[Fred Robinson]

Also – make sure you don’t have that video track ‘muted’.

[Fred Robinson]

Hmmm, perhaps this feature only exists with v9. Maybe one of the other users on this forum will know how to do the equivalent ‘cache clearout’ on your version of Vegas???

[Fred Robinson]

Seriously, I tried all that. Filled their form in. Received about 12 emails over a period of about 2 weeks, each asking a new question. All of which I answered. Eventually they referred me back to exactly the same web form that I’d filled in in the first place!!!! That’s why I thought I’d try here.

Don’t you just love going round in circles.

😀

[Fred Robinson]

Each time you start Vegas, hold down the Ctrl and shift keys then right click the program and run it as administrator. In the small dialogue box that comes up, tick the box to delete cached stuff and click the ‘no’ button (else Vegas resets to defaults.).

I’ve found, since I started to do this, that I’ve never had the media not found problem again.

Hope this works for you like it did for me.

Fred

[Fred Robinson]

open the explorer program
goto file\open
then find the file… in this case it would be FileIOSurrogate.exe
On the left side you’ll see “NT HEADER”…. “DOS HEADER”… etc
Highlight “FILE HEADER” under “NT HEADER”
On the right side you’ll see a chart and in the bottom right corner you will see “CLICK HERE”
Click on that and a check box menu system will open.
Scroll down the menu list until you see “app can handle > than 2gig address space” and check that.
Save the file and close.

I’ve read in some other ‘tips’ that people have done the same with other .exe files within Vegas too, but I only changed this one and it worked for me.

Fred

[Fred Robinson]

There is probably a lot of truth in that! lol

Thanks again!

[Fred Robinson]

Okay – will do.

Interested in your first point. I totally accept that there’s a difference between the format of the stream and the information it carries. (I’d still be an ugly git even in a Rolls Royce), but since the cineform codec gave me a makeover (to continue the analogy) surely I’d lose the makeover if I went in the Ford instead?

Thanks again.

F

[Fred Robinson]

…sorry, I meant m2v, not mt2 in my second question?

[Fred Robinson]

I seriously wish I’d known about cineform earlier. I’ve been editing directly with the camera output files and vegas struggles like hell. It’s like heaven now working with these AVIs and it’s great to know I’m not losing any quality and – in fact – gaining a tiny bit.

So thanks very much to you for that. Well worth the cash. No; make that DOUBLE the cash!!

May I ask another question or two?

Although I’m not finished editing yet, I’m trying to work out where I’ll be going next. So I tried creating the MPEG-2 and AC-3 files from Vegas at 29.97 in the way you said. Ready for a play about in DVD Architect Pro. The questions I have about this stage are…

1. Which main concept setting should I choose? ‘Main’ is the default, but looking at the help files it says to use the ‘better’ on if your equipment is 4:2:2. Since the cineform tool has interpolated to 4:2:2 should I use this setting instead? Will DVD Architech mind?

2. Why does the video file not have the mpeg-2 suffix? It is an mt2.

3. Must I do two renders, one for the video and one for the sound? Or can I tick the box on the last settings tab which implies it’ll result in separate streams?

Bear in mind I’m ending up on blu-ray here.

Cheers for staying with me on this. I’m kind of feeling my way a bit… …as I’m sure you can tell.

Fred

[Fred Robinson]

Great answer as always. I had a sneaky feeling that they had nothing to do with each other.

So; can I tell the difference? Honestly? Even when I play the stuff on my 1080p projector onto a 106-inch screen… …No. I see no difference at all.

I can, however, see a slight improvement in the new AVI files that cineform has created when compared to the original files which came straight from the 5DMkii though – but this will be down to the 4:2:0 -> 4:2:2 interpolation I’m supposing. But certainly no differences between the 3 versions of the AVI file.

Many thanks again. This really is a brilliant forum. I hope that my ‘noobness’, dumb questions and your excellent answers will help other Canon 5D / Vegas users.

🙂

Fred