[Jerry Hart]

TVs simply no longer portray cinema properly. This following article explains the reason behind all my frustrating experiences trying to get a good reference for color and contrast for the final DVD, Blu-ray screening of my film on LCD Televisions. Please read this post:

https://prolost.com/blog/2011/3/28/your-new-tv-ruins-movies.html

I finally had to print on the DVD and Blu-Ray discs to “set your HDTV to CINEMA OR MOVIE setting with MOTION ENHANCEMENT OFF” in order to insure the viewer sees at least a semblance of what color and contrast and motion was intended in my film at 24p 1080p.

Plasma TVs have just been discontinued. It is the passing of the most subtle rendering of cinema on a television medium ever. If you can buy a Plasma on discount over the Black Friday sales…you’ll get a quality you’ll never see again on Television monitors. The TV manufacturing industry is committed to the most unreal Carnival Colors, Bright and Shining, so you buy the most garish set possible at Best Buy.

The next generation will not know what a movie really should look like. Film will be seen in the medium of smart phones, ipads, LCD TVs and probably wrist watches.

I speak as a veteran cinematographer for more than 35 years dealing with the challenging interface of cinema and television.

[Jerry Hart]

John Rofrano explains how to download and install Avid codec DNxHD on his website.

https://johnrofrano.com/training/video-tutorials/avid-dnxhd-template-for-vegas-pro/

Since I installed this codec, I’ve had no problem rendering to DNxHD or viewing DNxHD files on the timeline of Vegas Pro 12

[Jerry Hart]

Steven:
Can you explain the “red car benchmark”? Where can I download it to test my system? Thanks

[Jerry Hart]

I’ve read on this forum from John Rofrano that we shouldn’t install any codec packages onto our computer, because that will cause problems with Vegas Pro. Does HANDBRAKE install codecs? Should I be concerned that this will cause trouble?

[Jerry Hart]

I’ve just learned to live with the annoyance until VP13 comes out. From what I’ve learned, it has to do with the high-bit rate .mov file from the Lumix GH3.
I just trim my shot in the trimmer (ignoring the extra freeze frame picture length) then drop my trimmed shot onto the timeline and have no problem.

[Jerry Hart]

Stephen: The problem I have with too many nested projects is that nesting renders to the timeline with only one audio track and one video track.
I then lose the ability to fine tune that particular event in the master with out having to go back to the original .veg.

All I’m talking about here is to move a 2 or 3 minute scene to a different position on the timeline and still keep the multitracks.

[Jerry Hart]

Can I copy and paste into a new project?

[Jerry Hart]

I’m talking about a 2 minute scene comprised of maybe 15 or 20 events on 4 or 5 tracks. It’s too small to make a nested project. I don’t want to deal with 20 nested projects. I don’t know how I would select all the events on 5 tracks. How do I do this? Can I Cut and Paste? If I open a new project, can I Cut and Paste to it too?

[Jerry Hart]

I shoot with a Panasonic Lumix GH3. The PHOTOfunSTUDIO that came with the camera is a limited program which I found useless. It wouldn’t even see or import .mov files. I prefer to download directly off the SD Card to my media drives. Then load into SVP 12 with no problem.

One thing I discovered is that if you shoot.mov IntraFrame at 72Mbps, Vegas has a glitch when the file is loaded onto the timeline. The video track is much longer than the sound track (which is the proper length of the shot). The extra length in the video is made up of a freeze frame of the last image of the clip and it can run 3 or 4 times the length of the shot. I’ve seen that others on the GH3 forums have this same problems with .mov files in SVP12. It’s annoying but simple to just trim down the video track to match the length of the audio. I’ve sent Sony a notice of this bug and hopefully it will be addressed in future updates. This is not a problem with the AVCHD files, only the MOV files with I-Frame codec at 72Mbp.

[Jerry Hart]

Graham:
You mentioned using Red Giant’s Magic Bullet LOOKs in SVP 12. I have been trying to use LOOKs in SVP 12 but it doesn’t work properly. The folks at Red Giant informed me that LOOKS works with SVP 10/11 but is not supported for v.12.

How do you get it to work? Everytime I finish with one event and open the next for color correction w/ LOOKs, the previous event’s settings are lost.

Red Giant will not say if or when an update for SVP 12 will available.