[Frederic Baumann]

Hi again!

A stupid quick question: I do not have Vegas Pro, but only Vegas Movie Studio Platinum HD 10.0.

Do you know if Platinum can take benefit from a 64-bit architecture in the same way than Vegas Pro? (to make sure that all the good things you say about 64-bit would apply to my case…)

I have seen no specific mention on the Sony web site, and on the Vegas pro page, they mention 32 and 64 bits, which they do not mention for HD Platinum.

Thanks!
Frédéric

[Frederic Baumann]

Thanks you all for all these feed backs, this is quite useful!!

Fred, could you give some numbers (how much time of rendering for which movie duration? how many video tracks and effects)?

Thanks again,
Frédéric

[Frederic Baumann]

Thanks Steve for your answers, especially regarding the 64-bit question. Quite useful!!

Regarding perf improvements with the i7, I don’t ask anybody to commit and sign a paper 🙂 But if I get only 10% more performance, then it’s not worth for me buying a new PC. I am not even sure that I would go for a new PC if the processing times are cut “only” by 2.

So, maybe someone here, according to his experience, could have a guess about the gain I would get with an i7 compared to my dual core, and tell me if it would roughly be 10% more perf, 100% more, or 1000% more (well I doubt for this last option, unfortunately).

Thanks in advance,
Frederic

[Frederic Baumann]

Hi,

I (only) have a 7D and was faced to the same problem. Everything has been fixed for me when I bought Cineform Neoscene: this software converts your Canon MOV files to AVI. Canon MOV files are known to have problems with Vegas. Also, they are compressed quite a lot, which involves a lot of CPU to decompress them and handle them in any tool like Vegas.

Neoscene is about 100$.

Alternatively, you may try ZoomBrowserEX, which is normally provided with your camera in the Canon utilities. This tool has a utility to convert MOV files to AVI as well. However, it looks like for me, it converts the files to 15 fps AVIs (while my MOVs are 25fps), which is definitely not what I want.

I am also rendering to m2t, and in the last 2 months (during which I used Neoscene), I believe I never had a crash any more.

And btw, I share your opinion about the Sony support… But I am quite enthusiastic about using Vegas (the Movie Studio Platinum version). I really like this tool (but was angry like you before using Neoscene).

Hope this helps,
Frederic

[Frederic Baumann]

Hi,

I am running Vegas Movie Studio 10 HD Platinum on a Dell laptop, and also have many problems with keyboard shortcuts (even with standard keys, not even the ones emulated for the num pad).

Frédéric

[Frederic Baumann]

If John’s answer doens not solve the problem, look for a video on youtube from “montagical” (look for the “vegas”, “tutorials”, and “AVI” keywords to find it). It talks about this problem (or at least, one that looks similar). It is about a missing Codec (Morgan MJPEG if I remember correctly).

Hope this helps,
Frédéric

[Frederic Baumann]

If it may help, following instructions give on this forum, I have bought Cineform to encode the MOV files coming out from my Canon EOS 7D. These MOV / H264 files are known to have problems with Vegas if used directly – causing Vegas to crash rather frequently.
Since I convert the files to AVI with Cineform, I have never had any more crashes.

Regarding Vegas encoding, it works fine for me except for Divx output : the rendering crashes as soon as I start it. My workflow consists in encoding to MP4 in Vegas, and then convert to Divx/MP3 with M4NG (free tool).

I now other people here on the forum can encode to DivX without any difficulties, but I am not lucky enough for that 🙂 (I tried many many many different advanced settings but they are all of no help).

Frédéric

[Frederic Baumann]

I sometime have similar problems after having used Studio Platinum 10 HD for a while in the same session: some parts of the movie are previewed as black. The way I fix it is to save the project, close Studio and restart it.

Could you try the following:
– launch Vegas
– open your project
– locate the cursor to the middle of the movie
– launch the preview from the middle of the movie

-> does the preview shows as black screen? or does it shows correctly?

If it shows up correctly, it might mean that Vegas is not yet out of memory — which would happen if you start to preview from the beginning.

In that case, it might mean that you don’t have enough RAM (but I am not quite sure about this diagnostic)

Hope this helps…
Frédéric

[Frederic Baumann]

I don’t know much about this except that I read in the documentation that the 3/ takes priority over 1/ if different.

Hope this helps,
Frederic

[Frederic Baumann]

Thank you all for your suggestions.

I have had a look at these tools. Boris FX is 300$ and New Blue is 80$ 🙁

Nothing FREE that you could recommend ? (well, I agree, setting the color balance before shooting definitely is a free solution, but still, I keep being interested by software solutions as well)

Frederic