David Shirey
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If you create a timeline WITHOUT the intro, does all the footage show up? That way we at least know for sure that the avi’s can be properly used in Vegas. If they can, is there anything happening at the end of the intro piece that could affect everything else in the timeline. For instance a “Fade to Color” envelope that goes to black and doesn’t come back up? I’m just grabbing at straws here.
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People often buy more ram than they’ll actually use. My thinking is that Vegas not sucking up ram isn’t your problem, it’s the CPU. Vegas should be using a good chunk of the CPU when it’s rendering. 12gb of ram will not help Vegas render faster.
If you’re on a 64 bit OS, you should consider trying out the 64 bit Vegas 9. It won’t cost you anything.
Tip to anyone, don’t “break your bank account” on overpriced ram. A friend of mine just ordered a Dell with 12gb of ram and his isn’t even using a whole gig because he just edits short projects. Thankfully he’s primarily a photographer and those Raw files in Photoshop suck down ram like lemonade.
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I finally got a chance to try it out late last night on my home system, which is an i7 920 with an overclocked 8800gt running 64 bit Win 7. The trial puts this ridiculously large white box over most of the frame so it’s kind of hard to tell, but from what I saw it was playing the avchd files from my Sony SR11 really smoothly. The problem is that the color kept flipping all around. The footage was of a Tae Kwon Do exam on a tripod, but the color shifting made it look like we were at a disco with flashing red and green lights.
Then I tried to open an existing project and Vegas would crash each time. This was using the 186 drivers they recommend on their website. Overall I’d say it’s an interesting technology that I seriously hope gets developed further, but at this point it’s try before you buy for sure.
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[Alan Britton] “There is a media player out there called Splash that takes advantage of this. It plays MTS files perfectly. There is also a plug-in for Vegas available, but I can’t remember the name and I think it is around $99.”
I think what you’re thinking of is the Divide Frame GPU Decoder. There’s a trial version on their website at https://www.divideframe.com/?p=gpudecoder
I’ve downloaded it but haven’t had a chance to try it out yet. Requires a relatively current Nvidia card to work.
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A friend of mine was editing a project that’s being shown at a live event broadcast simultaneously to over 300 theaters later this month, and informed me that he’d been having this disappearing titles problem, and that Sony was “aware of the issue” but hadn’t released any information about a fix yet. I had run into the issue once and just assumed I had done something wrong and reset all my titles to “SAMPLE TEXT” somehow. I agree with my friend’s opinion that something like randomly disappearing titles is a “dealbreaker” when it comes to video editing software. And he can’t even switch back to Vegas 8 because it won’t read the Vegas 9 files. This is completely unacceptable and Sony should have this fixed by now with one small update, not sitting on it until they fix a bunch of other minor problems then wait for some big 9.0b release. Just do a 9.0aa or something.
First I preordered Vegas 9, then found out I had to stay with 8 because there was a firewire preview device that instantly crashed it. So I waited patiently for 9.0a, only to find out that I still can’t use 9 for any project I might have to put a title in. I’m not saying I’m going to switch my whole life over to Macs, but come on Sony, get with the freakin’ program.
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Wow, as long as I’ve been using Vegas that’s been a tiny little annoyance but hasn’t significantly impacted any projects I’ve worked on. I’ve always just worked around it, but now that I know there’s such an easy solution, I’ll definitely use that in the future. Thanks Mike!
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Would the RIVA FLV encoder help with that? I doubt it could take that big mpeg2, but you could render out a standard definition avi or try the frameserver posted yesterday to send the job to the RIVA encoder.
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Talk about good timing. I just came to specifically look for a frameserver for Vegas and this just happens to be the most recent post! Thanks for the heads up, gonna go try this out with Sorenson Squeeze.
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We actually do use Sorenson Squeeze here at the office, but at home for personal projects and some corporate websites I use Riva FLV encoder which is free. I don’t know if it’ll convert directl from mpeg2 since I’ve never tried, but if you export the project just as an avi it’ll work fine. Moyea sounds good too though, but if you want to give something free a chance to see if it’ll work you can just google “Riva FLC Encoder”
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Is your video 16×9? I know when I render hd footage to youtube I tend to use WMV 1280×720.
There are several video tutorials on youtube about doing this. Even if the video isn’t 16×9 you can render out a 16×9 program with black bars just to fit their new widescreen window format.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sony+vegas+youtube&search_type=&aq=f