John Rofrano
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To my knowledge, manual is the only way. There is no way to automate this through scripting or anything because saving an FX chain is not part of the script API.
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[Linda Long] “There are lot of negative threads on forums all over the internet, most of which are from 2014.”
I think back in 2014 was when they had a pay-as-you-go model that wasn’t a good deal at all. They advertised it as everything for only $1 each. What they didn’t tell you is that one song which came in 15 sec, 30 sec, 45, sec 1 minute and full length were $1 for each file so if you wanted a song in all of it’s lengths you were paying $5 a song. Given that they use to sell 18 songs for $24… $5 a song was not a good deal! On top of that there was a yearly fee. Perhaps that’s where the negative reviews came from.
Like I said… I’ve spent thousands on their content over the years and looking back, I’m sure I’ve spent at least $300 a year leading up to that amount so paying $299 once and getting to download whatever you need is a still good deal. Enjoy!
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Vegas 6 is only 32-bit so it has a memory limitation of 2GB. Could it be that the render is running out of memory at some point? Try rendering in sections. Make a timeline selection of only 10 minutes and render that using the option to “render loop region only”. Then move the loop over and render the next 10 minutes… then the next. If you can get through the whole video this way, then we know that it isn’t anything to do with your video or corrupt media and it probably has to do with resource limitations like running low on memory.
BTW, if this works… open a new project and drop all of the 10 minutes videos into it end-to-end and see if you can render that as a single video. That might be a work-around for now.
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I was waiting to see if anyone who has actually subscribed to Digital Juice would answer but I don’t see anyone posting so I’ll give you my comments based on past experience.
[Linda Long] “I have been considering changing to Digital Juice. I’ve read so many negative things I wanted to get some feedback from anyone here who is participating in their “lifetime subscription” for $299. I understand that 10 gb per/month is the limit. Most files I download from videoblock run less than 50 mb. I don’t know what kind of file sizes are at DJ but I don’t need to be able to download more than 20-50 at the very most per month, if that. Their content looks really like an improvement over vb to me from what I can see.”
What negative feedback did you read? I am not participating in their service. I am a former customer.
I own thousands of dollars of Digital Juice content that I’ve purchased over the years. If you can download all of that content for $299 that’s a great deal. I will say that sometimes a single library would be delivered on 24 DVD’s and at 4.7 GB per DVD, that means some of the libraries are 100+ GB in size just for one library. So it seems it would take you almost a year to download a single library 100+GB at 10GB/mo that I purchased for $24. Of course, you may only want one or two items from that library so you might actually download far less and be perfectly happy.
As far as quality goes, Digital Juice motion graphics are very high quality. I’ve used them a lot and they really add production value. I can’t say the same for their older SD stock footage which was unacceptable at times. The newer HD footage is good but there is not enough variety. Their music was hit and miss. Good for the later stuff but the earlier stuff was low quality as well. If you are just interested motion graphics and the newer music elements, you should be very happy with the quality. Their foley libraries were excellent as well. I bough all 4 volumes of those.
They do offer Vegas Pro projects for a very small amount of their content but most of it is for After Effects so I wouldn’t purchase it expecting a lot of Vegas Pro projects. They deliver their content as Photo-JPEG or PNG QuickTime files and their Juicer application will convert it to any format you want so I wouldn’t worry about using the formats in Vegas Pro. They are completely compatible. I’ve even dragged and dropped the content from the DVD’s right onto the Vegas Pro timeline without converting and it played back fine. I wouldn’t worry about compatibility at all.
My only concern would be the longevity of the company. They started out selling content. Then they went to a monthly subscription with a minimal fee per download. Now they are trying a lifetime membership. It sounds to me like they are “grasping at straws” if you know what I mean. If they went out of business next year, that $299 “Lifetime” subscription would be very short lived. If you look at the business model, how do they continue to operate once everyone has paid $299? Are they really going to get that many new members each year to be able to keep the lights on? I don’t know. That’s why I didn’t subscribe.
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[Toine Verhoeff] “You’d recommend doing the same thing by getting a AMD M395 + 6820HK ?”
Yes, but understand that a mobile GPU won’t have anywhere near the processing power of a desktop GPU. The AMD M395 has 1/2 the power and bandwidth of the AMD R9 390 desktop version. Not that you shouldn’t get it, just that a laptop will never compare to a desktop in performance.
[Toine Verhoeff] “I’ve seen an Alienware laptop carrying these following specs”
I would go with the Alienware. The Dell has an NVIDIA GPU which will not perform as well with Vegas Pro.
[Toine Verhoeff] “I’ll be upgrading my CPU to a 5960x which should suffice on my Desktop”
That 8-Core is an excellent choice. That’s what I would be using if I hadn’t switched to a 12-Core Mac Pro. 😉
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[Wayne Waag] “First, I can’t ever imagine using a phone to capture video.”
Why not? Perhaps you need to read: The iPhone 6s Takes Better Video Than My Professional Nikon DSLR. Don’t judge an iPhone by your antique iPhone 4. That was 5 generations ago.
[Wayne Waag] “Question, which is more compatible with Vegas in the event I did use it to capture video, an iphone or android device?”
I have no idea what kind of video any given Android device can capture because they are all different with no standards. I guess right there the iPhone is a better choice because at least they all shoot the same format which is MPEG4 AVC/H.264 in a QuickTime wrapper. If you do choose an iPhone, you also want to get the Filmic Pro app. That will give you incredible control over the camera.
The iPhone 6S supports the following:
- 4K video recording (3840 by 2160) at 30 fps
- 1080p HD video recording at 30 fps or 60 fps
- 720p HD video recording at 30 fps
- Optical image stabilization for video (iPhone 6s Plus only)
- True Tone flash
- Slo-mo video support for 1080p at 120 fps and 720p at 240 fps
- Time-lapse video with stabilization
- Cinematic video stabilization (1080p and 720p)
- Continuous autofocus video
- Improved noise reduction
- Take 8MP still photos while recording 4K video
- Playback zoom
- 3x zoom
- Face detection
- Video geotagging
I have no problem with my iPhone 6 files in Vegas Pro (other than the normal QuickTime limitations of Vegas Pro itself)
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What he is referring to is that Apple doesn’t make desktop computers with desktop GPU’s for the average consumer. All of the iMac are just laptops with laptop grade “mobile” GPU’s. The AMD Radeon R9 M395X in the highest end 27″ iMac has only 1/2 the power and bandwidth of the minimum requirement for Oculus Rift which is the AMD Radeon R9 290. He claims that the FirePro D700’s in the Mac Pro are not adequate but even if they were, the $6,000 Mac Pro is not a consumer purchase.
So I would have to agree that, for the most part, Apple is only building glorified laptops with fixed GPU’s which is one reason why I’m still using a 2010 Mac Pro with an AMD Radeon HD 7950 and could probably put a GPU in it that could handle the requirements of Oculus Rift… but Apple doesn’t make boxes like these anymore. 🙁
I would guess that if Apple upgrades the Mac Pro, it will probably have enough GPU power but, it still won’t be affordable by any gamers. Apple just isn’t in that market.
~jr
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For delivery of NTSC Blu-ray and DVD I would:
Use the project template: HD 1080-60i (1920×1080, 29.970 fps)
Render for Blu-ray video using:
Sony AVC with the template : Blu-ray 1920×1080-60i, 16 Mbps video streamRender for DVD video using:
MainConcept MPEG2 with the template : DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video streamRender the Audio stream as:
Dolby Digital AC-3 Pro with the template : Stereo DVDYou will be sending the authoring team two files for each. A video stream and an audio stream. That’s probably how they will want it.
I would NOT disable resample on the 25fps footage. See how it looks first. Disabling resample might make it look jerky while enabling resample might smooth it out a bit. Definitely disable resample for the 60p footage.
~jr
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[Joshua Jackson] “That’s a huge amount of extra work and time, though, when I just want to burn the clips to a DVD.”
Actually it’s not and the quality will be better using Vegas Pro. If this is a “real” DVD to be played in a DVD player, then you can’t place iPhone video on a DVD. It has to be converted to MPEG2 first. The MPEG2 encoder in Vegas Pro can give better results than the MPEG2 encoder in DVD Architect so you are just arguing about who does the encoding but it will take just as long to encode the video either way.
~jr
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