Two Questions - Stills from Vegas 5 & a big VCR sound is

[dvd-dude]

Hey everyone... I have two questions I was hoping you might be able to help me with.

1 - Whenever I export a still from Vegas 5 the way the help file tells me to it comes out at half size (three hundred something instead of 720 or 640). Do you know how I can export a full size still frame from Vegas 5?

2 - I'm converting some old VHS tapes to my D8 camcorder and I'm having some serious trouble. A couple of the tapes have almost 10 year old footage on them and it was recorded in EP and LP (before I knew any better). Well, the issue is that when I use my regular $60-80 mono Quasar VCR it has trouble playing the video signal but the audio is fine. However, when I use a nice $300+ Panasonic SVHS deck the picture is fine but the audio has a lot of hiss. It's not a hum issue related to cable lines and grounding issues... I had that too but I solved that already. This one is just a strange hissing noise. I tried it on a friend's $120 hi-fi Panasonic VCR and it did the same thing, but on my mono one it's fine (but the video doesn't play very well). So I'm trying to figure out a way to get the best of both worlds. I tried switching the audio monitoring on my SVHS deck between hi-fi and norm and it's the same both ways. Maybe there's nothing I can do about it but I was hoping someone here might know what's going on.

Thanks!

-DVD-Dude

[SoundFX]

dude,

If you are sending stills to the clipboard from the preview window, check your preview properties (at the bottom of the preview window). You will see a setting for your project, and a setting for your preiview display. If the preview setting is 360x240x32, then your are prob in draft mode. Change this to a higher setting and you should be good.

As for your audio hiss, is your Quasar machine that produces good audio a HiFi vcr? I've had similar hiss on a HiFi machine with alignment problems, you could adjust tracking for good picture, or good sound, but not both. At that point I was stuck and had to try two captures (one vid, one aud) and try to sync them. Ocaasionally I go down to my fav A/V store and try every machine on display to find a happy medium...yes I'm THAT good of a customer...