Brett Underberg-davis
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With newer TVs there are so many varied options to stretch or fill the screen it’s almost impossible to predict what any given TV and its user will be seeing. At least that’s my impression when I see how others have their sets and players set up. It can be fairly aggravating.
Even with production direct to DVD, I find that I try to play the final master on a few different sets (and change the settings even) just to get an idea of the range of variations the final customers might wind up seeing.
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[Dave Petteruto] “After messing around trying to figure out the problem I noticed that the field order was upper field first, so I changed it to lower field and it came out great. Now I am importing AVCHD 720p files onto my timeline and they are not looking good after render.”
It’s very possible I’m mistaken, given that a lot of what I work with comes from a Canon XL H1, and there’s a lot of variety in AVCHD formats, but I was under the impression that most AVCHD formats (at least in their raw recorded form) are upper field first? Lower field first is pretty common for SD video in the classic NTSC/PAL formats, but is otherwise on its way to the boneyard.
Am I mistaken?
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[Stephen Crye] “One thing I don’t like as far as look and feel is the Render menus – yuk. Why coders have to change things just to change them is beyond me.”
Especially when they wind up making the program slow down tremendously. I really hate that interface. It’s probably the main reason I’m still using version 10 for anything critical. I really hate waiting a long time for menus to load, and this one is one of the most offensively useless ones I’ve seen. Yes, it’s kind of pretty, and if it were AS efficient as the old interface it would be great. But it takes so long to load on my admittedly old and overdue for replacement machine that I wind up fearing a crash is imminent.
Also, I have yet to figure out why I can’t even install V.11 on my newer, slightly more powerful laptop, but it’s a machine I don’t regularly use, so it hasn’t been worth my time to work that out. Probably has something to do with the fact that V.9 is the most current version installed on that one, and I just haven’t had reason to spend the time to update (also I suspect there’s some more basic problem with that (Win 7) machine, since many things have trouble installing on it.
Sorry for a very belated rant.
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You may want to monitor their forums for changes on this. They were supposed to roll out a better fix sometime in the current quarter, but to be honest, their communication has gotten so bad (and my patience is seriously declining) that I really have no sense at present whether they are on track to any kind of fix at all.
Bottom-line, I have no way to predict whether or not the SSL uploader will continue to be supported. I suppose the most practical way to test would be to occasionally do a test comparison. Frankly, they are really getting on my last nerve at this point.
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Just curious. Have there been any significant updates on the 3rd party Newblue Titler? Given I wasn’t hugely impressed with the Newblue effects package that came with Vegas 10 (or was it 9?) it’s not something I’ve invested a lot of time in following, at least while on my current year of severely limited time and budget.
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Great advice, but he is doing BluRay, not DVD. Still, I imagine similar principles apply there as well. Avoiding comment, since I can’t speak from any depth of experience, given my budget doesn’t include making coasters out of BluRay discs.
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While it saddened me to read this, it did confirm my intuitions and why I haven’t managed to bother installing an update since Build 511. Here’s hoping feedback on this one restores some sort of confidence, or that things actually improve soon.
In the meantime I think I may just go back to relying on the last build of Vegas 10 until it seems like things have been sorted out. Thanks to everyone for the feedback, at least I know I’m not alone in this.
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First question, I’m assuming you are generating DVDs rather than BluRay?
Actually, either format have a fairly narrowly defined file format it accepts natively. I confess I haven’t tried to use Architect to convert a massive AVI or other unsupported format directly using Architect, mainly because I tend to assume that it would most likely lead to a bad disc.
You face, in any case, the storage limits of the format. In the case of DVD, it’s 4.7GB for the entire disc (twice that on a double layer disc). That’s the main limit to consider, and if you’re assembling a DVD with menus and other added content, you should be getting a status report as you develop and structure your disc that keeps you aware of how much of that space you are using.
To be playable on a standard DVD player, it is best to render specifically in the formats that the DVD format requires. But maybe I’m missing some variation here?
Sorry if I’m off base… I realize in re-reading that you are planning to generate a BluRay, but my sense is that BluRay requires a similarly limited set of choices in most cases as well, albeit some, especially in the audio, can be uncompressed. But as far as I know, BluRay more or less requires the equivalent of an MPEG-4 Transport Stream which tends to be more or less similar to the MP4 format in most respects, reliant on H.264 video encoding. Are there other variants I’m unaware of? (I haven’t had the budget or the demand so far to dig into BluRay except on an theoretical level).
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It is the newest of the media generators for text, it wasn’t available in Vegas 10. Not unusual that they’d get it wrong, epecially in a first generation. I’ll see if I can repro the problem now.
Also curious, which Build do you have installed? It’s entirely possible it only repros in some builds and not others?
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I tried repro’ing these crash reports the other night and couldn’t. Am I safe to assume that maybe the problem was corrected in more recent builds?
I have to confess that I’ve mostly been using 10 until recently, given some of the bugs in 11, and the very slow response time in the revised render menu which I find awfully annoying.
I’m using one of the third or fourth rebuilds, build 511 if memory serves. My time for debugging has been severely limited for about the last 6 months, in fact, and on my laptop I still haven’t even managed to get a clean install of Vegas 11, and am still using 9 there. My main desktop machine has 11 installed, but it’s on its last legs, and probably needs a total rebuild. Once my daughter finishes high school in the coming weeks I hope to have more time and start finishing a few projects that have been on hold for the last year or so.