John Rofrano
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It sounds like you have Ripple Edit turned on. Try turning it off with Ctrl+L.
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> I need some advices here. I”m still not sure how should i partition my striped HDD. Currently I partition it into 3…
The purpose of partitioning for performance is to isolate PHYSICAL drives. What you have done is created ONE physical drive by striping and any partitioning you do is pointless because it’s all one stripped drive. If you are using RAID 0 and any single drive fails, you will loose your entire computer! C:, D: E: F:… all gone!!! In that configuration, any one drive is a single point of catastrophic failure and this is very dangerous.
If you are going to stripe all of your discs, you should be using a minimum of RAID 5 so that you can recover from a single drive failure. It doesn’t matter how you partition after that because the data is written to all of the drives so you gain nothing performance wise by partitioning except maybe the convenience of backup.
If I were to configure these drives, I would use one drive for C: and place the OS and all of your programs (Vegas, DVD Architect, etc.) on that drive. Use the second drive as D: and use that for any stock media and for rendering to. Take the last two drives and set them up as a 600GB RAID 0 E: drive for all of your video projects. Do all editing on the RAID 0 E: drive and render final DVD output to the D: drive. You don’t need a fast drive to render too because your renders will be hopelessly CPU bound.
Just to recap:
1 x 300GB C: for OS and programs
1 x 300GB D: for media and renders
2 x 300GB E: RAID 0 for video capture and all video workIt is important that you also have external storage for backing up the RAID 0. I’m sure there are lots of other valid configurations that others will suggest but this is what I would do and have done on my NLE computer.
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> Any ideas?
What codec do these files use. Most likely it’s a codec that Vegas doesn’t support.
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The safe is just a guide. Your titles should always be within the title safe area (inner rectangle) and all actions would be within the action safe area (outer rectangle). Anything beyond that could be cut off by CRT TV’s but may not be cut off by LCD TV’s. If your background is being cut off then you need to add more area around the part that you want to definitely be displayed (i.e., get that area more toward the center). This is best done with an image editing program. Remember, whatever you do to increase the border may be seen by people with LCD TV’s so make it look nice (don’t just leave black).
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> Heard it has something to do with rendering options.
That’s correct. Those are lines caused by viewing interlaced video on a non-interlaced device. You need to render your video to progressive format if you plan to view it on a PC. Just select Field Order = None in the rendering template that you use.
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Hi Alex,
If you send an email to ultimatesupport at the VASST web site (vasst.com) we will have someone work personally with you on this. We will ask you to send your .veg file with no media (we have media here we can substitute) so you might want to include that in your original email. We have seen this before and it’s usually a setting in the project that causes it. We can then update this post with the solution so others who may run into this will know what to look for (it’s just easier to debug via email). Thanks,
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Unfortunately it’s not as easy as flipping a switch. You did the whole project in the wrong format so you need to undo all of that; i.e., all of your cropping was based on the wrong aspect.
I woulds start by changing the project to 1280x720p as you have done. Then remove all of the cropping. At this point your video should look exactly as you shot it. You said your source was 1440×1080 PAR 1.3333 which is the same aspect as 1280×720 PAR 1.0000. If the video doesn’t fit perfectly and look just like you shot it then something else is wrong (maybe you changed some event properties?). If the video looks OK then you can add the cropping back. Finally, render as 1280x720p PAR 1.000 and you should have the letterboxing you desire.
Don’t forget, an easy way to add the cropping to the entire video in one step is to drop the project into another 720p project and add the 2.35:1 crop to the one big video event that is your .veg file.
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Why are you using custom settings? This is your problem. 1280×720 is progressive and you changed it to interlaced. 1280×720 has a PAR of 1.000 and you changed it to 1.3333 (which is why Vimeo is squishing it). You have caused this problem by changing the standard settings.
Try using the default 1280x720p settings (both project and render) and add whatever further cropping to the video events as needed. Alternately, drop the project into another project and add the 2.35:1 crop there (it’s a lot easier)
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> Now I just have to do with the cheap power director (hint from Av forums) to cut these (in this case, I manage with it, it will come a project, where I can’t)
In that case you have three options:
(1) Tell these customers you don’t accept this non-standard format and ask them to only submit DV, AVCHD or HDV.
(2) Charge customers extra for submitting a non-standard formats because you have to convert them (i.e, charge them a conversion fee and refer them to option 1 if they don’t want to pay)
(3) Stop accepting jobs from people with non-standard cameras
If your time is worth money then option 2 is the one I would take… pretty soon they’ll realize they could save a lot of money just by buying a camera that shoots a standard format if they want someone else to edit it for them.
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> Is it possible to have the duration change to the proper length when I switch between takes?
No. A take is a single event of constant duration. You can add any media you’d like but the event will always be the length of the shortest media file.
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