Thanks Gary.

NAB-Live Chat Next Wednesday!
 

Can't make it to NAB this year?

Mark your calenders!

On Wednesday, April 20th, 9:00 p.m. Pacific time, there will be an online NAB-Live chat in the Vegas Café Chat Room with Douglas Spotted Eagle, Victor Milt, and other members of the VASST team. Stay tuned, as more details become available.

You'll find the Vegas Café at: www.gooddogproductions.com/chat/vegas_cafe.htm

Add the above link to your "Favorites" folder.

Grazie, that's only 5:00 AM for you! Midnight on the east coast.

Now, if I can only remember next Wednesday.........

Side by side
 

Question, can Vages do side-by-side shots? I want to be able to compair the golf swing of an instructor and a student swinging a golf club. I used to do it all the time with linier editing. Bob Safay

With ease. Can be done with either pan/crop OR track motion.

So removing a blank DVD stops it from hanging when you select "Make DVD"? Then how do you make a DVD?

Good luck.

Dennis

Overexposed footage...
 

Hi people,

I "filmed" my kids Competition Dance Showcase (I know, I know, I didn't "film" it - please humour me... ;-)

We used a GL2 (close on right side) & an XL1s (wide at back of room).

Unfortunately the XL1s footage for the first 15 dances came out overexposed enough that it's really annoying. The GL2 footage is nice apart from the fact the lighting guy didn't remove coloured gels on some of the lights.

I need this footage so what is the best technique(s) to make the best of the overexposed footage? I'm using Vegas 5.0b (build 160) if that helps.

I could really use some help here being new and all.

Many thanks to anyone and everyone who assists me with this. Your HVX200 will be in the mail after I win the lottery.

sincerely,

ian

In the last issue of my newsletter I list many different ways to do this task. Just click the link under my name.

Good luck. You can't bring back detail that isn't there. If you post a snapshot, maybe someone can play with it and get some reasonable results.

weird behavior of scroll bars-turn black. Dual monitors.
 

I have a dell xeon, gig ram, Vegas 5, dual monitors coming out of a Radeon 7000.

I often use both monitors when I am working on certain types of projects, but generally just disable the 2ndary and use one for day to day stuff.

Anyway, often I will open vegas in one of the two modes, but almost always use both monitors eventually when working. But sometimes now when I open up vegas the scroll bars at the bottom of the page and for the master controls are just black bars. It generally takes different reboot configurations to get it back, with one monitor on, with both, just seems to fix itself at random.

Pic below:


http://bouncebooking.com/temp/vegas-error.jpg

Anyone ever occured this?

you can try fooling around with some of the video effect filters. Color curves and color corrector might help. Try turning down the gain in the color corrector and then adjusting the color curves. But as Edward mentioned, this is of limited use if the video is really overexposed.

Use DVDA for authoring & prep, Nero for burning. I tried several DVD burners before I gave up on DVDA and started usingthis procedure.

I've seen this mentioned before. I believe it is related to your video driver/video settings. You may try going to Options - Preferences and turning off "Enable Windows XP Theme Support". You could also try using a different theme.

Vegas Movie Studio + DVD problems!!!
 

I recently purchased Vegas movie studio.

now i'm having problems while making the movie "Make a Movie"

first time everything was okay, except that one of the background music was transitioned over another music. which i recalled never did such a thing. checked the raw time frame and everything seemed okay.

now i redone the whole process (make a movie), which is about 2.5 hours. the mpeg file converted okay, but now the wav. file crashed on me saying that it "timed out".

anyone with the same problem? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated?


P.S. is it possible to just redo the wav. file instead of the mpeg file?

Not to derail the thread, but I see you're in Baton Rouge -- ever heard of a guy named Kevin Kuperman ("kup")?