[Dave Croonprince]

Yes exactly. And I even tested it with other clips and no squeezing so I guess there was a glitch with that particular project. Thanks again for helping out!

[Dave Croonprince]

The video is mp4, 1080 shot on a Panasonic HC x1000. In the editing I had applied some pan/crop to certain clips but this has never affected the render in other projects. They had the same media and settings but they weren’t squeezed with the render. Last night I just dragged the edited project file into a new time line in Sony Vegas and tried rendering it that way – and it worked ok. No squeezed image. So – not sure how, but it worked.

[Dave Croonprince]

Hi Laszlo,

Thanks for your response. The project settings are:

Template: 1920 x 1080
Field order – None (progressive scan)
Output rotation: original
Frame rate: 59.940 (Double NTSC)
Pixel format: 8-bit
Full-resolution rendering quality – Good
Motion blur type: Gaussian
Deinterlace method: Blend fields
“Adjust source media to better match project or render sttings” is checked

Render settings are:

MPEG-2
Program Stream NTSC Widescreen
Stretch video to fill output frame size (do not letterbox)
Output type – DVD
width – 720
Height – 480
Frame rate: 29,970
Aspect ratio: 16:9
I-frames – 15
B-frames – 2
Video rendering quality – Best

[Dave Croonprince]

Yes, it was an issue when trying to render the project. I tried rendering it to another drive that had more space and that seemed to work as it didn’t crash when I tried to render. Now the only thing is – it took over 24 hours to render a 90 minute project (essentially 1% rendered every 10 minutes). I was rendering as HD-1080 at 50fps. The rendered file came to 17.7GB. Could that make it take so long to render? Are there other settings I can choose to make it render faster (without loosing too much quality)? I’d hate to have this be the case every time I render something in HD-1080.

[Dave Croonprince]

I just downloaded Sony Vegas 13. I opened the same project that was giving me problems in Vegas 8. I still got an error message when trying to render it. I then recreated the project using the original mp4 files that were shot with the Panasonic HC-X1000 without first rendering them from mp4 to mpeg as I did before. I still get an error message when I do this: An error occurred while creating the media file. The reason for the error could not be determined.

Thanks again for your ideas on this.

[Dave Croonprince]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, makes sense. it is high time I upgraded to a newer version of Vegas.

[Dave Croonprince]

Also, I have a mic adapter that I’m trying to use on the Elura. It’s a BeachTex DXA-4C but that doesn’t seem to work either. Not getting any audio signal when I attach it and plug the external mics in.

[Dave Croonprince]

Hi Dave,
I just reconnected it to the computer and now it seems to be working. If it works later when I need to use – even better! Thanks for your response.
Dave

[Dave Croonprince]

actually the cable is not usb. The end that goes into the computer has what looks like 5 prongs.

[Dave Croonprince]

Hi Steve,
I’m using a cable that plugs into a jack on the camera and has a usb end that goes into the computer. I have used my Panasonic dvx100a this way and it worked fine but it won’t seem to work with the Elura.
Dave