Al Bergstein
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Details of your computer setup, camera and format?
Alf
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A friend was shooting in HDV, and burning standard DVDs that looked ok, but when we finally took the same footage and burned it to Blu Ray, it was anything but “blurry”. It improved the footage considerably over burning HD to DVD. I routinely burn Panasonic AVCHD HD footage edited on Vegas 9.0e to both Blu Ray and SD and can say I have no ‘blurry’ footage from either.
Alf
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I’m a little new to needing to print labels on DVDs, but was wondering about getting a DVD labeler. As I read it, you can feed one DVD at a time directly into these things? Is it worth doing this over just printing a mass of labels? I find adhering the labels as needed pretty straightforward. Pros? Cons?
Alf
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sure Bruce. Send me email at alb13@me.com
Nice blog. Hope you are having fun down there, but the weather up the coast here and in Nanaimo is great! Of course, it’s getting to be “fogust” up here. But it’s the best of summer right now!
Alf
Alf
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Jesse, I wouldn’t worry about your machine, as I run a Samsung laptop with about the same specs for use when traveling with Vegas. However, I do experience odd playback issues with it, and sort of assume it’s the use of the C drive. To isolate the issue, try moving some footage to an eSata or fast internal drive if this is a desktop machine. It would be a cheap fix. USB doesn’t seem to work well, IMHO. I bought an eSata doc, and my footage is kept on that. Playback of HD footage with Vegas seems to be a problem in general, and I’ve gotten use to it not playing back properly. I don’t experience this on FCP, (I use both platforms for various projects). I think that Vegas has a problem they need to address, maybe it’s time for them to offload video processing better, just not sure that your issue is part of it. There could be something else going on. I’m sort of hoping to see some kind of upgrade by Sony that would address this issue of playback stuttering. I’ve optimized as best I can, and still get it. But I don’t get black screen like you describe.
Alf
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Jesse, just a question of your hardware. You are putting all your files on a separate drive from the OS/Program, correct? Do you have lots of free hard drive space on your OS drive and Vegas drive? And what amount of RAM do you have in your machine? Do you know the speed of your hard drive(s)? Since you are relatively new to editing, there is some fundamentals that are worth validating before assuming that Vegas itself is the root cause, like disk space, RAM etc.
But you did upgrade to the latest version of Vegas, correct? You did make sure your video drivers for your computer are up to date? Any major upgrades you’ve done since this problem started happening? Like adding a new video card? Sometimes the video cards have older software in the box and need to be upgraded almost immediately, for example.
Thanks in advance and no insult meant in asking these questions.
Alf
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Just to eliminate the ridiculous, did you check to see if your TV/Monitor is set properly? Mine sometimes ends up in this widescreen format when I watch some movies, and I need to reset it to watch an SD video on it. Just happened yesterday.
Alf
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I’ve read of people loading both 32x and 64x on their machines and running 32x for their plug ins. I’m not yet needing much in the way of plug ins, so have not confronted the issue. 32x on Windows 64 seems to be having way more problems than the 64 bit version. We should all be sending requests to the plug in makers that we use to get their upgrades done. And then buy them when they do!
Alf
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Yes, that all sound accurate (including the previous posts just prior to this). In looking at your original screen shots (the first batch) I saw that my post was inaccurate, and that you did have a C and D drive. My error. As to the pre-render location, my guess on proper useage would be that if you have lots of drive space on C, and don’t have another location to put this job in, then yes, use C (I do, and I don’t have a speed problem, yet). However, if I was looking for maximum speed of rendering, I think I would assume that I would want prerendering done on a separate drive than my OS and program files.
It would be great to see a white paper from Sony’s engineering staff recommending the ideal configuration for raw speed, best protection fo data, or least expensive setup (one or two non-raided drives). I assume the default setup is simply the most common setup for the bulk of users, and they allow you to change it as needed.
I routinely watch ResMon to see how Vegas is using my system. I don’t watch it the whole time, but like to keep track of things that change. Watching the four cores handle the streams is very interesting, in that it’s not uniform. It’s very different than seeing the same video streams operate in FCP. It’s my belief that Vegas is handling the multicores more efficiently than Apple does. That doesn’t surprise me in that it seems to be more “64 bit” than FCP is currently. I have no experience with Adobe in this regards. Reviews seem to be not getting to this level of performance. And of course, if you need plug ins, you might be running 32 bit, which seems to be having more than it’s share of problems lately.
Alf
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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