Bob Peterson
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Now you’ve got me wondering. I’ve tried for the last several years to use either T-Y or Verbatim, but I’ve had to resort to web searches to find T-Ys. My last batch of CDs were labelled MAM-A, and the latest DVDs aren’t labeled at all. How do you tell if they are T-Y disks?
I have never had trouble with these, but I would like to know if they are not the real product.
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Camcorders record both video and audio. Why do you need Vegas on site? If you need to show her the video, you could simply render and, if needed, burn a DVD of your present timeline. Then use a media or DVD player and record her responses.
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I’ve never considered adding a point, but I also don’t pay much attention to the points. I simply click and drag from whatever spot looks good to me.
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Perhaps I will try it again. I do have a need right now for something which will help manage my photos. Is there an explanation somewhere of how it is used?
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I use XP Pro, and Firefox. I did try Ctrl C, and, to my surprise, it did work. Thanks!
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I am running Pro 9c on an XP Pro machine with a 2.66Ghz Pentium and 1 gig of ram. Just to check, I just tried one of my current projects which has a DV file with video and audio at 720×480. I have had no problems of the type you describe. Just to test, I added a photo to a separate track, I duplicated the video track, and set the composite level of the duplicate to 50%. Everything continued to run smoothly with no stuttering and clean audio.
I am also editing a 2 camera shoot with a separate audio track and a multicamera track. It also does not stutter on the video although the audio sometimes stutters. I don’t see that as a serious problem.
I do have some differences though. I don’t use external drives for edits, and I don’t use C: for video files. All the video for these projects is on E: which is a 200 gig drive with 48 gigs currently free. I also have a D: (300 gigs with 152 gigs free), and C: is a 500 gig with 214 gigs free).
I also never use a PSD file in Vegas. I got burned on one project which used a lot of tiffs. Vegas would take forever to restart after I returned from a different window (i.e. Firefox) because it was reprocessing all the tiffs using Quick Time to read them. I now use only presized png files because I believe Vegas can render PNG files itself.
If I did use an external drive from within Vegas, it would not be a USB. I think the risk of slow USB performance is too great.
One other note. Do you run Diskeeper to keep your drive speed up? My systems group discovered Diskeeper several years ago. In my experience it will restore speed to a Windows machine which has begun to slow down.
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If your comment was addressed to me, both cameras were using Sony Premium tape. I switched to Sony Premium several years ago when I learned that a camera should always use the same tape formulation.
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On the stills, I was told in Vegas training that Vegas is not particularly good at reducing still resolution. Therefore, give it stills that are sized, in pixels, for the video. Larger than that if zooming, but not huge. That makes sense when you consider that things like Photoshop spend substantial resources on resizing images while maintaining image quality.
I’m sure I can’t help much with the video aspect. Have you tried rendering without the speed change to see if that fixes the problem? I do know that zooming is a problem for most video. I zoomed a video in an FCP class several months back, and was promptly told that zooming is NOT DONE in video because of the resultant pixelation. I concluded that zooming is not a strong point of FCP.
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Why not just revert back to Pro 8? That seems a lot simpler than starting anew with Premiere. I always keep at least one older release available in case time is needed for the vendor to work bugs out of the new version.
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How large are the stills?