Angelo Mike
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That’s a lot of videos.
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Get DDR3 RAM, a motherboard with USB 3.0 ports, at least a quad core CPU (get one as fast as you can afford, because that really affects editing and rendering speed the most), a fast nvidia graphics card, and at least 2 GB of RAM for every core of your CPU. So if you have a quad core CPU, then at least 8 GB of RAM. Make sure the case and motherboard have multiple USB 3.0 slots.Also, get a PC case and motherboard with an external eSata port. Then you can buy an external enclosure for a hard drive to edit on that’s much faster than USB, though you can get an external enclosure with USB 3.0 as well (I use an external drive on an eSata port and USB 3.0, one to store my files and projects, and one to back them all up. BACK EVERYTHING UP. And do not turn off the external enclosure with the eSata cable, EVER, while the computer is on. I ended up having two hard drives crashing needlessly this way.)
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I had the same problem with my Radeon. The exact model was listed as compatible with GPU acceleration on Sony’s website, but nothing worked. I bought a GeForce GTS 450, which works, though eventually I’ll upgrade that. And even with that, if I get the latest driver, Vegas doesn’t work at all.
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You would use the TV Simulator for that. Just adjust the aperture grill, verticle synch, and maybe there’s some color adjustment I can’t remember.
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That’s interlacing. So the footage that you’re seeing those lines on has two fields of video for every frame, and they should be blended (or interpolated) into a progressive scan render. Check your render settings and make sure it’s set to progressive scan and that you have a deinterlace method set to either blend or interpolate the two fields.
Although…I’m not sure how you would deal with it if some of your footage isn’t interlaced. I mean, I don’t know how you should set your project settings, and whether you should set them to interlaced or progressive scan. I’m guessing interlaced.
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In my experience, no, absolutely not. I would download mpeg streamclip, which is a free and easy to use program, and use it to convert your avi footage into mpeg. Open your project, and when Vegas asks you to replace missing files, just pick the ones you replaced, and you should be able to complete your project.
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I tried this solution when Cineform avi files were giving me major problems in Vegas, and it didn’t work. I even emailed the guy who created this solution and he couldn’t help me.
Cineform avi has become a nightmare to work with in Vegas, at least for me. I’ve started editing footage straight from my cameras as AVCHD. It’s compressed, with lower chroma subsampling, and the compression means that previewing and editing can cause slowdown, but the improvement is massive.
I would suggest using the footage straight from your camera, which I’m pretty sure is mpeg. I used to edit footage on a Vixia HV30, and would use Cineform to turn it into 24 fps footage.
I used to just render the footage out to 30 fps progressive scan and interpolate or blend the interlaced fields. Make sure your project properties match your footage, and when you render out, I would think you can render to 24 fps progressive scan and blend or interpolate the footage. Or, right click the clips, click Properties, then “disable resample” to make Vegas pull the extra frames out. That might not work on the kind of footage you shot, so I’d do some tests on both in your most movement filled footage to make sure there’s no ghosting of frames.
Basically, stop using Cineform avi.
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The problems may be steadily going away, but for all this grief, all I’m getting for my lost time and stalled projects is GPU acceleration, some new plugins (which I largely don’t use), and NewBlue Titler. What a rip off.
Also, does anyone know how to get Vegas 11 to change how the “Escape” button works in full screen preview? On previous versions, hitting “Escape” meant that the preview would go back to a panel inside of Vegas. Now, it stops the video, the same as the space bar does by default. I looked through all the controls and typed in the Escape key to see if there was any way to change it, but I can’t. Did Sony really just take away this functionality? Because this may be my most frustrating experience with Vegas 11.
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I would just put the clip on the timeline. You can make it as short as you want on there.
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You can try Cineform Neoscene, though it’s at your own peril, in my opinion. I used to use that to convert my footage to avi, which played back faster than the AVCHD that came out of my cameras. And it can convert footage to 24p. However, avi footage has made Vegas unuseable to me after Vegas 9, and it now locks up any time I put avi footage on a project. So don’t delete the raw video, and you can try a free trial of Cineform Neoscene before buying it.
The other thing I think you could do is load your project and set the project properties to the 60i footage. Now, someone may correct me on the correct method, but from there, I believe you can just right click the clips themselves on the timeline, go to properties, and click “Disable resample”. That will make Vegas remove the extra frames when you render. And render your project to 23.976 fps and in progressive scan.
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