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Videoon 7/11/2015
Seeking Color Balance Plugin
yeah, CC is powerful and works per-channel in a logical way. But CB is fast and can produce subtler results with much less effort. I'm guessing the plugin is broken (in the sense that it has three independent targets but works globally across all of them regardless) but will never be fixed...
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Videoon 1/28/2015
OT: What's your default video player & why?
I like WMP (1) because it's already on the machine and (2) because it's what your non-expert (ie everybody else) user is using. There is a certain logic to making things look right on what your users are using. This does break down when WMP doesn't automatically work with certain codecs. +1000 votes for the A7s -- it is an extraordinary tool provided you can live with the rolling shutter
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Videoon 1/17/2015
OT Windows 7 Permissions
"Thing is, i don't want even that one" +1 :)
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Videoon 1/14/2015
OT Windows 7 Permissions
I can get rid of user accounts???
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Videoon 1/10/2015
Stabilization Tips
A hand-held tripod can make for a surprisingly effective stabilizer rig. Try it out and see if it meets your needs. Best results with be with you only holding the center pole. You can vary the extension of the legs to make it easier to use in tight spaces, with max extension delivering the smoothest results. Heck of a lot cheaper and easier than a Merlin... :)
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Videoon 12/15/2014
GoPro Protune - how do you tweak it in Vegas
put my vote in for using gopro's free software to convert protune to cineform (and decode the curve) before importing to Vegas. I don't think it's time-efficient to try to do the unpacking yourself...
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Videoon 11/12/2014
WHY Wide Range of Audio Volume on YT, Vimeo, etc.?
try googling "loudness wars audio mastering" that should get you started on understanding this issue
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Videoon 11/1/2014
Correcting washed out bright video
you can do some pretty cools things with blown skies in photoshop by using gradients and just making the sky look blue. Something somewhat similar might be possible in Vegas by keying out the sky. But really highlights aren't your problem here. Your lens is fogged and that's what everyone's going to notice. Photoshop's clarity slider (in Camera Raw) can help a lot. In vegas, a cruder but still useful tool would be unsharp mask with an unusually big radius. Just dial up the strength, and then slide the radius around until the image starts looking contrasty. Good luck!
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Videoon 10/28/2014
White Balance Correction Plug In
AAV is good, Frederics is good. PS is awesome but you have to deal with hopping giant files back and forth, and things aren't built to easily generate "cine" looks. The Hitfilm stuff is good, and at this point I regret not getting the bundle when I had the chance. As for Sony's grading fx, I guess the polite thing to say would be their priorities are clearly elsewhere.
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Videoon 10/25/2014
Has Vegas Always Been Doing This ? (Levels Import)
thanks guys! I'll take losing my mind over having to track down some win update or video card setting switch... :)
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Videoon 10/22/2014
Survey: What min/max levels does your cam shoot?
"There is enough chatter on this topic that I think something else may have changed with Vegas 13" Yeah, people's patience! :)
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Videoon 10/21/2014
I can’t remove the jitter, right?
try this: watch your vimeo video but stand progressively farther away from your screen. Did that fix the problem??
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Videoon 10/14/2014
16-bit PNG/Import Media Sequence Bug
OK, two workarounds I've found: 1) use photoshop and batch process your PNG's to 8-bit 2) if you're trying to render to PNG from 32-bit full range as for example an intermediate, nest your 32FR project inside an 8-bit project. This forces Vegas to create 8-bit PNGs (that enjoy the benefits of 32/FR processing) which will then import correctly into Vegas as image sequences. That's all I got for now...
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Videoon 10/13/2014
Blu-Rays too quiet.... stumped....
I think this is basically just a consequence of a reasonable idea (a gunshot in a theater should always be at a certain loudness; so should spoken dialogue) being pasted into contexts where it really doesn't belong. On our laptops we have volume controls and on our TV's we have remote controls and we expect to use them to set the volume how we want it--and that's assuming dialogue normalization is being done properly in the first place, which (in most non-studio cases) it probably isn't.
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Videoon 10/12/2014
Handbrake Recommendations for 720p MP4
thanks -- I just looked at the CRF guide. Interesting topic. I'd always assumed VBR gave better-looking footage at low bitrates. who knew? :)
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Videoon 10/12/2014
Handbrake Recommendations for 720p MP4
how do you feel about 2-pass variable mode versus CBR?
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Videoon 10/11/2014
Handbrake Recommendations for 720p MP4
yeah, around 350MB is my target. That's probably a little small, but I just don't want to have to deal with people complaining about bonked connections. :)
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Videoon 10/3/2014
V13 Stability vs V12 32/Full Mode
thanks for the help! I'm trying out some workflow modifications based on what I've learned here. Also, I did up to VP13 and my reaction is, it does seem crisper and more stable.
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Videoon 10/1/2014
V13 Stability vs V12 32/Full Mode
Glenn I misread your earlier post--sorry. You were quoting someone else. I think the 32FR mode does give footage a distinctive look. Subtle, sometimes, obvious others, kind of maddening to pin down. But it's a mess to work with, for many reasons. Here's a mildly-related question: if I'm working in 8-bit in Vegas, and I do any grading on a film clip, I'm getting rounding errors from that levels correction. That has to be compounded with more rounding errors when Vegas performs the studio-to-computer conversion for preview, right? So is there any way to preview in Vegas in 8-bit mode that isn't twice compromised? Or am I misinterpreting how Vegas does its math?
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Videoon 9/28/2014
V13 Stability vs V12 32/Full Mode
Glen you're saying imposing linear gamma on 8-bit sources is not advised (which, as a general rule, makes sense to me) but that linear fades can done in 8-bit via workarounds if it suits your taste, yes? I'm probably conflating the two 32 bit modes here a bit, so I apologize for that. Yes, obviously an 8-bit source to an 8-bit codec yields...an 8-bit result. But, the math used internally to get there makes a difference. If it stays in 8-bit, as Vegas does in 8-bit mode, you get some truly ugly looking histograms if you apply levels/color processing en route to your 8-bit output. Does that matter? That's not an argument I'm looking start. But you can bump up to 32-bit processing, which makes for much prettier histograms, which means less quantizing/truncating is taking place, even for 8-bit source to 8-bit codec. To make things more complicated, you can then take your (32-bit processed) 8-bit result, stick it back into an 8-bit project, edit it without any grading, and it will still look like the 32-bit processed file when you render it out, using 8-bit math, to your 8-bit codec. Does it matter? Presumably people care more about how things look on screen than how smooth histograms are, so maybe not. **And if your source footage is well-shot, so that minimal levels, color, and contrast work is needed, 8-bit math seems to work fine. But I will say whenever I'm pushing on 8-bit source files, I find Vegas (in 8-bit mode) the very hardest of all the video editors I use to get a nice, bright, punchy result. That's probably due to a lot of factors, including the preview issues, but that's another topic... Thanks again for the stability report!
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Videoon 9/27/2014
V13 Stability vs V12 32/Full Mode
I unfortunately already downloaded the demo, so I'm past the 30 days. But thank you for your thoughts on VP13's stability. I think Vegas' problems with 8 bit processing, and truncation, are pretty well fleshed out by now. My understanding is the general consensus is do your (critical) color work elsewhere, right? And let Vegas do what Vegas does well--timeline editing and compositing. Also, since 8-bit often forces us to do a lot of levels conversions (esp if you're mixing sources), you do get a more jagged histogram, which probably falls into the category of maybe you see it, maybe you don't. Personally I'm convinced Vegas softens midtone contrast in 8-bit mode if you drag the levels (and maybe even if you don't). Someone once said Vegas really needs a 10 or 12-bit mode, and I wouldn't disagree. Previewing in full range is WYSIWYG which I do find refreshing. The linear gamma fades do have a pretty look, I think, especially between richly colored stills. Unless you do front and back levels conversions, the color curves plugin doesn't adapt properly to 8-bit mode (it still acts on the full 0-255 range), which forces us to do workarounds if you want, for example, to smoothly enhance contrast w/o clipping.
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Videoon 9/26/2014
V13 Stability vs V12 32/Full Mode
Three whys eh? :) For the record: 1) Linear Fades 2) Coherent Preview Behavior 3) Non-mangled histograms (and preserved midtone contrast) any time you/grade alter levels and a special bonus 4) Color Curves plugin actually acts like a curves plugin, rather than an abomination To be honest I use 8-bit mode almost exclusively because it's so much more stable and less wonky, but that's the only reason I use it. Otherwise, I'd happily use FR for everything.
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Videoon 9/10/2014
Make a Still Look Like Video?
In this case, returning for footage is almost impossible -- a very remote location. Specifically these are stills of landscapes so there aren't moving elements in them. I just want to match the look of video shots (some on tripod, some not) with stills of the same, static nature scenes.
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Videoon 8/30/2014
Sony RX-10 looks really good. Anyone using one?
Laurence, what Sony is doing right now with their consumer cams and video is incredible. If the RX10 looks like it would fit your needs, I wouldn't hesitate to get one.
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