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JohnJ

Offline, Last login 2/15/2023, Member since 8/24/2016

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on 2/5/2022

SONY FDR AX53 setting up

Hello, I have taken a shot of the icon in question, it is the one below the Face Recognition (Off) icon. The odd thing is that I bought 2 of these cameras and as far as I can see I have set them up in the same way but this icon does not appear on the other camera. Could someone kindly identify it's purpose and tell me how to delete it? Thank you, JohnJ
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on 1/31/2022

VEGAS PRO 18

Hi Both and thanks for taking the time to respond....I have now updated my 'signature' to give anyone looking at my posts more idea of my setup. So - time for a major admission...I am completely self taught and a lot of the terminology that you guys are using, in an attempt to help me, mean nothing to me.....sorry. Let me try to break things down: I am a Steam Railway enthusiast and use my cameras to capture what I enjoy and provide any projects that I create FOC to friends within the Steam Railway community. I have been using various flavours of Vegas for the past decade, or at least it seems that way!!, to create Blu-rays and have managed to find a way to produce what I want to and am still enjoying doing so. I have recently decided to upgrade my video cameras and have purchased a pair of Sony FDR-AX53 units as my older cameras were becoming unreliable and repair costs were becoming prohibitive. These are the first cameras I have owned which are 4K capable and I would like to start shooting in this higher resolution and then producing, hopefully, better projects via Vegas 18. I do not, currently, plan on connecting the cameras to my workstation - but will use the Class10 SD cards in USB3 card readers. And so what I am really hoping the community might help me with is any settings for Vegas Pro 18 that will help me utilise the 4K captured stream from the cameras to create quality Blu-ray output. Thanks again for your patience...
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on 12/8/2021

Background colour of editing screen

Thank you
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on 11/7/2017

M2TS and MTS

Thanks again everyone. I am non technical and this is my retirement hobby but I seem to have solved the problem by borrowing the card from my friend's camera and loading that directly into Vegas. JohnJ
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on 11/5/2017

M2TS and MTS

Thanks everyone who has suggested a solution. The odd thing is that I have 2 other friends who use the same make and model camera as the one I am having trouble with and there is no problem incorporating the output of these 2 friends into my projects.
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on 9/29/2017

Editing MTS and M2TS files in the same project.

Thanks everyone. I followed your advice and used Nero to convert the files and it worked perfectly
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on 9/28/2017

Editing MTS and M2TS files in the same project.

Thank you, I will try that
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on 4/16/2017

CAPTURE PROBLEMS

Thanks Cornico, Device explorer solved the problem. JohnJ
Offtopic

on 8/31/2016

ATTACHING A PROJECT TO AN E-MAIL

Thank you, everbody. JohnJ
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on 8/26/2016

extracting material from DVDs AND Bluray

Thank you, everyone, that tells me what I need to know
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on 8/25/2016

extracting material from DVDs AND Bluray

Thanks, but how can I upload (say) 10 minutes from a DVD lasting 1 hour?
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on 7/1/2016

CHANGING FORMAT OF TITLES

Sorry for the delay in responding, it worked perfectly. Thank you everybody. JohnJ
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on 6/24/2016

CHANGING FORMAT OF TITLES

Thank you, that is just what I need. I would be very grateful. JohnJ
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on 6/23/2016

CHANGING FORMAT OF TITLES

Thank you both. I can now understand how to create a credit roll but I am unable to convert an existing static title. Perhaps it can't be done. I have no formal training in this and as it is my retirement project I would be grateful for any further advice. Thanks JohnJ
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on 6/22/2016

Expanding a Frame

Thank you
DVD Architect

on 5/7/2016

NEXT BUTTON ON MENU PAGE

Thanks George, I think you are probably right. JohnJ
DVD Architect

on 5/6/2016

NEXT BUTTON ON MENU PAGE

Hello George, Thanks for your help, I think I had got this far, but my problem is actually making it work. I can select the fill colour in set 1 but when I click on the arrow button nothing happens. Also when I click the text and image button for the arrow the image and text obliterates the arrow. If I expand the frame the arrow expands to fill it and always remains in the centre of the frame so that there is no room to add anything else. Sorry to be a pain here but I am obviously missing some basic point so if you can think of something it would be very helpful. Thanks, JohnJ
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on 2/1/2016

Removing objects from the background

Thank you everybody, I managed to do it successfully
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on 1/20/2016

Downloading from you tube

Thank you
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on 1/10/2016

CHANGING FADES & TRANSITIONS

Thank you
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on 1/9/2016

DISPLAYING PROJECT MEDIA

Thank you
DVD Architect

on 11/17/2015

EXCESSIVE DISC BURNING TIMES

Thanks, Although it said it would take 15+ hours to complete, I left it to see what would happen and it completed in normal time. So it seems that the error is in the time forecast, not the actual execution of the task. Thanks again JohnJ
DVD Architect

on 11/16/2015

EXCESSIVE DISC BURNING TIMES

Thanks for your help, I am still working on it. I don't understand why when I drop the rendered Vegas 13 files into the DVDA project it renders them again. This seems to be what takes so much time, or am I missing something?
DVD Architect

on 11/14/2015

EXCESSIVE DISC BURNING TIMES

Thanks for your note. I have set project properties in Vegas 13 as HD 1080-50i (1920x1080,25,000fps. I have rendered the video as Sony AVC AVCHD 50i with the include video box checked and include audio box unchecked. Audio has been rendered as AC-3 PRO CUSTOMISED TO -31db dialogue normalisation. This appears to work as the files can be reopened with Vegas 13. DVDA has been set as Blu-ray disc with menu AVC 1920X1080 16:9 WITH AUDIO FORMAT ac3 stereo. Two files appear in the explorer file, I am not sure which one to take, presumably the one with the film strip and music note icon. However when I try to insert the files from the explorer into the DVDA project they will not pick up. I am clearly doing something wrong, I am non technical and this is my retirement project and I would be very grateful if you would give me some guidance in simple terms. Thanks Johnj