[Alex Werner]

Hi, my question is quite similar. I’m using Vegas 8 and think about buying a new camera. The problem is I need a camera that shoots 1280×720 30p on a harddisk (quite a problem in Germany as most do only PAL 25p) and the material should be compatible with Vegas (without any re-encoding). It looks like the JVC GY HD110/111 with harddisk DR-HD100-80 is a winner.

Does anyone has any experience with this, or has a better choice of camera?

I looked into the Sony HVR Z7, but this one is hard to get in germany with the 30p (it’s actually illegal to import…)

[Alex Werner]

I actually have the same problem with the renderer just stopping after some time, if the whole video is either too long or quite big (like 720p at 12 minutes or more). One specific project always stops at 24% on one pc, at a different % on another one. I try to get around with a distributed rendering, but this is much more work as the video is uncompressed, and has to be compressed afterwards, so its one more step of calculation.
It seems to me Vegas doesnt handle the memory very well, as the used memory grows bigger and bigger – is it keeping the whole video file in the memory? My machines have both 4GB of RAM, lots of more space on the HDD and as virtual memory allocated. So the problem could be that Vegas isnt actually frozen, but extremely slowed down to almost standstill due to the extensive file swapping. But these are just wild guesses… any more info on this from someone?

alex.