Liam Kennedy
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Doesn’t the STOP key do exactly that anyway. It’s a command to the DVD player to STOP playing the DVD. I don’t think this is a key that is trappable by DVDA. I may be wrong…
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I’ve noticed the same issue (and to my shame) never reported this as a bug to Sony. I don’t tend to use very many still-image-sequences in my Vegs (just one or two Digital Juice animations) so when this happens I select the “media” for the still-image-sequence in the media pool and “replace” it – by pointing to the new place where the image sequence is.
To my mind this is most definitely a bug (or an oversight) that such things are not picked up when you search for missing media.
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How large are those Jpeg images? There are reports of problems with projects with large Jpegs. “Large” in these cases would mean larger than would be typically required for the panning/zooming which may be necessary in the project. In other words… don’t load a 4000×4000 pixel image if all you will be doing is a small pan or zoom.
For my use… I have projects with many jpegs (some 2000×2000 pixels) and never had any problem.
As your problem seems repeatable… I would definitely submit a support incident to Sony (via their web site).. and upload the sample project with supporting files. Then I would get on the phone and activate your 60 days of free live phone support (which you get as a result of the free upgrade). Their live support is excellent.
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Michael
I also very much doubt this is a bug. This is how DVDA (and Vegas) handles “missing media” that is contained in the project… but that it can no longer find in the location originally specified.
What you need to do (others have said this already) is to find the element within the DVDA project that makes a reference to this deleted AVI file. The fact that you cannot find this reference does not mean that it is not there.
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Yes… you are correct… we have heard you (many times). All I have been attempting to do is to bring to your attention what the state of things really is… despite the lack of some specific words from a help document. Perhaps you should go along to the Sony site and submit a product suggestion to them.
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I would not take what Sony placed in their help files to imply what you say it does. You added in some “words” (Same Quality / Bit Rates) to match up with what you thought should be the case.
I do agree… that more information in the help file about the trade-offs involved would have cleared it up. But… in the end.. Sony did not make up this 24p thing and how that factors into MPEG encoding.
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Was it
constant… or did you have Max, Avg, and Min settings at different values? In the end those values will also determine what the encoder chooses to do. In the end… I cannot claim to be any great expert on this… other than to “feel” I have an understanding (like Peter does) of how Bit-Rate plays into the file size thing. This comes from years of working with streaming files. Over the years the most common misconception is that people reduce the frame size – or the frame rate – and expect that to reduce the size of the file. When in actual fact… the bit rate is the only determining factor in file size.
I’ll run some tests myself on the 24p mpeg stuff to see what goes on in reality as well. Seems only fair.
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[Marc] “That line implies that using the same settings (including the same bitrates) and the same custom templates (which I did!), a 24p file should be smaller than a 60i file. I have not found this to be the case. And I’m simply trying to understand why.”
You say you want to understand why… and yet you also say on the other hand it is “ALL ABOUT THE BIT RATES”. That… IS… THE… ANSWER. No further work should be required on your part to understand it any further.
I can appreciate that uou had some confusion initially… in that you made an assumption that the supplied default templates by Sony somehow were setup to create a 24p project that creates files that are identical quality to 29.97 projects and the files would be smaller. You have found out they are not… and that is because they have the same sort of bit-rate settings. Now you know that is the case… you can adjust the bit-rate settings in your 24p render and end up with smaller files.
ANy more questions?
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It’s all about the bit-rate…. repeat after me… it’s all about the bitrate.
A 24p project rendered (encoded) at the same bit-rate as a 29.97 project will result in VERY SIMILAR file sizes.
Am I making sense?
This answer was the same one I gave in my first response to you.
These files you are talking about – you rendered them right? Using Vegas? Yes? Then YOU can check out for yourself what the bit-rate was that YOU rendered them at. If you used the standard default templates then why don’t you just open up the custom properties of each template and check them out yourself.
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Yeah… click on the CUSTOM button for the Templates and check out what it says for the bit-rates.