Colin Morris
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True, bigger would be better. I have been using their portable USB 3 drives for a few years now with no problems. I’m just a bit worried if it is buss powered because RAID arrays are notoriously sensitive to power issues. As it is portable, you would also most likely be using a laptop. I showed it to one of my IT manager friends and he insists that “RAID Array” + “Portable” is an oxymoron!
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Yes. I have SVP 12 and I know from experience it handles the more recent MP4 variations. Of course after I saw the post I just had to get out of bed and boot up my workstation…
OK I have SVP 11 build 521 and it took about 20 secs to show the 1st frame in the preview, and then it plays choppy with no sound. I’m on build 563 in SVP 12.
BTW-the Panasonic specs are pretty extensive for motion capture. Any ideas regarding the specs?Colin Mendez Morris
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Hey Guys,
I managed to track down a download of the GH4 Yucatan footage by Brian Harvey. It’s 3840 X 2160. I downloaded it and dropped it on the SVP12 timeline in a few seconds with no problems.(3 mins long) Did not even see any peaks building. Have 4 video tracks running with no problem. Rendering a 15 second clip to 1080p Mp4 with cuts, fades, and a few spherize and radial pixelate FX took 45 seconds. My preview is set at half on the 2nd monitor and the whole frame looks stunning. I have an i7 3.4 GHz and a average video card with GPU off. I don’t think you will need to transcode in SVP with a good machine.Colin Mendez Morris
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Hey Angelo,
You may also want to check the Sony FDR AX100. I know they are bundling SVP 12 free with it’s bigger brother (the FDR AX1)
The AX100 specs list the same codec ,XAVC-S, and it has some pretty cool features for under $2K. It would be a shame to have to convert to an intermediate codec to edit footage from the Lumix GH4.
Also-don’t you think $2K is a bit pricey for the GH4 interface unit? It seems you have to have the unit to get 4:2:2, 10 bit, 4K, and the SDI out.Colin Mendez Morris
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Hi Angelo,
The specs look awesome. Regarding editing- I would get some footage before you buy. Bring an SD card into the store if you have to, then you can test your workflow. BTW-I was able to do some basic 4K editing (cuts, fades, wipes)on a project with the JVC GY-HMQ10U. It works a bit differently in that it records four 1080 streams to 4 separate SD cards. The project properties in SVP12 were 4K and the footage was on 4 different tracks, each pan cropped to its own quarter of the 4K frame. SVP 12 was sluggish at the time, but that was over a year ago.Colin Mendez Morris
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Hi Rick,
Steve’s advice is totally correct with SVP 11. I have noticed shorter rendering times with SVP12 vs. SVP 11 on the same i7 workstation. (I sometimes re-render old projects with the same version of Vegas as the original .veg file) For me SVP12 does render most(not all) projects faster, but it really depends on the original camera codec, plugins/effects, and output format used. You seem to be using a good amount of plug ins etc. If you want to definitely get faster renders I would leave your current setup as is and get a new 4th gen i7 with the SVP 12 upgrade and an SSD drive. Swapping the cpu alone can work, but for the extra $400-500 a new machine would ensure that you are leaving any system bottlenecks behind.Colin Mendez Morris
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I have an LG that has worked well for me. I use it a lot to archive HD projects 25GB per disc. Just make sure it is at least 8X and supports double layer. Here is a good rating list from PC advisor in the UK.
My LG is there along with some other notables. Some model numbers may be different so you have to check the specs. Hope this helps.
https://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/internal-bluray-drives/113/Colin Mendez Morris
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Hi Sean- Stephen is correct in that you need to go back to the original sequences. I work with a few pro tools guys and I usually render each audio track/character separate as you suggested. If his workflow is logical, he should have the sequences saved so he can go back. I normally have mine labelled master 1.veg, dialog1.veg, music1.veg, so I can go back and re-record or do ADR etc.
I did have one project (before Vegas could export AAF) where the sound engineer used the 30 day Vegas Pro trial offer and set up the project on his own PC! He did sweeten a few things in Pro Tools later, but he did 90% of the grunt work in Vegas. Hope things work out.Colin Mendez Morris
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Hi Peter,
I doubt it’s the USB unless you are running other usb drives and peripherals at the same time. Most likely your video card/memory/cpu combination. It may be better if you upgrade your internal drive to a larger, faster drive like SSD or a higher spec non-SSD. I upgraded my older laptop with a larger and faster Seagate Momentus drive. I then partitioned C, D, and E on the internal, with D holding the footage. I then render to an external drive or USB stick.Colin Mendez Morris
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You have to keep in mind that the movie 300 was color graded professionally ($$$)
I would search for “300 movie look” on the internet. Here is an example with Sony Vegas 9:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa-PebvTnuM
You need to learn to use the primary and secondary color corrector in Vegas.
There are also a lot of examples using After Effects.Colin Mendez Morris
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