Sony slow load

[John Rofrano]

[Gary Zaccagnini] “I am shooting HD video and stills with a Canon 5d. I am converting the medium-RAW still files to 16-bit TIFF. My video will be roughly 20 minutes long. Where is my bottleneck?”

Your media is the bottleneck. Vegas Pro 10 is said to handle Canon 5d files better but they are slow on Vegas Pro 9.0. Also I would use PNG or JPG files. TIFF is not the best format to use with Vegas.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Gary Zaccagnini]

Thank you for the info. I left out one piece of info, maybe important. I run the video files through NeoScene before I import into Sony Vegas. Somebody here recommended NeoScene…maybe you? I forget, but does this make a difference?

[John Rofrano]

[Gary Zaccagnini] ” I left out one piece of info, maybe important. I run the video files through NeoScene before I import into Sony Vegas. Somebody here recommended NeoScene…maybe you? I forget, but does this make a difference?”

So your project consists of only NeoScene Cineform AVI files and TIFF files? The Cineform files should load easily. I would try converting the TIFF files. Is the hard drive lite on a lot while loading? I would make sure that the drive you are loading the Cineform files from has been defragmented. Cineform files are quite large and could take a long time to load if there is lots of fragmentation on the drive.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Mike Kujbida]

IrfanView is a great, fast and free utility to batch convert images from one format to another.

[Gary Zaccagnini]

Yes. The files are Cineform .avi, 16-bit .tif with a few .jpg’s. I believe you are right about the 16 bit tiffs and maybe the disk. I have ordered a new hard drive to load-level the disk access.

Will I give up noticeable image quality if I switch stills to .jpg? My focus has been on high quality video and still images. I am retired. I am doing video to record family history and pass it on to future generations. I am producing the video for a HD Vimeo account and possibly Blu-ray or Blu-ray’s successor.

Thank you

[Gary Zaccagnini]

Thank you. I have downloaded the program. I haven’t had a chance to put it through its paces yet, but I saw immediately it has a Canon RAW conversion which is great. I have been using Canon’s freebie.

[John Rofrano]

[Gary Zaccagnini] “Will I give up noticeable image quality if I switch stills to .jpg?”

Not if you keep the JPEG compression low. I use JPEG’s for all of my HD work and have no quality issues.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Gary Zaccagnini]

Thanks for the help, guys. I just got my copy of Douglas Spotted Eagle’s book on Sony Vegas. He has a good chapter on stills, easy to understand, even for me. At first look, it seems like a good book.