Lost Video Island

IntoTheVoid · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:46 pm Post subject:

Mehh

So I havent made a vid in ages, and I just got this !crazay idea for one. So I imported my .avi files into Vegas and all of a sudden its not taking them anymore!

No message pops up saying whats wrong, it just not letting me put in on the timeline. When I open it in the trimmer it says "media offline" where the video should be.

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thefilmchick · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:35 pm Post subject:

So I'm starting a new video in Vegas and I am trying to select a clip, and the select highlighting isn't going on. Is there an alternate way to select? It doesn't seem to recognize my left mouse button, weirdly enough, though it recognizes it for menu selections.

Also, I am unable to delete the audio layer from the clip (have already added the song to the timeline). How do I do this? Note: I can mute the clip with the 'switches,' but that doesn't remove the audio info from the audio track, just silences it. (Edit: Scratch; figured out how to do this by inserting a third audio track and making that one hold the video and be mute. Still, I'd like to know how to delete things from the project timeline without having to open them in the trimmer, nonetheless. If I try to just flat-out delete the audio from the trimmer, it deletes the video it's tied to as well.)

Also, regarding the time measurements - is there a way to make the measurements in the subclip in the trimmer conform to the measurements in the project window, not the measurements of the episode I took the subclip from?

More questions:

Fade in/fade out - Where is this?
Titles - Where are these? (Edit: Found static titles. Where are the better titles?)
Beats - Is there a way to highlight these in the project timeline, without opening it up in the trimmer and doing eight separate subclip files for every four seconds? I have set markers/regions on the beats in question - is there a quick way to either cut/flash-transition these or pulse them so that the beat is accentuated without having multiple clips?
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Polarbear · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject:

On the toolbar at the top theres an icon that you need to select called ignore event grouping. If you move your mouse pointer over the icons it will tell you what they're called. Make sure this is switched on and it will allow you to delete just the audio track.

For fade in out just hold down left mouse button at beginning of a clip and stretch it across and it will create a fade. Do the same at the end of a clip to create a fade out.

The better titles? You mean the ones where you don't have to do any work for?

You can actually animate the text to zoom in and across the screen using the pan/crop tool which comes up if you click the cross icon on a clip. There are plenty of tutorials that cover animating and the pan crop tool on here.

I'm not sure what you mean about the rest :/
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thefilmchick · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject:

By "better titles", I meant something moving, rather than a boring title just sitting there. I think I can work out how to animate it, though.

For the other questions:

1) Numbering

Look at the numbers in the yellow circles:

How do I make them the same beat numbers (or frame numbers, or seconds; I don't care), instead of having the numbers in the trimmer be taken from the subclip's place in the full episode?

2) Flash/beat effects without using the trimmer

Same place in the video. I have a region that I want to have a flash, circled in cyan. I have figured out how to split it and give it effects, but not transitions.

Thanks!
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Polarbear · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:45 pm Post subject:

Oh I get you about the last one now. Well if you select one of the icons at the top again called automatic crossfades it will allow you to stretch a clip over another one thus creating a basic fade transition. Then you just need to goto transitions and replace the fade with a flash.
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Aislynn · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:56 pm Post subject:

Aislynn · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:56 pm Post subject:

Oops, sorry, Pauly! Crossposted you!

Polarbear · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:40 pm Post subject:

Aislynn cross-posting me is better than sex

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thefilmchick · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject:

OK, got what I need to. So I'm working on this and previewing and I have things set up precisely because I am picky sometimes, and when I play it back, some of the flashes aren't playing, although I know that they're on beat. I am assuming that it is simply because it's complicated. Are there ways to doublecheck, or to force it to play every effect on time?
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Aislynn · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:29 pm Post subject:

thefilmchick · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:07 am Post subject:

thefilmchick · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:47 am Post subject:

Addendum: I did a couple more seconds, rendering it as an AVI to see if that made a difference. It did, but not in the right way. It brought it up to 900 MB. Obviously that's not acceptable. Help!
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Aislynn · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:58 am Post subject:

Okay, for the number thing... Try looking under Options - Ruler format. That lets you set how the ruler handles the numbering, I believe.

About the file size thing: I have, through no fault of my own,

ended up with a pretty decent size to quality ratio on my vids (you can't count how they look at YouTube, of course, if you've ever seen any of my vids there, because YT makes the quality crummy). But if you've ever seen it downloaded, I can usually get pretty nice quality at 428x240 size and I've never had a vid over 20MB in size. But it seems to a combination of my original footage (which is rendered down into WMV from AVI) and my settings:

Audio: 64kbps, 44,100 Hz, 16 bit, stereo
Video: 30.000fps, 428x240, Quality VBR 90%, WMV v9 compression, Keep Original size

The adjustments for all of those settings are under the Custom tab in the rendering box. Something that can produce a huge file is trying to raise the overall frame size up to something more like 640x480, which occasionally is the default. I'd recommend sticking with WMV to get the best size to quality ratio over pretty much anything else that Vegas has.

So I'd say check under that Custom tab and see what the default is showing, particularly the size and bring it down to either 320x240 or Keep Original size (depending of course on how large your original size IS

).

thefilmchick · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:11 am Post subject: