Kristofar Rieleef
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Good call Mark, I agree we should talk to lawmakers. You’re also right about the copies too. Who knows where something may end up. Chances are it will be on YouTube and there is that chance that someone may try to sue the person who made the video, which would be you or me. Good to just steer clear of it altogether and help out the musicians that are struggling to get by. I personally met someone who makes electronic music that is very modern and cutting edge. He’s small time and I like going straight to him for a lot of my projects.
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There are a lot of great royalty music tracks out there. Do some searching and make a list of sites that you like and when they say they want so and so, direct them to what they can legally use and pay for. Tack it on the bill if they choose a pricey license for some classical tune. If they want to go with someone who’ll add Michael Jackson to they’re wedding video they do it at they’re own risk. Chances are know one will ever see their video to make a stink anyways, but it’s better to be safe as a business owner. If you add a famous song on YouTube, they tack on an add for that song with an option to buy it, or they tell you to take out the music. This should be the same for wedding videos I think. Just add on an ad at the end for direct purchasing of the song. Usually the ones that want the music, pay for it anyways. I don’t see the harm in adding it to the video and making 20 copies for your family and friends. Copyright laws should be more flexable in that way I think.
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Have you tried exporting to an uncompressed .avi out of Vegas? This should work in the Mac. You can also render the file out of Final Cut instead of using Compressor. Does the video play in the Final Cut timeline with the noticeable changes you’re talking about? If those are noticed, you may want to tweak it in Final Cut and then export that way, so you’ll get what you’re wanting for picture quality. You could probably achieve the right compression staying on the PC. Using Quicktime Pro to render you’re file.
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Good questions. I’ve edited on both systems and I had a choice for my personal system and I went with Vegas. There are some features on FC that I miss, but Vegas makes up for. Audio editing in Vegas is a snap. Adding layers of media in general is super easy compared to FC. I like the preview better in Vegas. With raw HDV footage, I can view it in real time high quality. Accessing my plugins is quick and easy. I’d say I edit a lot faster in Vegas than Final Cut. I had so many issues with FC. I worked for the news video dept and we used Windows with Edius Grass Valley news editing programs. These machines were bare bones. I don’t think they even had 1g of memory. I believe they were configured for the program and they ran spot on always. This is what sold me on Windows. I could rely on the system with deadline material. With Vegas, starting out was a little tricky, because I was new to Vista 64 bit and I bought the 8.1 version and it was a nightmare. Since then, the new 9.0c 64 bit version rocks. Everything works as it should. I edit on it regularly and I trust it. Program yourself to use the save function frequently though, because it doesn’t auto save every 30 secs. I think it’s like every 5 mins and I can edit a lot in 5 mins. Vegas is cheaper, more user friendly, and can do just about anything you can think of. If it can’t, get some plugins and you’re set. There is a lot of good things to be said and there’s some bad as well. Final Cut has issues too. I like them both personally, but I can’t afford the FC 4000 dollar or more system. I went with the equally stunning 1500 dollar setup. That’s why Vegas wins me over. Great system and a good price to boot.
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My guess is that .WMV is the problem. Where are you getting the .WMV files that you are using in Vegas? Have you had the same problem editing other types of formats? Can you convert your gaming footage to a different format, before taking them into Vegas? I’m sure at this point it would be a pain to do that. Also, have you tried rendering to a different format out of Vegas? I wonder if that would cause the same issues. If you post your video specs with a little more detail, maybe someone here could spot the problem right away. I’d do a few tests with other compression formats too, just to see if Vegas bogs down on you, so you can narrow it down to just that particular codec. Sometimes I’ve gotten that error, because my bitrate exceeds the standard for that type of format. The first thing I do is change the bitrate to a lower setting and this has always fixed if for me.
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Thanks Eric for taking the time to watch that video. Another videographer who also contributes his work seems to get clearer renders coming out of Final Cut Pro Compressor. I’ve also noticed when I’ve edited with FC, that Compressor does an excellent job of encoding in H.264 HD and keeping the file small as can be. I’ve yet to match the file size of Compressor. I can get the picture quality. The AVC codec seems to be export pretty big for size, that’s why I’m re-encoding again through Quicktime, not to mention the required video format by the web designer, is Quicktime H.264. So there’s no getting around the double encoding for me. It’s nice to hear some critiquing of my work. You’re right, I’m a 100% type of guy when it comes to quality. I’ll keep working on it. Thanks
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Thanks for making it easy and posting that link, I went ahead and forwarded my request.
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Your post makes perfect sense. I had given a bit of thought to it, after I made the comment and was thinking the same thing, but wasn’t sure. I use a Canon XH-A1 and generally can get some pretty decent web video from Vegas. I experiment a lot with rendering to see if I can get some magical combination. I recently encoded a video in MP-4 HDV and then downsized it out of Quicktime Pro as a qt file and it looked good. I feel, after awhile, my head starts spinning and I can’t even look at it anymore, because it all looks bad, when really, I’ve just been focusing too hard. Thanks for the input. I’ll start focusing more on lighting and focusing! That’s something I notice as well with HD, is that it’s tricky focusing in the moment and getting it right. Yeah, if I was in a studio, I’d have a monitor, but I run into more situations, where I’m working news style and as a one man band. You can see some of my video at https://www.mynorth.com if you have the interest. I do short blurbs on a lot of different subjects. Today it’ll be ski season opening!
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I realize now I should have posted this in the compression technique section. Sorry bout that.
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The one problem I have with this function, is that you can’t choose which attributes to paste. In Final Cut, that’s an option, which is so nice. If Sony implemented this in a new release, I’d have to upgrade for sure. This copy and past option is worthless to a timeline that is full of effects and crops and movements. Good to figure it out, before you get to that point. Also, you could create a new video parent track with all the rest being children and then resize the whole lot of clips that way, if you did have a lot of effects already in place.