David Shirey
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There are a lot of variables to consider when asking this question. What is the client planning on watching the file from? What’s the length of the video? What sort of quality needs to be achieved in this “HD” file?
From my personal experience, clients that have wanted a file they can “watch on their computers” have been pleased with a Mainconcept AVC MP4 file. 720p at 7mbps. That’s a nice middle of the road HD format that if the project isn’t very long, can be uploaded to YouTube, put on usb drives, sent to friends via file transfer websites, easily played on tablets, smart tv’s and all sorts of devices.
If this is a 2 hour wedding, regardless of the large size of the USB drive you’ve bought, you’ll hit the 4gb file limit of FAT32. You can format the drive for NTFS to allow a larger file, but then it’s not going to play if you plug it into something like a smart tv or playstation3.
Also are you still using mpeg2 for blu-rays? AVC h264 files can provide the same quality at a lower bitrate, and takes advantage of GPU acceleration when rendering if you’ve got that capability.
As for USB drive speeds, they aren’t really rated by class like sdhc cards are but places like newegg.com normally list the read and write speeds of cards, or if they don’t you can often check the user comments. Be careful because really cheap sticks may have read speeds lower than your file’s bitrate, but if the client is watching from a pc just recommend they copy it over to their hard drive anyway.
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Sorry, “versions” was a little ambiguous. I meant older versions like 11 and 10. Those require their own registration numbers so if you just buy Vegas 12, you won’t get access to 11, right?
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I’ve had this issue with iphone footage before. The issue I had stemmed from Vegas trying to auto-rotate. If you right-click the clip and go to Properties and then I the media tab, set the rotation to 0 degress. Basically you need to get Vegas to ignore the file’s metadata for what orientation it was recorded at, then have it rotated manually in Event Pan/Crop as you said. If I recall that’s what fixed it for me, but the iphone clips themselves I think gave me rendering problems so I recall converting them to AVI anyway.
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I have to agree with Jay here. Dynamic RAM preview shouldn’t have anything to do with GPU accelerated rendering, but who knows how wacky variables like that are tied together behind the scenes. The fact of the matter is that a lot of us are having these exact problems with 12 and we’ve been waiting far too long for them to be fixed. The people here for whom everything is working will tell you to reinstall everything and have the latest drivers and what-not, and it may or may not help anything. Those of us having the same problems as you will tell you to go back to the last build of Vegas 11 Pro. If there were a magic solution to all the problems in 12, then we’d all be using 12 instead 🙂
I’m assuming if someone is buying the full version of Vegas 12 from scratch that the SCS website lets you download older versions? Or do you need to have old registration numbers from those versions for them to work?
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I do find that when I copy and paste a timeline from 12 into 11 the Legacy titles will revert back to just SAMPLE TEXT, but aside from that I haven’t had any issues with the NewBlueFX plugins copying back over.
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AVI’s are generally massive files at 1080i. Under “Video Format” in the AVI render options what do you have selected? And what used to allow bitrate selection in AVI, because I don’t see anything in 11 that did.
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Yeah, all the troubles I’ve had with 12 actually got me thinking maybe I should finally just just ship for Premiere. Then I realized I was perfectly happy with 11, and the only reason I bothered getting 12 was I happened to be building a new rig around the time it came out, and figured I’d just start fresh with a single install. I’m now back to being happy with 11 and I guess the money I spent on 12 and time wasted with failed renders was cheaper than buying and learning CS6, so I still come out ahead. I just really dislike the way Premiere works and will stick with Vegas unless they manage to fall behind technologically.
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Here’s hoping it fixes the freezing while rendering that a lot of us have experienced. Wouldn’t you know it’d be released the day I finally broke down and installed 11 on my new computer after not wanting to risk another project on 12. I’ll continue editing in 11 then dump it into 12 when it’s done and see if it renders okay. Worries me that the notes don’t mention that specifically though.
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If there’s a solution I’d love to hear it, because I’ve been having similar problems rendering to mpeg2 since 12 came out. I normally have to keep trying until it either makes it all the way through, or just bring it home and copy it into Vegas 11. Normally these sort of massive problems with new releases are fixed by this time of year.
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I really have no need for either of those features, but that just sort of drives home what’s great about DVD Architect. DVDA was one of the first ones to support blu-ray, obviously for Sony’s self-interest, and since then there really hasn’t been a lot that needs to be added to a program like DVD Architect, just minor tweaks and bug fixes, a few new stock background images thrown in. I’ve put it on all sorts of desktops and laptops over the years and it has handled everything like a trooper. Even when Premiere/Encore are going nuts over not seeing a drive or whatever they get fidgety about, I know I can always drag the files into DVDA and everything just works. Congrats on another new version DVDA, even if I don’t need it.