[Heinz Melus]

Hi John,
I have another question to you as a Pro. I captured all my footage V8 and HiV8 into Vegas 11. I used the SceneAnalyzer. Soundsoap works fine. All footage was from me in PAL. I have now NTSC-VHS tapes which I bought in US & Mexico. I have a VCR Philps VR969/58 Multisystem, bought in Europe, which can read NTSC tapes. I can see our sea diving on a modern TV set in color. When I capture through ADCV300 (DIP sw 1-5 changed to NTSC, all others off) the footage is B\W. The VR969 is marketed as semipro equipment. I use S-Video and Audio cables. The user manual doesn’t give any spec on the different video systems. Do you know, where to find the specs for the NTSC output? May be it is not a true NTSC 3.58 output, but the TV set can read it, not the ADCV. Or do I need other DIP swithes to switch on?
Appreciate your reply

Heinz

[Heinz Melus]

Hi John,
thank you for this excellent advise. I tried the Soundsoap trial on my Vegas 11 64 bit version as a VST plugin. I used .avi and .mts files with noise. It’s easy to use and works fine. For hobbyist it is more than good. I ordered already at Amazon.

Thank you and all the best.

Heinz

[Heinz Melus]

Hi John,
i would like to get an advise again. You helped me to decide to buy Vegas 11 Pro and to get a well configured WS. I’m on retirement and digitize my V8 & DV footage. The new footage taken with CX 550 will be Blu_Ray. For optical scene detection on V8 you recommended Sceneanalyzer.
My next issue is the audio noise and simple edit. My holiday and birthday footage has a lot of external noise: traffic in town, motor boat, wind, water etc. I would like to do:
a simple SW to reduce Noise and edit Audio (cut, paste, stretch etc)in connection with Vegas. My films are only for home use to relatives and friends. Solutions as SF 10 Pro or NR2 would be too expensive and too complicated to use. May be 10% use. Could you recommend me any solution to do this inside Vegas. Is there a solution for 100$ ??

Heinz

[Heinz Melus]

Thanks John,
your answers are always top.
1. Could I come back to the Blu ray or AVCHD question. Do you agree that BR is the better standard for long time archiving and to play disks on a player?
2. You propose to render audio in AC-3 rather than PCM as DVDA 5.0 requires. Does DVDA automatically convert it w/o loss? What is the reason for AC-3?
Thank you

Heinz

[Heinz Melus]

John

1. I took some time to get ready to buy a new workstation and Vegas Pro. I start with the workstation Windows 64.
I have an offer for the hardware. Could you advise, if something is missing or too weak or overpowered. I’m not a pro and have our family footage in AVCHD 1920 x 1080. Earlier this year, when I tried it at a friend on a weaker PC with Vegas Pro9, the audio and video got dissyncronized after a few minutes.
The spec
Intel Core i7, 2600, 3,4GHz
Socket 775/115xAM2/AM3 cooler
SATA II, RAID, U133, 2xPCI-E, SB, 1Gb LAN, IEEE1394a, USB3.0, USB 2.0, ATX.
Memory: 2x4GB DDR3 SDRAM Kingston Valueram, 1333MHz
HD1: Seagate Baracuda 320GB, 7200
HD 2&3: Seagate 1000 GB x2, 7200
Graphic card: PCI-E1280MB ASUS ENGTX570 Direct CU(GeForce GTX 570.
Drive BD-RE for Bluray and DVD, 12x2x8xBD/16x8x16xDVD/40x24x40xCD
Midtower
WiFi card 300 Mb

2. Meanwhile I just downloaded the footage from my camera in 2 formats to a drive. Direct copy make files with extension .mts and downloaded with the Sony Soft PMB, delivered with the camera, make .m2ts. Is there any preference on one of these formats in the future to work with Vegas Pro ?

3. This new workstation would run only Vegas and Adobe Lightroom 3 with the video and photo stored on a home server.
The HW sales asked me, if I would buy a normal disply like Samsung 24″ wide or a professional one. What’s the difference? For home use, what would you recommand?
Would appreciate your advises.
Best regards
Heinz Melus

Heinz

[Heinz Melus]

Thanks John, very valuable. I’m just a beginner to render footage. +20 years I made many footage from C format, Video 8, VHS, mini DV and since last year I have the CX-550. For the old analog footage I bought Pinnacle Studio 14 with its hardware for capturing. Heard that Vegas can’t capture composite signals. Capturing is more or less ok but editing and render not. I want to buy Vegas Pro (600$) and install it on my PC. It’s not the youngest. AMD Phenon Quad core 2,3 GHz (Windows experience Index 4,7), currently 2GB memory, running on W7. I can increase to 4 GB, that’s max. Rendering time is not critical, as I’m retired. My friend has the same PC running Vegas Pro v9, but he has an older camera, so he didn’t see the dissync of video to audio in AVCHD 1920x1080x50 rendering mode. Video was slower than audio on my test I made on his PC. Do you think Vegas Pro runs on 4GB in AVCHD mode correctly or must I buy Vegas and a new PC too?

Heinz