Alen Koebel
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Update (FWIW): I tried doing what I described in the trial version of Vegas Pro 10. It didn’t work. The problem of how to get rid of this particlular camcorder’s FPN is evidently more complicated than I assumed. What did work however, is, the Neat Video noise reduction plug-in (again, tried the demo version). But frankly, used at the highest level I could tolerate that _didn’t_ destroy too much detail, it was not much if any better than Mike Crash’s Smart Smoother plug-in, which is a whole lot faster (not to mention free). Interestingly, using Mike Crash’s temporal noise reduction plug-in (the other one he offers) actually made the pattern noise much easier to see by getting rid of the random noise. Not surprising in retrospect.
Re needing Pro, ironically if I were using a better (more $$) camcorder and had more experience shooting video, I wouldn’t need some of the advanced festures of Pro that I said I could use. I guess the lesson is you end up paying somewhere along the line. 😉
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Thanks. I knew this had to be basic, which is why I posted it here. Somehow I missed that in the Vegas 10 manual, but there it is on page 331 (I’m using the trial version). Can you see the egg on my face?
Regarding Movie Studio, which is what I actually have, I can only hope Sony adds that and the other compositing modes to v12. Heck, here I am editing my first video (remember when?) and I find I already need subtract and could use event velocity control, two of many features not in Movie Studio.
Second question: Does anyone know of a workflow whereby I could do subtraction for my purposes outside of Movie Studio (or other NLE), either by creating an intermediate file or frame serving one to Movie Studio? Is it possible to use avisynth to do the latter? It seems crazy to me that I can’t do a relatively simple mathematical operation (as these things go) like subtracting two video files without springing for Pro. Can any other low cost NLEs do it?
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For posterity, another fix I discovered for this problem in Vegas Movie Studio Platinum HD version 10 (what the OP specified): Replace the compoundplug file I/O plug-in with the one from a trial of version 11.
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I don’t know if this will help but many users complaining of crashes when trying to edit HD with various versions of Movie Studio found that a workaround solved their problem. Your problem is not their problem, but it might be worth a shot if you’ve tried everything else short of upgrading to Pro.
For 64-bit systems:
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=697122
For 32-bit systems:
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=697083 -
[Dave Haynie] ” It’s even possible you’ll have enhanced xvYCC color space… some camcorders support extended 8-bit color, and the HDMI specs allow for up to 16-bit color “
I know you know otherwise but this sentence makes it sound like xvYCC and Deep Color are related or even the same thing. When you get them at all you often get them together, and the latter can make the former look better, but they are technically different and can be implemented independently.
(PS. Before you conclude I need a lesson in display technology you might want to look me up. No need for me to look you up, OTOH. To us past Amiga fans you are practically a legend. 🙂
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Gosh, how many years back does the word “newer” cover for you? My Philips TV is over three years old and it accepts 1080p60 just fine, both from HDMI and the YPbPr inputs. Displays it at 60p too (tested with a Quantum generator). When I was shopping for a TV back then plenty of models had this capability.
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Project properties conform to the input file, which is 1920×1080 at 59.94 fps (progressive). Render settings are exactly the same. Bitrate Viewer reports the original clip averages ~24Mbps and I am trying to re-compress the clip with no changes to 16Mbps, 8MBps and 4Mbps bit rates using the “Sony AVC/MVC” codec. Video format is AVC. Main or high profile doesn’t seem to make a difference. The Entropy coding is set to default (CAVLC, IIRC). Basically I’m just trying to re-encode with higher compression.
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FYI, for anyone who finds this thread who is hopeful it will work with Version 10 of Vegas: I tried it for importing clips from a Samsung HMX-H200 and while it did fix the audio stutter it made the video stutter instead! What ended up working was the procedure described in https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/910863
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See this post:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/910863The conversion described at the end worked for me (I have the HMX-H200). It’s a pain but you could write a script to batch process all .mp4 files in a directory.