David Shirey
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This thread is a few weeks old now but for posterity and searchability’s sake for future users I’ll note that since V13’s launch I’ve had the same issues as Ken, with black frames being inserted in renders. Sometimes it happens on still photos I’m doing zooms on but only if the zooms rotate at all, sometimes on dslr footage the shooter didn’t have level so I had to put a crop and rotation on the frame even without movement. One time it did it on green screen footage but the black frame only covered the background image that was chroma keyed underneath and not the subject on top. If you get rid of whatever is causing it in one spot and rerender, it’ll just do it in another spot.
It’s weird and disappointing and a complete waste of money (especially since I had completely different issues with Vegas 12 on a different computer,) but on the 3 computers I use none of them have any problems with Vegas 11 so I’ll keep using and enjoying that for another year.
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I’ll just confirm what Mike said, that you shouldn’t try to max out the DVD bitrate. I’ve been using 8.5mbps for a long time now on shorter videos with much success, but a long time back I tried going to 9.5 and was able to find a low end Korean DVD player which choked on the bitrate causing stuttering, so best to play it safe.
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I’d recommend John’s solution. I’m still using the SelectEventsFromCursor script he wrote in 2004, which I assume is also included in that package? First thing I do every time I have to install Vegas is bind that script to Ctrl+w. Not sure why I picked W back then but it’s so engrained in my muscle memory I can’t go changing it now.
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That’s funny because I’ve had nothing but problems with 12 and have relied on the stability of 11 since giving up on 12 entirely. I’ve also had several hangups with DVDA 6 and went right back to 5.2 which has always been my rock.
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I had nothing but problems with Vegas 12 on a 650 Ti card so far so I reverted back to Vegas 11 months ago. It sounds like there isn’t much benefit to the latest version if there’s still no gpu acceleration on 6 series cards though? I’m definitely in the “if it ain’t broke” camp so maybe I’ll just hang back with 11. I think my days of pre-ordering new versions of Vegas are over and I’ll adopt a wait and see approach from now on.
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Well you certainly can do that, but NTSC DV avi files for 10 hours of footage are going to be massive so you’ll have to break them up into short segments and buy a lot more usb sticks. DV avi is a great format if the people you’re giving them to need to edit the footage themselves, but if they’re just going to watch them I’d recommend standard definition mp4’s.
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If by “authored” files you mean a DVD-style menu system with chapter stops, then there really isn’t anything as convenient as DVD/Blu-Ray like that. If you wanted to though, you could certainly break up the chapters into individual mp4 files, number and label them in a specific order and distribute them on a usb drive.
It’s handy to have chapter stops but I certainly enjoy the ability to click a mouse quickly on the timeline to jump around.
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Stephen sort of did answer that question, saying that it will still only play on a Blu-ray player. You can put mpeg2 DVD-formatted video on a blu-ray disc for sure, but the “blu-ray” in blu-ray discs is because they use a new type of blue laser to read the optical disc, as opposed to the older red one that dvd’s used. Aside from just the color of the beam, it’s new technology and isn’t backwards compatible with old stuff.
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That’s a good point, you can absolutely do 1080i or full 1080p as an mp4 at a higher bitrate. The only tradeoff would be hitting that 4gb file limit sooner and you may have trouble playing that back on some cell phones or older tablets, and maybe 6+ year old pc’s. Always best to talk to the client and cater your video specifically to their needs. There’s definitely no one best solution when it comes to distributing video.
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The h264 codec provides great quality as a lower bitrate than mpeg2. I’ve done several vhs conversion jobs for clients that wanted dozens of vhs tapes crammed on a few blu-rays and found that 5mbps works well. For those I think I used Sony’s avc codec for the video and AC3 for the audio.
Lately though I’ve found people are preferring to just get 640×480 mp4 files at the same bitrate on an external hard drive, which they then go around and copy to all the family members’ computers so everyone can have a copy without the expense of duplicating blu-rays. Something to consider in this age of smart phones and tablets we seem to be getting into.