Colin Morris
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Guys please check previous posts regarding GPU acceleration and workstation vs.gaming cards.(John Rofrano had an excellent post on this topic) If you are doing professional work, you should try to get a workstation video card because the drivers are usually better supported than a gaming card. If the gaming card does not work, you do have to turn off the GPU acceleration and render using the CPU alone.
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Ditto Nigel,
I have 3 JVC HD7’s, a Sony NEX-VG-10 and mix of Zoom and Tascam pocket recorders and I have never had any drifting problems. The HD7’s record to hard disk and the files are roughly 17 mins long then you have a 2 second audio break between files. Maybe this does not allow them to drift as much. Like John R. I usually either get a feed from the mixing board or set up the recorder in a good spot. The camera mic tracks get synched and mixed together(listening for any phase problems) then I mix that track with the audio recorder track. I will sometimes have to nudge the entire audio recorder track in relation to the camera mic track, but it is not drifting-just more like manual delay compensation. -
Hi John,
I have one suggestion-have you tried inserting a dummy video track between the two audio tracks? It worked for me with the trial version awhile back. The other option is to use Woowave Synch Pro. I have a few friends who use it and they really love it.
https://woowave.com/ -
On some cameras you can reset the file names internally, or with a small software program that comes with the camera. I sort them by the time stamp in win explorer. For complex projects I still do a manual rename before bringing the clips into Vegas. If a multicam shoot then I put each cameras clips in its own folder, then sort and rename.
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I’ll throw in my shuddering 2 cents: I start by putting the clip in the trimmer creating regions all the way through. I can then either select the regions and drop them on the timeline or…. drop the whole clip on the timeline from the project media window-the regions show up and I split and delete from the timeline. I always use the trimmer because it usually looks much better than playing the clip from the timeline/preview window-especially if you use an external monitor.
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I have 2 Sony NEX cameras. (VG-10 and NEX 5)I usually sort by date/time in windows and rename the files manually before I bring them into Vegas. For projects where there are 100+ clips (i.e. football games) I just sort without renaming.
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I would suggest the Mainconcept MP4 internet HD 720p render setting as a starting point for both Youtube and vimeo.
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Hi Tony,
It depends on what your final delivery format is. Will it be DVD, Blu-ray, Youtube, Vimeo, projected, broadcast TV etc. Generally you want to try to render directly to the needed format. For example-I have a client who likes to have his videos on Vimeo HD. Vimeo has a page with basic guidelines for all the major NLE’s including Vegas.
https://vimeo.com/help/compression
You can see on the page they also talk about frame rate, data rate, resolution etc. There are also quite a few tutorials online, but they are usually listed by the delivery format: Vegas Pro 11 render to DVD settings etc. -
Hi Ken,
I was reading some interesting articles on the Tom’s Hardware website about some of the new Xeon’s vs. i7’s:
Intel Xeon E3-1280 v2 Review: Ivy Bridge Goes Professional
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/xeon-e3-benchmark-review,3258.html
There are links to some other articles as well. I usually try to not be on the bleeding edge when building a new workstation. I would also recommend talking to tech who builds them regularly. That being said- If you have a good volume of professional work happening, it’s probably worth it to go to a video workstation specialty retailer. They will usually have tested the config with most of the software you have listed. Hope this helps. -
Hi,
I would suggest checking out John Rofrano’s post about workstation cards and drivers. I was lucky- a local PC tech who is into video insisted that I should buy an Nvidia workstation card with lots of ram and open CL. I spent a lot of time going looking and eventually bought a pretty modest workstation card and it has worked great with Vegas 11.
John’s comment about drivers is especially important, but I also think that if you are using the machine for client work you may want to upgrade machines on a 2-3 year cycle with major software/OS releases. Leave your stable machine on Vegas 10 and get a new one for Vegas 11/12. I got my Gateway i7 on sale for $700 with 8 gig of ram. I also made the jump to Win7 at the same time. My older Vegas 8 machines are completely stable, and serve as backup in case of any problems. Hope this helps.