Margie Marfi
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Hi Cory,
How big is your hard drive in the Sony Viao and is it a 5400 or 7200 rpm hard drive?
Thanks,
Margie -
Thank you all for your help:)
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Thank you Terje,
I had a feeling that is was going into a Big Headache direction! I put an email into tech support at Asus this morning asking how to undo what I have. If they have a simple fix I’ll let you know. The form I had to fill out was asking all the details of my setup that I’m going to have to sort thru files to find. Hope they can advise enough with what I provided. I’ve learned more of what not to do here and I hope others will learn from how I messed up!:)
Margie
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Well. Before I get started again, right now I have the 4 320G SATA HDs in my computer. You mentioned that you have a RAID setup somewhere in your situation. Currently I have the 4 with each of two in RAID 1, so that I have two that are mirrored. What do you feel would be the best utilization of what I have, even if I need to get another HD or remove a HD. I’m also thinking that maybe I don’t want to keep jamming more HDs into the case because of the heat generation. The mobo comes with RAID capability. I didn’t get an additional card. I think I can go to the Asus web site to ask how to reconfigure what I have now. Sure hope that doesn’t mean a loss of all that is on them right now.
Thanks,
Margie
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Ouch. Shouda, coulda asked here before doing the setup. I know there’s a Raid setup key to hit on boot up. Haven’t looked at what’s in there. My purpose was also to be able to be continuously up and running even if a hd failed … with the pairing of both hds. It takes me a very long time to get all reinstalled on a system and tweaked as it originally was. The Raid 1 that I have setup gives me the capability of staying off and running as long as I do my backups of data. By the way, I took a computer course last fall and the instructor said that he had not made it easy enough to do back ups yet because he wasn’t good about it. Don’t know what you use? But this Raid 1 definately is not good for video editing. Is that why everything locks up when I try to add keyframing in pan/crop?
What do you think of the error msg that I get when closing out of Vegas? Didn’t know if it was a corrupted install? If so, I looked at my S/N for my original disk and the S/N for 7c download upgrade is different! So then don’t know which to use if I have to remove program and just go to dl 7c?
My last computer was built by a PC guy in town. I thought that WMP played my dvds on that one. I’m thinking that he may have added on a codec to WMP 9 that I had on it. That’s why I was concerned that this one wouldn’t play a dvd. My mind’s checklist of what to do when you have a newbuild just keeps growing. Thought I was thinking of alot but still very many things I didn’t. Learning curve. Thank you very much for your help!
Margie
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Hi,
This is a bit late and I don’t know if it’ll even help. About a year ago I did a project in Vegas 6. I zoomed in on the lens of a camera and out of the fx that was in the Vegas program there is some kind of strobe effect. The way I used it was when in the lens, when I transitioned from one still to the next, I applied that effect. Now don’t know if it was in the fx area or in the transition area. Hope this helps too!
Margie
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Hi Jerry,
What’s the difference between Swishzone Swishmax and Flash Video MX? They both do Flash video that’s for playing on the Internet. Didn’t know if the Swish products also give you the capability of creating text and object .. or photo .. special effects. Do you get special effects with Flash Video MX, or do they specialize in converting your video to good quality internet viewable video but not the same kind of special effects as Swishzone has?
Thanks,
Margie
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Hi Terje,
In 2006 my son had a computer crash so I decided to give him mine. I was upset about that what was suppose to be in his crashed computer, was not there. I felt at that time that the best way to overcome that was to learn more and with the help of a non video editing computer friend, researched and with help built my own. I chose Raid 1 because I had a hard drive loss in 2006 with alot of my video/photography data on it. Not all of the files were backed up to disk. It has worked sporatically, but never long enough to get a backup of my data. In paranoid mode I chose a Raid 1 setup because I had wanted a heads up if a disk was going bad. I did not realize the impact of this in video editing and rendering. I set the 3 minute piece to render all night last night so hopefully it would be done by the time I got up. It was. So if I do an hour long piece it might take only about 80 to 100 hours to render!
I was more up on all of this late summer 2006 but now am reading off of the box and a Belarc Advisor report. The video card I have is an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT by XFXforce.
Seems like I need to do rework here. Another piece that I had done recently was about 9 minutes long. Took a little over an hour to render. Burned it to DVD. DVD will play in a player, a friends Apple laptop, but not on my own computer with Windows Media Player. Don’t know why.
Thanks,
Margie
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I don’t know where to reply to thank all of you for your help!! I posted yesterday before leaving for work and had to wait until now to be able to post this back. Will check out newegg and hope the hds are still on sale, good price and not WD :).
Another confusion has come up. Vegas runs on 32 bit Win XP, not on Win XP 64 bit. Is there any point to go with the 64 X 2 AM2 chip and mobo? I understand trying to future proof. Does the 64 X 2 perform better than say the 939 even with just Win XP Prof 32 bit version?
Margie
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Hi Edward,
Thank you. I did some searches .. but not using “stock video footage” terms. Some showed CDs that one could buy, but hoped for a download site. Then too, didn’t know how safe it would be to DL from an unknown site. Just thought to try here to see if anyone had experience with something like that. I came up with avi.. screensavers and didn’t know the difference in use since I wanted to use in Vegas not as SS. Will try search again with your tems.
Thanks again!
Margie-:)