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Videoon 8/30/2007
Bluray is growing on me.
"I don't think can render back out to AVCHD format in Vegas though" File > Render As... Save as type "MainConcept AVC/AAC (*.mp4) Chose or modify the appropriate template and you should be fine.
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Videoon 7/12/2007
OT: Creative Explanation of "Fair Use" - Watch!
No it doesn't. As the FBI warning in the beginning says (it is a spoof), you can use limited portions of work for, for example, satirical purposes. This is why, for example, John Stewart can do his show mocking TV shows using their own footage.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 7/11/2007
U Kidding?
Render to WMV, that'll work fine. As for timing, check with a good watch :-) The one on your computer is OK
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Videoon 7/8/2007
taped on fx1 capture on dv953
I routinely use a cheap camcorder for "capture". When you think about it, for DV etc it isn't really capture, it is data transfer, and as was pointed out, there is no difference in the data when it is transferred from a cheap camcorder. I was actually a little surprised when it turned out that the tapes of my new HDV camcorder could not be captured from a DV cam. I thought it was just "data". Clearly not. I am sure the firmware of a DV camcorder could be updated to recognize HDV data and allow that to be captured (but not displayed obviously) as well. After all, it's just data, and there isn't more of it on an HDV cam than on a DV cam.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 7/8/2007
not responding
Vegas has a problem with very large jpeg files. I would recommend you definitely scan your pictures at the highest resolution possible, you might want to use them for other things later on. For video work however, you really don't need a very high resolution. I use mostly somewhere around 1000 by XXXX pixels or thereabouts for DV/DVD and a little bigger for HDV. You can go look at Google for batch converting utilities, of, if you have Photoshop (I would strongly recommend that - Elements is quite fine) you can use that too. Batch convert all your images to slightly smaller dimensions, and change them to PNGs. I have much better experience with PNGs than I do with JPEGs. This is with the full version of Vegas.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 7/8/2007
VMS: Not as good as it should be
> Terje, before you reply the way you did, please read the WHOLE conversation. > Most of the things are explained/fixed now. I liked the article on persecutor/victim. It was interesting and you should read it. I did read the whole thread, and I therefore skipped jumping on some of the topics covered by others that you had answered. The questions I asked I felt, but I might have been wrong, were not addressed by your responses. I also tried to include some general advice. > I am less stupid that you think btw. And I am a regular on HV20 forums. I did not, at least until this message, think you stupid. I am not quite sure where you got that idea from. If I offended you in any way, please be specific as to what. If it was just that you felt that someone trying to help you and explain what to do and not to do was offensive, grow a thicker skin please.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 7/7/2007
VMS: Not as good as it should be
I understand your frustrations, but I am not sure you understand what you are doing, and where your problems come from. I also think that the attitude you display when posting is less than helpful if you want answers. 1/ Editing HDV is still something that most NLEs do only so-so. I use Vegas (not movie studio) and there are several problems with Vegas as well, in the scene detection for example, Vegas doesn't get it right most of the time. Is this a Vegas problem? Not really, since HDV is inter-frame compressed, this is going to be very hard, or impossible, no matter what. The same goes for Premiere CS3 and other $1000 solutions. If the software industry has not yet figured out exactly how do do this with their high-end software packages, you can't expect the consumer end to be *better*. 2/ You complain about stuff that is a non-issue. Why is it a problem that the external capture only captures DV? 3/ Your main problem seems to be the fact that scene detection is not working all that well, and that it is ruining your transitions. I'll get back to in-camera transitions next, but why is scene detection that important for you? Why not just capture as one media file? Why would this be an issue? 4/ You seem to be doing in-camera transitions. Never do in-camera transitions. Ever. Under any circumstance. You are actively messing up your footage doing something that should only be done in post, namely adding effects and transitions. Never use in-camera effects. Ever. In addition to ruining your footage, an in-camera transition compounds the problem of doing scene splits. Where is the scene split when you use an in-camera transition? Where the transition starts? In the middle? Where it ends? Why is any of the answers to the previous question correct? 5/ Whining about features not in the package (shake removal), and that you knew where not in the package when you bought it, and in the tone of "voice" you used is more than a little bit immature. Why not do as an adult would do and ask for the feature? 6/ Complaining about bugs that are (probably) not bugs is a little immature as well. Yes, there is increase in RAM usage when you add stuff to the bins, but this is because Vegas caches stuff to make it available faster etc. If this cache is managed properly, and for me it seems to be, that is not a bug or a problem. Yes, memory usage goes up, but quite frankly that isn't an issue. Video editing is such a CPU/RAM/Disk intensive operation that the video editing app should use as much available resources as it can to work as well as it can. Increasing RAM usage is only a problem if it continues forever, and I have seen no indication that it does with Vegas or VMS (and I have used them for years). 7/ Oh, and again, since I am replying to a post... >> you wanted all your needs met by a consumer piece of software. > Well duh. That's why I buy a piece of software. Since this is a problem that hasn't been fully solved in any of the professional NLEs, you really can't expect it to be in the consumer NLEs either. Finally - I have a suggestion for you to make your life when editing HDV a lot easier, and the results you produce a lot better. After capturing your videos to M2T, convert them to the Cineform intermediate codec at higher quality. This is a codec that doesn't use inter-frame compression, which means that your edits, cuts and transitions will be a lot better than if you edit in HDV directly. Again, this is the nature of HDV, and it applies to ALL NLEs, not just Sony. I don't know what camcorder you use, but if it is the Canon HV10 or HV20, I'd also recommend reading the http://www.hv20.com/ forums. You can find tools there to batch convert MT2 to the intermediate codec, including 3:2 pull-down (which no NLE supports properly for the HV20 and the Sony HDV camcorders yet).
Terje
Offline, Member since 7/7/2007