Al Bergstein
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I thought I remembered that you did shoot HDV, and I believe that it’s been thoroughly vetted with Vegas for a long time. Likely a good reason to continue to shoot it! And it’s Sony based (if it’s Sony’s HDV) so they have a real stake in making it work. Same now that they support AVCHD on their cameras, as soon as they did, their support of it improved. Not sure about MXF, but it seems to work pretty well. I’ve taken to rewrapping my MOV files to MXF via Adobe’s Media Encoder.
Al
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I agree with the notion of having your main editing workstation separate from the rest of your gear, and unchanging for as long as possible. The problem we all face is that security upgrades from MSFT, and all the software vendors introduce stabililty almost every week. I routinely always make a restore point before adding any new drivers, etc. If my video drivers are stable, I don’t upgrade them,ever. I also do a system image once a month, and prior to any major updates. I have no intention of moving to Windows 8 for as long as I can, as much as I like new features.
However, the issues with older versions of Vegas have been so random (one kind of crash vs another) and not repeatable (a crash could not always be replicated a second time), and that the machine was so stable for a competing product like Premiere, that it’s very hard to troubleshoot this stuff.
Not sure what kind of footage you throw on your machine John, I’m usually facing a mixture of MOV, and MXF from Canon. It shouldn’t matter and doesn’t on the competition.
I’m very glad that you are experiencing no problems yet. I’m even more glad that I’m not! After next week I’ll likely turn on my GPU processing in Vegas and see if that is causing grief. I assume I have to do that before turning on multi monitor yes? Or is multimonitor not related to GPU processing (i.e. for when you want to preview on a second monitor?)
Al
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I own a xf100 , xf300 and 7d. I agree with walter, that you will have a hard time getting a film look from a run and gunsmall chip camera. I have worked very hard to color balance and would to say that you will be lucky to do so.I love the 300 and the 100, but i also agree that ittakes a lot of forethought to get away from a video look with them. As stated, lighting, camera distance from subject (zoomed in from the right distance), all contribute to it.
If all you want if great filmic look between a higher end camera and a lower end (like the 7d), i would get a different camera (sorry).try the look between a GH2/3 and an AF100 would be closer to what you want, consistently.
But take a look at my stuff, all the theatrically lit stuff likely has 300/7d in them, I tryto label in the descr. This one in particular i had a hard time matching, very frustrating. I point it out because it is the worst of the lot for balance between the two.the video of 1968 at the same site might be the best.
Remember too, it seems to me, that a 7d at 24p, will also be more subject to blur if the subjects are low lit, and in motion. But work with learning those flatter picture files, like the BBC ones, for the xf300, and tone down the 7D as well. I have used settings from P. Bloom i believe. Flatter is better for what you want.
For my next work that needs a filmic look, I’m going to shoot with two dslr’s.or dslm’s. But to be clear, my clients love the 300 look! I am no longer a fan of the 7d for video. But work with what you got.
Al
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Great to hear that Steve. I’ll load it up after my latest batch of time sensitive projects are done.
Al
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Well, I will trial this one and see if they fixed the bugs that almost immediately crashed my simple edits in the beta. This was editing footage that I had edited in 11 with no problems. Single timeline interview, with simple cuts. There was no intermediate beta so this is it. If the trial fails again, I likely will have reached the end of the line with Vegas. I too have the 570 card and 8 GBs or RAM on an i7. Adobe is rock solid on this same machine. Multicam editing, when it works on 11, is much easier than Adobe, which is why I’m still hanging on. Overall editing is faster with Vegas, but more stable on Adobe.
The features and supposed fixes are great news. If this thing only stayed up for more than, oh say an hour, it could be a real contender. One thing that Vegas has over Adobe, which is huge, is that if you move footage, as we know Vegas can search for it even on one drive. Adobe cannot. Huge aggravation, as I have been rearranging drives for better efficiency. Adobe’s titling engine is fabulous, puts Vegas to shame. And of course, you have the dynamic linking to AE. No reason why Sony can’t get this improved. New Blue was just horribly buggy.
Al
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Just curious. Why are you transcoding? Couldn’t you just use it native? I’ve done that before. It seemed to work. Maybe that would help with the speed issue?
Al
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Greg, thanks, maybe this will give new life to my little used Mac Pro. I still have some needed Mac apps on it.
Quick Question: Does it matter which drive you format for NTFS? For example, my Mac has three drives in it, one OSX and two RAID1. (the fourth bay is dead, but don’t ask why…).
If I migrate the RAID1 to an external cabinet, does it matter whether I’m putting the newly formatted NTFS drive in bay 0 or not? (essentially replacing the OSX drive? Or should I put it in bay 1 or 2 instead. It would seem to me that it won’t matter if I replace the two RAID drives with two new hard disks, use one for Windows 7 and one for the Mac. (and the third for data).
The biggest problem I see in doing this at all is that the Windows partition won’t see and write to the Mac formatted drives, correct? And the Mac OS won’t be able to write to NTFS drives. Do you have external NTFS drives you connect when you are booting into Windows?
What am I missing in this equation?
Al
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I’m really glad to hear that. Might give it a try.
Al
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Get the vegasaur render to youtube plugin, that solved it for me.
Al
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Gtx570 is a supported card for Vegas and for adobe. Works fine for me in CS6. Crashes in vegas 11 $ 12.
It’s the poster child for xdcam accelleration on their web site, so i bought it believing it just might be more stable too.http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro/gpuacceleration
I ask because multicam is easier to use in Vegas, but can’t deal with crashing.
If it’s simply a matter of down or upgrading a driver,I’d do it. But I’m running the ‘correct’ version.
Then again, maybe i don’t need gpu accelleration for multicam on an i7. i’ll try it out w/o.it.
Al