[Larry Cole]

You’ve talked me into the advantages of Cineform and I’m trying it out. I like to break my project up into small individual projects to reduce rendering times when making small changes. I think I asked earlier if it was possible to apply effects, then render out in the cineform format and then pull into another project to possibly apply more effects. I’m pretty sure the answer is yes but I don’t see a cineform render option in vegas.

I do allot of green screen work and like to apply the backgrounds in one workflow, then pull out the results of that into another project to apply slight zooms, pans and rotations. I was hoping this would provide a high quality intermediate intermediate file to avoid loosing quality after my chroma key stuff has been rendered out.

Is there an option to render out to a high quality format for another round of adding effects?

[Larry Cole]

When archiving, do you tend to archive the converted to cineform files or archive the originals”?

[Larry Cole]

I currently have a sony hdr-sr11 video camera. At some point I want to upgrade but I’m finding other tools in need of upgrading first (lighting, green screens, mikes and audio recording equipment). Are the cinform codecs something that would benefit this low end model or is this something to invest in once I get a better camera?

Also, what is the workflow? Convert native format to cineform, edit and rerender to cineform until all effects have been incorporated and then render to the DVD architect formats? I’m assuming cineform is for the intermediate editing and rednering but you still have to convert to a format that DVD architect can handle. Do I have this correct?

One last question, is cineform a standalone application or do you still use vegas to create the new files?

Again, thanks so much for the great information.

[Larry Cole]

That was a great response. Thanks for taking the time to fully answer my questions. I’ll definately try to work towards your suggestions.

[Larry Cole]

is there any good way in Vegas to accurately calculate the average or is it pretty much guesstimating?

Also, when moving audio over to DVD Architect, do the sound levels move any?

[Larry Cole]

Figured it was something easy. Thanks.

[Larry Cole]

Reference your comment “you want the overall loudness to be around -24db”. Is -24db where the volumn peaks or is this more of an average?

[Larry Cole]

This is an area I’d really like to know more about.

Where do codec issues show up (I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an error when I render)?

What type of things do the editors and critics notice?

Are the Cinform and other codecs you mentioned just third party rendering engines that are better than those provided by Sony in the out of box product? Do you use them inside of Vegas?

I recently discovered the joys of working with a third party chroma key effect and realized how much things can be improved if you move from the default tools and into the more advanced ones.

Thanks

[Larry Cole]

I noticed that you indicated you were using Boris’s chromakey software. What is the advantage of using a add on vs. the chromakey effects built into Vegas? Is the quality significantly better that would justify the additional cost?

[Larry Cole]

I’ve had this occur both on the v9 32 bit on an older computer running xp and on the v9 64 bit on my newer system running win 7.
Every once in a while, it would also throw some solid color events into the media manager or wipe out all the text in my text events. Good thing is that I’ve not seen that specific behavior since I moved to 64 bit. Only the crashes on the first edit of a text event.

The only add on that I’m using is excalibur for the multi camera editing. I don’t think that is the issue because I’ve been using it for some time. It was not till the last upgrade (i think 9.0c?) I downloaded that I started having this problem. it did not occur when I used the app as installed from the original disc.