[Frederic Baumann]

I have the build 511 of VP11, and have regular crashes, too, when I use the titler – but not as often as you. Too bad because it’s great… and GPU accelerated.

Interested in suggestions as well.

Frédéric

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[Frederic Baumann]

Hi,

I think the 3 most famous ways of doing so are :

1) use a velocity envelope so that your frame lasts the time you want it to last, rather than 1/25s or 1/24s or whatever (this is probably what the doc was referring to?)

2) take a snapshot of the current frame in the preview, as you say. But you must pay attention to the preview quality settings, so that the shot resolution matches the video’s one.

3) if you are patient (and like dirty solutions…), you might cut your clip to fit exactly your one frame on the time line, and then copy and paste it as many times as you want, frame by frame 🙂
25 times if you want it to last 1 second…

Hope this helps,
Frédéric

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[Frederic Baumann]

Hi Patrick,

As far as I know, MOV is rather a container than a format in itself – a bit like AVI. For instance it can contain AVCHD, but also other encodings.

The best would be that you introspect your MOV files with a tool like MediaInfo, and tell us what exactly is inside.

Anyhow, I would not recommend to render your sub-projects to then re-render them in the whole final project: this is a source of quality drop.

The best approach if you really want to do that, would be to use project nesting: you may import a .VEG/.VF on the time line as any other clip, and the rendering is done only once, in the end. But I am afraid this is only available in Vegas Pro, not Movie Studio… to be checked.

If it may help, I am usually rendering my MOV files (coming from EOS 7D, AVCHD 1080p 25fps), to MP4 with the following settings:

MainConcept MP4
1920x1080p
25fps
12Mbps

But this is only for output on a home TV. I would certainly not use this if I had to re-render the output clip from within an another project.

Hope this helps,
Frederic

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[Frederic Baumann]

Hi,

Did you check the Options > Preferences > Video tab? There is a listbox to select the GPU acceleration device.

… And if you ask the same question for the FBmn Software plug-ins, the answer is: there is a specific ‘GPU Select’ tool which lets you specify which GPU to be used by these plug-ins. It may be different from the one used by Vegas, potentially leading to even faster rendering/preview! The default behaviour is to detect the most powerful GPU, and use this one.

Hope this helps,
Frederic

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[Frederic Baumann]

According to what you describe (no noise elsewhere than in Vegas), I agree it looks like it would come from Vegas…

As an alternative to the above mentioned audio software, I regularly use Audacity, which is quite a great and comprehensive freeware. Really powerful for audio editing.

You will quickly see the audio waves, and will be able to check if there actually are the peaks in the file with it.

If they don’t show up in Audacity (or another tool), then I don’t know what to say to remove them from within Vegas…

Did you try changing the Vegas project audio resolution – from 8 to 16 bits for instance? or changing the sample rate?

Hope this helps,
Frederic

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[Frederic Baumann]

Hi,

I have a 7D (never know if the US “T2i” name means 7D in Europe, or another Canon camera), and usually shoot at 1920×1080 25fps, then render to MP4. I could not notice any significant quality drop this way.

Hope this helps,
Frederic

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[Frederic Baumann]

Hi,

I have a H4n as well and never got such things.

A few questions/remarks:

– is your wireless mic connected to the H4n while recording? or is it connected to some other recording stuff?

– the peaks are impressively high, compared to the fact that, if I understand correctly, you did not hear such noise while recording. Couldn’t it be some kind of electrical connectivity problem (e.g. a mic connector wrongly plugged within the H4n)???

– Did you record the H4n mics sound on the H4n (and on its SD card), or did you simply use the H4n as a mic, the data storage being done by another device? In this case, the pb might come from a wrong connection between the H4n and the recording device.

Strange anyway, hope this helps though…
Frederic

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[Frederic Baumann]

Hi,

as far as I know, the 16-235 range is mostly devoted to broadcast and was originally thought for cathodic displays.

I would say that for the web, you should use the full range of available color levels from 0 to 255: there are so many different ways through which the final rendering is controlled/modified (ICC profiles, monitor settings, …), so the more color-space resolution you have in your video, the better.

Hope this helps,
Frederic

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[Frederic Baumann]

Hi,

Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 is fine for editing H264 MOV files from the EOS 7D. No clue about the T3i though.

What do you exactly mean by “does not cut it”?

Hope this helps,
Frederic

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[Frederic Baumann]

I don’t remember how it was in Studio 9…

If, in Options>Preferences>Video, you have an option to set the RAM for preview, you might try to lower this and see if things are going better.

Not sure at all though. Having moved from Studio 9 > Studio 10 > Pro 10 > Pro 11, I might mix the options available in the various products versions.

However, even though this is certainly not the answer you would expect, I got rid off most of this memory error stuff when I switched to Vegas Pro.

Hope this helps anyway,
Frederic

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