[Brian Murphy]

[James Robertson] “I looked at the posts of hacks to get unsupported cards working in adobe premier cs5, and oddly enough following steps 2 and onwards from this: https://blog.krama.tv/hacking-adobe-premiere-cs5-to-enable-more-nvidia-cuda-... works!”

James, what specific program(s) did you enable for Vegas in the Nvidia Control Panel Manage 3D settings option and at the Program Settings tab? I tried “c:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Movie Studio HD Platnium 10.0\VegasMovieStudioPE100.exe” as the program to enable, but that didn’t fix anything (I’m trying this with NVIDIA Quadro 600 card).

Thanks,

Brian

[Brian Murphy]

[Mike Kujbida] “The “hard way” is exactly as you mentioned in your first post and that is to go File – Render As and customize it as necessary.”

Well, I’m able to output a mp4 file with Vegas using the settings I want. Seems the way to burn it to bluray is to then use DVD Architect. However, that program insists on re-encoding before burning. The settings I used to create the mp4 file were consistent with what DVDA help says are bluray compatible, so I guess I’ve got to fiddle with this a bit to figure out why the re-rendering is occurring.

[Mike Kujbida] “That’s a huge file.
Where did the source video come from that it’s so large?”

Its a BlackMagic Intensity Pro uncompressed HDMI capture of a 1hr 1920x1080i HDTV (no HDCP) source.

[Mike Kujbida] “What I recommend is to to post this question in the other Vegas forum”

Thanks. I’ll fiddle with this and peruse some more and post there if I can’t figure this out. It would seem that taking a 1920x1080i uncompressed AVI and rendering it to a 1920x1080i bluray with a 2-pass VBR AVC encoder with an average and max bit rate setting would be a relatively simple task. Hopefully my difficulty rests only in my unfamiliarity with the tools 😉

[Brian Murphy]

Hate to ask a newbie question, but what is the “hard way”. I’m new to NLEs. I’ve got an uncompressed 1920x1080i AVI file (1hr, about 361GB of HDTV) that I want to convert into a reasonably high quality blu-ray .iso. All I’ve done with Vegas is add an intro title and chapter marks – I don’t even want a title menu.

After some research I’m thinking I want H264/AVC 2-pass VBR with about 15-20M average (ala commercial BD disks) and 35M peak bps (upper limits for HDTV).

If I don’t do this from the timeline, (burn blu-ray disk was too simple to be true, I guess), what are steps to accomplish this? I can do a ‘Render as’ which seems to let me have the options I want, but I’m not sure how to go from that output file to a blu-ray .iso (Ideally without actually creating a BD-RE disk and then ripping the .iso from that). I’m searching around in the forum, so if this information is in lots of places I’ll find it, but if you’ve got some simple hints, they’d be much appreciated (28 days of Vegas evaluation time left).

Thanks,

Brian

[Brian Murphy]

I’m evaluating Vegas MS HD Platinum 10.0 when rendering AVC. On a Win7Pro 32-bit system it isn’t utilizing the Nvidia Quadra 600 cuda card (latest drivers from nvidia installed) as reported by CPU-Z under either “Render As” or “Burn Blu-ray” encoding.

I’m also evaluating Nero 10.0 (which similarly doesn’t seem to use cuda for rendering except in the Vision ‘export’ process and I have a query in to them). I’ve sent a query into Sony. Hopefully they won’t say ‘we haven’t tested the card yet’ as I bought the card to accelerate encoding. In the meantime, I’ll look into the steps James posted earlier in this thread.

[Brian Murphy]

I found a workaround for the 1920×1200 problem under windows XP-SP3 in situations where the monitor resolution is lower than this, but your graphics card supports the higher resolution. See my 1/2/2010 post here:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/124/872886

[Brian Murphy]

I ran into this problem too on a Windows XP-SP3 box with a 1280×1024 monitor (newest version of Media Express 2.0.1). Until the fix is out, I found a manageable workaround if your monitor is not 1900×1200 but your graphics card _will_ support the higher resolution. In this case the steps below will put your display in Pan/Scan mode and you can see all of the application:

1) Right click on your desktop and select ‘properties’
2) Click the ‘Advanced’ button
3) Select the ‘Monitor’ tab
3) Uncheck the ‘Hide modes that this montior cannot display’ box
4) Select the ‘Adapter’ tab
5) Click the ‘List All Modes…’ button
6) Select the resolution you want (e.g., 1900×1200) and click ‘OK’ and then click ‘Apply’
7) Your adaper should now display the new resolution (if it displays nothing, it should revert back in about 15 seconds).

Your monitor will now provide a window (e.g., 1280×1024) onto a larger desktop (e.g., 1900×1200). Moving the mouse to the edges of the display then pans the window on the desktop.

After doing this I am able to get to all of the application controls in Media Express, I just can’t see all of it at one time.

If your graphics adapter doesn’t support the higer resolutions, I suppose you’ll just have to wait for the software fix to the application.