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Videoon 7/18/2006
Camcorder recommendations for newbie
Jaydee - "You might want to ask yourself if your project justifies/requires HDV in the first place. Is this a fun family home movie thing? a web video project.... or film/serious project you'll be selling/submitting justifying a need for HDV, etc. " Justifies a need for HDV - that is what I'm seeking to answer. From the tone of your question, I get the idea that you are saying that if it's a serious project, then HDV is required/justified? My target for this is, like I mentioned, film festivals - so I guess you could say that it's a serious project. What I have been trying to find the answer to is: what would HDV buy me that SD won't, given my budget constraints; what would I sacrifice if I went the SD way and how much it would matter (in terms of potential sellability, acceptance etc - all other things being equal), given that my target audience is what it is. Thanks!
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Videoon 12/12/2005
grabbing a image
One way is through the video preview window. Pause at the point in the video where you want a snapshot and click the 'floppy' icon there. You can set the quality of the image you're saving to what you like. Kunal.
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Videoon 12/5/2005
DVDs: print first or burn first?
Thanks guys for the quick responses! This is my first time burning a DVD project so I wasn't quite sure of the workflow.
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DVD Architecton 11/23/2005
Question about DVDA workflow
Ah..thanks for the tip..I'll keep that in mind for next time. So ideally, as far as DVDA is concerned, it shouldn't really matter if the audio/video file changed over time for a particular project, right? (as in, an overwritten source file should not cause DVDA to act as if the source file is not present) It should just pick-up the latest file w/o any problems, I hope.
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Videoon 11/22/2005
DVDs not being burnt correctly
I'm about to buy a 50-pack of Taiyo Yuden +Rs from supermediastore. Any other recommended sites to get better deals from? thanks! Kunal.
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Videoon 11/19/2005
DVDs not being burnt correctly
I was almost on the verge of downloading the trial version of Nero, before I decided to do one last shot and I tried +R media in the drive and it burns fine..what a winding tortuous road to discover this. I can be sure not to put any -R in there from now on. I know it's tough for Sony (or for that matter any authoring sw company) to publish a list of drives/dvd-media with which DVDA would be compatible, just because of the huge variety of media/hw out there, but I believe it would really help users in making a decision *before* they buy either... Thankfully, I had bought only a 25 pack of the DVD-Rs, so not much is lost. Thanks a lot guys for your help on this! Kunal.
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Videoon 11/18/2005
DVDs not being burnt correctly
So you're saying that I just do the 'prepare' part using DVDA and then just do a data-burn of the audio_ts and video_ts folders using some other s/w? Interesting..I didn't know that some people don't use DVDA for the actual burning...
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Videoon 11/18/2005
DVDs not being burnt correctly
I just saw this in the 2.0b release manual: Notable Changes/Fixes in Version 2.0b A bug has been fixed that could prevent burning to -R/-RW media when using the Matsushita UJ-810 drive. Of all the drives in the world, this is the one that my laptop has, and now I'm wondering if this bug has indeed been fixed in 2.0b... Maybe I should try +R in my drive, although I'm not sure if it is +R burning compatible. In case this doesn't work, does anyone out here have the same drive and has been able to burn succesfully with 2.0b+ versions? I might think of upgrading my DVDA in that case (or buy another drive, whichever is cheaper..) Kunal.
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Videoon 11/18/2005
DVDs not being burnt correctly
Thanks for that link John. I rendered the video as MPEG-2 and audio as ac-3 in the same folder with the same name, however, when I click optimize while doing 'prepare and burn', it does say that both audio and video would be compressed. Is that a sign that something's already incorrect at this point? Also, besides meritline, is there a store chain that sells RITEK in a physical store? If so, I'd like to just stop by and pick some up as I do need to complete this before thksgiving.. I'm going to try DVD+R based on oops' suggestion, but I'm not sure if my laptop's dvd-burner is compatible with DVD+R, although when I did a dvd-identifier check, it did identify my drive as DVD+R capable as well... Kunal.
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Videoon 11/18/2005
DVDs not being burnt correctly
I tried doing what you suggested but it still doesn't play in either my laptop or the standalone dvd player. (The movie is only about 17 mins long.) I also just tried using InterVideo DVDCreator and that burns okay, so I know the problem is not in the drive. I doubt if it's a media incompatibility with DVD-A? Here's the media IDCode for the Verbatim DVD-R: DVD-R: MCC 03RG20 What's also odd is that it shows up as a CD after DVD-A completes the burning, instead of showing up as a DVD... Kunal.
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Videoon 11/17/2005
DVDs not being burnt correctly
I tried the DVD in a standalone player and it didn't work there either..any clues? Also, I noticed that the data ring extends a lot further away from the hub on the DVD that I burned using InterVideo DVDCreator (which plays well), than it does on the one burnt using DVDA -- not sure if that's related to the compression differences between the two softwares, but if it isn't, then it looks like DVDA didn't burn the entire movie onto the DVD... Also, the way I didn't render the video/audio from Vegas to an mpg-2/acm-3 -- I did the prepping in DVDA on the .avi file that I had rendered from Vegas -- that shouldn't affect the burning though, right? Kunal.
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Videoon 11/17/2005
DVDs not being burnt correctly
So I guess that I can't really retrieve my media IDcode in that case? hmm..what other options do I have at this point...? thanks for the help on this folks, Kunal.
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Videoon 11/17/2005
DVDs not being burnt correctly
I downloaded the DVD identifier that you posted in the link but it doesn't identify my DVD drive. I'm going to try inserting a different DVD in there later tonight to see if it is just this DVD that is not getting identified or if it's something else.. what was the other part of your message ? ;) I hope I can get this thing resolved..especially since I really like using DVDA and would hate to move over to another s/w (if it is indeed a DVDA issue) Kunal.
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Videoon 11/17/2005
DVDs not being burnt correctly
Yes, when I flip the DVD over, I do see the data ring extending out from the hub, so I do believe the data is getting written, just that it doesn't get recognized on my laptop's player. I'm going to try it on a standalone DVD player, but just wondering -- is this expected, or is there something wrong here? Can I try a different brand of DVDs to 'fix' this? Am I missing something in the DVDA settings? I'm going to be sending this out to fests, so I'd like it to have as much compatibility in players as possible... How do I determine the media IDCode? Kunal.
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Videoon 10/10/2005
Merge two video events
Thanks all for your suggestions...I have Vegas 5, so I went with the solution of just rendering the two tracks as a new one and it works just fine...what was happening initially was that I had a 40% setting for the last node of the first clip and wanted this setting to carry over into the next clip -- somehow it wasn't doing that -- well, it was, but it was 'eating up' frames in the transition between the two clips -- which is what led me to speculate that reducing frames was vegas' way of doing slo-mo....but I could be completely off the mark here... Kunal.
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Videoon 8/27/2005
De-focusing a video clip
Thank you! That does what I wanted.
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Videoon 7/16/2005
Text movement in event
That does it...thanks!
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Videoon 7/11/2005
Creating publicity stills from video clip...
Thank you!
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Videoon 6/24/2005
Using events across projects
Ah...that did it..I didn't have two instances open; I was switching from one to another. Thanks!
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Audioon 6/19/2005
Voiceover/Narration requirements
Thanks all for your replies. I've done some very elementary audio recording with Vegas but haven't used it yet with voiceover. In fact this is the first time I'm doing voiceover. I'll try out Vegas for audio recording and see how it goes! I did come across a post that advises against using condenser mics with the MobilePre. http://www.mojopie.com/mobilepre.html Any idea what other alternatives (for mics) I can use with a budget of about $150? Thanks!
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Audioon 6/15/2005
Voiceover/Narration requirements
Just a quick follow-up question -- the mobilePre does have its own built-in sound card that will bypass my laptop's sound card, right?
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Audioon 6/15/2005
Voiceover/Narration requirements
Just a quick follow-up question -- the mobilePre does have its own built-in sound card that will bypass my laptop's sound card, right?
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Audioon 6/15/2005
Voiceover/Narration requirements
Hey Scott, thanks for that MobilePreUSB link..it sounds like a good deal for me, considering that it has a pre-amp built in and has a much 'cleaner' interface. Kunal.
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Videoon 5/17/2005
OT: Sag Experimental Contracts
Thanks for all your responses! I looked up 'financial core' and here are some links that I came up with: http://www.pirromount.com/voight.html http://www.mcalistertalent.com/ara/finlcore.htm I also just talked with a SAG representative to figure out exactly what the experimental film contract entails. I guess at this point I have two choices -- either to go with the exp. contract or go the 'financial-core' way. Obviously I prefer the second option because it does not limit my production (which is meant for film festivals only, at this point) to SAG rates/bindings if it does ever get picked up at fests. My talent is okay with going the financial-core way too -- so I believe that is what I probably will be doing; One final consultation with my entertainment lawyer and hopefully, this should be out of the way. Kunal.
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