Bob Peterson
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My videos do just fine with the files produced by the camera. I don’t think that converting to another format can improve the video.
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Are you sure your frame rate is 50i? I would expect a Canon DSLR to shoot progressive rather than interlaced video. If it really is 50i trying to capture very fast motion, it is very understandable that the video is blurry and jittery.
50p should do better, but the next question is what shutter speed you are shooting at. You will need a fast shutter speed to prevent blur for something like break dancing. If the shutter speed is fast enough, then the question is whether or not 50 frames per second is fast enough to look like smooth motion. It is probably more about the capability of the DSLR and its lens than it is about the video software.
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I installed these many moons ago. Although I have not installed the latest, I have never seen any problem whatsoever in Vegas. Bear in mind that raw files in my world are not video files, and the chances that Vegas has a codec to read the raw file from a Canon 5D Mark III are probably somewhere between “ain’t going to happen” and “No way”.
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I have seen this many times in my own editing and it is frustrating.
Are you using the Windows arrow symbol or other Windows controls to move your view of the time line to keep the cursor in view instead of waiting for Vegas to repaint the window? I’m having trouble describing the action, but it is moving along the timeline manually to keep the cursor in view. If so, in my experience, Vegas doesn’t really know where you are on the time line, and it does not put cuts where you want them. I am frequently frustrated by this behavior. I only know of two work arounds. Click the time line where you want to change cameras, and then stop the Vegas play back. Then make the cut. The only other option is to let Vegas retain control of the playback window. Then, when you make a cut (i.e. change camera), it will do it where you want it.
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I still don’t fully trust V12, so I do all of my preparation in V10. However, I have been doing the final render in V12, and I see no difference at all.
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To me, one of the main values of Izotope RX is that you can see both the audio waveform and the frequency spectrum at each point in the audio file. Nothing that I have ever seen in Sound Forge does that. For example, perhaps there is a pop from the mic because the mic has no pop filter on it. I have found those pops in the very low frequencies, and I can attentuate just the low frequencies at that point in the recording by using the spectral repair tool. If the Izotope plugins within Sound Forge provide that kind of screen image, I might take another look at Sound Forge.
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I now do most of my work in Izotope RX-2 Advanced which is one reason I have not upgraded to the latest version of Sound Forge. RX-2 is, IMHO, far ahead of Sound Forge and can do many things that are simply not possible in Sound Forge. It looks like the upgraded version is even better.
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I have an old Sony video camera that accepts analog as an input, converts it to digital, and immediately sends it out thru a firewire port to the computer. Vegas can capture the video coming from the camera as long as you disable the option to let Vegas control the playback device. In my Sony camera that is an option called Pass Through.
There are also more expensive devices that do this conversion, but my camera does just fine for me purposes.
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I do not have the latest version of Sound Forge, but the versions I have used prior to that (many) do not have a concept of project. Sound Forge changes the audio file, and will save the file in any of several formats. However, once you leave that Sound Forge session, there is no undo capability.
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A related question is whether someone else will step up to the plate with a competitive product. If someone does so with an attractive feature set, I think they will have an instant customer base. As it is, CS6 does far more than I need to do. The major reason that I upgrade is to obtain support for a new camera’s raw format. However, I am not willing to upgrade if I cannot purchase the software. I will simply implement a less convenient option to get the photos from a new camera into CS6, and I should be ready to go for many years to come.