Darla Cotton
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I say keep up the great work Jake! You obviously have an insight for this sort of thing and it’s people like you that help out people like us that are a little slower on the uptake. Thanks again for the advice and keep sharing!
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That pretty much clears it up for me. I am disappointed that I can’t get HD with the standard DVD player. It’s all a learning process I suppose. I do very much appreciate your insight and forums like these as a way to get answers that we can’t get from the vendors themselves.
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No Blu-Ray. What I have is high-def ACHDV camera footage from a Sony HDR-Sr11 camera that I was told by Sony would process in high-def through Vegas MSP 9 and be able to be burned in HD on a regular DVD for standard DVD players in DVD Architect 4.5. So basically a standard DVD disc that plays in HD quality on HD Tv’s – but not quite Blu-ray quality. I’m not interested in spending more money buying a blu-ray player, blu-ray burner etc. I’d like to be able to work with the tools and configuration I have (which Sony told me I should be able to do when I was considering the Vegas software) without dumping more money into the whole thing. Most the folks I know and share the videos with do not have Blu-rays so I don’t want to be limited to that.
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I can definitely forego the Windows DVD for DVD output. With that in mind, I just want to know what should I set me preferences to from the “file” menu for each new project (see attached screen shot
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Thanks for the input. is there possibly a better render option that I should be choosing, and …what about preferences? What are the optimum settings for creating the highest quality DVD from this HD footage under my current configuration, without Blu-ray?
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That sounds more complicated than I’d like. If I wanted to just go the route of using the Windows DVD Maker, can you offer steps to keep it in high-def (NOT Blu-Ray though)? What I have done already is created my project in Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9, rendered it to MPG-2 (using the DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen Video Stream template) and WMA audio. I then took the project to Windows DVD Maker and love how it looks with the video wall which cycles screen shots through random block window appearances from the movie – a really cool affect that Sony should have. The issue is that when it’s played on the HD tv, it doesn’t really seem all that crisp. Did some compression or something happen when I went to Windows DVD or have I lost quality somewhere else along the line? Again, shooting HD footage on my Sony HDR-SR11; importing MT2S files. Your thoughts are greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Jake, thanks for the tip, I am definitely going to try it. I have spent hours upon hours trying to find a solution to my various video editing software programs (vegas platinum 9.0, adobe premiere, etc.) that crash constantly. I thought that it was vegas so bought the adobe and am very frustrated to be getting the same crashes (“memory too low”, etc.) I have a new system with the following:
Dell Vostro Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9650 @350Ghz with 4.0GB RAM running 32bit on vista home premium with a 500GB hard drive. I still have almost 250GB hard drive available. Yet every video software I use seems to crash for the same “low memory” issue. Any more advice? -
Here’s an update…..after countless hours on tech support with sony, dell, microsoft, etc. and a ridiculous amount of time spent searching forums, I chose to completely reinstall my operating system taking it back to factory settings. I then reinstalled the sony vegas software and am no longer having the issue with the media generators not appearing to be able to edit. The issue that remains now is that the program continues to shut down unexpectedly, hang on rendering and/or tell me that there is insufficient memory and that I need to close other applications. The interesting thing is that I have no other apps running (even went to task manager to shut down everything possible) and my new system has 331GB of free space and my external hard drive has 431 so memory shouldn’t be an issue – so I am thinking. If anyone has advice on the matter of the hanging/shutdown/no memory issue – I’d much appreciate your thoughts. Thanks for all the great postings – they’ve been very helpful!
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I was having a very similar problem with my Sony Vegas Motion Picture Studio Platinum 9.0 as well as the trial download of Sony Vegas Pro 9.0 No one at Sony had any answers for the issue and we tried several approaches here at COW. The only thing that seemed to work was a complete restore or re-image of my operating system. I then went through and reinstalled all of my extra software like Sony Vegas and don’t seem to have the problem any longer. Hopefully this might help you out. I had spent countless hours on tech support and forums with sony, microsoft, dell, etc. trying to figure the issue out and this was a last resort option and the only one that worked. Hope that helps. Good luck!
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yes, I have installed directly from the software disc that I purchased directly from Sony.. Also when I reintall, it tells me that I there is an update to 9.0b (mine is 9.0a) and i have tried installing that and see if it fixes, uninstalling, reinstalling only the disc without utilizing the update. Nothing seems to work.