Question to SJJ1805

Ladislaus · Post by **Ladislaus** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:29 pm

This polite question is on 'Suggested work flow for video creation'
in VS9 etc

I select EDIT, drag the clips on Time Line(VS9) to make a project. Then I clicked 'save' and closed the programme.

Then I open the programme((EDIT) later and click 'OPEN PROJECT'
I find the named project in D drive

In para 3 of 'Step 2 Edit', ..... You save this large text file as a VideoStudio
Project file.....'
What steps do I take to achieve this?
Is my file in the d drive no longer a project file?
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In para 5 of 'Method 1' to work out in advance the appropriate bit rate
and quality settings to fit into the DVD, has this got to be done in 'create disc' page and then go back to the 'create video file' to render. If so how do I save it before going into 'create video file',
Or is it automatically saved or un-necessary

Sorry for the long question and Thank you for your excellent
tutorials some of which may take ages to understand as I am totally
alien to these terminologies.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu May 03, 2007 12:44 am

Ladislaus
Thank you for bringing these ambiguities to my attention. I have slightly altered some of the wording so that hopefully it will read a bit more clearly.

In para 3 of 'Step 2 Edit'
You save the project file using File | Save or alternatively File | Save As
You are then prompted to give the project a name.

In para 5 of 'Method 1'
You then render this video using those settings by selecting the Share Tab and then Create Video.

Ladislaus · Post by **Ladislaus** » Wed May 09, 2007 9:55 pm

Thank you for the update on 'suggested workflow for video' and the reams of information, including the ' misconception in the 2 video formats, AV1 and MPEG I am now reading to get to the bottom of 'editing Tech.'

Thank you also for your excellent tutorials I am now discovering as a new comer to VS .

Ladislaus · Post by **Ladislaus** » Sat May 12, 2007 12:49 pm

Another question please?

Following Method 1 of 'Suggested workflow......creation', I think I managed to create a brand new file in D drive by naming it differently. and it appears in the d drive, as another VSP file.

I also notice 3 Nos 'uvs.......WAV' named files on the d Drive after creating an 8mt. long audio track using the inbuilt sound of the VS9.
I do not know what they are and from they came from.

I right clicked on all 3 of them in turn, there is no sound as the indicator travels along, but the duration does not correspond to the 8mt. duration of audio I created as an introduction

Under method 1 'It is no longer a project file, it is now a stand alone playable video'. I right clicked on the new VSP file in d drive I created and clicked 'play', but there is no sound.

I understood that by creating a new file in the D drive one could check( listen and see) the whole edited project before rendering. Please could you help me out?

I see some light at the end of the tunnel sometimes, but as I progress it seems to fade away and I am in the dark again.

Thanks again.

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Sat May 12, 2007 8:11 pm

if you followed the procedure and created a brand new video file it is NOT a .vsp file - especially if you can "play" it - it is either an mpg or an avi depending on what you chose to create.

Does it have the extension .vsp ???? - or do you have extensions hidden and are just guessing that it's a .vsp.

The 3 .wav files are almost certainly your sound track - does the name of them match the name of the file in your timeline soundtrack - it sounds as though you are not actually recording anything - when you click on "Record Voice" in UVS a dialogue window should open with a horizontal volume test bar - if you talk into your microphone at that point do the coloured bars move at all - I find that the best setting is when the bars *just* reach each end of the bar

Do you have any sound at all in your video - say from the original tape - or from a music soundtrack - is it just the narration your missing or all sound ??

Ladislaus · Post by **Ladislaus** » Sat May 12, 2007 10:32 pm

Brian Cee.

As a novice I am a bit confused. Please bear with me if I could start from scratch, what I did.

I was given a DVD ; which I was able to play on my stand alone player
to add some back ground music -duration 43mts.

First I used MF4 disc creator, to import, add menu and saved in my d drive as .dwz file.

Then I opened the file using VS9 and dragged it to STORYBOARD view and I was able to listen to this video. in 'CLIP' MODE.Then I addedd 8secs of audio using a file from the VS9.
I then stopped for the day and saved this file(project?)

When I opened VS9 later, it appeared as a .vsp file
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The uvs files may have been due to connecting the small microphone to the computer and checking if it worked, There was no sound, Later realising that I had to increse the volume by using WINDOWS audio mixer,
which I did not know how to access from VS9.
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Can you please take me from here how to add back ground music using a cd,whcich I did but I was not able to listen when I clicked 'play selected track'.
Thank you for your patience

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Sun May 13, 2007 2:28 pm

Ladislaus wrote:When I opened VS9 later, it appeared as a .vsp file

Yes that is correct - you work all the time with the .vsp (project) file until you have finished ALL your editing and adding sound and titles - then you go to "Share >> Create Video File" to make a new video which has all your changes in it

Ladislaus wrote:Can you please take me from here how to add back ground music using a cd,whcich I did but I was not able to listen when I clicked 'play selected track'.

I see you have posted this as a new thread HERE and have received an answer already - which is what I also find is the best way to work - use Media player (or any other audio programme you may be familiar with) to rip the files from the CD as .wav's to a sensible folder - then import the .wav to VideoStudio. Might seem slightly odd especially as VideoStudio appears to allow importing of CD tracks - but it doesn't always work that way.