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Displaying closed captioning

You may use one of two methods for displaying the closed captioning when the video is played:

•Instruct your audience to turn on captioning:

In Windows Media Player 7 and 8: from the View menu, choose Now Playing Tools, and then choose Captions from the submenu.

In Windows Media Player 9: from the Play menu, choose Captions and Subtitles, and then choose On if Available from the submenu.

•Create an HTML page with the Windows Media Player embedded in it. See the online help for a sample HTML page.

Resampling video

Resampling allows Vegas software to interpolate frames in an event when the frame rate of a media file is lower than the project’s frame rate. With resampling, the intervening frames are interpolated from the source frames, much like a crossfade between the original frames.

You can instruct Vegas software to resample the video of a single video event or to resample the entire project at the time of final rendering:

• To resample an event, right-click a video event and choose Properties from the shortcut menu. In the Video Event tab of the Properties dialog, choose the Smart resample, Force resample, or Disable resample radio button. For more information, see Accessing event properties on page 174.

•To resample the project, choose Render As from the File menu. In the Render As dialog, click the Custom button to access custom rendering settings. Select the Resample the frame rate of all video check box. For more information, see Customizing the rendering process on page 311.

The original media file looks something like this over three frames.

To convert these three frames into nine frames for a faster frame rate, Vegas software must generate the intervening frames.

Without resampling, the intervening frames are simply the previous frame repeated.

With resampling, the intervening frames are interpolated from the source frames.

It is similar to a crossfade effect between the original frames.

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