Allen Zagel
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Hi Steve
Well, I needed a new laptop. So I gave my old Toshiba brick (9 lbs) to my son. I figured that Mac’s never had the problems windows has and with the new Intel Mac’s and Apple’s Boot Camp IO could get a new Mac Book Pro (4.5 lbs – or was it 5.4?), Install XP and still have MY Vegas.
So I got the MBP, but then decided to try out Final Cut Express. Price was right! 😉 Even was able to get a 200gb 7200rpm drive in the MBP + it came with 2gb RAM and dual core 2.66gHz and even looks great.
When I replace my current editing computer I’ll definately have Vegas + Cinescore, Acid and Sound Forge as well.
Allen
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Yea, and what would really be a dream come true is Vegas for MAC! ha ha – probably never happen!
IMHO the intel MAC’s and OS 10x got it all over windows!
Allen
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As a point of interest (and history), On Location is the old DV-Rack and that along with Ultra was originally developed by Serious Magic, recently bought by Adobe. I realy wish Adobe would have ‘ported’ both programs for their MAC version of CS3. Both programs were still available for almost a year as stand alone before Adobe took them off the market to include in CS3. Yes, both are still windows only! ugh!
Both programs are quite well known in some circles. I have the original DV-Rack from Serious magic and was able to buy the DV-Rack 2 HD from Adobe just before they took it off the market.
There’s other great keying programs available including the one built into Vegas and Final Cut (Express) but the thing that made Ultra so great was the sets you could get. I don’t think there’s anyting like DV-Rack available now though except for On Location.
Allen
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Hi Spot
I probably should have spelled out Architect but the A was there!
😉 (DVDA)Allen
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what were your settings? Unless your video was unusually long, 1h 50″ or so it probably would be better rendering your MPEG/Audio streams directly in Vegas. There’s a template for NTSC DVDA.
Allen
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DSE will have to respond but I have a few training DVD’s and the files needed for the projects were also on the DVD.
Where did you find this video? Did you buy a DVD?
Allen
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Check out AVCHD Upshift from Vasst.https://www.vasst.com/product.aspx?id=bf3e2d5a-7c2e-4969-a8dd-7cee2cefba30
Guess I’m lucky in that I just bought a new MacBookPro and Final Cut Express. I understand that FCE and the new intel based MAC will natively edit AVCHD stuff but not owning a camera that shoots it I don’t know for sure.
Allen
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For what you want to do, IMHO Acid would be all you’d need then. Plus maybe some of the Digital Juice stuff, of which DJ is having some really great sales going on right now. You can get their SooundFX series for FX and their Stak Trax for layering music. you can turn off tracks of the musical scores to create your own special pieces. Also they have a Back Trax series.
I asume you know that Vegas originally started as an audio program so I’d question the need for Sound Forge. You can do most all your mastering right in Vegas to save money.
I have Acid, Cinescore and Sonic Fire Pro. Got the most use out of SFP for my uses plus the DJ stuff.
aLLEN
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Also stay away from USB. It’s the slowest of the bunch. Most all newer computers today have SATA drives which are fast. You can also get a eSATA card and use eSATA which is actually faster then FW.On my Mac Book Pro I have a LaCie 500gb external drive. It has connections for all the outputs. USB, FW400, FW800 (Mac Only) & eSATA. In looking at the specs for all of them I opted to use the eSATA and it’s great.
As far as brands, everyone has their favorites. Mine being LaCie and Seagate. I have the Seagate external on my PC’s as well as WD My Books and only 1 Maxtor left. It seems for me, I run through 1 or 2 WD and Maxtors a year but never had any problems with the 2 I mentioned.
Allen
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Hi Nick
In the first place you should really never store video files or your render files on your C drive. That’s just asking for problems.
In Vegas Prefs, you can specify the drive and folders for Vegas Tmp Render files as well as capture files. Capture directory is set in the capture utility.
You should specify a 2nd HD, IMHO an internal one for all your media and rendering. Then when you finish a project, sometimes I have to go and manually empty the TMP Render folder or it will build up and fill the HD eventually.
Were your figures just representative or are you talking a 20gb HD? No where near being big enough. I’d look for at lease a 500 or more GB HD. Prices are quite reasonable now. I have 2 external HD’s I use for storage. Seagate 750 and a MyBook 300 both FW connections.
Also if you already have been using your C drive for rendering and file storage, you got to find the TMP Render directory and delete it and move the clips to the 2nd HD. They’re usually in the Documents folder. (that’s the default).
Allen
ASX Media Group, Inc.
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