using third party special effects

emmo2002 wrote on 4/22/2003, 3:41 PM

I purchased some ALAMdv2 software to do some cheesy light saber effects. The program is excellent, but I am having trouble getting it to open video from vegas. Any ideas on why that might be? How I can correct that?

emmo2002

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kingkool682 wrote on 4/22/2003, 4:21 PM

Quite simple... All you have to do is render the avi footage to uncompressed. Hope you have a lot of space. What i do is take the effect i want to use and then render it behind a green screen (an option to do in Alamdv) then play with the clip in vegas removing the green screen. It worked out alright for some smoke effects I needed to do. I think this would be too much to worry about for light sabers though.

roger_74 wrote on 4/22/2003, 4:46 PM

Regardless of it's name AlamDV2 doesn't support DV import. AlamDV3 will. It's a free upgrade if you bought AlamDV2 this year. I bought mine 12 days before that... :-(

JohnnyRoy wrote on 4/22/2003, 8:57 PM

Yep, I discuss this problem in the Vegas Tips section of my website. The problem you’re experiencing is because Vegas uses OpenDML 2.0 by default. If you turn this option off, AlamDV will open your DV avi file without a problem.

You have to go into the render Options and select the Video tab and deselect "Create an OpenDML (AVI version 2.0) compatible file" checkbox (i.e., make sure there's no check). Then render the file. Unfortunately, I don't know how to turn this off for Vegas captured files. The files I capture with Pinnacle Studio work fine with AlamDV so this is a Vegas problem. I wish there was an option in Vegas to turn it off permanently. A lot of DV programs have a problem with this, not just AlamDV.

~jr