"Deterioration and Dropped frames"

Eon42

Eon42

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I don't know if 'deteriorate' would be the best word - I was just trying to use alliteration to make a semi-catchy title... Rambling aside - here are my questions: 1) I remember when I was using editing programs at a younger age, I found myself rendering AVI videos which were made up of previously rendered videos, and the quality seemed to suffer from it. Does this happen with Vegas? Reason I'm asking is because I was stupid and shot a short film using letterbox mode - (which is a nusiance when color correcting various clips, the letterbox bars change shades) I was gonna just render everything together and then add letterbox on to the rendered vid and render it again. Is this a stupid way of approaching it? Should I just add letterbox to every single clip? What about this 'pre render' thing I hear about? Uhgg... Oh! 2) Dropped frames. Apparently out of 30 minutes of footage from my one tape - I have 55 dropped frames. Video footage seems fine to me - Does the term "dropped frames" always necessarily mean that it's garbage? I thought dropped frames usually occured between segments of footage where the blue screen is evident... Man, i'm so new to 24P and Vegas. HELP!
 
Anyone have a take on this? I know the questions may sound ridiculous - If so, don't feel shy to point it out. I tend to worry about pretty much everything and the replies I sometimes get is "Why don't you just try it out for yourself kid..." lol, but seriously - I love the help I recieve on this site - Both friendly and critical :) Any suggestions on either topic would be greatly appreciated (***cough, david, cough cough***) lol
 
You can crop every clip (which isn't that hard; crop one, copy it, then select all the others, right-click on one, and choose "paste event attributes" -- but do it before you add any effects), or you can add a mask on the highest layer and run it through the length of yoru timeline. I usually do the former.
 
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