John Rofrano
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[Michael Kash] “Full HD, Intel Core i7-8750H, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 Ti 4GB, 1TB HDD + 16GB Intel Optane Storage,”
Looks good!
I was holding off to see if anyone else made a suggestion because I moved to Mac a few years ago and I currently have a 2018 MacBook Pro with a 6 core Intel Core-7, 32GB memory, and 1TB SSD drive. It’s a killer video editing laptop that process 4K like butter but I use Final Cut Pro X (was a Vegas Pro user before that).
I would suggest any gaming laptop. Usually the specs for fast gaming and video editing are the same. I believe that the laptop you posted uses the same CPU as mine so it should be a great performer. The most important thing you can do is get the fastest CPU that you can afford. So much of video editing comes down to CPU performance and then GPU performance.
I think that laptop is a good pick.
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I resemble that remark! lol… the BCC plug-ins are an awesome edition to Vegas Pro.
~jr
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[Robert Horton] “Second using the NV Encoder. Here in DVDA under Optimize Disc there is the message “Media is not compliant with this disc format”, so DVDA will take a long time to re-render the file. I used this as the render was much quicker at only 39 minutes.”
The Blu-ray specification its very specific about what formats it supports. You can use MPEG2 or AVCHD. Not all MPEG4/AVC is AVCHD compliant. This is what DVD Architect is trying to tell you. Always render with the “DVD Architect” templates that are provided and you should be fine.
Not for nothin’ but back in the day I have waited several hours for a DVD to render. Waiting 94 minutes for Blu-ray isn’t that bad.
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[Melvin Chong] “FCPX is a completely different beast to Vegas.”
Actually, FCP X stole some of it’s ideas from Vegas Pro and as someone who was a Vegas Pro editor for over 10 years, I found it extremely easy to adjust to FCP X. So while it is different, it’s not completely different. Both are very organic in the way you manipulate video on the timeline as apposed to traditional 3-point editing where you carefully mark insert points. I didn’t find FCP X hard to learn at all coming from Vegas Pro. Of course, your mileage may vary. ????
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Just a guess but perhaps it can’t free up enough space and also hold the next incremental backup. Do the math… 796GB + the backup disk needs 180.31 GB for the next backup = 976.31. I’m guessing that the 1TB drive isn’t exactly 1TB (it’s a littler less after the drive is formatted) so your complete backup + incremental might still exceed the drives capacity.
If you don’t care about rolling back, I would format the Time Machine drive and just do a full backup again. You really should get a 2TB drive too backup 796GB of data and still have enough room for a few incremental. The Machine normally backs up every hour and I doubt you changed 180.31GB of data in an hour so it sounds like you are not doing continuous backups anyway. Alternately, don’t wait so long between backups next time.
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I have a 2010 Mac Pro 12-Core and Thunderbolt is NOT an option. ☹ I would go with a used iMac 27″. The iMac 5K’s were really nice and I tried one in the Apple store editing 4K on FCP X and it was like butter. Not sure how Adobe apps would do thought since they are not optimized like FCP X is and iMacs don’t do CUDA… but the 5K display is absolutely gorgeous! (and the have Thunderbolt) Best bang for the buck.
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Rich, The problem with all off these tools is that none of them are going to do what I think you really want.
Production Assistant and Excalibur and selecting all events and running Normalize won’t perform a normalization across all of the events. It will normalize each event individually and if one clip was low but had a spike it will be normalized to the spike with the rest of the audio still being low. If another was low with no spike, it will be normalized to the low audio making it all louder. This will make the events very uneven because normalize is just a mathematical algorithm that brings the loudest audio to 0 dbFS and adjusts the remainder relative to that.
What you really want to do is use the Track Compressor to bring the entire track of audio up to the same level. A compressor will bring up the low audio and bring down the loud audio making it all smooth. That will sounds better than normalizing individual events. Adjust the Threshold to determine when the compression will kick in. The lower the threshold, the more low audio will become louder.
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[Sergey Woropaew] “Do i need to sacrifice quality when joining different files or there is the way to do that without quality loss?”
If they are different resolutions then the answer is yes. One will be resized and loose quality. There is no way around it depending on how different the resolutions are.
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[Joost Zeeveneegelbeek] “I found that images shot with my dslr on 50i hd played with the wrong field order.”
What field order is that? HD video should be Upper Field First (UFF). What are you using to determine that the field order is being interpreted wrong by Vegas Pro?
[Joost Zeeveneegelbeek] “One of them is solid, the other shows up in bands.”
What do you have the Deinterlace method set to in your project settings?
What device are you using to determine this? If your computer display, this is normal (unless you deinterlace it). View it on an interlaced PAL television and if it looks fine, don’t worry about what it looks like on your computer… interlaced video is not for computers.
There are also setting in Vegas Pro to deinterlace the preview window on the fly. You might want to try those.
~jr
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[Martin Seemungal] “Have you had any experience using the MAGIX mp4 template and setting it to interlaced/upper field ?”
No experience and I would not do that. MPEG4 is a modern format designed for progressive delivery. I’m not sure why you are delivering interlaced (I assume you need to support some old broadcast standard for television) but interlaced is a thing of the past. Avoid it at all costs and tolerate when you have to. If you must deliver it, use a traditional interlaced format. I don’t think anyone would expect an MP4 file to be interlaced (even though it is possible to do that)
~jr
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