Just thought I'd share a quick story about using Vegas during a presentation at work.
We needed to be able to play content from 3 different corporate DVD's during a presentation / meeting. We had an agenda, but wanted to be flexible - meaning that we may need to switch up the order that we played the videos on the fly.
I copied the .vob files to my laptop, created a playlist in the DVD player - it could work, but it was kinda klunky. Thought about Vegas - since I have it on my personal laptop, I decided to use it instead.
- Renamed the.vob files to .mpg (each one was about 600mb)
- Dropped all three .mpg's onto the timeline
- Rendered 19 minutes of .mpg to .avi in a new track (only took about 17 minutes!)
- Dropped markers at the beginning of each piece in the single event so I could quickly navigate to a new starting point using control + arrow
- Hooked up the LCD projector; set Vegas to use the secondary display full screen
- As we were previewing the vids, I realized it needed some adjustment. While playing, I dropped the brightness / contrast filter onto the project window and adjusted to perfection while everyone watched. Then dropped a very thin colored border onto the project preview window & adjusted... Outstanding separation between the "screen" (a whiteboard) and the picture.... Just to be sure, I rendered this out to ensure the framerate wouldn't falter.
- The result? A great presentation that ran flawlessly at 29.97 fps, full screen w/o distraction to the viewer. Used the spacebar to play / pause and had quick navigation anywhere I wanted to be in the video sequence.
Oh - and one of my guys that runs an Avid dTective system full time was watching. He ws impressed!
We needed to be able to play content from 3 different corporate DVD's during a presentation / meeting. We had an agenda, but wanted to be flexible - meaning that we may need to switch up the order that we played the videos on the fly.
I copied the .vob files to my laptop, created a playlist in the DVD player - it could work, but it was kinda klunky. Thought about Vegas - since I have it on my personal laptop, I decided to use it instead.
- Renamed the.vob files to .mpg (each one was about 600mb)
- Dropped all three .mpg's onto the timeline
- Rendered 19 minutes of .mpg to .avi in a new track (only took about 17 minutes!)
- Dropped markers at the beginning of each piece in the single event so I could quickly navigate to a new starting point using control + arrow
- Hooked up the LCD projector; set Vegas to use the secondary display full screen
- As we were previewing the vids, I realized it needed some adjustment. While playing, I dropped the brightness / contrast filter onto the project window and adjusted to perfection while everyone watched. Then dropped a very thin colored border onto the project preview window & adjusted... Outstanding separation between the "screen" (a whiteboard) and the picture.... Just to be sure, I rendered this out to ensure the framerate wouldn't falter.
- The result? A great presentation that ran flawlessly at 29.97 fps, full screen w/o distraction to the viewer. Used the spacebar to play / pause and had quick navigation anywhere I wanted to be in the video sequence.
Oh - and one of my guys that runs an Avid dTective system full time was watching. He ws impressed!