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Sony Vegas 9 head aches
I was wondering if anyone out there has had probs using footage from a Canon 5d mk 2 on Sony Vegas 9? Ive recently had a decent computer built and installed Vegas Pro 9 on it and it keeps falling over, especially when I import the 5d footage – it seems OK if Im just working with one or two short clips but if I import 8 or more the preview screen goes black and the system keeps freezing, sometimes when I try to render it tells me “System low on memory”, also if I use any kind of effect the preview stalls and judders – it does this even if Im not using 5d footage, like say DV AVI. Ive got a 5 year old but good computer running Vegas 6 like a dream but the new one is far from happy with Vegas 9.
I cant remember my new computer spec off the top of my head but it should easily run Vegas, its got a good quad processor a good graphics card and 8 gig of ram. In desperation Ive had both the Windows 7 (64bit) and Vegas 9 re- installed by a professional ( who can find nothing wrong with the computer or system) but this hasnt improved the situation. Any ideas???? -
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Most folks that I’ve read about using footage from this and similar cameras are converting it to a another format due to the same problems you’re having with it.
Epic 1 from DVFilm is one inexpensive (under $50) solution that’s worth checking out. -
From what I have read, the people who are having the smoothest workflow with this camera are using Cineform NeoScene ($99 USD @ Videoguys.com). NeoScene will batch convert all of your Canon 5D/7D footage to easy to edit Cineform intermediaries. It also performs chroma interpolation from 4:2:0 to 4:2:2 so it may even make your footage look a bit better (which I thought was impossible but one user claimed that it did and Cineform claims that it does so who am I to ague?) 😉
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Hey Dan, just wanted to chime in to let you know you aren’t alone. It had gotten so bad for me that I resorted to profanities and disparaging comments about the mothers of the Vegas 9 design team one night while filling out over a dozen crash reports. I can tell you that I just got Adobe CS5 up and running with a Quadro 3800 card and when it comes to hd editing, it blows Vegas 9 out of the water!
Don’t get me wrong I REALLY MISS the Vegas workflow, but whenever I would import anything beyond the most basic of AVI video, like you it would stutter, freak out, and crash. I still use it on occasion when I need to knock out something very basic, but when I really need reliability and power, I find myself using Premiere more and more.
I had been using Vegas exclusively for at least the past ten years, and now with all of the bugs in Vegas 9, and after investing so much to build a 64-bit system, I AM DONE WITH VEGAS! It seems like every version promises more and more, but delivers less and less.
Adobe really got it right with Premiere 5, I want everyone who is having major Vegas 9 issues to know that you are not alone, and give CS5 a chance!
Chuck
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I use both a Panasonic 150 and Canon T2i and have not experienced the issue of “memory” errors and crashes like you describe. I wonder, a couple of questions, excuse me in advance if these sound silly…
– How much RAM is in your machine? How many cores?
– Did you make sure that you loaded the 64 bit version of Vegas? I know, you may have been running 32 bit add ons, but I found that at one point, during an point upgrade of 9 (d to e or something like that), I had accidentally loaded the 32 bit version in the download, which is easier to do than I thought. I was getting crashes and errors, etc. When I reloaded the 64 bit, the problems vanished (knock on wood).I also convert everything using Neoscene. I don’t notice any quality improvements, and my file sizes grow enormously, (like using FCP!), but I do it to get everything into one format, take the load of Vegas to transcode, and can do it in batch with Neo. I delete the files after the editing process and archive the raw footage in the original format. You can see a quick comparison of AVI vs. MOV on the Canon by taking a look at a short comparison I did for my own education. Done at a friends house in Arizona.
https://www.vimeo.com/12256123
If I’m doing something wrong, would love to know. I certainly don’t claim to be an expert on these stuff!
Alf
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The DSLR plugin for Vegas, DVFilm Epic I version 1.1 is just out, this supports now
Vegas 9 32-bit
Vegas 9 64-bit
Movie Studio HD Platinum 10Features that might be attractive to CF or proxy users:
1) you can switch between video RGB and computer RGB with a button
2) 4:2:2 upsampling and 10-bit YUV mode is available for rendering
3) real-time playback with no transcoding, no file swapping, so you can start
cutting right awayThere are also some improvements in memory handling vs the standard Vegas QT plugin, so there is better stability for large projects containing DSLR quicktimes, see https://dvfilm.com/epic for more info.
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And the most wiered thing is that 5d footage works on m laptop and not on my edit station why is that
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