tips? I want to get some answers for our Sony Vegas Forum.
http://www.studentfilmmakers.com/bb/forumdisplay.php?f=28

If you have any tips on the unanswered questions please let me know or feel free to post your answers or links back to these forums. We want to support Sony users. Below are some of the unanswered questions.

I have the most recent version of Sony Vegas and i sat a camera on a tripod so it had the same background. "btw this was just a practice video" so filmed me meeting myself and getting in a fight with myself. So there were two of me. but the background was perfectly clear but when i moved around i was almost like a ghost. Is there any way to make that so both of me would be clear and not see through?
http://www.studentfilmmakers.com/bb/showthread.php?t=4625

http://www.studentfilmmakers.com/bb/showthread.php?t=4485

http://www.studentfilmmakers.com/bb/showthread.php?t=4401

http://www.studentfilmmakers.com/bb/showthread.php?t=4207

http://www.studentfilmmakers.com/bb/showthread.php?t=3855

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Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 1/11/2009, 3:23 PM
Read the manual. Read the online help. Read the shortcut key list.

99.9% of everything you'll ask will be there, so search there first.

Most useful top to any new person using vegas. :D
TGS wrote on 1/11/2009, 3:58 PM
If you just "filmed" yourself on each side of the scene and then overlapped the scenes, yes help is on the next page..... or right here.
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=633032&Replies=4
Or learn to use chroma key and stand in front of a green or blue screen and import that or those images onto your backdrop. Then you make the color invisible and your standing in front of your backdrop. Quick results can be done, but perfecting it takes a little practice and the right lighting.
Steve Mann wrote on 1/11/2009, 9:18 PM
"If you have any tips on the unanswered questions please let me know or feel free to post your answers or links back to these forums. We want to support Sony users. Below are some of the unanswered questions"

Mr Welch - the other posters probably did not understand the request. We are very sensitive to answering any questions that are easily answered in the manuals because it indicates that the user is using applications of dubious origin.

However, I am a subscriber to filmmakers forums, so I will give the questions a look.
Coursedesign wrote on 1/11/2009, 10:38 PM
Shooting, capturing, and editing in the HDV format gives much better picture quality if the output is to a regular NTSC DVD, compared to capturing and editing in DV before rendering to DVD.

For reasons why, do a forum search here (HDV=4:2:0, NTSC DV = 4:1:1, which gets cut to 4:1:0 when rendering to DVD, leaving only 12.5% of the camera's color information...).

Vegas is not the best tool for slow motion of progressive footage,but good forum posts here describing how to make the most of what's possible.