[Chris Borjis]

Interesting to know.

thanks for the input Edward.

Vegas is such a great app I’ll just have to learn to “live with it”

🙂

[Chris Borjis]

As a regular AE user I’m amazed at the compositing abilities of Vegas
(being an NLE foremost)

though I rarely if ever use it for compositing there is one thing I found
that Vegas does quickly, easily and painlessly and yet takes a very long
time in After Effects and that is the Black & White with isolated colors
effect as seen in “Pleasantville” and more recently “Sin City”

Edward Troxel wrote a great tutorial on that some time ago utilizing the secondary color corrector and I was blown away how fast I was able to accomplish that effect in so short a time compared to doing it in AE.
And it looked so damn professional to boot! 🙂

[Chris Borjis]

Well I don’t need to go way beyond but at times
it would not allow me have at least one second in
between the clips which I did need. I suppose I should just insert
black intead of blank space.

It’s weird though. I mean why couldn’t anyone go
well beyond it even for no real reason? Every NLE
I know of can do that. Vegas should be able to imo.

maybe it won’t to conserve memory for realtime?
Does V6 do this too?

[Chris Borjis]

can you be more specific?

[Chris Borjis]

Is it possible in creator to not specify the layer break?

It’s my understanding that with recordable DL you ultimately
want the burning software to determine the break so that
each side is written equally precise.

[Chris Borjis]

Eric have you used Procoder or cinemacraft on DV footage?

If you have the settings tweaked properly you can indeed
get really great encoding from it.

Cinemacraft is used by a lot of professional studios btw.
It specifically beats all others at low bitrates.

But it is true that better source material always helps.

[Chris Borjis]

Any posts having to do with compression can reveal that.

Thats all it is really.

There are many times though that its easily accomplished through a dual-layer disc if you have a really high bitrate.

A 2 hour disc can easily be done on single layer if you have
the bitrate set right. Depends on your encoder though, wether
it will look good or not. Procoder and the 50 dollar version
of Cinemacraft have outstanding encoding abilities in the
lower half of the bitrate range.

My panasonic DMR-E30 recorder can do full D1 with VBR encoding
up to 2 hours and 12 minutes and it looks fine.

You will definitely need to encode at VBR and with a suggested
bitrate range from 4,000 to 6,000. (guessing) Maybe less.

[Chris Borjis]

sounds like your bitrate is too high on your video or audio.

if you can make the audio an AC-3 stream instead of uncompressed aif
this might solve it.

that or try lowering your bitrate by 1 or 2 mb.

[Chris Borjis]

This is weird.

I got a smart-assed reply from pioneer support that it would read
a DVD-RAM (with data) but not a blank disc….well…duh… on that one.

but strangely it WILL NOT read my DVD-RAM discs unless I’ve
got that system driver installed that came with my panasonic.

Maybe they are assuming I’m running XP, which I’m not (win2k)
and that has a built in DVD-RAM file system reader.

I dunno.

at least it works. I guess I should be content with that.

[Chris Borjis]

The lower the number the higher the quality, but also bigger
file sizes.

ideally you would want the smallest GOP possible.