[Mike Calla]

Hey Junhao,

What would like to do? capture? monitor? Print to tape?

[Mike Calla]

The unfortunate and yet best advice is to never use the latest version.

My version 10e – 32 and 64bit are flawless! I use them to make a living.
I have v11 & 12 installed on a separate hard drive for testing.

BTW i’m an Adobe PPCS6 and Avid MC6 user as well. Head on over to any of those forums and all is not peaches and cream. Everyone app has problems.

Some rules i live by:
– Have separate hard drives with different install configurations for different apps/os. HDs are so cheap, and OS/programs HDs don’t need to be big. (ie when i have an AVID project i pop in my AVID HD)
– Don’t use the latest versions until they are tried and tested.
– Always have your installation disks and drivers on hand in case you need to re-install.
– don’t update drivers. I almost NEVER update drivers, ever.
– If this is your livelihood, and you make a living at it, you owe it to your clients and yourself to have hardware and software redundancys in place.

[Mike Calla]

Sony mxf great and free.

[Mike Calla]

Thanks everyone,
And special thanks to Tim!

I applaud you for going above and beyond the call of duty, not just for the above (most awesome) post but for every thread you contribute to.

The fact is, you contribute with passion, honesty and most importanly you always have a air of encouragement that surrounds your words!

Thank you!

And yes I’ve decided to use a stage name for my producer credit. who knows, maybe in the distant future when another Cow patron asks the same question you can add me to your list.

[Mike Calla]

Will do!

Thanks a bunch!!!

[Mike Calla]

Hi Guys,

Abraham,forgive my lack of know how but does the code you linked to insert in to the embed code OR the page code (if its the page code then i’m outta luck as i built this site with Basekit’s WYSIWYG builder)

Again i appreciate the help guys.

I’m currently updating this page with the most recent embed codes.
If it doesn’t help the issue, hmmm i guess i can redesign the page using still images of players, when a user clicks on the still it opens a new but identical page with a live player???

[Mike Calla]

Awesome, thanks Alex!!

I really don’t have any knowledge of web programming, i built that site with basekit.

2 things though
– I did change the embed code to omit the titles that are displayed below the player…or rather, i just omitted the text that contained the titles from the embed code

– and a few days ago, through the cow’s video update interface, i changed the still image in a few of the videos

However googling this error leads to believe that either of things may be the problem.

Still i don’t see how this would affect me viewing the pages directly on the cow site?

Anyways thanks for pointing me in…a direction:) I’ll change back all the embed codes to the originals and see how that goes.

and i did try and update flash, but its built in to chrome, cant. and my one day old laptop, both flash and chrome are the lastet version

thanks guys!

[Mike Calla]

Oh how oh how do I get to be a beta tester? I’ve been with SF/Sony since Acid v1.

I use it everyday, part of my livelihood!

I would love to be a beta tester.

[Mike Calla]

i use cineform as well.

However, i use to use uncompressed .avi a lot, there’s certain setting you must toggle on and off when you select it to render, i can’t remember what it is. Anyone?

Oh and something to add, in the properties of your event under the media tab, change the alpha channel.

[Mike Calla]

Just a note: This is my personal experience, yours may differ. I have this setup on 3 systems, From a new i7 to an old dual core Pentium.

Ok,
Vegas 7, (If you still have it installed:) came with Cineform v2.5 preinstalled. If you have Vegas Pro 8 or 9 installed as well, they will read and be able to render to back to Cineform v2.5. And if you want to batch render with Cineform V2.5 in v8 & 9 you must first create a render template in v7 (and actually render something, 1 frame is enough)then the template will show up in the batch render templates of 8 and 9 (it will show up in v10 but it will just give a codec missing error if you try to render).

Now, Vegas Pro 10 can read (not write)Cineform V2.5 files either 100% of the time or it 0% of the time. If its 0% you can install the free Cineform neoplayer decoder. It will allow Vegas v10 to 100% read Cineform V2.5 files.

HOWEVER installing the free Cineform neoplayer decoder will install over the preinstalled Cineform V2.5 codec in Vegas 7, and bye bye rendering with cineform!!

What you need to do to get the rendering back in v7,8 & 9 is re-install Vegas V7. This will give you back the Cineform V2.5 codec read and write in v7, 8 & 9 and the ability to read in v10

other notes:

– i always keep v7, and now v9 on machines in case i need to open up old projects and save them in the same version, that’s how i found out this works

– STEP 1:my install order is v7, then (i don’t do v8, hate it), 9 and 10. If v10 can’t read the cineform files made in 7, 8 & 9 , i…
STEP 2: install the free Cineform neo/player decoder, then reinstall Vegas v7. This has worked 100% of the time for me… for you…who knows!

– If you have AE, or etc on your machine and you want to be able to read the old Cineform V2.5 codec, STEP 2 is needed. Although you can’t render back to it.

– Cineform V2.5 was a codec meant for HDV video, so its resolution is 1440 x 1080, 8bit, 4:2:2. Not 1920 x 1080 10bit, 4:2:2. If you apply a little colour correction/grading the free codec holds up well. But because the preinstalled Cineform codec is 8 bits, if you apply a heavy grade, the codec starts to break down, but not so much.

– Cineform V2.5 performance and quality compared to the current Neo codec: viewed on a 40 inch Panasonic broadcast display, the colors are bang on, the perceived sharpness is a tad, just a tad, i mean a tad softer on the Cineform V2.5 codec. and this on a paused frame side by side. when playing, i can’t tell which is which.

Performance is a little different – although file sizes are larger in the recent paid versions of the neoscene/HD/neo codec, its performance on older machines is better, not a lot, but definitely noticeable. On a newer i7s the two codec’s performance are identical, or at least imperceptible.