Frederic Baumann
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Hi,
John you say the new OFX API will enable more things than the current one, including motion tracking.
As I am considering investing time in video plug-in APIs to develop plug-ins (mainly for fun btw), I would like to understand what more can be done with the new API, compared to the current one.
Especially, I don’t see why one cannot do motion tracking with the current API (I understand ‘motion tracking’ as panning around the track on each frame, but I have the feeling not to understand it the right way – probably due to my poor English).
Also, would you have any good site talking about OFX and that you would recommend as a starting point?
Thanks in advance,
Frederic—
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Did you check, in the task manager, how the memory usage grows over time?
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Thanks Scott,
if I understand correctly, you say that on Movie Studio, CUDA only helps for the preview, but NOT for rendering.
Could you please confirm that I understand correctly?
(I was considering to buy a PC with a big nVidia card to speed up the rendering, but it seems that it would not help at all)
Thanks,
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I have Platinum 10 as well. I am not a Vegas Pro expert, but I guess that .VEG files simply cannot be read on the Studio versions, because some Pro features do not exist in Studio, like velocity envelopes for instance.
And anytime I tried to open .VEG files in Studio it failed (anyway I had to rename them to .VF, otherwise they are not even seen by the Open Project dialog box).
Hope this helps,
Frédéric—
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I didn’t make the test however I would be rather confident that it will be no problem to have both installed on the same machine, for different reasons:
– I have both Vegas Movie Studio 9 and Vegas Movie Studio Platinum HD 10.0 Production Suite, and they co-exist on the same machine without any issue
– in the system registry, Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 10 has its own entry, so I guess that the settings of both software won’t overlap
As you certainly know, you will be able to install an eval version of Vegas Pro at no cost to make the test.
Hope this helps,
Frederic—
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Hi,
this is only a partial answer, but still I hope it will help.
When I want to check the actual format to which a video is rendered, I use (free) tools like MediaInfo or GSpot, which provide me with a lot of details about the video.Then you might want to render a small region of your movie to the settings you want, and then check the output with one of them.
Hope this helps,
Frédéric—
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Where do you drag your clips from?
From what I have experienced, if you drag them from the Explorer tab, the order is not guaranteeed, but if you drag them from the Project Media, then you will get them in the right order.
So, I first drag clips from the Explorer tab to the Project Media tab, then drag them from the Project Media tab to the timeline.
Hope this helps,
Frédéric—
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Yes it works (with VS2010 Professional)!
After converting the VS2005 project to VS2010 (automatically), I just had to define the _WIN32_WINNT preprocessor constant to make the project compile, and work in Vegas.
Frédéric
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Ooops, re-reading the doc, I can see the following:
“This PIDK does not define a new standard for plug-ins, it simply extends the existing DirectX Transform architecture. Plug-ins written with the information contained in this PIDK should work in any 2D DirectX Transform plug-in compatible host.”
So, forget my question for item #2 in my previous post…
Frédéric -
Many thanks John, once more! 🙂
1: Yes, I have read the doc from A to Z, and got the DirectX SDK. I think I am all set except for this missing atlbase.h file. Meanwhile, I have found that the Express versions of Visual Studio (the free ones) don’t include this file, and that I have to get a paying version. I am currently installing the Pro version of VS 2010, I will let you know if I manage to make the samples work with it.
2: Quite interesting, thanks. I was convinced that plug-ins were Vegas-specific, even if built on top of DirectX. So this means that a plug-in, once written, will work with all plug-in capable NLE software? For instance, I have seen that there are 4 kinds of plug-ins: filters, transitions, masks and surface generators (specified by the SFVIDEOPLUGININFO.eCategory field. Does this apply for all NLE soft?
3: I would never have thought that software can be sold on eBay (I remember contracts cannot be sold on eBay), but I have just checked and you are right.
Frédéric