David Shirey
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Not that it’ll help in any way with Vegas rendering times, but those who only put OS and program files on their C drive might want to look into the faster solid state drives for that purpose. It’s nice having a system drive that doesn’t generate a lot of heat and has no moving parts to worry about, and programs load up real quick. Just food for thought. Obviously the cost per gigabyte and speed aren’t going to match RAID for video editing.
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[James Redmond] “It starts with a short intor video (30 seconds) then goes to the menu. From the menu for a lession it goes to part 1 then graphic then part 2 then graphic then part 3 then graphic then part 4 and back to menu.”
Aren’t the “graphics” also mpeg files though? Or are these some sort of menu graphics that aren’t actually video elements? Sounds like it’d be easier to just rerender the whole thing as one big mpeg with chapter stops. Grab a drink and load up Solitaire!
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I’ll go ahead and throw in that we’ve been using nothing but Verbatims in-house since 2002 and the company we use for larger (over 150) copies uses Verbatims also. However we tend to only use dual layer dvd’s on jobs that we order over 500 copies so they get pressed instead of burned. I know there were a lot of compatibility issues with burned dvd-9’s back when they were new, but is the consensus that enough people have compatible players nowadays that it’s okay to distribute those?
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Yes you can absolutely drag standard mpeg2 files into DVD Architect. As for what makes the DVD Architect mpeg2 different from normal mpeg2’s, I don’t really know. I used to think it embedded any chapter stop titles in the file itself which is why they’re incompatible with programs like DVD Studio, but I think that data might actually be in the .sfk file, in which case I don’t know why they’re special.
You have the same problem the other direction though. If you’re on a mac and make an m2v in Compressor with chapter stops, it will import fine into DVD Architect and preview fine, then when you go to build the disc it’ll give you an error right at the end. Someone posted a program called Restream back in 2007 that would truncate the chapter stop data in the file, but even that didn’t fix my problem. Sorry, I’ve veered far off-topic now.
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Yes, Vegas 9 has known to have horrible issues with this. Sony was aware of it when 9.0 came out, then I believe 9.0a fixed it, but introduced that horrible title erasing problem. Then when 9.0b came out it fixed the title problem but brought BACK the firewire preview crashing. It was then that I gave up entirely trying to preview my work view firewire. If anyone here knows of a solution I’d love to hear it also. Aside from that you’re welcome to let Sony know about the issue but I’m guess it affects few enough systems that they’ve stopped caring. For reference the device I used were two different models of the Canopus DVC-110.
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[Jeff Rippe] “For example, when you bring an MPEG2 file into the timeline, what is Vegas converting that file to so it can be edited and at what resolution, frame rate, etc.?”
Well, technically when you open a media file in Vegas, it doesn’t “convert” anything, in the sense that what you’re editing is the file you imported. It doesn’t make a new file that’s recompressed to your project settings. The project settings do control what’s being shown in the preview window, and your computer is working to convert whatever format you gave it into whatever format the project is in real time.
As a related question, maybe someone can answer this, but If you dragged a 720×480 DV clip into a 1440×1080 HDV timeline then told it to render out a 720×480 clip, wouldn’t it just re-export without any recompression? I don’t think the project settings really affect anything but the preview window in that regard?
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I’ll throw my hat in with everyone else that DVD-R is the universal standard almost every large company I’ve worked with uses exclusively. Anytime I’m given a DVD+R or sometimes even dvd-rw’s it’s always from a student or a friend of the bride or someone who just bought whatever was cheapest at Staples.
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As for quality, not to contradict anything John said, but it really does depend on the final DVD output. If this is a short program where you can really max out the bitrate on DVD, then sure you may notice the difference between downconverted HDV and DV. If this is a longer program that you need to fit onto a 4.7gb DVD-R at 5 or 6mbps, then you may not notice much difference.
When we first got Sony EX1’s in 2008 the first thing I tested was dumping 4:3 footage from our Sony DSR-300’s and 4:3 cropped 1080i footage from the EX1 taken at the same location and angle to DVD at I think 8.5mbps. That was a long time ago but I remember not being very impressed with the difference.
I wonder if a comparable analogy would be having a high end Canon camera and shooting the same photo at both Full JPEG and Medium JPEG, then resizing them both to 720×480 and seeing if one looks any better?
Frankly with your system specs, you could just shoot in HDV then downconvert to a DV AVI real quickly and send it. Then at least you have an HDV copy of it for safe keeping.
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[Rob Franks] “Once they’re able to reliably reproduce the issue and officially state it as a bug, then they’re usually pretty fast at finding a solution and patching it up. The battle is getting them to reliably reproduce… but that has been done here.”
I had an issue involving Vegas 9 Pro crashing when I used any firewire preview device and had to deal with the Sony team. Once they were able to reproduce it they said they’d work on a fix. Then eventually they launched 9.0a, and the problem was fixed, but of course there was that horrible title-erasing bug they had. So later on they released 9.0b, and the firewire crash was BACK IN! Then when 9.0c came out it was still there! The moral of the story is that Vegas is full of problems and you can’t bank on Sony fixing them. Try workarounds and if they don’t work out you can wait and hope for the best, but if they don’t fix it you’ve got to just start looking for an alternative.
I’ve just really enjoyed the Vegas interface since version 4 and I’m not interested in switching, so I’ll stick with Sony no matter how little they care about fixing issues.
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I’m in the same boat, been using Vegas since 4 (skipped over Version 5 though) and 9 has been pretty disappointing. It came out in May and I STILL can’t use my firewire preview device for more than 4 seconds before it crashes Vegas. It worked fine in 9a, but that had the destroy all titles bug. I’m still not at the point where I’m considering another NLE though, I just love the interface too much.
As a somewhat related issue to the preview issue, Vegas accurately detects my second monitor, and lets me set it as the preview devices, but when I click on the external preview device it doesn’t show anything on that monitor. Any ideas?