transitions

BLU5 wrote on 8/17/2005, 9:55 PM

Im crossfading several pictures,but i noticed that the transition is not smooth.It tends to jump through out the transition.In comparison when using Magix photostory the problem does not exist.Is there something i can do to correct this problem.Thanks Mario.

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PeterWright wrote on 8/17/2005, 9:58 PM

Are you looking at preview or after rendering? Depending on your system, preview may be dropping frames to keep up, but the final output will not do this.

Try double clicking on the transition to select it, then Shift B will do a RAM render. Does it still look jumpy?

BLU5 wrote on 8/17/2005, 10:09 PM

im in preview mode.when i do shift b it seems to work right.i have p4 1.8 xphome

Grazie wrote on 8/18/2005, 12:48 AM

I use Shift+B a lot. You can "set" the Preview window to various amounts of "quality" prior to SHIFT+B. Draft, Preview, Good and Best .. and each of these was a FULL view and AUTO. All these combinations will make less or more demand on your PC. Doing Shift+B with BEST and FULL will give you the slowest SHIFT+B response - while AUTO plus DRAFT setting will give the fastest but at the expense of quality. Now that I have a bit of an idea how Vegas treats complex compositing and FXs I tend to only use PREVIEW and Auto.

The other "tweak" I use to get useful Previewing, is to double click on the Preview Toolbar to get what I call a RELAXED Preview screen. I've seen people get some really bad Previews of HD but not getting the Preview screen to operate at its optimum screen size - honest!

Another thing to observe is the FRAME rate - seen at the base of the Preview Monitor - this will give a clear indication if your PC is having a problem keeping up with Vegas. The more FXs and treatment you apply the s l o w e r the frame rate. If I see this happen, I then drop the Preview quality and/or go AUTO or do the relax Preview frame thing.

Grazie