Donatello
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i don’t find a problem with rendered uncompressed clips out of Vegas used in AE … it’s the rendered uncompressed clips out of AE/combustion taken into vegas .. what i did was rendered uncompressed SMPTE color bars out of AE .. drop those into Vegas TL – then i apply CC to get the bars to read correctly in Vegas waveform scopes – i then save that setting as plug in chain and use it on all clips that were rendered in AE/premiere/combustion …
AE7 now has settings for 16-235 or 0-255 or 709 color space for hdv..
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if you can get the clips into AE6.5/7 you can set the out put fps for 24p … you can do it so it doesn’t cut out any frames …
i don’t use FCP .. if it doesn’t import the 25p seems to me that is not the problem ??
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what about SIZE ?
i have a HP 15.4 lcd , AMD 3700 .. to travel and edit ..
however after 1st traveling holiday to east coast for 3 weeks the WEIGHT/size got to me .. have not taken it on a plane since.i then bought a Averatec 4200 – pent M 1.6 , 1.25gig ram (added extra ram) , 13.3 lcd .. excellent for traveling and no problem editing SD with vegas .. battery can go 3- 31/2 hr on batt save mode which works with dv type files … 2 1/2 editing full power …
if i was buying today i would go duo core pent-M …
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just beware when you go between the 2 apps that sony renders to 601 spec’s 16-235 rgb and AE defaults to 0-255rgb ..which means that 235 ( 100 ire) is clipping in Vegas .. and 255 ( 100 ire) is clipping in AE .. 255rgb would be 108ire in Vegas …
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you drop DV pal clip in time line ..
you then render that out using DV PAL template and the clip is darker?
you are viewing the results using Vegas preview window or you are viewing it on a PAL monitor and then comparing to vegas preview window?
make sure ALL video track levels are at 100% …do a short test. drop PAL color bars into time line. – do some kind of FX – then NOTE on the video waveform where the bars are falling ( write 3-5 of them down ) .. now render that out using PAL DV template .. when finished drop it into time line – now look at the waveform to see where those bars are falling ? are they different ?
IMO what you see in waveform is what you get .. however sony preview monitor and external monitors are totally different. BOTH need to be set up to the same standard. one can just adjust the computer monitor anyway you want and most persons just turn the knobs till it looks right to them. same with external monitor .. set up you computer monitor to PAL color bars .. then adjust your external (TV) monitor up using the same bars = npow you have a standard reference.
note that it doesn’t matter how you set up your computer monitor it will have NO affect on the sony waveform scopes ( it reads from data – not the circuitry in adjusting monitor) -
“A typical “low budget” package might be an Arri SR3 with a set of primes and a handful of glass filters for around
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bring up TASK MANAGER to see what else is taking up CPU ..
is the duo connect card the 1394a & USB2 ? if YES – make sure you are using adaptec drivers not XP drivers
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i find it depends on the number of clips i’m using … i capture whole 60min tapes. if i’m working with 2-4 60min tapes i tend to just copy/paste from vegas to vegas.
if i have 10-30 60 min tapes then i tend to use the trimmer as it is very easy to go from one tape to the next using the drop down menu history of clips.
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look in PROJECT MEDIA ( detailed) .. if you don’t see project media go up to VIEW and check project media .. in Vegas 2,3 4,5 it’s called media pool …
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if the clip is being capture ( as in during capture) you don’t have access to the clip.
also depending on the drive if you are accessing other clips on same drive as you are capturing you might drop frames during capture – you’ll have to do a test.i find most clips will NOT play back at 29.97 over 100Mb network. i get around 12-14fps over network ( doesn’t matter if it’s a external or internal shared drive)