[Larry Brewer]

While Vegas 11 files can’t be opened in Vegas 10, I just tried and succeeded to copy the events from a Vegas 11 project, and paste them onto a Vegas 10 timeline. Basically transferring a Vegas 11 project to Vegas 10. This project included speed changes, audio envelopes, titles, and transition effects.

Just use your selection edit tool to draw a box around everything of the Vegas 11 timeline, copy and paste it to a blank Vegas 10 timeline.

Not sure what, if any features will not transfer, but my trial worked perfectly.

[Larry Brewer]

GPU acceleration was already disabled so that has to be ruled out.

I think I may have found the problem. My media was stored on a Samsung 1TB hard drive that I had mounted using a BYTECC USB3 external docking station. (looks like a small 2 slice toaster) When I removed the drive and placed it into a STATA tray the crashes ceased. Strange, the performance of the drive is about the same either way, and AJA System Test utility shows good performance using the USB 3 docking station. But the crashes have definitively ceased. So, live and learn.

[Larry Brewer]

When editing in multicam mode in Vegas you need to remember a few things. No good to add it before you enable multicam editing. It seems you already know that. Here’s how I do it.

After completing the multicam cut, I select a clip on the timeline, go to TOOLS > MULTICAMERA > EXPAND TO MULTIPLE TRACKS > YES.

Then I select any clip from the camera footage I want to add effects to, right click and select MEDIA FX. This will affect all clips from that camera footage and only that camera footage. That way you don’t have to do the clips one by one. And if you don’t like the look of it after rendering, repeat. Adjusting one MEDIA FX changes all the rest.

As for NEAT VIDEO, you will need to play with the adjustments, render a small portion, inspect, and try again.

[Larry Brewer]

I have always understood that Vegas is slow to render .wmv files. What really puzzles me is why the render rate varies so much. I’m not running out of disk space or RAM. The CPUs just seem to slow down after the first few minutes of rapid rendering. Eventually using only about 12% of CPU capacity.

Where I come from a 15 minute video should take approx 15 times longer to render than a 1 minute video, everything else being equal. Generally speaking, after 4% of rendering completed, with Vegas the estimated time remaining is established and you can go get a burger and coke. Not with wmv files! The longer it renders the slower it gets. It will finally come to a crawl speed. This is just stupid.

[Larry Brewer]

John

Thanks for the technical walk through. I guess the process is to open something in notepad, edit, and save. Right?

Larry Brewer

[Larry Brewer]

My previous reply was somewhat tongue in cheek. I wish there was a smilie icon for that… : i maybe?

I like Vegas too, but sometimes I do wonder why the simplest features get screwed up when a new version comes out. I can understand the new features being a little iffy, but it seems like something I’ve used since VP7 should be cut in stone by now.

Thanks again for all your help.

Larry Brewer

[Larry Brewer]

Just a follow up to the scene detecting issue. WinDV did not work any better than Sony Video Capture. Scenalizer only worked in theory and missed scenes it should have detected and detected scenes it shouldn’t.

The solution finally was to go back to Sony Video Capture and mark in and out points, allowing for 5 sec preroll, and batch capture the clips. This way I got the individual clips and they had timecode that matched the logged timecode.

This is why I shoot on cards.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Larry Brewer

[Larry Brewer]

So maybe this is tied to VP11, and not some setting I can’t find? Hope that’s the case, I guess.

As for another good reason to keep VP 10e around… we were hanging on to VP 9 when VP 10 came out!!

Why is it the the “previous” version of Vegas is always the best?

Thanks Graham

[Larry Brewer]

Is this from the script “add TC to all media” or from the Sony timecode effect?

Which version Vegas are you using?

[Larry Brewer]

One last comment and I’ll let it go. I tried a different clip from another camera shot HDV, previous footage was DVCam.. same results..

This problem only occurs with my Vegas 11 (build 521)

Solution was to use my old copy of Vegas 10e.

Thank you for your suggestions.

Larry Brewer