John Rofrano
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I don’t have Vista but I’ve read others suggest that you might have to right-click the installer and select “run as administrator”. I don’t know if that makes sense to you but the error seems to indicate that you don’t have administrator privileges to install it.
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It’s not so much a change in standards. Both are still standards and cable HDTV is primarily 1280×720 still because it takes up less bandwidth and 720p HDTV’s are selling great because of the lower cost than 1080i. It’s just that all of the new cameras are shooting 1080.
Nothing says you have to buy a $6000 HD camera. The Sony HVR-A1U is $2200, only $1899 at B&H after rebate and it shoots perfectly fine 1080 HDV that works great for chroma key. In general any HD camera will give you 5 times the resolution of DV. If you saw the picture you’d understand. That’s the only way I can explain it. Anyone who believes they can uprez DV to HDV simply doesn’t understand how much more information is in an HDV picture that is simply not there in DV. You could never get HD details from uprezing DV and it’s the incredible detail that makes chroma keying easier with HD.
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So now you can post a clip that jerks so we can see what you mean?
I thought when you rendered a section of the project that jerked it stopped jerking. I was hoping since it was only 4 minutes long you could render each 30 seconds and then render the 8 files together.
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It’s important to remember that multiple cores can only solve problems that can be multi-tasked. Your project may have an FX on it that is single threaded and so it doesn’t matter how many cores you have, only one will be used. You might also be rendering to a format that does not have a multi-threaded codec and so again, it can only use one core.
As a test, place a DV AVI file on the timeline and render to DVD quality MPEG2. This will eliminate any FX as the problem and I know for sure that the MainConcept MPEG-2 render is multi-threaded because it maxes out my 4-cores. This should help you see how many cores Vegas can really use.
I believe that Vegas can only use 4 cores right now. I say this because in Options | Preferences | Video the maximum number of rendering threads is maxed out at 4. If Vegas brings your CPU utilization up to 50% that’s as good as it will get (4 of the 8 cores would be half). You will need to wait for Vegas 64-bit to utilize all 8 cores but that will require Vista64.
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Your corporate papers are correct. HD comes in two flavors 1920×1080 and 1280×720. You’d be hard pressed to find a camera that shoots 1280×720 anymore. It was an early format that hardly anyone is shooting. 1920×1080 is what you want.
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To add to what Steve already said, your task now is to watch video in the genre you are working in. If it’s commercials then watch commercials, if it’s movies than watch movies, if it’s weekend sports then watch sports… only with the audio OFF! Really look at what is visually being achieved and think about what you are seeing and how you might achieve it.
Not only watch what is used… but what isn’t used! Notice there are no 3D transitions in most major movies. See how lighting sets the mood. Notice that shadows are even more important than lights! Notice there are lots of 3D transitions in football game. There is a time and place for everything.
Learn from the best by watching what they do and then try and emulate it but add your own signature to it. In other words, yes the mechanics lessons are over and it’s time to get creative! 😉 Good luck.
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> I will outputting files from Vegas 8. I am not able to use architect 5, because the free upgrade from Sony does not apply to my version of vegas.
I assume then that you are not using Vegas Pro 8, you are using Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 8? Before you spend money on Sonic DVDit Pro HD, I would recommendation that you upgrade to Vegas Pro 8 and use DVD Architect 5.
If that is too much money, then get a copy of Ulead DVD Movie Factory 6 Plus. It does a nice job of making simple Blu-ray discs.
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No need to send a clip that doesn’t jerk since that’s the behavior I’d like to see.
What happens if you take one clip from the camera, place it on the Vegas timeline, and render it as AVI using the NTSC DV template? Does that jerk when you play it back?
If not, then you could render all of the camera video, one file at a time, to NTSC DV. I can show you how to replace the DivX files in your project with the DV AVI files and then your project should render correctly.
Let me know if rendering one file to AVI NTSC DV in a separate clean project works.
Optionally, you could render the project in sections to NTSC DV since small sections are not jerky. Then place all the rendered sections into another project and render the final full video that way.
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Yes, that’s what I love about RED. It’s a mini timeline with the Vegas timeline. You can layer multiple pieces of media, titles, FX etc. in a single event and then save them as a RED project or Vegas preset. Then you can easily apply them to any new project you have with one click.
This makes RED worth the price alone for me. I have spent hours keyframing FX in Vegas only to have to do it all over again for each and every project. With RED all of my keyframing and motion is saved as a single preset. Simply brilliant (and very productive).
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You can use the Preset Manager to move those as well but you can’t build a chain so they have to be moved one at a time.
I would recommend that you create a new project and drop one of each text into the project. Then copy the project to the other computer and save them one at a time. This is the easiest way.
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