Jeremy Rasnic
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What is the original footage format?
When you say it jumps or skips frames, do you mean that it does this while on the timeline or after you render it out and you are watching it?
If on the timeline, it may just be taking some time to access your HDD and ram sync the timeline up to the footage and audio.
If on the final encode watched in a media player, what player are you watching it on? Have you viewed it in a DVD set top player?
Settings will vary, but I use DVDA widescreen mpeg-2 for the video and I encode the audio seperately to ac3.
As for the bitrate, well that tends to vary based on time (you give a wide range from 30 seconds to 2 hours). There are free bitrate calculators out there and Ultimate S pro from Vasst.com has one included with the rest of its advantages and I would assume Excalibur would have that included but I am unsure as I have not used the script/plugin.
By the way, if you want to find the bitrate calculator for free, JohnMeyer (on the sony creative software forum) has one he made for free that will give you optimum quality for the length of your video. Just do a search for bitrate calculator on the sony forum to find it. There may even be a link to it on Vasst.com
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1. You can put that event on a separate track.
2. You can access the volume nodes and adjust the volume fro that one event and then drop it back down for the rest of the track. (press the “V” key and then double click to place nodes)
I am sure there are other ways, but those are the methods I use.
j razz
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With the cost of hard drives being about 17 cents per gig at 640 gigs, I have been archiving to HDD. What I do is put a drive in an enclosure and copy the entire project, captured files, pictures, veg files, dvda files, and encodes to the hard drive. I then label it and store it until my next project. I then repeat until that drive is full. Then I start a new drive.
In addition, whenever I deliver DVD or BluRay, I always burn an extra copy for myself so that way if the hard drive decides it doesn’t want to cooperate 5 years down the road, I still have an alternate on DVD or BluRay, but I would no longer have the source files.
That is how I do it.
Note though, I do all my edits and work on internal drives and at the end copy it all over to the drive in the external enclosure.
j razz
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You should be able to use the downconvert feature built into the Z1 and capture to accomplish this quiet easily.
j razz
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I would get this and buy an external eSata case for it with good fans.
However, I would recommend utilizing internal drives for editing and then store it on the externals.
j razz
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If your original footage was dv (standard definition) it will more than likely be lower field first. If it is HDV, it will more than likely be upper field first. I don’t know what you are wanting to do, but I would normally leave that set to whatever your footage is (Vegas usually figures this out correctly on its own). These are interlace settings.
Basically if you are using interlaced footage and not progressive, you have “A” that makes up half of your image and “B” that makes up half of your image. When they are put together they make a complete image (progressive). The human eye/brain is not quick enough to detect that only half the image is displayed every other frame so all is well when it is played back at normal speed.
j razz
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You could also submit a ticket to http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com (https://www.custcenter.com/cgi-bin/sonypictures.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php) and explain to them in detail what is going on, and give them all of the information on your drive, they may send you a patch via email. I am not guaranteeing this, I am just saying it is a possibility. They did this for me several versions ago when my burner was not being seen by DVDA.
Another thing to try if you haven’t already is to update your burner’s firmware. Make sure you are also running the lates lettered edition of DVDA studio 2.
j razz
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If it stops at around frame 35 see what you have there. Is it a different file format? A certain effect? A new mp3 file?
Try this: Draw a selection around a 15 minute segment starting after frame 35. Render to uncompressed AVI if you have the disc space. If it does indeed finish encoding, do the rest of your movie in 15 minute increments and place the pieces back on the timeline and render out to 720p from the uncompressed avi’s. See if that works.
j razz
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Can you tell us what footage (file format) you are working with? Also, provide your system specs and the speed of your drives as well as what you are using to PTT. Are you applying any effects?
j razz
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There are plenty of vendors out there that will build custom machines (google it), but if you can build your own (it really isn’t as hard as one might think) you will save money and come out with a better machine if you put a little reasearch on the front end. Others have built systems that work well and they have posted their specs, benchmarks, etc. Here is one such example.
Currently, a quad core will give you the most performance boost and like previous responders, CPU and RAM are about all that matters when it comes to Vegas, so I would focus your spending on those two items with the CPU taking front seat.
You do want to be careful though and make sure you don’t put slow hard drives in your system as they can be a bottleneck. I would have one HDD for just your OS and programs and one for capture and one for renders (and another for things like Cinescore themes, jumptracks, etc.)
j razz