Does Vegas 4 have a scene detector?
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Galeng
wrote on 6/11/2003, 2:21 PM
Hi,
Former Pinnacle S8 user here. Actually still use it to do DVD menu creation. Anyway, in S8 the scrub bar has a small bar at the top that you can drag forwards or backwards along the time line (just like jkl), just mouse controlled. You see everything in the preveiw window. S8 has an album (which is equivalent to the media pool). When you highlight a clip in the album you can use the VCR type control buttons in the preview window to see the clip. The clip has a very small line that moves left to right under the clip as it is being seen in the preview window. Once dropped on the time line one can edit the length of the clip using "caliper" style in and out points. It's similar to using the Trimmer window.
VV is a pleasure to use after using S8. S8 was very user friendly and I like its scrubber feature more than VV, but VV offers so much more it's truly amazing.
And, more important, VV is stable.
I still use S8 to create my DVDs. I do all editing in VV, render to AVI and then import to S8 to create my DVDs.
Happy camper here!!!
Galen
Former Pinnacle S8 user here. Actually still use it to do DVD menu creation. Anyway, in S8 the scrub bar has a small bar at the top that you can drag forwards or backwards along the time line (just like jkl), just mouse controlled. You see everything in the preveiw window. S8 has an album (which is equivalent to the media pool). When you highlight a clip in the album you can use the VCR type control buttons in the preview window to see the clip. The clip has a very small line that moves left to right under the clip as it is being seen in the preview window. Once dropped on the time line one can edit the length of the clip using "caliper" style in and out points. It's similar to using the Trimmer window.
VV is a pleasure to use after using S8. S8 was very user friendly and I like its scrubber feature more than VV, but VV offers so much more it's truly amazing.
And, more important, VV is stable.
I still use S8 to create my DVDs. I do all editing in VV, render to AVI and then import to S8 to create my DVDs.
Happy camper here!!!
Galen
Galeng
wrote on 6/11/2003, 2:22 PM
Hi,
Former Pinnacle S8 user here. Actually still use it to do DVD menu creation. Anyway, in S8 the scrub bar has a small bar at the top that you can drag forwards or backwards along the time line (just like jkl), just mouse controlled. You see everything in the preveiw window. S8 has an album (which is equivalent to the media pool). When you highlight a clip in the album you can use the VCR type control buttons in the preview window to see the clip. The clip has a very small line that moves left to right under the clip as it is being seen in the preview window. Once dropped on the time line one can edit the length of the clip using "caliper" style in and out points. It's similar to using the Trimmer window.
VV is a pleasure to use after using S8. S8 was very user friendly and I like its scrubber feature more than VV, but VV offers so much more it's truly amazing.
And, more important, VV is stable.
I still use S8 to create my DVDs. I do all editing in VV, render to AVI and then import to S8 to create my DVDs.
Happy camper here!!!
Galen
Former Pinnacle S8 user here. Actually still use it to do DVD menu creation. Anyway, in S8 the scrub bar has a small bar at the top that you can drag forwards or backwards along the time line (just like jkl), just mouse controlled. You see everything in the preveiw window. S8 has an album (which is equivalent to the media pool). When you highlight a clip in the album you can use the VCR type control buttons in the preview window to see the clip. The clip has a very small line that moves left to right under the clip as it is being seen in the preview window. Once dropped on the time line one can edit the length of the clip using "caliper" style in and out points. It's similar to using the Trimmer window.
VV is a pleasure to use after using S8. S8 was very user friendly and I like its scrubber feature more than VV, but VV offers so much more it's truly amazing.
And, more important, VV is stable.
I still use S8 to create my DVDs. I do all editing in VV, render to AVI and then import to S8 to create my DVDs.
Happy camper here!!!
Galen
jetdv
wrote on 6/11/2003, 2:39 PM
What about the Vegas scrubber bar below the track headers? You can slide it back and forth with your mouse.
whitneyd
wrote on 6/12/2003, 4:03 AM
I too, am a former Studio 8 user................
One has to very careful to click on the right part of the scrubber. But the scroll mouse can do it better........just CTRL click on the wheel.
Galenq: Why do you use Studio for DVD creation?
johnmeyer: When I use Scenalyzer to make a file for each scene (Studio, file for each scene), some of the scenes lose their audio track in VV4.
One has to very careful to click on the right part of the scrubber. But the scroll mouse can do it better........just CTRL click on the wheel.
Galenq: Why do you use Studio for DVD creation?
johnmeyer: When I use Scenalyzer to make a file for each scene (Studio, file for each scene), some of the scenes lose their audio track in VV4.
johnmeyer
wrote on 6/12/2003, 11:12 AM
re: Scenalyzer audio files
Make sure you choose "Type 2 DV-AVI Files (Premiere etc.)" for "file-type" in the Capture tab of the Options dialog box. While I think the Studio DVD options will also work, I don't know whether the file format is identical.
Make sure you choose "Type 2 DV-AVI Files (Premiere etc.)" for "file-type" in the Capture tab of the Options dialog box. While I think the Studio DVD options will also work, I don't know whether the file format is identical.
Galeng
wrote on 6/12/2003, 4:26 PM
Whitneyd,
Still use Studio 8 cuz its so easy to use. Haven't really even gotten into DVDA yet. It's so easy just to work on the timeline for the menu and go into the title editor to customize it.
Do you use DVDA? Should I give it a go?????
Thanks,
Galen
Still use Studio 8 cuz its so easy to use. Haven't really even gotten into DVDA yet. It's so easy just to work on the timeline for the menu and go into the title editor to customize it.
Do you use DVDA? Should I give it a go?????
Thanks,
Galen
whitneyd
wrote on 6/12/2003, 4:45 PM
Galenq: I have found that using the same .avi file without any filtering studio produces a cleaner/sharper DVD. Still need to do some more testing with filters.
johnmeyer: Tried type 2 capture, still have some lost audio due to bad source material. Still cannot get the monitor to move with the scrubber.
johnmeyer: Tried type 2 capture, still have some lost audio due to bad source material. Still cannot get the monitor to move with the scrubber.