David Shirey
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1. Off the top of my head I want to say each hour of HQ setting footage will take 15-16gb.
2. Vegas supports the MXF files that Sony’s Clipbrowser software exports. The EX1 actually makes a folder on the card for every single clip with several files in each folder. Once it’s connected to the pc (make sure you have the latest Clipbrowser software, because the version that comes on the cd with the camera can’t even export the EX1 files to mxf!) you just select all the clips and say export to mxf and pick a directory. You’ll probably want to rename the files in a multicam shoot just so there’s no confusion. I use a great little shell extension for windows called Multiren which you can google for.
Sorry but I don’t have any experience with Smoke so I can’t help you on #3.
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If you’re under a time constraint and have a bunch of individual clips, I would start the trial of Excalibur https://www.jetdv.com/excalibur/faq.php
Drop the clips in the timeline, select all the 16:9 clips and load up Excalibur. Go to the Event tab and at the bottom click Match Aspect. This will crop every clip to the center 4:3. You can move it left or right in Event Pan/Crop in the timeline.
When you have time check out some of it’s other features. I use Match Aspect so much I have it bound to Alt+M because I work with a lot of scanned jpeg’s.
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I use the SR11 for personal use, which is the same camera with 80gig hard drive, and I believe it records each clip as an m2t file. Although I haven’t actually bothered editing any of my own footage yet. I figure I’ll just put it all off until I get a bluray burner 😛
But anyway, the m2t files should drop right into Vegas. I don’t know why it says format unsupported.
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eSATA is just the external version of SATA. A lot of people use those Western Digital MyBook external enclosures, which have models that include usb 2.0/firewire400, and usb2.0/eSATA. The eSATA models are actually cheaper so if you’re looking for external storage I’d recommend it.
However Mike has the right idea with his setup having a 250gig system drive to run programs from and separate 500gig drives to put media on. Quad processors are great for rendering times, but just last night I was assembling my new home PC with the dual core intel e8400. I haven’t even installed Vegas yet but from the benchmarks I’ve seen it should do pretty well. Also that piano black finish is a nice choice if you’re meeting with clients. Who says only macs can have fancy cases!
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Thanks, that fixed it. Can’t believe I thought to upgrade everything except the ClipBrowser itself. Didn’t occur to me it wouldn’t convert MXF straight out of the box.
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What Douglas suggested should be what you’re looking for, but in terms of explaining the workflow philosophy… I think out of the box what Vegas is set up best for is what you described. You capture the footage from your shoot and it goes into the timeline. Then you use the splice tool and delete key to cut out what you don’t want. This is perfect for most of the work I do, but one thing I love about Vegas is its customization. There are a lot of options and people write all sorts of scripts for it, so that you can set it up to be streamlined for whatever type of work you do.
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We just got our first PMW-EX1 at the office (I’m the only one using Vegas 8, everyone else uses Final Cut 5) and the HD footage looks great. Unfortunately we have no way to give clients HD footage yet, and the DVD’s of it don’t really look better than the ones we made from our Sony DSR-300’s, with the exception that it is now widescreen which I love. Editing will be nicer when we get some widescreen monitors, but I think most of the money will have to go towards those memory cards for a while. Good riddance real-time digitizing!
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As a follow-up to this question, I’m wondering how important a 3D card is for video editing. I’ve got a low end 6200LE in my computer at work and normal editing doesn’t seem much different than at home where I have an 8800GT. Do a lot of you get higher end cards because there’s a significant speed difference in Vegas, or do you also do 3D modeling and play Quake Wars? I always thought the playback framerate relied more on the CPU, and obviously rendering.
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Like Edward suggested, you can ctrl+drag out the file to 4 hours long. If you really need all four hours on one dvd-r, would it be simpler to just leave it as one file and put 4 chapter stops on the hour marks then add a menu for the four chapters? That way you don’t have to render out 4 separate files. As for the counter you can use one of the Timecode presets from VideoFX.
I have this mental image of whoever has to sift through this footage just sticking their dvd player on 4X play mode to get through it quicker 🙂
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I don’t know why it never occurred to me that could be fixed in software. The sweet spot for me seems to be 8 frames. Thanks for the help!