Al Bergstein
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Process automation.However, it would be more helpful if it automated multiple jobs simultaneously (3 or 4 projects uploaded at once). Maybe there’s a way to link it to a script, etc. In FCP I can push a bunch of projects into compressor, and then upload automatically to Youtube, like this extension does for quantity 1. I’ve not played around with it enough to know how I can add this to other output tools, but maybe the OP will clarify this. As it is, it’s marginally useful.
Alf
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I assume it supports 64 bit?
Alf
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Brandon, I would add that you seem to be underpowered in RAM for the rendering you are doing. (John, would you agree?) 4GBs on a 64bit W7 machine seems like the low end of the range. If you can even afford to bump to 6 GBs you probably will find things go faster. 8GBs would be my recommendation.
Processor: Is this machine a multicore? I assume so. 4 cores or 8?
Hard drives: Also are you doing all this on one hard drive? You might want to consider additional eSata drives to hold some of this rendering and output. The faster the better. I didn’t see if you have everything on the C drive, but trying to render to the same drive as your OS and application is on can lead to contention between the two, especially if you are low on hard drive space. Give yourself lots of headroom on the C drive, (never fill a drive to over 80% of drive capacity consistently).
A interesting thing to do while rendering or working, especially with dual monitors, is to bring up Performance Monitor and watch the use of disk and memory by the machine while these things happen. It can be instructive.
Alf
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I agree Michele. I use both Final Cut Pro and Vegas on a regular basis. I much prefer Vegas though I long for some of the effects that third parties provide for Apple and Adobe. (the templates for things like lower thirds, etc. need some updating, in my opinion).
But my setup, like yours, is usually very stable. Some crashes have recently cropped up due to my buying a Canon T2i, and it’s implementation of MOV files. But all of us are ahead of the manufactures in general with these incredibly high def consumer video cameras, like Canon. The file sizes they create are huge.
I also I think that many of the issues people run into have to do with the wide variety of hardware that Windows supports. There’s huge variety of hardware, manufacturers, cameras, etc. Other vendors, like Apple, force a narrow set of guidelines that they own, while any of us with any old Windows computer with enough RAM and hard drive, can use Sony. And yes, it’s pretty stable. Best of luck, and I can tell you that you came to the right forum for support issues. John and others are great.
Alf
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I wonder…. I have no problems with my Panasonic AVCHD codec, moving it to Quicktime. Just finishing a 16 minute documentary, shot exclusively on an HMC 150 and AVCHD, and have used the footage on both a Mac with FCP (injesting into FCP’s pro res) and into Vegas natively, then rendering it out in Quicktime and others. Not sure why I had no problems with any of this while others are experiencing them. Could be the old Apple vs. Sony (really Apple vs. the rest of the industry)situation? Sony, who cowrote the AVCHD Codec (as I understand it) hasn’t perhaps implemented it properly? Do you have problems with AVCHD in any other situations, which aren’t relying on QT output?
Alf
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Depends on whether you need something truly portable or not. I am running a newer Samsung with i5, 6 GBs RAM, 500 GBs hard disk, 15″ monitor, eSata output, etc. Something with those specs is my minimum for HD editing. It’s heavier than I prefer, but it cost me less than $900 in May. HP has some nice laptops that are much more expensive but very powerful, and some that are in that same price range. Dell has some nice ones too. I don’t love HP as they load up with crapware, and I not wild about some of their keyboards (personal prefs). Dell seems to be fine for me, but others don’t like it, it seems. I really like the Thinkpads, but they are pricier. I am not wild about the monitor on this Samsung, but it gets the job done. The keyboard layout takes some getting used to, as it has a numeric pad, which I prefer. I liked the eSata port.
If you are in the area of a Best Buy or something like that, you can put your hands on some of these.
Hope this helps.
Alf
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I didn’t need to install the 32 bit version of the OS first. It works just fine. So something got hosed in your install, or you might not have installed some component that Vegas needs. I don’t know what it might be, but whatever uses that .dll should be reinstalled (WMP?)
As to needing 64 bit, you need it if you are going to be running HD editing, as you will run out of RAM quickly editing .mov or AVCHD files. 32 bit windows only accesses, at best 2 GB of RAM, (with some more able to be accessed but by the time you load the machine with apps in memory, etc, it’s not really accessable. So running a multicore machine with 4 GBs or better is going to make a big difference in rendering time, etc. Just put on performance monitor when you render.
It’s well worth sticking with 64 bit, unless you use a lot of plug in’s that aren’t yet running in 64. But heck, you can load both 32 or 64 on Windows and use whatever you need!
Alf
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Yah. I would like a tool that more consisely tunes whites (yes I always white balance in the camera), but I recently had an opportunity to set white balance on a taping of a band, which wore white pants onstage (they were a Brazilian act), and I edited it both FCP and Vegas, due to some reasons I’ll not get into, but the FCP balanced video ended up, to my eyes, “better” than the Vegas one. I could not tune the balance as well. I see that Boris has a color balancing tool as part of their Vegas plug ins, and I will probably test it soon. If anyone has experience with it, I’d like to get their input.
Alf
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I agree with Frederic. IMHO, FCP does a better of white balance than Vegas, I’ve found. Maybe we (I) should be adding the newer Boris FX? Anyone compare the two/three?
Alf
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Yep, as posted elsewhere, I’m also experiencing very similar problems on a similar platform. As also stated elsewhere, try converting the .MOV files, and apparently there is a free piece of software that came with the Canon cameras to do just that, so you might not have to buy Cineform (I did). Given that I also have been having no problems until I started using .MOV (I just edited and rendered to DVD an hour of interview in AVCHD without conversion), my pea sized brain thinks that Sony is having a hard time with MOV and though they like to claim they can ingest anything, it’s time to do like the big boys do and convert most stuff coming in. You guys with the HDV…sheesh…good work not upgrading to the “latest and greatest”. The amount of conversion I’m doing down to SD makes me wonder about it as well!
Alf