[Brandon Brand]

John, you good! 🙂
.[John Rofrano] “However… Why are you capturing MPEG??? Pinnacle Studio does not capture high quality MPEG. Because it has to capture and encode in real-time it sacrifices quality for speed. You don’t want this. What are you capturing from? Is it a DV camera? Then you should be capturing DV AVI which is 5x better quality than DVD MPEG and maybe even more based on the bitrate of the MPEG that Pinnacle captures.”

Let me just brief you on what we do, i’m working for the horse racing industry and after each race has finished we give the trainer or owner a complimentary dvd. Our source footage is from an OB Van to a DA from that DA we get our AV feed into Pinnacle’s USB capture device. Then we have either the option to capture AVI or MPEG2. I’ve noticed some setting when creating the disc it shows a greyed out area i’m asumming it’s the bit rate of 8.500. Is this not good for DVD?

[John Rofrano] “You’ve made a smart move in turning to Vegas. You won’t be sorry… but you will miss Title Decko and Hollywood FX… to this day I haven’t found a substitute for either in Vegas 🙁 Pinncale should just forget about their NLE and concentrate on selling their excellent plug-ins… but digress.”

John it’s the best move i’ve ever made with an NLE app. SV Rocks!
I agree with you on that plug-in’s and hollywood FX they should concentrate on that instead!
I’ll attempt the SV render template and let you know the outcome…
Thanks again
BB

[Brandon Brand]

Hi John
Firstly thanks for your response…
Here goes, i’m using SD footage, The second NLE i’m referring to is Pinnacle Studio 10.8 and i’m capturing in mpeg2 format. I’m using the captured footage from Pinnacle in SV as well. Pinnacle takes about 3 to 4 minutes for completing a 16 to 25 minute project and the quality is not bad at all. I’m not using any FX if i do it is simple disolves or fades. When i’m rendering using SV using the same footage i captured from Pinnacle i render to mpeg2. Could i be bottle necking somewhere when i render using Pinnacle’s footage in SV?
Thanks again.
BB

[Brandon Brand]

Or simply use Fraps it records video and captures screen shots, gamers use it often.

[Brandon Brand]

Hi Cami
Do you run other applications while capturing? If so do not as some programs are cpu hungry and can cause frmaes to drop out. Also it would be best if you could capture to a secondary hard drive in your machine IDE or S-ata even better instead of an external drive as access times to these drives via USB are slower.

[Brandon Brand]

Hi John
Thanks for clearing me up on that rendering question.
thanks again!
Brandon.

[Brandon Brand]

Hi John
Splitting the video and audio, does this have any effect on the rendering speeds?
thanks in advance

[Brandon Brand]

Do you have another machine to copy the project and thy rendering it on that machine?

[Brandon Brand]

Like you said it was working fine before, Maybe you should look at some application you have installed or you could have made a change somewhere on your system that could affect the running of Vegas.

[Brandon Brand]

Hi Jesse
What is your system spec? Have you maybe tried driver updates, the important ones would be bios,chipset,VGA and sound.
That would be a good start for diagnosing your feezing problem for using SV 64bit version. I would like to help you on this one. 🙂

PS – SV is awesome!