John Rofrano
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> is this the same for Pinnacle Studio 12? or does that require GPU power… any idea on that?
I believe Pinnacle uses the GPU for rendering Hollywood FX and stuff. They’ve been doing that since version 7 or 8.
> so it’s down to the choice between quad core q6600 and radeon 4850 512MB video card OR i7 920 and radeon 4670 512MB. price wise almost the same… should i go with the i7 combo?
Definitely go with the i7. It will give you more bang-for-the-buck for video editing; especially with Vegas.
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> I’ve thought about that but it regularly gets absolutely slated in reviews – even the consumer reviews on the site.
In fairness to the consumers who review it on the site, Apple makes a lot of bogus claims about Quicktime Pro. They say it can capture and edit videos and people get the impression it’s going to be an NLE like Vegas. In reality, it can barely trim a video file and save it… but that’s not why you want it.
What it does do, is render Quicktime files in h.264 really well which is exactly what you want to do.
> Is there no other way?
Yea, you can waste days and days rendering to various mp4 formats and ask your client if they think it’s acceptable, (all the time they’ll be wondering why you can’t get it right) or you can spend $29 and give your client exactly the format they want. I don’t know what your time is worth so it’s up to you to decide which way to go.
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> As I understand, I need to render the final output as mpg2 so I can use DVD Architect to add menus…
Try rendering to DV AVI instead. DVD Architect has a fit-to-disc option and it will calculate the correct bitrate and convert to MPEG-2 for you. Double check that DVD Architect Studio has this (I don’t have VMS I have the Pro version) but it should.
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> when I rip them, i convert them to .avi’s with a conversion program…
What is important is the codec that is used. What codec does your conversion program use? Like I said in the previous post, if it’s DivX or XVid you will have problems. If the conversion program allows a choice of codecs stay away from these.
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> When you pay for play royalites it is for PERFORMANCE rights only.
Yea this is key. I did a video for a school that was performing Disney’s Aladdin Jr. The company they licensed it from said there was an additional license fee for video rights which the school gladly paid (about $50). This still only allowed people to video tape the performance for their own private use but the school could not sell a video that I made for them. No amount of money could buy that. Disney simply doesn’t allow it. So I would have the school check with Play Scripts Inc. to see if they have the right to video tape the performance and then do you have the right to sell the video (assuming the parent is paying you for the work).
As for the songs, you really need to talk to a copyright lawyer. I would use royalty free music that sounds similar for the DVD menu. For the credits, I suppose you could use the song from the live performance since it is just playing back what was already recorded, but even then, a lawyer is the best person to ask.
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> First, if I understand correctly, the HVX shoots 720 in 1.333 aspect ratio.
That’s incorrect. 720p uses square pixels. 720 / 9 = 80 and 80 * 16 = 1280, therefore 1280×720 is 16×9 square pixels.
> The first time I tried to process it, I set up the project as a standard NTSC widescreen (1.212 aspect) project, imported the footage, and let Vegas do its thing. It looked great on the preview monitor, but when I played it back in Quicktime and Windows Media Player, everything went downhill. I guess the female subjects will be happy they look so thin…
You did this correctly. Quicktime is brain dead. It has no concept of non-square pixels and so it ignores the PAR in the video header and displays everything as square pixels. Windows Media Player isn’t much better. Media Players are poor for judging aspect for this reason. They assume square pixels because PC’s use square pixels.
> But that doesn’t solve my issue if it needs to go to ntsc ws for dvd production.
DVD must be MPEG-2. Just render the 720p footage to DVD Widescreen MPEG-2 and burn a DVD and watch it on a widescreen TV and it will be fine.
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What software have you installed between the MPEG’s working and not working? Something you installed recently is probably causing Vegas to fail. You need to find out what this is.
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> i used the xvid codec to make my avi.
That’s your problem. Vegas doesn’t support Xvid or Divx. Don’t use them.
> i actually think that it is working fine now. i closed out vegas and came back to try again and it worked fine. dont know what it was all about but it seems ok now.
No it’s not. You will have problems rendering. As I said, Vegas doesn’t support Xvid or Divx. Stop using it and you’ll be fine. Continue with your project as is and your next post will be, “My video won’t render”. Trust me on this one.
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You’ll need to buy Quicktime Pro and use that. These specs will make perfect sense once you see the Quicktime render options. Vegas unfortunately doesn’t allow this kind of control with Quicktime output and doesn’t support Quicktime h.264 at all.
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Vegas Pro will not take advantage of the GPU on your video card so I would definitely go with the cheaper one unless you use After Effects CS4 or Boris RED/BLUE or some other application that can take advantage of the GPU. For Vegas Pro alone, it’s overkill.
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