D. Eric franks
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I pre-render all the time. There are a couple of ways to do it, but the most manual and straight forward is to render out chunks to QuickTime MOV files using a lossless codec. It’ll be frame-accurate and PNG is a slow favorite with good size compression, but I often find ANI to be nearly as small – for relative meanings of small, since the files are going to be humongous. I often do this since multiple tracks, dozens of effects and composites + resizing to 1280×720 + changing the frame rate to 24p + 2-pass VBR MP4 can sometimes = trouble. Pre-rendering first and then encoding seems to avoid trouble.
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If you change the velocity of a clip in Vegas to 50% you get exactly what you need. The end.
Specifically: toss a 29.97fps 60i clip into a 29.97fps 60i project, right click the clip > Properties and change the Playback rate to 0.500. Now change the Preview window to Best (Full) to make sure you are seeing your actual output frames and hop through the project frame-by-frame. You should see a change in every single frame, confirming that you are now getting 60fps. Sweet.
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Oh, that is so awesome. What happens if you first Vegas Quake and then apply the new Deshaker to it?
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It might be the audio peaks loading (as Vegas calculates and draws the visual waveform peak files), but it’s certainly easy to check: During the long load, in the lower left part of the interface, you should see a Cancel button and a progress bar moving from 0% to 100%, with the notation “Building peaks for…” and the file name. You can hit Cancel (or press the Esc key) to stop this on a case-by-case basis (it won’t effect anything, you just won’t get to see the waveform and clips will have “(Peaks not available)” on them instead).
There are some Preferences you can toggle that might help. Options > Preferences > General tab > Build peaks for visible events only, for example. If your 60 minute clip is on the timeline, then this won’t matter. You can also set Vegas to use half-resolution peak files with Options > Preferences > General tab > Build 8-bit peak files.
However, once the peaks are built, they won’t need to be redrawn from scratch every time and loads should be relatively fast, so I’m thinking this isn’t your problem.
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I can also verify that it is possible to open and edit at least some DivX files, once the standard ole DivX playback codecs are installed. I have seen files that wouldn’t play and files that would only play the audio, so it’s not a simple Yes/No, but, more times than not, it seems to work.
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Frame rate isn’t going to be an issue. Frame size isn’t necessarily an issue: drop all the footage on the timeline and Vegas won’t have any problems, but if you want to get rid of the black bars you see top and bottom.
Here’s how I’d do it:
(1) Project settings, 720×480 NTSC DV (PAR 0.919).
(2) Import your footage. The one clip will be fine, the other 4 will have letterboxing.
(3) Click the event Pan/Crop tool on one of the four:
(4) Un-toggle the Keep Aspect button.
(5) Squash the crop frame in left and right until the clip fills the preview window’s frame. (Width something like 545, Height still 405.)
(6) Repeat (but the easy way will be to right click the keyframe in the pan/crop dialog, select Copy, then paste that keyframe into the other three clips).______
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You can also snip the last frame off the end, right click it and select Create Subclip. Then you can just drag the edge to “loop” that single frame over and over.
Also, if you click the Snapshot button in the Preview window when the quality is set to Best, you get a pixel perfect frame without losing resolution, as far as I can tell. Either or… whatever works!
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[Michael Bozik] “Each successive version of software seems to be as deficient as the previous – just in different areas.”
In the context of the development history of video editing software, I don’t think you are going to find many here that will agree with you on that. [Curmudgeon Voice]”Why, back in my day, we could only edit one kind of video, the software crashed every 5 minutes, renders took two weeks and we had to walk to the studio in snow up to HERE…”[/Curmudgeon Voice]
Seriously, I do sympathize with your frustrations (and these forums are a good place to get your problems resolved), but the software+hardware today is amazingly powerful, flexible and stable, especially when compared with the previous versions. Video editing is easily one of the most complex functions on any computer, and, as has already been mentioned in passing in this tread, there isn’t a lot of money to be made in video editing software in the mid-range. RIP: FASST, Ulead Media Studio Pro, Sonic Foundry…
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It looks like about a 1Hz cycle, so it could be the keyframes or it could be the GoP set to 30, but I don’t know that those options are revealed to the enduser in the consumer MainConcept H.264 implementation. I don’t think you have that control with the Sony AVC encoder either, but you should certainly try it.
I think there’s an in-loop deblocking filter too that might help.
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Are you rendering a RAM preview for a short section (Shift+B in a loop area)? That should give you a true look at your output in motion.
Two other thing that comes to mind: (1) it might be that the trimmer window isn’t showing the actual pixels, but is showing a reduced resolution proxy that is just sharper simply because it’s smaller or (2) your project properties don’t match whichever clip you are looking at, meaning that in the trimmer you are seeing a DV25 clip, but in the final project you are seeing the same DV25 clip upscaled to 1080i (or whatever), where it will look softer.
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