It could be that your image is such high resolution that the down-scale to DV makes it look bad. Or, maybe you're viewing at Preview/Full or Auto? Set this to Best/Full to see it in it's best presentation. If it's still bad, try a few things;
1. Right click/Switches/Reduce interlace flicker.
2. Add .001 Gaussian Blur
3. Reduce the size/resolution of the image in Photoshop or other graphic editor.

Remember, DV is only 720 x 480, so if you're dropping in an 8 megapixel image, it's likely scaling so much that it looks artifacted.

HDV and XP service pack 2 necessary?
 

I was about to purchase Vegas Platinum but the requirement on the box said service pack 2 required for HDV. Why?

What HDV functionality exactly will not work with sp1?

Only camera detection. It will run fine under SP1. I'm running it now. You *may* need to manually install the HDV camera drivers though.
You'll love Platinum, I've cut quite a few things with it.

Cool!

Makes sense, resized the images in photoshop and it made a HUGE improvement.

Thanks.

I lost a fuction with .mpg
 

When I go to render to the DVDA templates for mpeg2, and then click "custom" it won't open the custom window. It opens the custom template window in other formats.

I think this is because I recently re-installed on a formatted drive and I am missing some mpg codecs. I know that I used to be able to drag and drop in mpegs and now I can't.

I forgot what I'm missing! Please help.

DJ

DVDA2 duel layer ?
 

Any chance of Sony offering a duel layer plugin for DVDA2, or can you just upgrade to DVDA3 if you don’t want or need Vegas6?

Just thinking out loud

Vince

BTW what is the cost for The Vegas5 w/DVD to Vegas6 w/DVD upgrade?

No and No. Since DVDA2 has been replaced by DVDA3 there is no reason to offer any type of new plugin and DVDA is strictly available only with Vegas.

Don

Thanks Douglas, exactly the answer I was hoping for.

Your answer to a similar question for someone else is what got CapDVHS working for me with the Z1U and SP1.

As Don said, dual layer requires DVDA 3 and you can only get that if you update to Vegas6+DVD. The update is $250:
http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/sho...cid=111&disp=1

However, it may also be possible to prepare the DVD in DVDA2 and then use something like Nero to actually burn the disc onto dual layer media.

Thank you once again for the information,Douglas!
Now I think about something else in that matter: yes, the TV set I use is interlaced, I know that. But what about when you switch an interlaced tv set on and watch a film on some tv channel? I mean that the film is progressive in any case somewhere in the tv company which you receive the film from via cable, antenna, etc. So, the progressive looks OK on the interlaced TV in your home. Or the jitter is almost not obvious! That is my confusion...

First and foremost, VCD's aren't used for broadcast.
Second, even though the source may have been progressive, it's being interlaced at the broadcaster's facility and aired to you from there, or your television is correctly interlacing progressive footage. (Most likely it's the former, not the latter)

In your case, you're using footage that was captured with interlacing, deinterlaced in (I assume) Vegas, and then put on a low-quality format, which is then being upsampled to a larger scale. This would make any interlacing very obvious.

What happens if you shoot something with your palmcorder, edit it as DV, convert to progressive scan in Vegas, and render to a progressive DVD, and watch it on an interlaced set? It should look quite good, assuming you're using the Vegas templates and not using Pan/crop on the video.

This may be a tough question but how would one do that ... after I prepare for burning then what would I do to get Nero to do the burn?

Vince

DVDA will create the Video_TS and Audio_TS folders. Then you tell Nero to burn a DVD and point it to those folders as the source for the information. I'm not sure how you pick the break-point, though.

Vegas and External Control - Tascam US-428
 

Greetings,

Has anyone been using the Tascam US-428 as an external MIDI control interface with Vegas 6.0? I am curious how its controls are able to be mapped to Vegas, and how real-time the control is versus the Mackie control surface. I want to use this unit not only for cutting video video, but also for its ability to use a tactile interface for mixing multiple tracks of audio.


Your input is appreciated!