Doug Lewis
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Thank-you for the advice, I’ll give it a try.
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I was afraid that Norton “uninstall” would be a problem. Any suggestions?
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In the immortal words of Homer Simpson……Doh!
I figured it out. I had the record prohibit on the cassette in the wrong position………idiot.
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Thanks, I passed along that info to him.
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My routine is usually this: I capture my tapes (shot in SP only) with the same camera that it was shot with. I have a GL1, a GL2 and a Sony VX2100. I was using a basic JVC camcorder to capture other people’s tapes, but it wore out and I have not replaced it yet. So, for now, since the GL1 is the oldest camera I decided to use it for this capture.
After trying, without success, to capture clean video, I ran the tape in fast forward and rewind 3 times to help align tape to this camera. Then I ran a head cleaner for 8 seconds and was able to capture most of the tape with only a few gliches. After I was done with that tape I ran the head cleaner again for 5 seconds. All seems to be OK, but I think it’s time to buy another cheap mini DV camcorder.
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No doubt that more RAM would help, I’m just stumped as to why this computer would be having longer render times than it used to. My next step is to get all projects off of it and defrag the drives, maybe that will bring it back to normal.
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Another render today. 1 hour and 45 minute video, fade in and fade out, no transitions. MPEG2 setting with DVDA stream. The only change was to the avg bitrate…adjusted to 5,500,00 to fit onto DVD. This render took 5 hours and 10 minutes. I rendered a video on my other computer (P4 2.8 GHz machine, 1 GB RAM) that was 1 hour and 25 minutes in length. That render took 2 hours and 20 minutes. I still can’t figure out what is going on with my main editing computer. Something seems to be using up processing, causing my renders to be much longer than in the past. Anybody got any ideas?
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More info….I did another render of video that was captured from a VHS tape. The video capture was done with a “pass through” from VHS player through my Sony VX2100 camera to the hard drive. This video was 1 hour and 20 minutes long. I simply loaded the entire video onto the time line and added a fade-in and a fade-out. This render also took about 4 and a half hours. I am using Vegas 5, a Pentium 4 3.00 GHz computer with 1 GB of RAM. All Windows updates are current. I’ve checked both videos and have found no problems with opacity or other issues. I have 4 software programs installed on this particular computer…Vegas 5, DVDA2, Nero, and Norton AV. When rendering I always shut down my wireless connection and disable Norton Auto Protect. Any other ideas why my render times seem to be increasing?
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I checked, the opacity is 100%. This just seems so strange that this render would take so long. I have another VHS to DVD project which is about the same length. I am going to shut down the computer and start it up again before I start the next render, to see if that fixes the problem. I’ll let you know.
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I’m using i-river recorders. So far I have been very pleased with the results.