Bob Peterson
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Whenever I have digitized a VHS tape, the capture process has produced a file as its output. I have always used that file in Vegas. There has never been a decision about bit rate for either audio or video. Does the ADVC 300 do something different than this? You seem to be converting that original file. If that is correct, I am curious as to why you are doing that. The conversion should produce something like what is produced when a DV tape is captured, and Vegas should have no problem with such a file.
The first obvious thing is to look at your preview setting. If it were set to Best/Full, that would definitely cause a lag in the preview. Also, are any special effects being applied? You should probably also tell us which version of Vegas and how fast your machine is.
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I use the Match Output Aspect setting to fit HD video into SD output. It crops the image to insure that the image will fit into an SD window, and it does so without causing any letter boxing. That does not mean that you will never see the borders of the image. If you pan far enough in any direction, you will see the image’s borders. You simply have to be sure that you never pan far enough for a border to be visible. The pan/crop display shows you where your border is with respect to the image, so crossing a border should not be a surprise.
Be sure you set the Match Output Aspect after you have defined the project properties. If you do not, the image will letter box after you update the project properties. Also, you establish the setting once for every event that needs the control. You do not have to set it for every keyframe.
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Personally, my machine is here to work. New experiences, such as hardware like printers which no longer work, are definitely not on my bucket list. There have to be solid benefits before I spend the time and money to upgrade a machine. I definitely do not need the problems that come when the OS is brand new. I let the pioneers take the arrows in the back, and wait for things to settle down.
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The issue is not how much you use your machine. The issue is whether or not your machine is connected to the internet. If it is, you would be foolish in the extreme to skip security updates. That is one of the ways that Sony was penetrated. Machines that were internet connected, but which had not been updated to close well known, open holes. I routinely allow all security updates because my computer is always connected to the internet. I almost never allow optional updates for things like video cards. I look to the vendor or manufacturer for those. I also aim to backup my system image often enough that it won’t hurt me too much if I have to revert to the backup.
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My guess is that Vegas does not support the Engels codec. I cannot find useful references to it on Google.
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That is NOT blurring. You should run MediaInfo against your source file, and tell us what MediaInfo says about it.
MediaInfo is free and can be downloaded from: https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
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Can you reinstall your previous build?
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That’s what I was thinking. Is it a portable? My daughter has a high end, gaming Toshiba portable. It got to the point where even cleaning it out was no longer effective in keeping it from running hot. Our guess is that we will have to send it back to Toshiba to get it back to its original specs. My daughter is now running a home-built with a tower case which is much easier to clean.
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Kelly said his machine is not normally connected to the internet, so he has eliminated the need for most updates. That said, I think a periodic system image type backup is absolutely essential before anything runs any serious changes. My system image backups produced by Acronis True Image have saved my bacon on many, many occasions.
That’s also one of the main reasons I am very reluctant to upgrade to a new release of Windows. In a real, professional environment, all such changes and updates are thoroughly tested before they can be installed. Such testing may require several months to insure that no production systems are adversely affected. I don’t have the time to do that kind of testing. I do allow security updates, but I keep my backups handy.
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I think I would upgrade to the latest Studio release. My impression is that Studio is relatively inexpensive to start with, and, therefore, is probably not terribly costly to upgrade. It is simply not worth all the time and effort you are spending to get an old system to work. I don’t have Studio, but you can probably use the latest version on a trial basis to see if it solves your problem.
BTW, what are your computer specifications in terms of Windows version, cpu, speed. memory, hard drive, and that sort of thing? I hope you are at least running Win 7.
Once you upgrade, if all else fails, you can get tech support from Sony.