Aaron Star
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DVD Architect is politely telling you that your video exceeds the Blu-ray standard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray
The Blue-ray standard player spec is only 32mbs from disc, including audio bit rate.
28Mbs with audio would be about as high as you would want to go and maintain reliable playback on all bluray players.
I would render your project using on one the default Blu-ray profiles under Sony AVC.
Modern bluray players will support up to 60p now, but then you get into problem areas with older Bluray players. Best to stick to the standard.
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Plus one to all the 10bit 422 video for compositing reasons.
You could also find a hilltop or roof top, and shoot against the north blue sky. A polarizer can help with darkening the blue contract of your sky background.
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Moonlight is not really blue, it is daylight bounced off a grey bounce card. Seeing out the window is more of an issue of controlling your contrast ratio and color balance.
A duvatine hung to cover the window, or build a black out box outside the window to keep interior lights from falling on the black out. Then use desktop practical on squeezers on the desks both in foreground and background. reduce overhead lighting by a certain amount to achieve a look that is different from INT DAY OFFICE.
Blackout/Boxing windows
Interior Office Night
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=interior+office+night&FORM=HDRSC2An alternative would be to heavily ND the window, set exposure so that the exterior looks Day for night, and then light the office to match.
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You can add percentage width and height to you css that controls the video object.
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Not sure what would be off about HDCAM conversion. I would be interested in understanding this more. Can you upload comparison examples of the differencessence in the native formats?
HDCAM is what star wars:phantom menace was shot and edited in. Sure they used rgb444 mode of hdcam, but if something is off, you might not be doing a 1:1 conversion maintaining levels.
Cineform uses the avi container and that process will have the same limits as dnxhd in mov container. MXF will not have this issue.
If you really need to edit prores, and deliver in dnxhd, avid would be your best tool.
In vegas, prores to hdcam, edit, render hdcam, ffmpeg to dnxhd in MXF or prores. Ffmpeg can be scripted for batch conversions.
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Your master footage on the timeline is what resolution, codec, and bit rate?
Are the text items photoshop overlays, or sony text generator?
Ffmpeg might produce better results, and you can put the dnxhd into mfx container rather than mov.
If you are in 4k, vegas xavc-i to ffmpeg, to dnxhr.
If you are in HD, vegas hdcam sr or sr-lite, ffmpeg, dnxhd.
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Avid would be your best tool to work in DNxHD.mxf.
In Vegas, HDCAM SR Lite would be your comparable MXF format with 12 channels of audio. Most other NLEs will support HDCAM and XDCAM with additional sony plugins added, some will support without plugins.
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You say you checked for heat during render, and you ran Memtest through a complete cycle? 70C or below on CPU, GPU, and chipsets.
Are you overclocking memory or your system in anyway?
Does the Window application or system log show any errors?
Does WinSAT complete ok?
Will Luxmark v2 or 3 complete a render with CPU+GPU?
Are you using only Sony Effect plugins?
There are GPU settings under preferences and render as codec template, are both disabled?
Have you tried Sony AVC to .mp4 and does it do the same thing?
Does the system hang rendering to a default template in Sony AVC or MC MP4?
Have you tried rendering out to XDCAM-EX or HDCAM-SR-LITE and seeing if it stops at the same point? You can upload XDCAM directly to YouTube.
Have you tried rendering your time in sections around the area it stops? Maybe there is media corruption
In all the years of editing with Vegas, I have not had to delete the files you refer to complete a render.
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“I’m assuming I’ll import say, 20 prores files just to be safe, push them all together in my timeline and export those 20 prores files as 1 HDCAM file? Or is there a way to batch process those 20 files so they come out as 20 separate HDCAM files?”
Yes you have the rough idea, Vegas would be your batch tool using scripting.
You should read the help file on how to run scripts in Vegas.
Basically you go to Tools > Scripting > select the script you want to run.
Download this .zip file : Vegas-Region-Batch.zip
Copy the scripts to your Vegas Script folder:
“C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0\Script Menu”Open Vegas and you should see the scripts under the Tools > Scripting menu.
#1 adds regions to all clip events on the timeline.
#2 batch renders the clip regions to whatever codec you choose, or multiple codecs you choose.
You can use “Edit Details” window to copy&paste selected event names to the region names, or
just type the name you want into the region name field / Timeline Flag.Then run # 2 script to batch encode, and ignore the file naming field as this will be the region name.
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There are 2 separate discussions here. One on building proxies, and the other is just convert your Prores to HDCAM and edit. Clearly the proxy editing of the prores content has a show stopper, without busting up your edit into smaller chunks. Proxy edit is up to the editor to determine the best workflow that maintains the image quality from the source.
If you need to go to edit Prores and deliver in Prores, then edit on FCP.
I have never gotten the AVI to Cineform to work on my Vegas. I think I need the actual licensed version of Cineform to write that format, and the codec installed is read only.
If you are doing 10-bit or higher work, you should be doing your math with a precision higher than 8-bit (vegas project default.) The codec will compress what ever you feed it and store it a 422 10-bit file format. You can feed the codec 1-bit black or white video, but the codec will store that image as 10-bit 422.
Edit picture in 8-bit for speed. Color correct, set blurs, and render finals in fp32vl.
Converting to HDCAM, yes use Vegas timeline in groups of files.
Try your own timeline playback test on your footage in FP32VL project mode. On my machine the ProresHQ 24p clip I found:
Prores-HQ playback (170Mbs) is 16FPS
DNxHD conversion (210mbs-10bit)is 8FPS
HDCAM SR (360mbs-10bit) is 21.5FPS – showing lower overhead and optimization
HDCAM SR Lite (180mbs-10bit) is 21.5 FPS
Try scrubbing on the timeline quickly back and forth:
ProRes the frame counter gives a single wait indicator occasionally(…) as Vegas indexes to the frame.
DNxHD – the frame counter gives .. wait indicators (…) as Vegas indexes to the frame.
HDCAM no … indicators and instant scrubbing.
In 8-bit project mode that optimization in playback means smoother dissolves and more layers of composites with smooth playback, or real time effects.