Chris Young
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Personally I now use SwishVideo 2
https://www.swishzone.com/or FLV Generator
https://www.myaffiliatecenter.com/1/scs0.htmlBoth will make good quality .flv Flash videos of good quality with a choice of inbuilt players and can generate an .html file ready for the web. The sizes of the files are minute compared to a Quicktime. Example, 108MB Quicktime turns into a 1.5MB Flash video and the quality is surprising. FLV Generator takes AVI’s, Mpeg’s and WMV’s and Swish will also take QTime MOV files.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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See Leslie ~
Who said no one loves you!
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This issue has cropped up every few months. Vegas 6.0 runs smoothest and has no memory problems to speak of if the DRP is kept low, very low like 16MB. When rendering this is the best setting from my experience. We do quite a few TV commercials and it is then great to use 1GB or so to get a full 30 seconds into ram for client previews. Start editing with DRP set high and the preview is lightly to drop below full frame rate and playback becomes choppier. I have never had a hang or crash when the DRP is set under 64MB. Stick it up around 1GB plus and you are inviting run-away Page File size and and all consuming run on your ram until Vegas hangs. This isn’t always the case but it seems to be worse if you are rendering segments that include large pixel dimension still images. There doesn’t appear to be any benefit of running more than 2GB ram with Vwgas under XP. If there is I would love to know!
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I forgot to add EasyRecovery Pro is not cheap, the Standard edition lists for $499. There is a Lite version which will recover 25 files per session which lists for $89 so I guess it depends on what the data is worth and how much time you have to recover it.
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I had a similar problem some time back when moving a l75GB of material from one unit to another using an external drive. Thought I had lost the lot. Someone suggested trying ‘EasyRecovery Professional’ from Ontrack Data Recovery.
https://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/
To cut to the chase it took around two and a half hours to interrogate the faulty drive and another couple of hours to recover the data, just make sure you have sufficient space on another drive system for the recovery. To my utter amazement it recovered 100% of all the data files, video, pics the lot in their respective folders, and more to my amazement it created a new folder called ‘lost files’ and when I looked into that I found files that had been deleted in the previous ten days or so.
To say I was blown away by the success of the recovery was an understatement. Seeing as now I had now recovered all missing files I thought I would give the drive another go as a test. Did a full re-format and ran the drive on non mission critical files and it hasn’t missed a beat in the last eight to ten months or so since the recovery session. Since then I have used the software a couple of more times for others who had drives that wouldn’t mount and in each case got all their data back. If the drive won’t run then this won’t help but if it does it might be worth a go. The deep freeze trick, overnight, is well known and sometimes will give you enough time to recover your data before it heats up too much.Chris Young
CYV Productions
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If you look under ‘custom’ on the QT 512 template you will find under the video tab it is set to 50% for quality. Set this to max and you will see your quality improve, mind you so does the file size! The WMV codec works slightly differently it has a smoothness>sharpness setting which defaults at 90%. Overall these days we deliver most encoded media for streaming on the web as WMV as it is gaining more popularity and size for size its quality seems to be better than MOV. Mind you if you produce MOV’s with Sorenson Squeeze v4.0 you will get smaller than normal QT’s and they look very good.
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Try the following. Make sure under options/preferences/video that your ‘Dynamic RAM preview’ is set to 16MB, Ed’s suggestion and it really seems to work. This will avoid excessive page file size during renders plus it stops the runaway consumption of ram which seems to take place when large still images are involved with the render. Especially if those stills have very large pixel dimensions, in fact I find it best for anything over 720 x 480 or 720 x 576 if you are in PAL.
If that fails try rendering your timeline in segments and then stiching these segments together. You may find this works or you may find one segment render hangs Vegas. In which case you may have a corrupt graphic or other element in that segment. If that’s the case then it’s a process of elimination from there on in I’m afraid.
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Drum…
The only way I could consistantly get decent results using large stills, and some of them had to be 32bit TGA’s was to do as you have done with force resample, reduce interlace flicker etc but importantly I found the best results were obtained by going to your ‘Project properties’ and setting ‘Full resolution rendering quality’ to BEST and ‘Deinterlace method’ to BLEND FIELDS. Slower render but vastly improved results.
Also found that for motion video with slo-mo and hi-speed seections render theses sections with ‘best’ and ‘interpolate fields’ selected and that seems to work well. Let us know how you go as I am still interested to see if anyone comes up with the perfect solution to this hairy old problem that keeps popping up.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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Papua New Guinea is the way to go by choice 🙂
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Geez! Sometimes it takes someone to slap one around the face to see the obvious. Gary your solution is so simple I’m kicking myself for not thinking of it before. I’ve used customise toolbar before but never thought to look there for a quantize selection button! This sub frame audio editing thing has been a problem for many editors coming to Vegas when they have been used to editing on systems that don’t have that ability to go sub frame. Very easy to leave it unchecked and create problems. I had one editor do an entire one hour show with all the video edits all over the place between frames! An absolute No! No! for broadcast. Thanks for the heads up.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney