John Rofrano
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You can also just use Track Motion. Place one video on each track and use Track Motion to resize the videos smaller and move them anywhere on the screen that you want.
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I would use the Mask tool instead of cropping. Since this is being keyed, just mask the area outside of the green screen so that it isn’t included in the shot.
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> What Intel Motherboard would you reccomend for the Intel i7 Core processor?
There is only one from Intel right now and that’s the Intel DX58SO Extreme Series.
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> Question, do you think the above system config is underpowered to smoothly edit m2ts files?
Yes, definitely. The Sony web site recommends a minimum of 2.8Ghz for editing HD. Also, if you really have a Pentium Dual Core and not the newer Core 2 Duo this is even worse because the older Dual Core technology performs poorly.
> The issue I am having is that playing HDV video playback (Sony *m2ts files recorded at full HD with an SR12) is incredibly rough.
Just so people don’t get confused when they read this, HDV is a 1440×1080 tape based format using miniDV tapes and MPEG-2 compression that plays very smoothly in Vegas on modern PC’s. Your SR12 shoots 1920×1080 AVCHD which is a tapeless format using AVC compression that even the most powerful PC’s today have some trouble with.
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> do you know of a script for sync-ing clips by timecode.
Unfortunately, no I don’t. The Vegas script API doesn’t give access to timecode information or else we would have included something like this with VASST infinitiCAM. (sorry)
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From what I’ve read the i7 systems process video faster than the Core 2 Quad that I have. If I was building another Quad system I would seriously look at the i7. I haven’t priced them out but if they are within your budget, I would go for one.
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I don’t shoot XDCAM but I do have a disc of footage and the proxies are only 352 x 240 MPEG4.
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The shirt is tough because the person is moving. The holes in the wall will be easier because they are stationary. What you can do is duplicate the track and shift the video a little to the left or right. Then use the Cookie Cutter to open holes showing a good part of the wall or shirt where the bad part is. You may need to add a Mask to allow hands to move in front of the holes. That can be very tedious work.
Boris RED has a clone feature which can be used along with Motion Tracking to paint over the bad parts of the video with a good part of the video and the clones track the movement. It would be perfect for something like this.
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The full specs of my system are on the PC Equipment page of my web site. A number of us built this same system a year ago and no one has complaints and it’s still a killer system that is solid as rock and so whisper quiet that I do voice overs sitting directly in front of it.
If I had to build one today I would build an 8-core machine but that is definitely over your $2000 limit. Many people are building Intel i7 systems these days. They are said to be faster for tasks like video editing.
My formula is simple. Buy an Intel motherboard with an Intel processor and memory that is listed on the Intel site as having been tested with the motherboard and you can’t go wrong. Your system will be solid as a rock.
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Your subject says “CRT”. If this is the case, this has been discussed before in this thread:
How to tweak CRT preview monitor to correct levels
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