David Shirey
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Would happen to be the famous Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka?
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Yeah not having preview be multithreaded is a disadvantage, but I don’t think that’s the problem the other Dave and I have. Because the advc works fine to start out with, then gets progressively jumpier until you simply switch applications and switch back, I’m inclined to think it’s a Vegas issue.
Also I still would like some suggestions from anyone about component-out to an hdtv. Secondary monitors are all well and good but I like getting an idea of how clients might be seeing these videos in a real-world situation. I just like living life on the edge (of the action-safe zone!)
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I just checked out that laptop, looks pretty nice. I had no idea people were sticking multiple 7200rpm drives in laptops nowadays. If you need something portable I’d say go for it, but if it generates too much heat try not to actually set it in your lap too often. Being in a laptop there’s really no way around having the OS on the same drive as the media, and I would think the speed gain from Raid 0 would more than outweigh any speed loss from having the program on the same disks as the media. Enjoy!
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I used a 4-drive external raid enclosure when I edited on Media100, which was pretty crucial at the time. Nowadays with SATA internal drives it’s really not necessary. On the flip side, so many motherboards come with raid functionality built in, so it’s cheap and easy to string together two identical SATA drives and make it a raid array, but unless you’re doing a lot of multicam shoots in HD and have the CPU power to actually be editing them at a high resolution, I wouldn’t futz with it.
Just make sure that on systems with lots of internal drives you have proper cooling for the greatest longevity of components. And really that goes for external drives too. A photographer friend of mine would stack like 7 external Lacie drives together and leave them all on, even if he was only using one at a time. He had a real problem when one of them failed, but I really wasn’t shocked at all.
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MacDrive7 will work great, but if anyone out there just wants a free solution for reading and writing to NTFS (Windows) formatted drives on their OSX macs, check out https://www.ntfs-3g.org/
We’ve got it installed on all the OSX 10.5 macs here at work and it works great for us.But to answer Angela’s question, no there’s no way I know to edit in Vegas (fades and what-not) and have any editing data transfer over to Final Cut. If I recall, earlier you were talking about an EDL and worried that exporting to mxf then moving to FCP wouldn’t preserve timecode so the edl could work in FCP? Would it be possible to enable the edit list on Vegas, then just render out the remaining footage to MXF and transfer that to FCP?
Of course at that point, why not just do the whole thing in Vegas 🙂
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I’ve been keeping an eye on this post to see if anyone responds, because frankly I’d like to know also.
On occasion I’ve had to take 1440×1080 hdv avi files recorded on an external Sony firewire drive from Vegas to FCP, but the files are made by the recorder itself, not Vegas. Regardless I suppose you could export from Vegas, or perhaps just take the avi’s that Vegas captured and bring them over to the Mac. I then use a program called Streamclip (https://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html) to convert the files for FCP to import. I don’t imagine that preserves the built-in timecode of the files but it’s free so you can give it a whirl if you’re out of ideas.
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Yes its exactly that simple. To import the ex1 footage you use Sony’s Clipbrowser software to convert (to MXF) & transfer the clips off the camera to a local drive. For some reason the version of ClipBrowser on the cd that came with our EX1 was pretty useless and could only view the clips. Make sure you have the latest version from Sony’s website to be able to convert the clips to MXF, then just drag the files into an hd timeline in whatever format you shot the footage in. The footage takes time to transfer off the camera, but its a heck of a lot faster than digitizing in real time from tapes.
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When we got our first EX1 I did some testing and rendered out a dvd with the 16:9 and a 4:3 crop to compare to 4:3 footage we shot at the same event (although not at the exact same time and angle) with our sony DSR-300. Once its all downconverted to mpeg2 I can’t tell much of a difference. It’s nice having the ability to zoom in on hd footage after the fact, but I’m really just waiting for writable blurays to come down in price, because shooting HD only to dump it down to dvd is a real shame. Although you won’t hear me complain about not having to carry 25 pounds of camera on my shoulder all day.
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I have the 24″ Dell at home and I just have the timeline take up the entire width, but that’s my preference. I think what Douglas is suggesting is that you undock the things you want to place next to the timeline, then make the entire vegas window shorter, and place the floating windows wherever you would want them. The floating windows will still stay on top while you’re working in Vegas. I guess the best way to describe it is like how Macs work. You’ve got a bunch of single floating windows placed wherever you want with your desktop behind them, as opposed to everything being layed out just within the application’s window.
You know now that I describe that, it does sound a lot better than the way I do it now. The only problem is I don’t have the 24″ at work so it would be difficult switching between two completely different layouts.
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One problem I’ve always had with that feature is when you get a title on the disc with multiple chapter stops, it divides each chapter into its own mpeg file with a slight audio dropout right at the end. Is there any workaround for that or does Sony consider that just one of those “deal with it” issues? I just fall back on manually digitizing the footage through s-video when its an issue.