Calling Vegas 6.0 users

[SuperKungFu]

Hey I just got Vegas 6.0 and I want to know what settings do you guys have on when editing and converting videos.

First, that jiggle effect when a plane flies past is done through Vegas, could someone provide a link where I can download that little add-on?

 

2.) Glowing Amraam, you always have the fancy blur effect in your movies, could you tell me how to do that? That’s like Photoshop within Vegas 6.0 which is awesome.

 

3.) When you convert the file to a windows media player (or .avi file) what settings do you use? Like uncompressed, compressed…etc. In the meantime I’ll read up on the manual. Any help would be appreciated!

[Sleek]

just outa interest how much did vegas set u back?

[SuperKungFu]

A little over 400 plus shipping and tax. That kinda burned a hole through my wallet lol.

[Glowing_Amraam]

Hey I just got Vegas 6.0 and I want to know what settings do you guys have on when editing and converting videos.

First, that jiggle effect when a plane flies past is done through Vegas, could someone provide a link where I can download that little add-on?

 

--- I don't know of any plug-ins that creates a jiggle effect, although i would really love to have one.

To create a jiggle effect, you have 2 choices:

 

1: Create the jiggle with your mouse in-game.

 

2: Create the jiggle in vegas by zooming in a little on the clip, then move the picture around using keying.

 

2.) Glowing Amraam, you always have the fancy blur effect in your movies, could you tell me how to do that? That’s like Photoshop within Vegas 6.0 which is awesome.

 

--- You'll find 3 different "blur" options in the "Video Fx" section. "Gaussian blur" is the one i usually use. Again, keying is the way to create blur, unless you want the entire clip to be blurred (as in the very intro of "tomcat tribute")

 

3.) When you convert the file to a windows media player (or .avi file) what settings do you use? Like uncompressed, compressed…etc. In the meantime I’ll read up on the manual. Any help would be appreciated!

 

--- I convert my movies to .wmv. I render at "best" picture quality, "CBR rendering", 648x480 resolution, "100% sharpness" (if that would be the correct term), and 2000 bit. Audio is PCM uncompressed, at 128kb. Just as small as mp3 audio.

 

I hope this helps and if some of this is wrong, then that would be my fault, as im having troubles with Vegas at the moment, so i had to delete it off my HD.. :icon_toil

[yiannos]

Hi GA,

 

I am a newcomer in the videomaking business and I am very excited. I have made my first attempt and have some questions:

 

1. What are your in-game graphics settings when you are producing a video?

 

2. Do you set any special values for your vga card's AA and AF? Or do you let them be set by the game? What is your video card?

 

TIA

[Glowing_Amraam]

Hi GA,

 

I am a newcomer in the videomaking business and I am very excited. I have made my first attempt and have some questions:

 

1. What are your in-game graphics settings when you are producing a video?

 

2. Do you set any special values for your vga card's AA and AF? Or do you let them be set by the game? What is your video card?

 

TIA

 

1. My graphical settings are set to maximum, 1280x1024 resolution, except for:

 

- View distance: Medium

- Water: High

- Mirrors in cockpit: off

 

2. I usually play with 4x AA and 8x AF, but when recording with fraps, i turn AA off (if i dont, my fps drops to 13 or so). I still keep my 8x AF though.

 

My graphics card is:

ASUS Extreme Geforce 7800GTX Top.

 

Hope that helps.

Cheers

[LawnDart]

GA, I'm surprised your rig isn't good enough for HD rendering with the settings you mentioned above. I typically capture with 4x AA and 8x AF in Full Screen mode sometimes as low as 9 fps. As long as I compromise and speed adjust up to a decent frame rate it still comes out looking sweet! I just rendered a clip today that was captured at <10 fps and after adjusted and rendered in pretty much the same settings you use (except 1280x720 and 3M bitrate) it came out silky smooth.

 

SuperKungFu, Just like GA said, I find keying to be the easiest, most efficient and best looking way to add "jiggle" or "shakycam". You can make it as shaky as you want or subtle, even make it look like a "steadycam" on a gimbal system outside a spotplane. Best part, it's all done post-capture, so you don't have to worry about it in Lock-On at all. Just follow the tip GA gave you to use pan/crop, zoom in a little and use key frames. You can also use keying with any video effect, crop, zoom and easily create professional looking results (albeit sometimes time consuming).

 

LD

[Glowing_Amraam]

GA, I'm surprised your rig isn't good enough for HD rendering with the settings you mentioned above. I typically capture with 4x AA and 8x AF in Full Screen mode sometimes as low as 9 fps. As long as I compromise and speed adjust up to a decent frame rate it still comes out looking sweet! I just rendered a clip today that was captured at <10 fps and after adjusted and rendered in pretty much the same settings you use (except 1280x720 and 3M bitrate) it came out silky smooth.

 

Well, capturing stuff at 10-13 fps isn't really an option for me for very intense scenes, with lots of stuff going on and stuff blowing up. The fps would drop even more when that happens, and i need to be able to have full control of the view to capture what i want.

 

One thing is using the F3 view and just sit and watch the planes fly by while you record, i use the mouse panning alot and the view is very very jerky at low fps.

 

Oh well....i think i'll find a workaround :P

[LawnDart]

Makes sense. I sometimes forget I capture mostly friendly flying with only 6 planes in action...:)