Aaron Star
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Looks like a few layers with Mask generator and a cookie cutter feather to me. Then overlay the other visuals with key framed opacity.
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+1 to Bob
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The 5770, 6970, 7970, R9 270x would probably be your best match for an i7-860. The 860 memory bandwidth, and CPU will not likely keep up with the 290x. That is not to say you will not see benefits over what you have. The older cards come with benefit of still supporting the MC mp4 encoder, but most either just output Sony AVC or use Handbrake.
On the P55 make sure your GPU slot is running at x16 with GPU-z. USB3 turbo mode on my p55 system steals lanes from the x16 slot dropping it to 8x. With overheads on PCIe, you want the maximum connectivity to your GPU.
Also make sure your RAM is operating at the fastest profile your motherboard supports. In the p55 case ddr3 1333 or PC3-10600. I also believe in 32GB RAM for the windows cache and running background instances of Vegas. Speccy can help determine some of this. RAM timing matter, but I find quantity is often times better performance than less RAM of low latency.
Make sure to uninstall the NVidia driver software before pulling the card, and get the systems back to the windows default driver. Reboot and run CCleaner, shutdown again, then pull the Nvidia card and install the AMD card/drivers.
Luxmark v2 is a good benchmark test for OpenCL, and verifying that your system is working well with opencl.
GPU-z and AMD system monitor are good tools to verify GPU utilization during timeline playback. Test Sony AVC, XDCAM, HDCAM-SR-lite, and XAVC media with effects to verify GPU acceleration in Vegas. Other workflows you will need to determine where the GPU acceleration problems are.
Upgrading over all from the 860 will give you the most bang for the buck. The 4th Gen i7 has improved instruction sets, more memory bandwidth, and PCIe 3 that has more bandwidth and less overhead (means more useable bandwidth.)
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I agree with John about the multiple backups. Drives from 2 different manufactures can help to protect against getting a “bad run” and having 2 drives fail at the same age. I do agree that WD or HGST are the most reliable.
LG has M-DISC which looks interesting and speaks to the issues with DVD plastic and dye failures. The downside appears that DVD media is quickly becoming the VHS of late.
Lately GDrive is starting to seem like a good long term storage solution. Gdrive allows 5TB uploads. Zip with no compression (no compression gains on codec files) and upload, pay the yearly storage costs. You do need solid upload bandwidth and this means business class internet, and not residential. This would be a long term storage solution, and so the files would not be instantly available like a usb drive, but has the added value of offsite storage.
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The Vegas UI is very old, like 1999 old, they chose a multi-window approach vs tabs. If you make your tabs windows of Vegas, you have pretty much the same thing. Changes to the nested windows are applied immediately in the master window. Save As is your friend vs New Project when you need a template with the same media. Alt-Tab quickly swaps you back and forth between the open instances of Vegas.
If your machine does not instantly swap between open Vegas windows, you need more ram in your system. Sluggish ALT-TAB is a very good indicator of not enough ram for your workflow.
I do think the tab idea would be useful, but after using the old UI for so long you get used to the quirks.
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You can do what you want to do, but not in the way you are thinking.
Save As a new version of your project. Then separate the video tracks from the multi-cam mode. Then use the track motion utility to create the multi-cam view. Now render that time line to the view you want. You can also use a blank top track, and apply the Timecode plugin, as this will allow your client to accurately tell you where to make changes. Timecode is also a good way to watermark your video as a draft and not final work.
Once you have an EDL from the client, you can apply the changes to the master project.
That’s how I would do it.
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Umm you can capture the HDMI port, its called a Blackmagic card intensity card with media capture app, or stand alone hyperdeck shuttle. There is also matrox, or AVID, or Osprey Video, AJA, Bluefish, Sound Designs. All of those seem a bit overkill for such an old school camera. You can ebay a new vexia with improved image quality, that shoots to disk for less than any of the above solutions.
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Have you thought about looking into ShadowPlay for recording? I believe AMD has a version of this as well integrated into their newer cards.
Also YouTube accepts XDCAM and XAVC, so you could try rendering to those codecs, and uploading directly to YouTube. You will need at least 10mbs upload to make that workable.
Plus there is this recent announcement from YouTube:
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One thought on this, make sure to not have run as administrator checked in the vegas short cut. When I used to run Vegas as admin, I was not able to drag and drop files to the timeline. Running at standard rights allowed dragging and dropping from different open instances of Vegas and windows explorer.
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No idea what your system specs are, but I would look at an R9 270x, with 290x being where you want to be. If you have 1st or 2nd gen i7, upgrading to a 4th or 5th gen i7 will give you better overall performance vs upgrading GPU.
Make sure to uninstall the NVidia software before removing card, and get back to windows display driver. Then install the AMD card and drivers.
Search other posts, as the GPU topic has been beat to death.