Jason Harbaugh
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Yeah that’s what I end up doing, but that defeats the purpose. 🙂
I believe Final Cut Pro can see the layers in PSD files, as well as Premiere. Would be nice for Vegas to take this on as well.
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I use it for pretty much all of my titling and logos and graphics situations. It’s really nice that Vegas uses PSD files, but it would be killer if they started supporting layers.
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Well that is pretty much bullshit on apples part. Just another reason why I’ll never own an ipod.
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Can’t you just edit the present and change the frame size from 320×240 to 640×480? That preset is actually already in there. I don’t have an ipod capable of that to test it, but that should be all you need to do. Then just save the new preset with 640×480. If that isn’t the exact dimensions it does still allow custom res as well.
Flash output, no idea if they are going to do it. It would be nice to export it straight out instead of having to bring it back into sorenson or flash video encoder.
I’m actually really suprised there isn’t Blu-ray support. Vegas and DVD Architect should have been the first to support it.
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I stopped using RAID-0 a year ago. For DV editing, even HDV editing it just isn’t needed especially with the speeds that a SATA-II drive can deliver. So with no performance difference, all you are doing is adding the number of moving parts that can fail on you, putting your data more at risk, unless you also do mirroring.
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At the office I have a similar setup, dual Xeons 2.4ghz, 3gig ram. For straight DV video, no effects, other than what you mentioned, Vegas was rendering out mpeg2 at roughly 1.75x. So If a video was 1 hour long, it took 1.75 hours to render. This was using the default mpeg2 stream for DVD architect setting. The quality was as good as it was going to get. This was with Vegas 6d, and actually only 1gig ram at the time. Ram hasn’t decreased rendering time at all. Vegas 7 hasn’t decreased rendering time either for mpeg2.
On my home machine, I have an AMD X2 4400+ and straight video to mpeg2 renders out at roughly .9x so a full hour takes maybe 50-55 minutes. I imagine the new intel Dual Core 2 processors would be even faster. Xeons just aren’t what they used to be.
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I was warry at first about the mediastore ink as well, but after going through 4 sets, I’ll gladly pay 1/5 of the price of retail ink to get the EXACT same results. There have been no differences in the quality of our prints after switching inks. I will say that it behaved odd when it was mixed with genuine epson ink. Once they were all replaced, every print came out looking like the originals.
I’m actually suprised that Epson seems to be the only one going after this market or printing directly to disc. It is a huge timesaver, and component saver by having that function. Not all players like discs with labels on them.
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I’ll add another vote to the Epson R200, or more likely available the R220. You can always find them for $99 or less. You can purchase full sets of ink at supermediastore.com for $21, 2 full sets for $36. Retail ink for this unit is somewhere around $60-70 for one set, so that is a huge savings. This printer basically pays for itself within the first spindle or two or discs considering you would otherwise have to purchase labels, and still print on those.
On the one printer we have, I’ve printed on maybe 700 DVD’s and they still come out perfect. I’ve even done businesscard size CD’s. If you can find the silver printable discs, you can get a silkscreened look on your discs as well.
The only problem I’ve had is the loading tray, the edge does get bent and you have to keep fixing that. I also need to assist the tray whenever I print to make sure it gets sucked in. But it autoaligns everytime for perfect prints.
Be aware that the printing time is much longer. It takes roughly 4 minutes for a full color disc. It is pretty much the only printer though in this pricerange that can print directly to discs and adds that much more professionalism to your products.
Link to the ink: https://www.supermediastore.com/epson-stylus-photo-r220-inkjet-cartridge.html
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Thanks for the info George. Is there any advantage/disadvantage over going with CC vs subtitles on the dvd? We are working on two seperate projects, one on FCP and one on Vegas. The caption company works with FCP all the time, so they just sent over an SCC file. For my project, I’m thinking of just bringing in the script as subtitles and manually moving each line to the proper place in DVDA. Looks like it is pretty easy.
-Jason
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Ahh ok, the search feature sounds pretty cool. What is the ETA of 3.5?