[Angelo Mike]

I’ve had Vegas 11 do this a few times. It’s one of the many reasons I haven’t totally switched over to 11. For me, the problem was usually solved by either closing Vegas and opening it again, or restarting my computer.

What are you trying to render to? If you can reinstall Vegas 10, I recommend just finishing the project in there.

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[Angelo Mike]

Thanks, Mike. It wasn’t as hard as I thought-even though the length of the audio for each track wasn’t the same because after the event I was going to each camera and the Zoom H4N one by one and turning them off, I just found a spot very close to the end so that I could shorten the Zoom track to right after that spot, and then I changed the speed of the clip to match the other tracks and brought the track length back to where it belonged. That saved me hours of work.

Now, if only there was anything I could do about the sound guy who left for about two hours (which I didn’t find out about until the other day), which probably accounts for why a good amount of the audio from the Zoom sounds…well, messed up.

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[Angelo Mike]

I’ll probably report it to Sony at some point. I just can’t believe what I saw and how Vegas managed to do this. Of all the bugs I’ve had with Vegas, I’ve never seen this. Fortunately it only removed a single text event and nothing else. It added this shot I didn’t use, but it put it on a video track that was above almost everything else in the video, so all I had to do was remove that.

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[Angelo Mike]

I use Audacity. It’s free and very versatile. It’s not as powerful as software you pay for, but for what I do, it’s pretty much perfect.

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[Angelo Mike]

Under Options, about halfway down, you can uncheck Lock Envelopes to Events.

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[Angelo Mike]

The Vixia HF S21 breaks up files into 2 GB as well, but the workaround is simple. I installed the transfer utility disc and use that to transfer files instead of dragging and dropping them to my computer. That automatically combines them without dropping frames (which is what always happens when I try to group them from the 2 GB files).

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[Angelo Mike]

I shoot on Canon Vixia HF S21s, which seems pretty similar to the XA-10, and it shoots to AVCHD. AVCHD takes up a lot of processor power, and each version of Vegas seems to get better at running AVCHD footage faster. Unless you have a super powerful machine (and even then, because you’re not using 10 or 11, though 11 still has enough bugs where you should wait to purchase it) you’re going to have footage stutter in preview, especially if you add any effects.

What I used to do is run the footage through Cineform to turn it into avi, which also brought up the chroma subsampling to 4:2:2. The files are huge, though, but they play very smoothly on Vegas 9. Vegas 10 and 11, however, have had major problems running Cineform avi footage for me and have crashed constantly. 11 even sets all my avi footage to the wrong pixel aspect ratio.

Anyways, yes, you can run AVCHD. You should have a very fast computer and Vegas 10 to run it well.

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[Angelo Mike]

Thanks Mike. It will be a little bit of a pain/confusing because I didn’t slate anything, so the first thing I set to record was the Zoom. So I’ll have to find the end point (I have my beginning in sync, which works until the first hour or so ends). But I’ll try it and see how it works.

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[Angelo Mike]

I was reluctant to try that since it’s kind of an unknown quantity to me. I guess I’ll just go through it and try to listen for all the slips. Thanks.

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[Angelo Mike]

I’ve dealt with this, and usually it’s been easy enough to get around. When you go to burn a disc, if it’s too big, then there’s some option to “Optimize disc” or something like that. When you click on it, you can either click “Fit to disc”, or you can use a slider on the left to control the disc size, and you will see how big it will be on the right. Just find a spot that works that will be large but still fit on the disc.

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