Ian Stark
December 2nd, 2010, 04:33 PM
When I started this post it was to beg for some help in sorting out a mixed footage problem. I have spent the entire evening trying to resolve an issue that I thought I would have worked out in five minutes.
No matter what combination of settings I tried in Vegas to output a mixed footage timeline I could not produce a file that would play without horrendous jaggies in DVDA. I had typed in all my project settings for you to inspect, down to the last tiny detail, and I was expecting a bit of a roasting from people that would say I should know better. I thought for completeness that I should quickly check the files in VLC or WMP. They worked fine! So I started to look elsewhere for the root cause of my troubles.
The problem? I installed DVDA 5.2 today and what doesn't it do? It doesn't bring all my personalised settings over from the previous version. That four hours wasted could have been saved if I had only checked the DVDA project settings and seen that they were defaulting to NTSC not PAL.
Why on earth can't Sony include something simple like a settings export facility (it would be even nicer if the installation looked for a previous version and asked if you wanted to import your settings)? Same goes for Vegas. Pain in the backside.
Anyway, the good news is that I wasn't being an ass with Vegas, just an ass for not checking DVDA sooner.
I thought others might want to know about my misfortune as I am almost certain there will be other people who forget to set their defaults when installing new versions of Sony software.
No matter what combination of settings I tried in Vegas to output a mixed footage timeline I could not produce a file that would play without horrendous jaggies in DVDA. I had typed in all my project settings for you to inspect, down to the last tiny detail, and I was expecting a bit of a roasting from people that would say I should know better. I thought for completeness that I should quickly check the files in VLC or WMP. They worked fine! So I started to look elsewhere for the root cause of my troubles.
The problem? I installed DVDA 5.2 today and what doesn't it do? It doesn't bring all my personalised settings over from the previous version. That four hours wasted could have been saved if I had only checked the DVDA project settings and seen that they were defaulting to NTSC not PAL.
Why on earth can't Sony include something simple like a settings export facility (it would be even nicer if the installation looked for a previous version and asked if you wanted to import your settings)? Same goes for Vegas. Pain in the backside.
Anyway, the good news is that I wasn't being an ass with Vegas, just an ass for not checking DVDA sooner.
I thought others might want to know about my misfortune as I am almost certain there will be other people who forget to set their defaults when installing new versions of Sony software.