first sony vegas edited video. played with some effects.

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Do you know what really makes me smile? Facial muscles.

Im trying to use Vagas pro on my pc how do you do so-mo ?

i started using vegas without knowing a thing about it. everything to do with effects, transitions and whatever else i learned from youtube videos. search on there and if u dont find it i'll try explain it. seems there lotsa nerds out there eager to help...

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Do you know what really makes me smile? Facial muscles.

Hey Oz Vegas actually has a really good help feature, Try the "show me how" button or just click on help and type it in, you should find something like this

Cool, got to get back into producing. thanks

the same method can be used for fast forward motion. instead of dragging the selected clip out, hold ctrl and shrink it.
would like to know what settings you guys render in? i rendered in:
Custom (720x576, 12.500 fps) which is half pal and the clip was 1.2gb when finished. the only way i know how to shrink it for uploading to youtube was to open the finished video in windows movie maker and publish it on a low quality setting there. it ended up 117mb in .wmv file doing it that way, but did something wierd to the dimensions..

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You should base it on what your cam records at mate, do you know what it is? no point encoding it at 720* if your not shooting in that.

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Hey Blinky
Not sure if you'll have all these settings in Vagas, but when you export it, try to make the following settings. They reduce the file size heaps without reducing the quality too much.
Keyframes: 30
Data range: 1800 kb/s
Tick deinterlace
If its HD, the frame size 1280x720 16:9

This should get you 10 mins of HD in a you tube uploadable size. Holly Shite, I just saw they have increased max clip length to 15 mins!

thanks for the tips guys. just had a couple trial runs rendering/exporting with different setttings to get the file size and aspect ratios better. my utough 8000 records in 640x480 (not the hd model unfortunately) at 30fps. and this setting worked well for me:

In the "project video properties" button i put in aspect ratio of :
width: 640
height: 480
frame rate 15.000 (multimedia)
field order: none (progressive scan)
pixel aspect ratio: 1.0000 (square)
pixel format: 8-bit
deinterlace method: blend fields

when i went to "render as" in the file menu i put the following.
save as type: sony avc
template: internet 4:3 sd 30p

that left me with a 105mb .mp4 file (steels rocks vieo) good for uploading to youtube. it is at a sacrafice of frame rate and not as smooth as i'd like but might play with those settings a bit more later.
would love to see other peoples efforts you care to share?...

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Do you know what really makes me smile? Facial muscles.

pissa!

HAHA!!!! what a PISSA

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Ha Ha, that made me laugh, classic!

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