David Shirey
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Well it’s definitely frustrating, but that was never really intended as an editing format. I’ve edited plenty of m2ts files and the home movies from my Sony camcorder are 1080i AVC mts files, and everything normally plays okay in Vegas but once you add any kind of transitions or effects things can get slow. It sounds like if it’s really bad on your system you may want to look into an intermediary like Cineform. I feel weird always having to recommend a product I’ve never needed badly enough to break down and purchase personally, but I’ve tried the demo and while the files it creates are going to take up a lot more hard drive space, they’re perfect for editing with. Give their demo a whirl and see if it works well for your situation:
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You guys I know it was a typo. I was just having some fun with it. 🙂
Thanks to Theo for the link, I forgot that the 5.0 upgrade was free. I assume Tiff can now spend the money on Cineform and stick with Vegas 8 a little while longer.
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Firstly, I assume you mean GB instead of MB. I think the amount you allocate to dynamic ram preview is a matter of personal preference. Do you often find yourself hitting Shift+b and not having it finish the area you selected to preview? I have 6GB and only use 1GB for the preview because I generally just need to preview short HD bits a couple seconds long.
Now I’m running 64 bit so I’d say go ahead and use half your ram if you really need that much for previewing, but I’m guessing that the 32 bit version of Vegas is actually limited to 3.2GB? I’m just assuming that’s the case though so if anyone knows for sure let me know.
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[gerwyn bowen] “I have dvda architect that came with vegas 8 and I can create blurry discs. You should be able to also.”
If your discs are blurry you may want to check your render settings. 🙂
Thanks for clearing that up though, I thought I remembered burning blu-rays in 4.5.
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Well even with a fast computer, editing those Canon 1080p mov files is a chore. If that’s a big part of what you’re doing you might want to spring for Cineform. Of course it sounds like you really need the ability to author blu-rays, but I thought DVDA 4.5 did that? Or did Vegas 8 Pro just have the ability to burn a timeline straight to blu-ray and you couldn’t author them in DVDA until 5.0?
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Yep, worked like a charm. Hope they fix this in the next version. Thanks again!
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That sounds like a good idea. I’ll give a try tonight, thanks!
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To find out detailed information on a clip, try dragging it into the Vegas timeline, right-click on the clip then go down to Properties, then over to the General tab. You can easily copy and paste that text in here without worrying about a screenshot. What the screencap you took tells me is just that it’s standard definition, which is a good start.
The main problem I think you might have is that typically when a drive says it’ll work on Mac and PC, it uses the FAT32 file system. The limitation of FAT32 is that it doesn’t allow for files greater than 4 gigabytes, and that file you posted is over 11gb. If this is some new drive that uses some sort of software package to be universally compatible maybe that’s all fine, but if it is FAT32 then you’re going to have to chop that clip up into 4gb parts. I end up having to do the same thing exporting 4gb mov files for a friend, and to be safe I normally use 18 minute partitions which come out around 3.7gb.
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Well of course you’re right, that would clearly work fine. But I already marked and labeled about 25 chapter markers between the two clips while I was editing in Vegas. Does DVDA just not support importing chapter markers for a blu-ray?
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AVI is a tricky format, like MOV in the sense that they’re both just wrappers for any of hundreds of different audio and video codecs. You didn’t mention specifically what kind of format your avi’s are, but I can tell you I’ve had plenty of success loading up standard definition DV/DVCAM 720×480 avi files directly into FCP. However if you want to be sure it doesn’t take much time to just rerender them out as DV/DVCAM mov files just so they don’t freak out when they open the drive to see a bunch of avi files. Mac users are easily spooked.
Now if these are HD files you’re talking about then I’m not sure what format they are or what the FCP users prefer.