John Rofrano
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The first thing I would try is to capture the audio again without the noise. Or is the noise on the VHS tape? iZotope RX is a great noise reduction plug-in for getting rid of all sorts of noise problems. VASST has a training DVD, Absolute Training for Vegas+DVD, Vol. 5: Noise Reduction in Sony Vegas that will give you a good foundation for handling tough audio problems in Vegas. If the noise is not on the original tape I would try and recapture first.
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Not sure what you mean by “Silver Surfer/Matrix liquid mirror look”. Do you have a video or image that shows this?
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You could use an external interface that is as fast as internal. I have a 5 drive external enclosure that’s eSATA and the drive access is just as fast as internal. Firewire would be my next choice. USB would be my last but it can be done. You just have to put up with slower response because rendering requires that every frame be brought into memory so the speed of the interface can become a bottleneck.
Personally, I work on an internal 1TB RAID and when the project is done I copy it out to external drive for archive.
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It may be time to call Sony tech support. I can’t imagine what is wrong with Vegas but if you have 2GB of free memory and your Adobe apps work, it sure sounds like a Vegas problem.
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It depends on what you mean by “my CRT”. Are you talking about an external broadcast monitor CRT or TV that you are feeding via firewire? or are you talking about your PC monitor CRT? If it’s an external CRT there are many tutorials on the web on how to calibrate monitors. Just Google “calibrate ntsc monitor”. It is beyond a simple forum post. Yes, you will need a blue gel if your monitor doesn’t have a blue gun switch.
If you are talking about your computer CRT there is no way. Computers CRTs are not going to give you the same color space that an external monitor via firewire will and you can’t trust the colors for color correcting. In fact, you will never get the pluge adjustment right.
If you just want to make the colors on your PC display more accurate, you can buy a calibration tool like the Spyder3Pro which will calibrate your PC monitor far better than your eyes ever could.
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I’ve never used FCP so I don’t know what “insert a clip” you are referring to but watch this video tutorial that Sony just put out which shows the new trimmer functions and how you can insert a clip in the middle of an existing event. I think this might be what you are referring to:
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> It seems like rendering is slower now than on my old machine
Did your old machine have the video on a network drive? Are you rendering to the network drive? Did your old machine have a faster single core and your are rendering to a format that is not multi-threaded? Any one of these could change rendering speed.
> something is causing Vegas to hang for a few seconds with the “hourglass” running after I switch back to it from another program.
This is because your media is on a network drive. The only way to stop this is to not have Vegas release your media files. This means you will not be able to edit these files outside of Vegas while Vegas is running (i.e., no more Edit in Sound Forge option). To do this go into Options | Preferences and uncheck Close media files when not the active application.
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No, supersampling is just sampling frames. It doesn’t care who generated the frames. It works best with animation that doesn’t already have motion blur (like generated media) but it works on any video frames.
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> I wont try to answer a question if I can’t offer a viable solution based on experience.
Same here. I don’t use subclips at all in my editing so I really didn’t have much to offer. It sounds like you are stressing Vegas to limits that most of us have not done. I didn’t answer the sapf0 files question because I didn’t think you could prevent them but I didn’t know for sure.
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> I have gone into the Performance section of the Taskbar and just watched Vista suck the free Memory right down to a few dozen mb’s.
I don’t know why you are getting memory low errors but I can help you with the problem of your memory getting all used up. Go into the services and disable the utterly useless “Superfetch” service. This is the culprit. It loads totally useless files into memory using all of your memory up hoping that you will need one of them. In reality all it does is help to wear out your hard drives faster. It was a good idea that was implemented poorly. I recommend turning it off and keeping it off.
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