Vegas 5 problems

[GGROD]

Just purchased Vegas 5 yesterday.

Exported a mpeg clip I created earlier. Some problems I had.

Could not figure out how to cut the clip. I wanted to remove the first 5 seconds from the begining. I exported the clip to the trim area and still could not figure it out. Guess I'll pick up a book to learn more. Just didn't seem easy at first glance.

Rendered the video. But on scenes with motion there were anoying lines (interlace lines?) around the things that were moving. I rendered the movie 4 different times adjusting the interlacing option on the render window, with no success.

[housepig]

Rendered the video. But on scenes with motion there were anoying lines (interlace lines?) around the things that were moving. I rendered the movie 4 different times adjusting the interlacing option on the render window, with no success.

the lines appeared in the final output movie, or in the preview window?

[GGROD]

They didn't appear in the preview area. But they did appear in the final output.

[SoundFX]

You don't really need the trimmer to cut clips. After you drop a clip into the timeline, drag the left or right edge to change the start/end point. To chop off the first five seconds like you mentioned earlier, drag the left edge of the video clip to the right by five seconds. You can then drag the whole clip back to the left so it starts at 00:00. This doesn't really change anything on the original clip, it just tells Vegas what parts of it will actually get rendered.

As far as your lines on output...what format are you rendering to? A highly compressed format will show artifacts like you describe. More info please...

[rbmerc]

ya i wish vegas had a clip editor that was more like adobe premiere pros... sometimes i just record my whole camera into one file and then i just use adobe's clip trimmer thingy and chunk out all the sections i want and drag em down onto the timeline... i love adobe premiere pro for that but i wish it had more effects like vegas 5 does...

-merc

[GreyDeath]

Nah, With Vegas, you don't need to use the trimmer.

I put whole TV eps, commercials and all, into the timeline. Then split and drag the commercials out. Heck, if you have Auto-Ripple on, it'll move the 2nd clip up to the end of the first. Pretty much everything is done in the Timeline.

[GGROD]

I'll have to figure out the split and drag to cut the clip.

As for the format I was rendering to...I'll have to get back to you since I can't look at it now. It was a the default settings if that answers part of it.

[guns1inger]

I think the default is DV avi. Did you watch it on your PC or your TV ? Interlacing looks much worse on the PC because it is a progressive display. You need to watch it on a TV to get the real picture.

[GGROD]

When I select to make a new project this is how I set it up:
Template: NTSC DV (720x480, 29.970 fps)

Motion Blur Type: Gaussian
Deinterlace method: Blend Fields

Now when I render:
Render AS
Save as type: MainConcept MPEG-2
Template: DVD NTSC

Desc:
Audio: 224 Kbps, 48,000 Hz, Layer 2
Video: 29.97 fps, 720x480
Use this setting to create an MPEG-2 file

I created a six second clip and I've got lines all over the place. Am I the only one getting this problem?

[SoundFX]

Well the only dif I have is that I set the Deinterlace to "none" (actually it just defaults there for me and I've never changed it)

Are these "lines" around your motion vertical or horizontal? If horizontal, I'm thinking it's your video card or software player for MPEG2. I use winDVD to play a lot of stuff, and on fast motion scenes my laptop display has a lot of distortion around the moving parts of the video. However, take that same file burned to DVD and look at it on a regular TV and it looks fine.

As for splitting files-really easy. Click your clip where you want the split and press "S". Clip is now in two parts. This is totally non-destructive to original media file.

[erratic]

When I select to make a new project this is how I set it up:
Template: NTSC DV (720x480, 29.970 fps)

Is your source video DV AVI?
Or is it analog (maybe MJPEG) stuff?

If it's DV, ignore this response.
If it's analog, what are your media properties? Right-click on your AVI file in the Media Pool and select properties. What are the settings there?

[BJ_M]

ya i wish Vegas had a clip editor that was more like adobe premiere pros... sometimes i just record my whole camera into one file and then i just use adobe's clip trimmer thingy and chunk out all the sections i want and drag em down onto the timeline... i love adobe premiere pro for that but i wish it had more effects like vegas 5 does...

-merc

it is called the trimmer in Vegas and as mentioned - often you don't need it . but it works exactly the same way as in premiere ..


i suggest to read the manual and do some tutorials ...

Vegas is very very easy to use but has a ton of power under the hood ...

this might help you : http://www.blue7media.com/vegas/