[Jaanus Henno]

Wow, thanks, that really makes it clear. Now I understand why interlaced video into interlaced takes more time to render than interlaced material into progressive. I often use pan/crop and didn’t know about the internal processing.

[Jaanus Henno]

Yes, that solved the problem. Thanks John!

But I don’t get it. Why should I use deinterlace method, if I’m not deinterlacing? And then what is the use of the funcion NONE, if that should not be used? I always worked in progressive mode and there I also don’t use None since I have to deinterlace somehow or other.

[Jaanus Henno]

Deinterlace method: none

[Jaanus Henno]

No, I don’t think so. I don’t want to deinterlace, so I’m keeping interlaced as the source material, lower field first. It will be a dvd so I would prefer interlaced. I also checked render template to make it sure that it’s set to interlaced.

Actually deinterlacing will fix that, but there should be no such error at all.

[Jaanus Henno]

Ok, I figured it out!
And thanks John, you helped me to do that.

So I did the testing and what came out, I take my words back, Vegas is doing a great job! When I added the internal filters and rendered to mpg onto my desktop having the source file also on drive C, the processor started running on 94-97% and it was converting like anything, haven’t seen such a speed before in my life! But I did test it before the first post also, I don’t know what went wrong…
So the culprit is Neat Video filter, that slows it down like to 20% of processing speed. But I’m glad to figure it out and also I noticed there’s a new version of Neat Video out there, have to check it out, if it’s really working as much faster as they are promising, then seems like I have to go for that.

[Jaanus Henno]

Well, did a little research and found a post which answers practically all the questions I had.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/918270

Based on that article I found a nice laptop,

Samsung NP-RF711
Intel i7-2820QM
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT540M 1 GB Optimus
RAM/Memory: 8 GB DDR3 1333 Mhz
Hard Drive: 750 GB 7200 RPM HDD
Display: 17.3″ 1600 x 900 Widescreen LCD with LED Backlit
Bluetooth: Integrated Bluetooth 3.0
Ports: 2 x USB 2.0, 2 x USB 3.0, HDMI, VGA, RJ45, Media Card Reader: Secure Digital High Capacity, Secure Digital MultiMediaCard (MMC), SDXC

All that for 1200$

Although, if videocard will not make a big difference then probably I would even get this one with a memory upgrade to 8 gb:

Dell Latitude E6420
CPU/Processor: Intel i7-2820QM
Graphics Card: Intel HD Graphics 3000
RAM/Memory: 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1333MHz
Hard Drive: 500GB 7200rpm HDD
Display: 14″ LED Anti-Glare Backlight (1366×768)
9-Cell-Battery
Warranty: 3 Year Rapid Response Depot Warranty

This one prices for 800$

The screen is a little small though, but good size for traveling and good battery life. I’m not a professional user, so that might go well to me.

Thank you for the input Roger.

Regards,
Jaanus

[Jaanus Henno]

Thanks for the reply, but I have a different problem. It’s this particular file which is troublesome. I have a new i7, editing is not a problem at all, this file is faulty. I already tried to render it, it stopped after some time, rendering doesn’t go further after a certain frame. But when I click on the timeline after this frame, everything is there, also audio peaks show that there’s no gaps. So there’s some error in the chain of the frames, that’s what I think, and that was really my question, is there some way to fix the frames up again, rebuild the file again? Or to replace broken frames with blank ones?

[Jaanus Henno]

Thank you all for the answers,
I will check out the color curves filter. I understand now that I should better learn to use all the effets now, otherwise I find something really useful after all the work is done, and sometimes it means to do it all again with the new effect.

Btw. Is there some good guide for in depth instructions for Vegas effects?

Steve, I do have many keyframes added, light is changing a lot in my footage and that’s the problem. But why should that affect the change in brightness while changing the levels?

Is there some more automated way to balance out all the changes in the brightness, especially I have a footage where a person is sitting in front a window and when the sun comes out, it blacks out all the light from the room. Well, I should have thought about that, but what to do, it is what it is.
Some plugin to set the required brighness and levels for what you want and the rest of the footage will be adjusted according to those settings? That would be really useful.

[Jaanus Henno]

Thanks a lot John, that’s all I needed to know. I was wondering why when following one guide for best quality downscaling, I didn’t get any better results than using mainconcept.

I’m new to HD and recently buyed a camcorder Sony HDR-CX110 to try it out (read many good reviews about it), but the results are not as good as expected, atleast on a laptop screen. After rendering to SD DVD with all the effects I could think of to make it better, it actually comes out ok, not HD quality of course, but still I was expecting more sharpness and less noise. Anyway, I mean there must be a difference in mainstream camcorders and professional equipment, cannot expect more than possible.

Thanks for making it clear!

[Jaanus Henno]

Thank you very much.
I guess I go for that. And now there’s some really cheap SDHC cards available through ebay, but of course, better get some quality ones.