Jim Greene
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Certain versions of QT are not compatible with Vegas, you can search this forum for posts.
-Jim.
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Yes, thanks, but as I stated, this is sluggish. Sometimes it takes 30 seconds to get to the menu. I simply never need the waveform and would rather it not do this automatically. It get very cumbersome whenever I swap out SD media files for HD ones when I convert a DVD project to make blu-ray.
Is there a registry setting or hidden preference like with Vegas?
-Jim.
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I just think it’s a bug, despite the fact that others including Sony could not reproduce it. This always worked fine for me in VP8, but not in VP10.
Here are the other threads on this topic:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/930702#930769
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/920497#920873-Jim.
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Some people have had great experiences with SVP10, and others have had some issues (when compared to SVP8). For me, SVP8 rarely crashed, version 10 more so. The key seems to be from the undo stack. I tend to have 2-3 projects open at a time to copy/paste between them, and sometimes an undo, especially after an audio plugin change, will cause a crash. Save your projects often…
-Jim.
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Four-camera HDSLR timelines with 2-4 additional audio tracks. Plays fine on timeline, usually. However the trimmer is useless (is always full-res so it doesn’t play smoothly). And when I set to multi-cam mode it doesn’t play smoothly at all, a bit painful. I also have problems with a long lag to start playing sometimes, and sometimes it skips ahead about 7 frames when I hit play. This last problem usually goes way if I close and reopen the project. There does seem to be a memory leak in Vegas.
-Jim.
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Not sure if there is an easier way than to double-click the mpeg2 media in your Project Overview window then move each affected marker on the timeline to its new position. Then all your chapters will point to the correct spot in the media.
-Jim.
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There is something in the main veg that the one you are trying to nest it in doesn’t like. Could be a plugin maybe? There are some bugs in nesting that I can’t figure out. One thing you could try is to select all events on the main veg and paste it into a new project. Then nest that new project. This sometimes clears up unknown problems with events in projects.
-Jim.
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@Tom: No, I never tried device explorer, but my workflow was to copy all video files from all cards and then just drop them onto the timeline. I had thought device import went away once cards were used, guess not for Panasonic. My method works great for Canon DSLR files. I know that FCP also needs to import from the cards and you can’t simply copy to a directory and then drop it into FCP like Vegas can (for DSLR files). Anyway, the binary copy worked fine and I no longer have that cam, so no problem.
-Jim.
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We produce wedding films and now exclusively use the Canon DSLR cameras. We had only used the HMC as the backup cam, mostly in the rear of the ceremony, for continuity — because it runs continuously, unlike the DSLR. However the image does not match well at all with the Canon. In fact it only looks good with good light. In low light, like a church or reception hall, it looks really grainy & muddy. We used to use the Sony Z1 (tape-based) and think it actually might look better in low light even with more grain. The LCD is substandard, hard to focus with and has a poor viewing angle. The manual shutter speed button seems to change at unpredictable values for me, which is unacceptable. Most people seem to love this camera, so I guess it may be a preference issue. The DSLR certainly isn’t for everyone, it’s not ergonomic. Some of the newer cams look promising, like the Sony HXR-NX5U or the Canon XF100, or the Canon XA10, or maybe the Panasonic AG-AF100.
-Jim.
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I had the HMC150 for 1 year and just sold it. I didn’t like the imagery at all, but that’s not your question. I never used VP9, I went from VP8 directly to VP10. However, I think as far as AVCHD footage, VP8 & VP9 are the same. You will want VP10 for that. The footage is tough to edit with, when using VP8. I always converted the files to MXF files which is much easier to edit, especially whith multi-camera timelines.
Actually, a major problem I had was importing the footage from multiple 4GB files from the HMC150. That is, even though the camera will record continuously until the card is full (hours and hours), it breaks the files into multiple 4GB files. If you simply place these files on the timeline, there is a gap in video & audio. The only way I could get them to bind together properly was to go to a command prompt in Windows and do a binary copy of all the files, like this:
copy /b 00001.MTS + 00002.MTS + 00003.MTS onebigfile.mts
which gives you “onebigfile.mts” from the original three binary concatenations. I’m happy I sold it.
-Jim.