Overman's Moviestorm Render Workflow

Thank you very much Overman. That did the trick.

I have shown your movies to my girlfriend to explain why it is that I've been falling asleep on my keyboard. They are clever and show some real technical excellence.

I still have a few questions about VMS though.

As MS outputs at 25fps should I be adjusting VMS to do the same?

It appears that VMS doesn't rip the audio from the files. Do I need to run the dialogue through MS to get the lipsync and then add the dialogue in post production? As of now, I don't plan on using MS for audio so this wouldn't be a hassle.

Thanks.

Glad to help!

While MS only outputs at 25fps, yes I would definitely set your editor to render out at that same framerate. It'll not only be best for quality to keep them the same, but will also greatly improve your render speeds out of Vegas if it doesn't have to try to interpolate any extra frames.

The sound is in the MS video, but yeah, Vegas (even the Pro version) doesn't recognize it for me. I use Goldwave (www.goldwave.com, friendly shareware) to open the video file and then save the audio track. Revdoug found a utility I haven't tried but is reported to get the same job done:

http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/forum/posts/list/1153.page

Like you, I don't plan to use Moviestorm's audio as any kind of final... but it's definitely helpful to have that "scratch track" versus trying to visually line things up with the lipsync.