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Down Res Timeline?
There’s a really cool feature in Quick Time Pro that let’s you down res the timeline so you can actually work with it.
I have a PC and Sony Vegas though. Trying to work with H.264 / MTS files that are highly compressed. They don’t preview well and are virtually impossible to cut on my system.
Curious if anybody knows of a way to down res them in the preview / timeline and or convert them to a manageable less compressed format.
I’m testing the trial of AVS video converter right now. But it’s something I have to buy. Hoping I can get something more reasonable / possibly free that works well.
Thanks!!!
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Vegas Pro 8c sees .mts files. If your version doesn’t see them try streamclip. it’s free.
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No it sees them fine it’s just that my computer struggles with that particular format. It really boggs down the processor and cutting them is choppy at best. So they’re virtually impossible to work with.
I’m curious about converting them to a different format and or down sampling them. This is a fairly common issue and Final Cut Pro (I’m taking classes in it), has a feature to down res while you’re editing in the timeline. Then when you’re ready to render it uses the full quality clip.
I’m curious if Sony Vegas has such a feature. Or if I’m forced to manually convert every video clip back and forth so I can cut them.
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[Matthew Jeschke] “I’m curious if Sony Vegas has such a feature. Or if I’m forced to manually convert every video clip back and forth so I can cut them.”
There is a plug-in for Vegas called VASST GearShift that will do exactly what you are describing. It lets you create DV Widescreen proxies for editing and then it can swap out the proxies for the original HD files for rendering. You can swap back and forth as many times as you’d like. There is a 15-day trial that is fully functional so you can try it for 2 weeks and see if you like the workflow.
In the interest of full disclosure I work for VASST. 😉
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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AWESOME THANKS! You guys rock. I’m so glad I signed up for this forum 🙂
I was struggling to create my documentary and think this will make it much easier.
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You can also use the free script proxy stream script (works in vegas pro 10 as well)from here: https://sony.vegas.1.free.fr
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