Chris Young
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John ~
That’s a typo on my part, I meant 16MB not GB… that would be impossible! I am thinking it’s an 8.1 issue as it doesn’t happen with v8.0c. Hopefully will start digging deeper into this problem today. Got to be an answer somewhere seeing that you and others are running ok with similar set-ups. Still open to suggestions though.
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CYV Productions
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Angus ~
Cutting XDCam SD & HD all the time with Vegas using the full res files and have no issues with the workflow. You really need a Quad machine or better for full frame rate playout of the HD files though.
Re the time code issue. For multicam switches in Vegas I start by right clicking on the files in the project media bin then select ‘Media FX’ then add the ‘Sony time code’ plug-in. I then select the correct frame rate I require from the selection drop down menu. All files will now have their original camera embedded time code visible as a TC window when on the timeline. Makes it real easy for accurate alignment.
Next step create sync markers on the clips by using the corner triangle shaped sync marker that is at the head of each clip. Just slide each tracks sync marker to the desired TC sync position, now slip/slide all tracks until all track sync markers align. If you have your cursor sitting on the sync marker on one of the tracks the other files will ‘snap’ into position when their sync markers hit the cursor position.
Once all tracks are lined up you can then remove the inserted TC window by removing the Media FX TC plug-in from the files in the bin. A final tip, for super fine tuning and tweaking of your track alignments use the audio waveforms with ‘Quantize to frames’ turned off. Don’t forget to turn ‘Quantize to frames’ back on before you start editing or switching. Now proceed to set up your multi-cam switch in the normal manner. All very easy really. Happy switching!
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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Gav ~
Contact Mark Harwood at New Magic in Sydney. He can most likely put you in touch with someone who can help out.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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DSE ~
Points A & B taken and understood.
I wasn’t leaning to specific hardware re IO cards etc but was just curious on the fact that if the Red Giant plugins in Vegas can utilize GPU assist why can’t other Vegas Event FX plugins be re-written to do the same. I’ve been with Vegas since v3.0 and love the fact that it has been hardware independent. Believe me after spending quantum dollars over the years on the likes of Discreet Edit systems with real-time hardware and real-time 3D boards etc only to watch them become redundant in a few years is a path I don’t want to go down again. Seeing Vegas running uncompressed on an i7 processor with 10k rpm raid shows us we are virtually real-time in most cases so am quite happy to continue the way we are going. It’s just a shame to see the extra GPU power going to waste when obviously some developers can harness it from within Vegas.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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John R ~
Yes, my description might have sounded like a hundred clicks but once you have selected your permutation of options as to what you want to achieve as Ed says ‘one click’… bit hard to be less than that 🙂
Cheers
Chris Young
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Jill ~
Good to hear. Jill, I don’t recall seeing you posting on this board back over the last couple of years so you might not be aware as to who Edward Troxell is and what he means to the Vegas community. Edward used to be a major contributor on this forum but has taken more of a back seat these days. Anyone who has any of his scripts and plugins/tools would I think testify to just how good his Vegas enhancements are. Whilst Excalibur is not a free tool I found the money spent on it to be well worth it. I describe about 1% of what Excalibur can do to speed up and simplify your whole edit workflow.
Happy cutting!
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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Hi Jill ~
Maybe Edward Troxel’s Excalibur tool is what you are after.
In effect it has timeline ‘multitrim’ as you like to define it. ‘Under Excalibur’s ‘timeline tab’ it allows you to select any number of regions on a timeline and do a number of things with them. By using the ‘Extract Good Clips’ option it can now put all your region selections on a new timeline. Chronologically in order side by side with or without gaps above your original long clip with the further sub-options of leaving the original timeline clip uncut or actually leaving gaps in it.
There is also a sub-option to create subclips at the same time. I find the latter great because once I have culled through my camera reels, created regions and named or numbered them I create a new folder in the ‘project media’ dock and run the ‘extract good clips’ option.
Doing as described above you will end up with a timeline with all your new selections in chronological order plus a folder with all your newly defined clips with their new names/numbers etc. Worth having a look at. A fifteen day demo is available on Edward’s site at:
https://www.jetdv.com/excalibur/timeline.php#top
Good luck!
Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney -
Drat 🙁 Can always hope I guess. Beats me why they can’t or don’t. The big jump in decreased render times with MagicBullet Editors v2.0 plug in with its GPU support over the originally supplied Vegas MagicBullet Movie Looks HD is enormous. I have had, depending on filters, ten to seventeen times shorter renders when using any of Editors v2.0 plugins . Even Adobe Premiere makes use of GPU assist in many of their transitions. Can’t be too hard surely? Come on Sony!
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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Hi Jill ~
Glad my suggestion was of some help. Don’t envy you though if you have like how many??? regions to log in the trimmer!!! Thinking of you working through the night. Good luck!
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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Jill
If I understand your post correctly. Following on from what John said and the fact that you know a selected region on a time line can be opened in the trimmer try the following. From timeline right click your clip/selection/region and select open in trimmer. The whole range of that selected timeline portion will now be highlighted in the trimmer, hit letter ‘R’ which will create a region over that highlighted selection, name it if you want. As long as you have ‘Automatically save trimmer marker and regions with media file’ selected under the Options/Preferences/General tab any markers and regions created in the trimmer will be saved with that media. You can now open this media in another instance of Vegas or for that matter on another machine and your markers plus annotations/names will be displayed. If you drag a whole file onto a timeline any regions or markers it has embedded in it will be represented by verticle lines along with any names runinng through the clip, orange for markers and green for regions. If that file is opened in the trimmer all is plainly visible. Good luck.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney