David Shirey
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Thanks for the replies Ian and Craig, but I think I wasn’t clear. As always of course I have dragged all the original files onto two separate hard drives and then I preview the clips to make sure everything is good. That’s when I discovered this one clip was missing a file. I then took the original card from the camera, thereby eliminating any copy issues, and the original card is missing the mp4 of just this one clip. I’m on PC using XDCAM EX ClipBrowser v2.6 and when you export a multi-part clip into say an MXF file, it definitely does join all parts of that clip together. Since my original post I also ran some undelete software on the card but as I expected since there isn’t enough free space on the card for the missing 3.40gb file to exist, it was not found.
I can’t think of any way to attribute this to human error, because there’s no way a camera operator can delete just an mp4 and bin file of one partition of a clip from the camera itself, especially by accident. It’s just some crazy fluke, but I guess my posting was me reaching out for either some sort of miracle solution, or for people to assure me it’s a once in a lifetime thing and I don’t have to spend half of every shoot in the future reviewing the clip I just shot to make sure it didn’t just happen again.
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No the mxf files came from our EX-1’s, we just got this little camera as a backup and the boss wanted something with a swappable lens to play around with. John replied that movie studio 10 does not support mxf so I’ll give freemxf a try, thanks!
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That was always sort of standard to just say dual-layer discs are less compatible than DVD-R’s, and it is true. I no longer own any dvd player that can’t handle dual layer discs just fine, but you never know when some client could have a 10 year old dvd player or just a really cheap player that might screw up on the layer break. I won’t lie though, if you’re doing a full 2 hours on a single layer DVD-R, it’s going to look a lot better on dual layer. Whether that’s worth the risk is up to you though.
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[John Rofrano] “There is no need to buy NeoScene. You already own the CineForm codec which comes standard with Vegas Pro 8.0. So there is nothing to buy, and nothing to complain about. Just render to CineForm in Vegas and edit your 7D footage smoothly.”
Wait, the Cineform codec was bundled with Vegas 8? I had 8 and now have 9, where is the Cineform located in the render options? The help file doesn’t seem to mention it at all. -
If you want an individual application to use more than 2gb of ram, you’re a lot better off moving to a 64 bit OS. If there’s some reason you’re clinging to WinXP 32 for some sort of software compatibility, you may be better served by moving to a version of Windows 7 64 bit (professional or ultimate) that included Win XP virtualization.
https://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/
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[John Rofrano] “So to sum it up, if you’re doing 3D, or broadcast, or multi-camera, or special FX, or work with shaky video, or render to the Internet, then Vegas Pro 10 has something for you. If not, it’s OK to skip a version.” Lot’s of people do that. Of course, if you do this for a living, you should upgrade just to keep your software current. Software upgrades should be part of your business plan each year.
I will agree there are a lot of good additions that apply to certain people, I just would have liked Sony to work on improvements that affect 100% of the people using Vegas. Fast GPU’s aren’t just for hardcore gamers anymore, and Adobe are making their packages too enticing for Sony to drop the ball like this. I don’t think upgrading needs to be part of anyone’s business plan unless we’re given a reason to upgrade, and it certainly should not be part of Sony’s business plan to let us skip versions. They should always make us an offer we can’t refuse 🙂
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I don’t blame you for feeling a bit ripped off, but given their development cycle it was pretty clear that Vegas 10 would be due sometime in the near future. I wouldn’t worry too much about the CUDA accelerated h264 rendering though. With Adobe’s Mercury Engine utilizing the GPU and multi core cpu for even video previewing, Vegas is going to either have to add a lot of updates to 10 aside from the ones mentioned that will make it worth upgrading, or just face becoming completely obsolete in the industry.
A feature as important as this cannot wait for Vegas 11.
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Yeah I can’t say I’m terribly impressed with that feature set. Not that they aren’t good advancements, just that most don’t particularly apply to me and my workflow. The improved DSLR support sounds nice but they weren’t very specific so I guess I’ll wait and see. Although with the disaster that Vegas 9 was at release, and now that it’s finally pretty stable for me, I’m less inclined to invite any sort of change into my systems.
Any updates to DVD Architect?
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I have a follow-up question to that. Our office right now is Vegas and Final Cut, but we’re thinking of giving Premiere CS5 a try.
The 1080p h264 youtube preset you mentioned, does anyone know if that preset would also work with Vimeo and play from a Playstation 3? Also what actual extension does it get named? Thanks in advance!
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I absolutely agree, I love mapping handy functions to keyboard commands. The only downside to how wonderfully configurable Vegas is, is on the rare occasions when I have to reformat or when I build a new pc. Takes me quite a while to remember and reset all the custom settings, plugins, etc.