[Mike Calla]

To chime in i just did a months work on a WD 1TB “green” drives, 500GB of Cineform(‘ol school) V2.5 and over 1GB of.wav on Vegas V9e/32bit on it. Pre-renders were on the WD black OS drive – no problems. its quad core 2.8, 3GB of ram i think…

You got a single core!!! WOW, well depends what you’re are editing but getting a better CPU could make it like night and day!

that said I sometimes edit DV proxies with Vegas 7e on my 2 year old 1.66Ghz netbook (so i like to edit on couch in the evening sue me!) no problems on draft full.

[Mike Calla]

[Ceasar Belliard] “Hard Drive has nothing to do with speeding up the software.
As long as you have a hard drive with 7200 RPM or above you should be fine.
The speed is dependent to Ram and CPU Power.”

Although i wish i was, I’m not a engineer:) but i can say my OS on an SSD is MUCH faster and certain applications tasks are much faster.

Did my SSDs speed up my renders, nope!
Do OS and applications actions happen quicker on my SSD, definitely!

[Mike Calla]

Yep, “boxed” intel CPUs that come with fans have notoriously little thermal paste. I always add more, and same goes for the power.

[Mike Calla]

When trying to import quicktime or add it to the timeline do you see black thumbnails?

If so it’s time to roll back your quicktime file, use an older version. I’m using 7.6.4 i believe.

try searching quicktime problems here on this forum, one of our board leaders, Mike Kujbida, has posted an old QT codec link.

As for cineform, it will work but the person with AE will need to buy it so THEY can render with it, you just need the free codec player from cineform to PLAY it.

[Mike Calla]

i have no answer, but my advice would be to definitely file a ticket with Sony, and post on sony’s forum.

This is a bug. That exact error lights up Google in every language. Its not just on installs, it has something to do with the registry key and the text generator it seems.

[Mike Calla]

I have three Vegas 10d systems; two 3+ghz quad core and one 3+ghz dual cpu xeon:
– 32(on XP) and 64 bit
– all footage comes in from Canon DSLRs, and batch rendered (90% of the time synced with plural eyes) to…
– Cineform NeoHD/ Cineform V2.5 (yep, thats right:) / and uncompressed 8/10bit HD, all on software internal RAID
– all 3 have AJA i/o

usage:
– Time lines are usually 30 secs to 3-4 minutes
– Always multiple tracks, minimum 5-6 video and twice as many audio, max 20ish video
– lots of magic bullet looks (color, blurs, vignettes)
– lots of rendering to and importing from AE renders (vegas stays open a lot of the time)
– Same goes for ACID and Sound Forge
– Lots of Pan/crop/masking/track motion, nothing major but its always applied somewhere on the timeline.
– LOTS of keyframes, everywhere.

Problems
– crashes on batch renders in 32(too much MOV on the timeline for batch renders), but not in 64.

…thats it. There’s an odd crash here or there, once a week maybe, but nothing regular or repeatable, pretty solid for the most part. They get pushed pretty hard too.

[Mike Calla]

8 was released, sooooo…Resolve lite should be along soon!!?

[Mike Calla]

Thanks John,
Right now my AJA’s go in to Panny TH-42PH10s, and JVC broadcast CRTs; definitely NOT your parents TV:) The Pannys i bought a while back on the advice of your Creative Cow cohort, Bob Zelin. I’ve never had the pleasure of seeing an eCinema or even a Flanders display, i’m sure they are beautiful to gawk at but the pannys are consistent, i use them for broadcast and they’ve never failed me.

In the future if i get another seat here i’ll pick up another Panny TH-42PH10; – The reason i asked about the vid card output is because there is the another model in this line with HDMI in,(can’t remember the model#, doesn’t matter), and using the video card hdmi or even component out would negate the purchase of another AJA board.

Come to think of it, they have DVI inputs as well, hmmmmmmmm!?

Thanks again.

[Mike Calla]

Yep, i came to vegas from the audio world as well. Audio: so neat and tidy, basically one master format (i love. wavs), always uncompressed, in manageable file sizes:)

[Ken Matson] “Well … back to reality apparently … a strategic question. With 4 camera’s x 3 hours worth of 1080 HD footage that will end up as a 2+ hour HD video … am I better to break the large files up into smaller pieces to edit with? Am I better to make lot’s of separate movies to put into DVD-A as opposed to one really long one? Still learnin’ this stuff! Thanks!”

As for editing, you don’t really have to break up your large files but you CAN create “subclips”…they are like broken up clips, but virtual – they only exist inside the project. it might/will help with file management.

And you can break up your edit as well if it’s going to be long. You can save many smaller project files (.veg) and then import them into a master project for final render. For example, when editing a movie, each scene would be edited in its own project and then compiled into one master project

For DVDA you can make one large file but at least you probably should add simple chapter marks.

[Mike Calla]

haha, “just work”…nope!

I just tried and even my dual xeon computer struggles with fx applied to HDV(.mt2) video on my timeline(heavy FX mind you, but still:). I think avchd(.mts) would be worse as its even more compressed.

Using proxies for example, with gearshift, or transcoding to Cineform or many other “digital intermediate” formats is a necessary evil that lies within a large majority of video editor’s workflow – from hollywood, to broadcast, to event and wedding video.

I’m unsure but possibly Adobe Premiere CS5 which uses the video card GPU to help with editing might work…but its not a small investment.

Render overnight if you have to, you only have to do it once…

Sorry.