Jim Prisby
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I have had the 22″ SyncMaster 225BW for 6 months now and am very happy with it. Mine is obviously the previous version from the one your looking at but the extra width really makes a difference on the Vegas timeline. I only have this single monitor.
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Gary,
Are you working on new training DVDs for Vegas 7 and DVDA 4? I am especially interested in DVDA 4. If so, do you have an ETA yet? I found your previous training DVDs to be very detailed and complete and yet easy to follow. -
Jay,
I’m a little confused about your problem with setting the duration. I have BorisFX 9.1 and I can add an Fx the a video event by clicking and dragging Boris 9 from the video FX tab on to the video event or by clicking on the appropriate icon at the end of the event clip to open the the Video FX window and choosing Boris 9. Boris 9 always defaults to a 1 second duration and doesn’t match the video event duration in Vegas as it does in other NLEs. If you then choose a filter from Boris 9 it will apply a default setting of that filter to the whole clip regardless of the 1 second duration indicated. If you then set the filter to change over time in Boris then you want to make sure the interpolation boxes are set to linear or something else other than constant or hold. You can then change your duration from 1 second to any length you want and the filter will change over that duration only.Hope this helps
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On your timeline, click on your video event so your cursor is on top of it, then you can open the BorisFX plugin. Note, BorisFX will not play your video in it’s viewer. It will only show you the single frame you have placed your cursor on in the timeline. You have to exit the plugin to see any applied effects in motion while previewing it from the timelime. This is a quirk of Vegas because it does play the video of other NLEs. There are work arounds for this. I suggest you purchase the training DVD, “Complete Training for Boris Red”, which is on sale at the BorisFX online store for $64.99 until 3/5. Boris RED is a combination of BorisFX and Graffiti with a few more filters and features added so most of what is taught will apply to the stand alone BorisFx as well. I also suggest, “RED 3GL – Boris Basics, Tips, & Tricks”. You can purchase this from videoguys.com for $80. The instructor actually shows how to work around the Vegas quirk I mentioned. I have both of these DVDs and another one called, “Boris Red 3GL Traing DVD”. This one is taught at a very fast pace and is much harder to follow as a newbie. I have been trying to learn both BorisFX and Graffiti and these DVDs have helped tremendously.
Good Luck.
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Thanks so much for the link to the Videoguys article, it really helped. Now I’m trying to decide if I really need a Quadro FX card or if a Nvidia 8800 GTS with 320 MB would work nearly as well.
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I think I’ve had that happen as well. Wish we could get some feedback about this from other Sony Vegas 7/Graffiti 5 users.
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Sorry for the delayed response. Thanks again for the info. I currently have the majority of my huge libraries of animations, music and sound FX stored on one external, non SATA drive connected through USB. It took a few days to transfer all of these files from the CDs and DVDs they came on. These files are also all tagged in specific catagories in Vegas Media Manager. So if I want a particular type of song or animation I can choose the appropriate catagory, get an instant preview and then drag and drop it on the timelime. Now I understand that it would be faster if this was an internal SATA drive used only for this purpose. I would then have a second internal SATA drive for storing the OS, Vegas and other applications and documents. And finally, I would have at least one set of drives in Raid 0 for only storing the captured AVI. This would give me my fastest real time previews also. Now, in this configuration which drive is best to render to?
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I think I finally get it!
My initial, somewhat limited understanding of Raid 0 was that its advantage was in its fast writing ability and that
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This is a slightly different twist on my understanding of the way to use the Raid 0 drives. I know that the CPU controls the speed of rendering but adding to that process is writing the rendered files to a hard drive. You seem to be saying that it doesn’t really matter what hard drive you write to. My understanding is that you want to write to Raid 0 drives because it does speed up the complete render process by writing the rendered files faster.
I can understand that the Raid 0 drives would also be good for real time previews, which raises another question…If you mean by real time preview, playing the edited video events on the time line and watching it in the preview window, then how do I set real time previews to run on the Raid 0 drives in Vegas 7 as you are suggesting? -
Terje,
Let me say this another way…the reason you put the OS and Vegas on a separate drive from the Raid 0 drive you are rendering files to is because the rendering will be faster since it reads from the Vegas drive and writes to the Raid 0 drive. If captured AVI files are on the Raid 0 drive then it has to read and then write from the same drive, namely the Raid 0 drive, thereby slowing down the rendering. At least this is what I understand. Therefore you wouldn’t want the AVI files on the Raid drive. Can someone else confirm this?
Thanks