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I would recommend setting the white peak manually if the software allows you to do so. Another option, if you don’t have clipping occurring in the range, is to bring in the footage with the superwhite, and repair it/set to correct levels in post.
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Dilson, why not post a frame grab and let folks here attempt to help you out?
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Terry,
The HDMI port on any laptop isn’t going to connect to an optimal codec/encoder. You’re sending uncompressed information from your HC7 to the laptop; it’s gonna be choppy. This is not easy information to process. If you can find a means of getting a Black Magic Intensity card into your laptop, you could use their codec and standalone capture app. However, at the moment there is no means of using Neo and a laptop direct to capture via the HDMI that I’m aware of. Most laptops will struggle with mere playback of MPEG 2 at higher bitrates, let alone playing back uncompressed or lightly compressed 1080i information inside of Vegas.
HDMI capture is best relegated (for now) to reasonably up to date desktops with at minimum, a SATA raid, IMO.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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Your system is nowhere near ready to work with AVCHD at full frame rate. AVCHD is a super pig.
Convert those files using Cineform Neo, or at least the Cineform codec that comes with Vegas, or convert them to HDV files before editing.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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Not able to repro this here…when you select audio, choose the “U” key, you can’t slide audio separate from video?
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I wouldn’t use Pan/Crop; it messes with resolution. Track Motion is the answer.
My “fast” method? Two vid tracks. Cookie Cutter on top track, set to half screen. Track motion used to squeeze vids to fit in respective spaces.
There are at least a dozen methods I can immediately think of to achieve this, but Cookie Cutter/Track Motion is fast, clean, and easy, IMO.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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Yes, Vegas exports it in a Quicktime wrapper.
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Installed any new software? Increased RAM? Changed rendering threads? These are all candidates for failing/error.
You might have a corrupted file as well. Can you locate the .bak version of the file?Douglas Spotted Eagle
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Ivan;
You’ll want to have a good card reader. Use DuoPro cards; I’m using the 8 gig, FWIW.
Transfer all the media from the “Streams” folder found on the card, to your HDD.
Put Vegas in the 1440 x 1080 HDV mode, since you’re in SIA you’ll want the 50i template.
Vegas *can* edit the media straight from the card, but it’s very painful. Figure roughly half-time for transfer. 12 mins of footage takes slightly less than 6 mins on my 1.83GHz laptop. Yesterday I produced 11 event shorts using this camera and Vegas 7.
Expect LONG render times to MPEG 2SD. A four minute event piece took nearly seven minutes to render.
I had the CX7 in highest quality mode, 12 mins of vid on the 8 gig card.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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This question comes up once in a while, and I’m convinced it’s hardware-related, because it cannot be consistently repro’d.
When you do a RAM render, do you see those black flashes? If you render to a new track, do you see those flashes?
Try lowering the acceleration on your vid card for starters.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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