Vegas Video discussions from 2004 (Q3Q4)

Dave Deng · July 20th, 2004, 06:42 PM

Just a question on the format of the hard drive. I have 3 hard drives all formated with the FAT32 system. Would I be able to format one of these to NTFS and run them compatibly or do all hard drives have to be the same format?

Glenn Chan · July 20th, 2004, 07:09 PM

Yeah I'm not sure what the 5th button refers to. If you press down on the mouse wheel, it's kind of like a button. It brings up the left/right scrolly thingie just like other wheel mice.

John Cline · July 20th, 2004, 07:19 PM

Of course, you need to be running WinNT, Win2K or WinXP to use the NTFS file system. Win98 does not support, nor will it even recognize, NTFS drives. To answer your question, you can mix FAT32 and NTFS drives with no problem.

John

Dave Deng · July 20th, 2004, 07:20 PM

Thanks John, Im running XP so there should be no dramas.

Edward Troxel · July 20th, 2004, 07:26 PM

Since they are well within the safe area, you'll never see them on a TV. However, I always scan my pictures at whatever size they are. I don't worry about "655x480" or any other sizes. I have a complete writeup of the process I use at http://www.jetdv.com/tts

Edward Troxel · July 20th, 2004, 07:28 PM

Is there a black frame there on the timeline? What is the source? Anything common about those areas? Did you try a reboot?

David Jasany · July 20th, 2004, 07:33 PM

Thanks Edward. I just discovered that the picture fill the entire frame by setting source/maintain aspect ratio to no in the Pan/Crop window. Tried this on a few photos with different resolutions and it always filled the frame. By doing this, will the final aspect ratio be correct when viewed on a 4:3 TV?

Or, as you suggested, should I always leave the source/maintain aspect ratio to yes and assume the bars will be outside of the safe area?

Thanks also for the link to the writeup.

David Jasany · July 20th, 2004, 07:37 PM

Edward,

Are you referring to your Vol 1 No. 8?

Edward Troxel · July 20th, 2004, 07:45 PM

Yes. Vol1 #8.

Dennis Vogel · July 20th, 2004, 09:01 PM

Yeah, that's my next test. I'll check the VOB before wasting another DVD.

Dennis Vogel

Douglas Spotted Eagle · July 20th, 2004, 11:44 PM

Just as an FYI, we'll be closing the Sundance access shortly. We're moving all the tools, tutorials, reviews, and files over to the VASST site to save on how many sites we maintain. You can already view the new look and tool feature of the site now when you log into the Sundance portal.
The new location is faster, smoother, and can manage more media/space. We've also sorted the scripts, files, tutorials, and reviews are coming soon.

The new access will be via the VASST site; http://www.vasst.com/login.htm

We'll give folks a while to get familiar with it, but wanted you guys to know first.

p.s. there are several new veggies up there as of last night.

Brian Mitchell Warshawsky · July 21st, 2004, 12:09 AM

Is there a way for Vegas to provide the same feature as Premiere's "Scenes" where you can separately edit many scenes for a long form project, saving them separately, yet render out as one long project?

It appears "Regions" may be somewhat similar, and I note that Tsunami and Neon have tools which are helpful towards achieving this, I wonder if there is some simple feature I have overlooked.

Brian

Kylie Wilson · July 21st, 2004, 12:41 AM

This may sound like a stupid question however I cannot manually select the compression rate, the box is ticked and will not let me get into the compression settings.

I have 4.7 GB selected, the movie itself is not very big and the recompression settings are set to 40% of the media for some reason. How can I manually select the settings? I re-installed Architect 1.0 as I have used it before with no problems and the same issue is occuring.

I had a problem with Vegas 5 not letting me render to MPEG2 but I got around it by rendering to AVI and then to MPEG2 could this problem be linked to the recompression problems in Architect?

Patrick King · July 21st, 2004, 06:46 AM

Brian,

What you may be looking for is the "Takes" feature in Vegas. This lets you paste two or three or more 'takes' in the same place on the timeline. Then you preview with each take to see how it fits. Before you complete the project and render your movie, you have to decide which of the 'takes' to be the one that goes to print.

Glen Elliott · July 21st, 2004, 07:31 AM

When you press the middle mouse button it brings up a circle with arrows on either side. Then if you move your mouse to the right or left it scrolls the timeline at varying speeds according to how far to the left or right the mouse is.

July 20th, 2004, 11:44 PM	#221
Douglas Spotted Eagle VASST Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Stockton, UT Posts: 5,648	FYI, Sundance portal closing soon....New link Just as an FYI, we'll be closing the Sundance access shortly. We're moving all the tools, tutorials, reviews, and files over to the VASST site to save on how many sites we maintain. You can already view the new look and tool feature of the site now when you log into the Sundance portal. The new location is faster, smoother, and can manage more media/space. We've also sorted the scripts, files, tutorials, and reviews are coming soon. The new access will be via the VASST site; http://www.vasst.com/login.htm We'll give folks a while to get familiar with it, but wanted you guys to know first. p.s. there are several new veggies up there as of last night. __________________ Douglas Spotted Eagle/Spot Author, producer, composer Certified Sony Vegas Trainer http://www.vasst.com

July 21st, 2004, 12:09 AM	#222
Brian Mitchell Warshawsky Major Player Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Bay Area Posts: 216	Premiere style "Scenes" Is there a way for Vegas to provide the same feature as Premiere's "Scenes" where you can separately edit many scenes for a long form project, saving them separately, yet render out as one long project? It appears "Regions" may be somewhat similar, and I note that Tsunami and Neon have tools which are helpful towards achieving this, I wonder if there is some simple feature I have overlooked. Brian

July 21st, 2004, 12:41 AM	#223
Kylie Wilson New Boot Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 12	DVD Architect 1.0 & 2.0 recompression problem This may sound like a stupid question however I cannot manually select the compression rate, the box is ticked and will not let me get into the compression settings. I have 4.7 GB selected, the movie itself is not very big and the recompression settings are set to 40% of the media for some reason. How can I manually select the settings? I re-installed Architect 1.0 as I have used it before with no problems and the same issue is occuring. I had a problem with Vegas 5 not letting me render to MPEG2 but I got around it by rendering to AVI and then to MPEG2 could this problem be linked to the recompression problems in Architect?

July 20th, 2004, 06:42 PM	#211
Dave Deng New Boot Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Victoria, Australia Posts: 6	Just a question on the format of the hard drive. I have 3 hard drives all formated with the FAT32 system. Would I be able to format one of these to NTFS and run them compatibly or do all hard drives have to be the same format?

July 20th, 2004, 07:09 PM	#212
Glenn Chan Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 4,750	Yeah I'm not sure what the 5th button refers to. If you press down on the mouse wheel, it's kind of like a button. It brings up the left/right scrolly thingie just like other wheel mice.

July 20th, 2004, 07:19 PM	#213
John Cline Major Player Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico USA Posts: 333	Of course, you need to be running WinNT, Win2K or WinXP to use the NTFS file system. Win98 does not support, nor will it even recognize, NTFS drives. To answer your question, you can mix FAT32 and NTFS drives with no problem. John

July 20th, 2004, 07:20 PM	#214
Dave Deng New Boot Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Victoria, Australia Posts: 6	Thanks John, Im running XP so there should be no dramas.

July 20th, 2004, 07:26 PM	#215
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	Since they are well within the safe area, you'll never see them on a TV. However, I always scan my pictures at whatever size they are. I don't worry about "655x480" or any other sizes. I have a complete writeup of the process I use at http://www.jetdv.com/tts

July 20th, 2004, 07:28 PM	#216
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	Is there a black frame there on the timeline? What is the source? Anything common about those areas? Did you try a reboot?

July 20th, 2004, 07:33 PM	#217
David Jasany Major Player Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: North Carolina Posts: 313	Thanks Edward. I just discovered that the picture fill the entire frame by setting source/maintain aspect ratio to no in the Pan/Crop window. Tried this on a few photos with different resolutions and it always filled the frame. By doing this, will the final aspect ratio be correct when viewed on a 4:3 TV? Or, as you suggested, should I always leave the source/maintain aspect ratio to yes and assume the bars will be outside of the safe area? Thanks also for the link to the writeup.

July 20th, 2004, 07:37 PM	#218
David Jasany Major Player Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: North Carolina Posts: 313	Edward, Are you referring to your Vol 1 No. 8?

July 20th, 2004, 07:45 PM	#219
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	Yes. Vol1 #8.

July 20th, 2004, 09:01 PM	#220
Dennis Vogel Major Player Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Hillsborough, NC Posts: 409	Yeah, that's my next test. I'll check the VOB before wasting another DVD. Dennis Vogel

July 21st, 2004, 06:46 AM	#224
Patrick King Major Player Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Enterprise, AL Posts: 857	Brian, What you may be looking for is the "Takes" feature in Vegas. This lets you paste two or three or more 'takes' in the same place on the timeline. Then you preview with each take to see how it fits. Before you complete the project and render your movie, you have to decide which of the 'takes' to be the one that goes to print.

July 21st, 2004, 07:31 AM	#225
Glen Elliott Wrangler Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 2,898	When you press the middle mouse button it brings up a circle with arrows on either side. Then if you move your mouse to the right or left it scrolls the timeline at varying speeds according to how far to the left or right the mouse is.