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Mysterious lagging phenomenon on freshly-rendered file
Have a VHS tape in my project that I was working with and re-digitized on nicer hardware (ADVC-300). Rendered using mpeg2, same bitrate as original file, same file size, same hard drive.
Now, when I load it into vegas it causes serious lag whenever I’m viewing/editing it. I did the same thing with another tape, no lag.
Any ideas? I’ve re-rendered again, made sure audio bitrate is same, no dice. What the heck?
I can post a file portion if anybody wants to take a looksy
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If Vegas is have issues with one file but not another, there has to be a difference in the file. The contents on or the type of tapes are not a factor. Use mediainfo or Gspot to tell the difference in the files. When you say “”Rendered using mpeg2”, do you mean captured as?
Danny Hays
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Whenever I have digitized a VHS tape, the capture process has produced a file as its output. I have always used that file in Vegas. There has never been a decision about bit rate for either audio or video. Does the ADVC 300 do something different than this? You seem to be converting that original file. If that is correct, I am curious as to why you are doing that. The conversion should produce something like what is produced when a DV tape is captured, and Vegas should have no problem with such a file.
The first obvious thing is to look at your preview setting. If it were set to Best/Full, that would definitely cause a lag in the preview. Also, are any special effects being applied? You should probably also tell us which version of Vegas and how fast your machine is.
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As Danny mentioned there is a difference in the file format why one works
smoothly and the other doesn’t.
Do you see issues after the final output is rendered?Steve Rhoden (Cow Leader)
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Why would you render the DV capture to MPEG2? DV is going to be as good as it gets from the ADVC-300.
If the project timeline is lagging when it hits the DV footage, I would check the project properties of the DV file. Make sure the dll being used is Sony’s, and not some other company.
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So I got spooked by the original DV-avi file size and compressed them to mpegs. I went back to the original dv-avis (which were occasionally too long because I left the VCR/ADVC running), trimmed them up, and used them (in all their 28Gig glory) and the syncing was better than ever.
I noticed vegas could much more accurately sync the audio-video with those files than the original old mpgs I was given before I recaptured the tapes. Also, the ADVC gave me a way larger audio ceiling – there was clipping all over the place on the old mpegs I was given (captured straight from a VCR with USB), audio was in general much cleaner as well.
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