John Rofrano
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I’m not sure how PCM would be different than AC3 unless in Vegas there is a problem rendering the MOV audio to AC3 somehow. You can try rendering using PCM just to see what happens. Check the resulting WAV file and make sure all of the audio is there.
Otherwise, I would just send him PAL discs since they work.
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What has changed about your PC? Did you install any new software that may be interfering with Vegas? Do you have Microsoft auto-updates turned on so that they can install anything they want whenever they want and mess up your PC? Something has changed on your PC. You just need to figure out what it is.
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> I was able to make a smooth-playing version by first re-rendering the original to mpg2. An extra step but doable.
That was going to be my text suggestion but I would NOT use MPEG-2. MPEG-2 is very lossy and then you are going to render it again to DVD MPEG-2 and loose even more quality. I would render to DV AVI which will hold up much better when editing and re-rendering.
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> done that, the codec is XVID, i downloaded the codec, installed it, rebooted my PC and couldnt get it to work either !
That’s because Vegas doesn’t support Xvid or DivX.
> Any other solutions ?
Yes, read the rest of my original post:
If you do and Vegas still doesn’t import your video, then it’s a codec that Vegas doesn’t support and you will need to use some other program (like Super(c)) to convert the file into a format that Vegas can edit.
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I agree with you that it’s odd that they play fine by themselves. So let’s look at how you are doing your split screen. Are you using Pan/Crop or some other method. Maybe the way you are doing it is causing Vegas to do more work than is needed?
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> Imported from Sony DSC-P200.
OK that explains a lot. Video from a still image camera. A quick Google search reveals that this camera shoots something Sony calls “MPEG VX”. Not sure what that is but I’ll bet it’s at the root of your problem.
You can try setting your project properties to match the footage. Go into the properties (Alt+Enter) and use the Match Media Settings button (it’s the folder icon on the top right). This will make the project settings match the MPEG VX media settings. That might eliminate some of the choppiness.
If that doesn’t work, I would seriously consider buying a “video” camera for taking videos. Still image cameras are more trouble then they are worth when it comes to video.
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> …what they produce are ‘mini-movies’, probably no more than 10 minutes long, ever.
It’s really not the fact that they are 10 minutes. It’s what are they packing into those 10 minutes. Will they have lots of composited tracks? Are they using HDV/AVCHD? Are they using lots of 8 mega-pixel still images? What uses memory is the type of media and the number of composited tracks more than the length of the project. If they are just using DV footage, then 2MB of memory is more than enough even for an hour project. It really depends on the complexity of compositing and the media being used.
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I haven’t seen anyone use MPEG-1 in a long time. Are you sure the footage is MPEG-1? I assume you recorded this footage yourself. What camera did you use? There should be no choppiness with MPEG-1 as this is a very old format that even the weakest of PC’s can process with ease.
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> guess what you mean is really a DVI to VGA adapter, which is quite simple
Yes that is what I meant. I just said it backwards and so my logic was backwards also. So if the card has a DVI port, that can be used for DVI to HDMI, but the VGA port needs a monitor that has a DSUB-15 input (i.e., you can’t just go VGA to DVI without a converter). Good catch!
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> How do I make sure the image size is the same as the project size to keep images from being skipped when played fast? I’m not quite sure what that means…
You have to resize the images. Each image has a resolution. When you hover your mouse over them in Windows or open them up in an image editor it will show you the resolution. Your Vegas project also has a resolution associated with it. Usually this is DV 720×480. If the images is from a multi-mega-pixel camera (say 8MP) and you have a 720×480 project which is less that 1MP, you are feeding over 8x the information needed to create a frame. This is making Vegas work very hard to decrease the size by 8x less. You should use a graphics editor (like Photoshop) to bring the resolution of the images down to about 2x the size of the project. For DV that would be 1440×960.
Also be use you are importing them as an image sequence and not placing individual images on the timeline that are 1 frame in length.
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