[Mike Calla]

Two answers/options I’ve use/used with great success:

I used to use Gearshift by Vasst, allows you to render with your original HD files, BUT you edit with DV avi files(performance with DV Avi files is fast on a even good 5-6 year old computer, and its basically a seamless process as well.

Now i use Cineform…it basically takes your camera files and makes them 2 – 3 times bigger but much easier to edit with (cuz the CPU doesn’t have to work so hard).

[Mike Calla]

Awesome, thanks John!

two quick ?s to clarify:

1. Would this apply to windows secondary display via a graphics card HDMI / Component out to an HDTV monitor as well?

2. Is the dependent on the fact that you have a “Quadro” card?

Thanks again!

[Mike Calla]

I use the AJA LHe boards. I bought them so i could work with cineform and have trouble-free-colour-space-HD-output. It doesn’t have HDMI, but i use the HD component outputs to go to Panasonic industrial plasma display and simultaneously to SD CRT broadcast monitors. I’ve never used the SDI i/o…ever…don’t think i ever will.

You know, I have nVidia cards with HDMI and even HD component outs but i can’t find clear answers as to whether there would be colour space issues?

I know a lot of people use Vegas/Windows secondary display but i was never sure if it introduces a whole new set of colour space problems.

If i could get a clear answer “Yes, nVidia, HD-Out has no colour space issues” That’d be great!

[Mike Calla]

Yep, vegas is a great program. BUT if you are a freelance editor you’d better learn FCP & MAC OS, AVID and possibly PPro – Sorry, it’s just the way it is. Or you build your own business around Vegas. Its a shame though

FCP and Edius are the only ones i haven’t really used and i lose work because of it.

I learned AVID pretty well. It’s got some things Vegas doesn’t (every NLE is like that anyway) but Vegas its a lot quicker to work with, much much more flexible in working style. Things that would take a few key strokes in AVID, are one in Vegas.

Version 7, 9/64 and 10/64 have been rock solid for me. Huge time lines, complex time lines. I render out to AE using uncompressed AVI and cineform, no problem.

There is a HUGE lack of third party hardware and software with Vegas but it’s not Vegas’s fault.

What is vegas’s fault is Sony; A huge VIDEO hardware company(HELLO!!!!), can’t get their heads out of the corporate world where different divisions do not communicate with each other. They could make their own I/O boards, work surfaces, audio hardware..etc.

i spend a fortune on AJA boards:(

[Mike Calla]

everything Danny said ‘cept to clarify it should read, “…you can’t open a .veg in V9 that was saved in V10”

[Mike Calla]

Don, I think you want what Stephen said.

If you have a clip that you’ve color corrected, you can paste those color corrected FX on to another clip.

you can copy any FX applied on a clip by > crtl-c your FX’ed clip > on the clip you would like to paste to> right click > choose “paste event attributes” done. In fact you can keep copying and layering those FX too.

If you have many clips from the same setup, camera etc then you can color correct (or add ANY FX/Event pan-crop to)the first clip and then apply that to many clips at once…then you just have fine tune each clip…or not, depending what going for.

Also remember you can apply FX to a bin folder too, so every time you use a clip from that bin, it will contain the applied fx. Any changes you make to the bin will be reflected in all the clips that originated from there.

ahhh vegas! so many ways to accomplish so many things

[Mike Calla]

you can contact television distribution companies such as Janson media (https://www.janson.com) ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A FINISHED SERIES which you do. This is their job. They will find international buyers (tv stations and networks) for you… if they think they can sell it!

You might also want to think about editing a one hour “oneoff” version

It’s a good time to start getting in contact with them because the beginning of the new year is when a lot of the distributors have their international shows!

https://www.natpe.org/natpe/ is in January
https://www.mipworld.com/en/mipdoc/ Mipworl and Mipdoc are in april
https://www.discop.com/ has three in the first half of the year
https://www.mipworld.com/mipcom/ mipcom is in october

[Mike Calla]

Hi Philip,

Came across this old post…

In fact Mike and i recently had a similar discussion on an another forum.

If you have any firewire device that can output video, you can use that to output to your Sony pvm monitor. With HDV/Cineform HDV you don’t have to worry about color issues as Vegas will make sure the output is correct. So you’ll have HD on the timeline but monitor in SD.

I used to use an old Sony Digital8 camera that I bought used, the transport was broken but the firewire pass through still worked! You get the idea – any device that can output video will work. And you already have a very adequate monitor in the Sony.

[Mike Calla]

I learn something new everyday on this forum!:)

Thx Edward!

[Mike Calla]

I don’t really use DVD Architect, but did you make two files that were each 4.9GB OR two files that together equaled 4.9GB?

There is only about 4.3GB (or so) available for use on each DVD layer… don’t know why – such is life. Maybe DVDA thinks it can’t fit it all on one dual layer disc?