[John Gregoriades]

May I also ask a question here?
What(Make-models,not specially-configured)should one buy to be a) fast, and b) survive the heat of 100% CPU use for 2-3 hours, that video rendering typically requires?
(Budget limit: $1,500, preferably less.)
Thank you
John

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

Thank you all.
That was very funny! Loved it! Tried it on a video of a group of friends dancing.
(And, it did not seem to affect the sound….)
John

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

I occasionally visit a friend’s machine, in another city trying to learn before I buy. Is Pro 10 out?

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

Thank you, John.
I think I know what I did wrong. Now.
John

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

Thank you, John.
I checked as you suggested, it says 9.0b and no mention of 64. Further his Operating system is a dated Windows XP.
I guess that pins it down to a 32.

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

Thank you all, for your most helpful replies. I am not up to speed on Codecs. Or on 32 or 64 bits. So two questions, please:
1. How can one tell which, 32 or 64 is the Vegas program?
2. How does one obtain a codec: buy, free download, or? and how does one “install” it, via Vegas, on its own via Windows as a separate program or…?
Thank you again
John

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

I have no idea, it belongs to a friend, will try to find out when I visit next week. Is the version important for this issue?

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

Thank you very much. I downloaded and used it and indeed it took the DVD and made an .avi out of it, with video and separate audio streams, and it fit well into Vegas 9.
(Most other conversion programs for some reason or another only produced the video portion ~ probably my fault.)
John

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

Thank you, John. Yes indeed I noticed that “Best” was not the default option, so I made sure I selected it.
As far as “bicubic” resizing, I normally do “bicubic” resizing using Paint Shop Pro, but since it seems that Vegas does a nice job on the original size photos, now I don’t resize at all any more for Vegas projects because that means doing it twice (once via PSP, and again by Vegas. I figure it’s bound to be a worse degrade.) The only reason for resizing, I would think, would be that the rendering time can thus be quicker?? If so, what would be the EXACT size (4:3 ratio) to pre-resize photos, so Vegas won’t do it itself – for PAL and for NTSC?

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

Thank you, Mike and John.
First: The original photos were 3648×2736 pixels, and Vegas seems to “accept” and work with them fine. (When resized down to 1440×1080 the flicker-upon-zoom was more noticeable.)
The 24fps (vs. PAL standard 25fps) did not seem to have any effect/improvement against each other.
Tests with a very difficult subject: Zooming-in a photo of a pebble beach, Rendered to MPEG-2 PAL with Field Order: None; Deinterlace Method: None; continued to show flicker, on both the 3648×2736 and the 1440×1080. However, when set to Linear Blur, 90° (vertical) amount .001 (the minimum?) seem to clear the flicker, although at a price of….the blur, of course.
I guess the thing to do is to pick individually those photos which are being zoomed with the Pan/Crop, and blur those only, thus maintaining the max photo quality in the ones that are not pan/crop-zoomed.
Again,
Thank you both

John23GR