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AVI from one computer to another?
HELP!
I have a HP Pavillion Entertainment PC Laptop that I have always done my editing on with Sony Vegas Pro 8.0c. Always short films, and I was never really tortured by rendering time. Now I’m working on a couple of 95 minute projects that if I render them in a format that is going to end up looking like the original footage (1440 X 1080) I’m looking at 20+ hours to render each project.
My first question is why? Why does Vegas need to take so long? I have friends who use Macs and Final Cut that are laughing at me torturing myself. Apparently Final Cut renders in real time. Why can’t Vegas?
For now I’m stuck with Vegas. So I went out and got a quad processor desktop to MAYBE help speed up the process. I have all of my footage and Vegas files saved on an external hard drive. Some of the footage is from DVDs that I copied using Magic DVD Ripper. On the Laptop everything comes up just fine. On the Desktop, ONLY THE AUDIO COMES UP. No matter what I do, it just shows a generic AVI icon in the folder and in the Vegas project media bin.
Is there some reason why files will work perfectly on one computer in Vegas and not on another in Veags?
Please help!
Owen
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Apparently Final Cut renders in real time. Why can’t Vegas?
Dunno who is smoking what, but ahem…bullshi**.
Perhaps you don’t have an MPEG decoder installed on your machine? Perhaps you’re using copyprotected media?
There are a lot of variables here, but what you say points to codecs. What codec did Magic DVD Ripper encode to? If it’s an avi file, then it’s likely not the DV codec. Use a tool like Gspot to find out what codec was used.
Further, if you ripped content from DVD, how did you get source that is 1440 x 1080?Douglas Spotted Eagle
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I’ll check out the codec issue? When I looked into the properties/prefferences of Magic DVD Ripper, I saw that the Codec it used was “an internal mpeg4 codec”
Resolution… It’s not that the original format could have been 1440 x 1080 but if I render at 720 x 480, it looks square. If I do 720 x 540, the aspect ratio is correct but it doesn’t fill the screen. If I render at 1440 x 1080, when I get to DVD Architect it fills the frame and is the correct aspect ratio.
Now I have 2 new questions?
1. Let’s say I use the Codec tool and find which Codec was used. HOW DO I APPLY THAT IN VEGAS ON THE NEW QQUAD PROCESSOR COMPUTER SO THAT I CAN USE THE VIDEO AND AUDIO FOOTAGE OFF OF MY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE?
2. It only makes sense that if I render at 720 x 480/540 it would be correct on a dvd. WHY ISN’T IT? DO YOU HAVE THE PROBABLY NOT SO SECRET ANSWER THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR ME TO RENDER AT THE CORRECT RESOLUTION SETTING AND GET THE CORRECT RESULT ONTO A DVD?More info.
– The DVDs are film submissions for a film festival. I’m making a compilation. don’t think too much copyright protection is going on.
– The original project setting are at 1440 x 1080. Don’t know if that would cause the image to be compressed in the end.Thanks for getting back to me. I dream of the day that this will be smooth and simple. Hopefully you can help.
Owen
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