Dave Haynie
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Hey… I have some projects from Vegas 11 of similar complexity. I’ll give it a try on my system when I get a chance. I never had glitches on 20-30 track projects in Vegas 11. These are audio mix project, all tracks in 96kHz/24-bit on a single 7200rpm SATA drive, mixed down to stereo for monitoring, a few dozen plug-ins active as well.
-Dave
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So far, only editing audio… I did a four track recording of a music jam night with a “musician’s collective” I play with in Princeton. There were 40 songs involved. Two crashes, and a couple odd behaviors.
The odd behavior is with Forge 10. For lower-level tracks, I do an external copy-edit in SoundForge, run an RMS normalization, then back to Vegas. I found that, immediately upon returning to Vegas, Vegas is confused about the sound output device (just using the system mapper in this case) and won’t play. Click out of Vegas, back in once or twice, and it’s back. Kind of the opposite effect too… once or twice, it refused to link to Forge… de-focus/focus Vegas, then it works.
I guess a couple of crashes in three nights of editing is up to Vegas 11 performance, and generally, industry standards. But I can recall when Vegas didn’t crash that often in as many months of regular use.
-Dave
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[Stephen Mann] “The vast majority of us get our key in an email minutes after buying the download version of Vegas 12. You didn’t, so there is a bug on Sony’s end?”
Change a few words, and maybe that sounds more plausable: “The vast majority of us aren’t getting crashes on that particular plug-in. You are, so there’s a bug on Sony’s end?”
[Stephen Mann] “Call CUSTOMER SERVICE with your order number and hey will fix it for you. Do not try tech support – license issues isn’t their problem.”
Perhaps that would have worked. However, the support section on the web site has a page specifically for dealing with this sort of problem. I cut and pasted my order numbers, and the missing email arrived fairly shortly thereafter.
So yeah, something odd at Sony’s end, but easily resolved.
-Dave
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Got it here… working great so far. Though I’m only doing an audio project this week. And while I bought it last week, I’m still waiting for Sony to send my registration code. What’s up with that? Now they have bugs in the ordering process!
-Dave
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FAT32 is actually a requirement of the SDHC specification. And the maximum file size, as always under FAT32, is 4GB (not the large “B”; “B” == Byte, “b” = “bit”).
So Sony’s breaking files at 2GB, that’s pretty much their issue, not a FAT32 factor.
Vegas can re-assemble many file splits correctly, using the Device Explorer. Obviously, PMB does this two. Either should work from an SD reader or your camera attached via USB.
Most SDHC camcorders will act just like SD readers via USB — the internal memory is often treated just like another SD card, but you can probably read the SDHC card itself through the camera, if there’s no SD reader on the PC being used (the only real advantage to a PC-based reader: it might be faster, depending on the camera… and of course, you can read the card while someone else is using the camera).
A few cameras show up as MTP (Media Transport Protocol) devices, rather than the usual USB device. This is fairly transparent under Windows 7, because Windows 7 has what’s essentially an MTP network handler built right in. This is more common for digital still cameras than camcorders, and may lead to problems on older versions of Windows.
-Dave
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You can certainly put PDF files on one side of a DVD10 (that’s the double-sided type).. they do seem to exist.
Of course, you could also put those PDF files on the same side as the video. Keep in mind that, unlike CD, DVD is just DVD. Every DVD is a “data” DVD, it’s just that a DVD-Video disc has certain files in certain places, to make it easy for a dedicated set top box to figure out. An extra directory full of PDF files (or anything else) doesn’t cause a problem.
-Dave
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I’ve uploaded many dozens of videos to YouTube, with rarely a problem. Though with a few animations I did, I had some issues. There was a time when video gaming was more like animation, today I suspect the results aren’t that different than live shots in this respect, but it’s something to check. I usually render to Sony or MainConcept AVC, at 6Mb/s or so for 720p, a bit more for 1080p, but there’s only so much quality YouTube will support.
Here’s the first question: what frame rate are you capturing (if you mentioned, I missed it)? Given that most gaming is on monitors, any chance you’re recording 60p? YouTube will down-convert your video to 30p or maybe even 24p (check to see what you’re getting)… this was the problem I was having a year so ago with some of my animations. The combination of frame rate conversion and a lowered bitrate can really screw with fast motion. I solved it in the animation by re-rendering at 24p and controlling the motion blur myself. Not necessarily an option in your case, but do check to see if you’re being downconverted on frame rate.
If so, try rendering to that frame rate, and see how it looks prior to upload. You can control the conversion Vegas does a bit via built-ins, a bit more via some plug-ins. But the key is to be aware if this is happening.
-Dave
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Far as I know, the older PS3 are updated to the same level as the “thin”, hardware differences aside (I have a second-generation “fat” PS3, it plays everything). Do check to see that the PS3 is full up-to-date. Sony’s made vast improvements to the Blu-ray player app since the PS3 was launched, so you really can’t expect older firmware to play. Given that, I have never had a problem with any Blu-ray I’ve made (and I’ve made dozens).
Some players won’t play BDMV or BD-R… not much you can do about that, and it’s the typical industry idiocy, not mandating that level of compatibility, but no different than it was with DVD. Many BD players won’t play BDMV on DVD, but they will play the virtually identical AVCHD on DVD, mainly because that’s a camcorder format.
-Dave
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Double-check the video settings. Quite a few of the Windows PVR programs record in Microsoft’s “DVR” format, which isn’t usually editable. Can you check you’re recording to something fairly normal, MPEG-2 in a transport or program stream, MPEG-4 in a transport stream or MP4 wrapper?
Just guessing that, if this suddenly started happening, something might have changed on the recording side of things. You can double check, too. Try editing one of your older captures. If that works, then the problem isn’t likely Vegas. Also, check your capture device, reset everything… I know I’ve seen both my video capture devices and actual PVRs crash in weird ways, on occasion. And double check that something didn’t disturb your normal capture settings.
-Dave
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Windows upgrades usually accept any older Windows install disc, or any Windows partition, as an acceptable thing to upgrade. I didn’t know the run-twice trick.
And sure, I have no use for Windows 8. All three of my PCs were Windows 7 early on, but even at the launch, I paid $50/copy for the upgrade, so this is a great deal. You’d kind of think, with Windows 8 coming, the price of Windows 7 licenses would actually go up 🙂 I bought two full-price (well, “support it yourself” System Builder discs) this summer, one for a PC I built for my son, one for the Windows partition on my daughter’s new MacBook Pro. That was about $200 worth, for two, but of course, neither were upgrades (unless you count the MacOS X -> Windows 7 upgrade….).
-Dave