Dave Osbun
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Please post your project settings and your render settings.
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Try turning up the variable bit rates (average and maximum) and enabling ‘2-pass’. This should give you better video quality.
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That’s how recovery software works. The scan is free and if it finds the files, you pay to recover them. Are the videos worth the $35 charge? If so, then pay it. Plus, annual license fees are easy to opt-out of. Be assured that if the SD card is corrupted then the files might also be corrupted, which means you do have them now but might be unplayable. I went thru this when my mom’s SDHC card became corrupted the day after she returned from a trip to Italy.
Dave
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Ryan,
Standard definition video is 640×480. High definition video is 1280×720 (aka 720) or 1920×1080 (aka 1080).Thomas’s idea about recording on an iPhone is a great idea and has proven to work great. If this is your first go at something like this, keep it simple. You seem to be insistent on enlarging, but trust me, it’s going to look bad.
Dave
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Ryan,
We would never laugh at anybody that’s new to video, since we all started from somewhere. Congrats on you for thinking ahead about your project planning.Maybe you should shoot a small test clip, and try your enlarging theory before you jump ‘all in’ and realize, in the end, that the footage quality is not what you wanted. Nobody wants to spend a large amount of time shooting and be dissatisfied with the results.
My fear is that you will be shooting with a consumer camera, and shooting in standard definition. The footage might look fine when played back on a standard definition television (or computer monitor), but when you enlarge it, run it through an optimization software, and then enlarge it again (if I read your post correctly), you might significantly degrade the quality of your video. How about keeping the footage as shot and letterbox it?
I would suggest shooting a short test, run it through what you have planned, and see if you’re satisfied with the results. If you don’t like the quality, at least you learned something that will help you in the future and didn’t waste a large amount of your time for this ‘test’. If you will be submitting your work to the Sundance Film Festival, I believe they have pretty strict standards on the quality. I know some film festivals have a minimum video quality (30 mb/s video, for example), which even my prosumer camera (Sony NEX-VG10) that cost me $1400 a few years ago can’t even produce.
Good luck,
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Hello Kyle,
Definitely a very strange problem. You made the correct steps with uninstalling/reinstalling and deleting the registry keys (before the reinstall). It sounds like there are other registry entries that may be causing this, and these registry entries were not removed by the Cleaner due to them being in a different location. You should uninstall Vegas again (back up any projects first) and delete the Sony folder from your system, then have a look at the Registry. You can easily go into the registry by typing: regedit into your ‘Run’ prompt. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then click on SOFTWARE. I would delete any entry that is associated with video codecs/creation/editing EXCEPT any Microsoft entries- leave those alone. I’ll bet you’ll find a few items that will probably need to be deleted: items from past trial software, old versions, etc. However, if you’re not sure about something, PLAY IT SAFE and leave it there (or better yet, post it in this thread for input).Hopefully this will fix your issue after you reinstall. You should install from the latest build on Sony’s site. The above is much easier/faster than an OS reinstall.
Hope this helps,
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What the others have posted (especially John) are 100% correct. The only option that hasn’t been discussed is overclocking your processor and adding a liquid cooling system (for the CPU) to your system. Keep in mind that as you go higher with overclock values, you increase the risk of poor system stability.
I do believe that the better Intel Xeon processors will speed up your renders, but you’d have to replace your motherboard. This will fit in your budget quite nicely, though.
So if I were in your shoes and needed to do something, i’d change to dual Xeon processors and a nice workstation motherboard that supports the dual Xeons. I believe the memory channels are compatible, so you will not need to replace any other hardware.
Dave
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I believe that Nigel is correct, unfortunately. I own the VG10 and LCD functionality doesn’t appear on external monitors.
Dave
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Do you mean Intel HD4000 video processor? That is the integrated GPU with some of the Ivy Bridge i5 processors, so you’re probably not getting the benefit of GPU acceleration. A video workstation should always have a dedicated video card and not use the Intel GPU that is integrated with the system processor.
Dave
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Try swapping out the power supply. They don’t last forever and it might be the cause of your problem.
Dave