Jeremy Rochefort
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Just the same dilemma I sat with a few weeks ago. I had been using a wiffy monitor for color correction purposes with no good results.
As far as monitors go, your first choice would be one which is calibrateable NB! – including a Blue Check function for checking chroma gain and phase!
Now you need to decide whether your delivery is HD or SD. At this moment in time, most are still delivering to SD, unless you do broadcast work and deliver HD. If you are delivering SD, you options become a little cheaper since you need only a SD monitor.
As I’m typing this, I’m seeing an advert on the same page for the new Panasonic 17″ LCD monitor which I have seen in action – very coooolll! Even got a built in waveform monitor BUT it comes with a $3400 price tag! Also its a 1280 x 768 – still not pixel for pixel HDV!
Since my current delivery is to SD, I purchased a SD monitor with SDI inputs. Yes, its a 750 line but perfect for my current delivery platform. When HD becomes more common place, I’ll get a HD monitor and use my SD monitor for SD work.
One device I am aiming towards is this little baby:
https://convergent-design.com/CD_Products_HDConnect.htm These guys seem to have their act together. Also got a brilliant SD box and they WORK with Vegas – a bit pricey but good kit.I must be honest in that I am biased against the Blackmagic since what I have read so far hasn’t impressed me.
Sooooo – where to from here?
SD or HD – make your choice and work from there.
Cheers
Jeremy
MJ Productions
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IMHO I think that it might be human error. I can’t seem to think of a reason why your timeline would shift!!
Cheers
Jeremy
MJ Productions
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Make sure your “edit Details” tab is displayed.
In the “Show:” drop down box, select markers – slect all of them with you mouse and copy and paste to an excel file or similar.
Cheers
Jeremy
MJ Productions
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An ultra high end graphics card will not speed up your preview process. What will speed up your preview is raw cpu power. As you add transitions, cross-cuts etc, so you will slow down your preview.
Vegas does not make use of gpu hardware accelaration so a high end graphics card will be to no avail.
One way of speeding up your preview is to reduce the preview quality in the preview window. Don’t forget than you can also use “build dynamic ram preview” which will render a selection to ram so that you can view in real time what the final product will look like.
Cheers
Jeremy
MJ Productions
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Connect HD allows you also to capture from the cam without capturing the transport stream. As Ed has also mentioned, scene detection is available.
One further thing you should consider that the Cineform Intermediate codec is NOT an intermediate codec.
The confusion is over CineForm’s use of the term “intermediate” which was derived from the film workflow “Digtial Intermediate” not from the concept of temporary “proxy.”
In film digital intermediates you don’t go back to the source negative. The CineForm Intermediate is not a proxy for the M2T data, it completely replaces it. Its like an uncompressed workflow — only much more convenient due to file size and speed. The branding of “CineForm Intermediate” during the post production of “Dust to Glory” where CineForm compression was used through out and was the final master format. So that is the philosophy. From these AVIs you create your master, to go to whatever output format you want : WMV9, AVC264, MPEG2, DVD, D5 or film.
Cheers
Jeremy
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I must echo my fellow hosts’ sentiments. We do this for the love of video and our passion for the product.
Drop me an email at jeremy[at]mjproductions[dot]co[dot]za and I’ll send you my snail mail address.
Cheers
Jeremy
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What Ed was referring to is that the vmf file contains all the work you have already done – cuts/transitions/velocity etc.
By just restoring the file to a folder and re-capturing the tapes will put you in a better position to store work. When you open the file, it should ask you for the location of the media files you have re-captured – hence the saving of using multiple dvd’s for backing up the data.
I for one don’t backup – its one of those risks most take. Normally, we work on a project, finish it, deliver and if the customer is happy, delete the files. We normally keep a digital master of the final project. Storage is not so cheap yet – unless someone pays for the privelege of a hard drive for future work, its gone once the contract is complete.
Cheers
Jeremy
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Okay – you have pinpointed one problem.
Before anything else, I would download Vegas 6c and install that. At least then we know what we are working with
Cheers
Jeremy
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I don’t have Vegas Movie Studio but my reckoning would be that working from a dvd would create problems.
The big brother of Vegas Movie Studio will create temporary files required by Vegas to build the video and audio preview you see on the timeline – by working with a dvd, Vegas can’t write to the dvd drive and hence your problem – hope I’m right on this one but that is what my logic is telling me.
Cheers
Jeremy
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If your particular hardware is not supported by Sony Video Capture software, you will need to continue using the software that came with your capture card to capture video. Video Capture supports all OHCI- 1394 compliant cards.
Video Capture is designed to support many of the most popular hardware configurations.
DV capture cards
While Sony does not expressly recommend, nor endorse any specific capture cards, Video Capture supports all OHCI-compliant cards. DV capture cards that meet these requirements allow software control (device control) of DV camcorders. Most other popular (but not OHCI-compliant) DV capture cards are also compatible with Video Capture.Analog capture cards
A number of analog capture cards are compatible with Video Capture. Software control (device control) of the camcorder is not supported with analog capture cards.If you’re using an analog card, please obtain the latest WDM (Windows Driver Model) or VFW (Video for Windows) drivers from your hardware manufacturer.
The short answer is that Vegas needs a firewire connection to your camcorder to be able to control the device – which camcorder are you using and does it have a firewire connection.
Configuring a DV device
Connect your camcorder to your computer with an IEEE-1394 cable.Turn on the camcorder and set it to VTR (playback) mode.
To avoid potential problems during the capture process, you should always use the AC adapter included with your camcorder while you are capturing video.
Run Video Capture.
Select your capture device from the Video menu.
To test your device’s connection from either the Capture tab or the Advanced Capture tab, click the Play button on the Video Capture transport bar. Your camcorder should begin playback, and the video from the camera should appear in the Preview window.
If the camcorder is turned off, the Preview window displays Please connect a device and the Device Status Bar indicates that no device is connected. After turning the camcorder on, Video Capture automatically detects the activity and asks you to confirm a tape name. The Device Status Bar also changes to reflect the updated situation.
Configure an analog device
Connect your camcorder to your computer.In some configurations, your camera’s video output will connect to your video capture card, and the audio output will connect to your sound card.
Turn on the camcorder and set it to VTR (playback) mode.
Run Video Capture.
Select your camera from the Video menu, and select the audio source from the Audio menu.
At this point, the output from your camera should be visible in the Video Preview window. Device control of the camcorder by Video Capture is not possible in most situations. Many analog capture cards also allow you to adjust the quality of the video using the dialogs that appear when you select your device