John Rofrano
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COW Coins
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It’s really easy to make an accurate loop selection. Just type the length in the loop selection box in the lower right corner:
So just position the timeline cursor wherever you want the loop and then type: 15.0 in that box and you’ll have a perfect 15 second loop. Most people don’t realize that you can enter values in the box. They think it’s for display only.
~jr
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[Toine Verhoeff] “Is there any Laptop you’d suggest that could handle solely on the CPU?”
I really can’t make a suggestion because I haven’t used a PC laptop in years. I use a 2012 MacBook Pro as my laptop. Actually, the specs on the latest MacBook Pro are probably what you are looking for and the price is in your budget:
15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display
2.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 3.7GHz)
16GB 1600MHz memory
512GB PCIe-based flash storage
Intel Iris Pro Graphics
AMD Radeon R9 M370X with 2GB GDDR5 memory
Built-in battery (9 hours)
Force Touch trackpad
$2,499.00It’s not as powerful as the Alienware but it’s not bad either. In addition to running Vegas Pro in Windows. you would also have the option of using Final Cut Pro X on OS X. So it’s actually more computer options for your money. 😉
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[Ray Sherman] “Please correct me if I’m wrong; By doing this, I now could delete that same project from my FCPX scratch drive to free up space?”
Yes. This will create a complete copy of the project and all of it’s media. You could now edit the project on the external drive. I work like this most of the time (with Libraries completely on external drives). It lets me bounce between editing on by Mac Pro and MacBook Pro very easily.
[Ray Sherman] “Also, when I consolidate should I transcode/format the project the way I want it for final output?”
Consolidate will ask you what media you want to copy (Original, Optimized, and/or Proxy). If you don’t want or need the optimized or poxy media, you can just consolidate the original media and then build whatever optimized or proxy you want after that as needed. So if you now have optimized media and you just want proxies, only consolidate the original media and then create just the proxies later.
[Ray Sherman] “As you can see, I have a lot to learn about this part of media management”
I can *highly* recommend Ripple Training’s Media Management in Final Cut Pro X. It will be the best $49 USD you ever spent on training. They cover all sorts of scenarios and how to best manage your media.
[Ray Sherman] “You have been a great help for me and I sincerly appreciate it. As always, thanks for all your help.”
You are very welcome. Glad I could help. 🙂
~jr
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[Ray Sherman] “I would like to know the best way to save a project on a scratch drive and backup hard drive to save disc space?”
The best way would be to create a new Library on the backup drive. Then drop the Project into a new Event in that Library. Finally, select the Library and in the Inspector use the Consolidate button to copy all of the media required by that project out to the new Library. This will ensure that everything you need for that project is copied into the backup drive.
~jr
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[Barb Ward] “Honestly the filing in this program is a nightmare for me and I need a good tutorial on how to set it up properly.”
This is not your fault. Vegas Pro is horrible at this. One of the things that I love about Final Cut Pro X is that it manages all of the media for you and makes it very hard to not keep everything in the same place. Vegas Pro not only allows you to shoot yourself in the foot, it loads the gun for you.
What I would do is make a folder for every project. Then I would import all media into this folder. I even copy media from stock footage libraries into the folder. Some people don’t do this. They leave the media wherever it is on their hard drive. Then when they try and open project months later, they are missing media because it moved. I have never used the option to “Copy media with project” because my media is ALWAYS with my project from the very first day of editing. You have to be very disciplined with Vegas Pro. One project… one folder… everything goes in it… no exceptions!
[Barb Ward] “Now is there a way for me to add each song to the project without having to open another Sony Vegas, loading the next song and dragging it into the original SV with the original project?”
You can use nested projects. This is the way I use to make tutorial DVD’s. I would make each chapter a separate project. Then to create the final video, I would create a master project and drop all of the .veg files onto the timeline. These are called “nested projects”. Most people don’t realize that you can take an entire multi-track project and drop it into another one and it will behave as a single piece of media.
By nesting projects you can work on songs individually and then make a compilation of all of the songs later.
[Barb Ward] “Last question. I promise.”
If that’s the last question then I’ll have nothing to do for the rest of the week… please feel free to ask more. There is a volume discount. lol 😉
~jr
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[Barb Ward] ” How do I save it as its own entity?”
When you use File | Save As…, there is a checkbox at the bottom that says, “Copy media with project“. You want to check this box to have Vegas Pro copy the media into the same folder on your D: drive as your project. Then you won’t need the DVD anymore.
Be careful using this option because it’s not very smart. If used multiple times it will happily make copies, of copies, of copies and you will have a mess. It’s really meant to be an archiving function (used only once).
[Barb Ward] ” Actually, all of the DVD’s are already on my hard drive because I made them but I can’t access them because when I upgraded my computer the drive got a different letter and if I try to load them I get the same message that I described in my first question.”
Did you save the project after relocating the media? You must save the project so that the new locations are saved as well.
~jr
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[Barb Ward] “In order to do that I put the DVD in my E drive,edit the song I want on Sony Vegas, and save it as its own song in a folder on my D drive which is my hard drive.”
What exactly are you saving to the D: drive? If it’s just the Vegas Pro project (i.e., *.veg) file then you still need the media that’s on the DVD. The project just points to the real media. It does not “contain” the media.
What you should do is use File | Import | DVD Camcorder Disc… and copy the media to your D: drive. Then you won’t need the DVD files to be on-line.
~jr
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The only other format that Vegas Pro accepts from that list is MXF but I believe it’s looking for either MPEG2 or AVC/H.264 in an MXF container.
AVI is the native format of Windows so I would just stick with that. If Resolve gives you codec options, you could download the free GoPro Studio to get the CineForm codec. That will be much smaller than uncompressed.
~jr
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I downloaded your zip file and rendered the project to MainConcept AVC and didn’t see any flickering. I’m not sure why you are seeing flickering. I had GPU acceleration turned off btw.
~jr
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I’m guessing that Vegas Pro doesn’t support the raw output from the AJA Xena in a QuickTime wrapper. I’m not sure why it can’t open Avid DNxHD files though. They should work.
My advice, and you’re not going to like this… if you want to work with 10-bit 4:2:2 QuickTime files… buy a Mac. It would be so much easier. Seriously, Vegas Pro is the wrong NLE for this kind of workflow.
Your only option is convert these files to something Vegas Pro can edit. Perhaps convert them to CineForm AVI coming out of DaVinci?
~jr
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