[Nigel O’neill]

The AMD Phenom II 6 core processors are currently considered the performance king, but that may not last much longer.

The Intel Sandy Bridge series of CPU’s designated by a leading number 2 e.g. i5 2500 are proving to outperform the current i7 CPU’s in video and encoding. The benchmarks look very promising if you can hold out for a few months. The CPU’s are available, but you might be struggling to find a motherboard as there is a global motherboard recall:

INTEL have issued a worldwide recall of all Socket 1155 motherboards. This recall encompasses all brands of motherboards, desktops, and notebooks using new s1155 based technology. Intel CPUs are not effected.

The ISSUE:

New Intel® 6 Series Chipsets (Sandy Bridge) were released to market in January 2011 as a component integrated with all Socket 1155 motherboards. Intel advise that a design flaw in this chipset may result in performance loss and failure of communication with devices attached to the SATA 2 Ports only. Intel have indicated that about 5% of S1155 motherboards may eventually exhibit this problem over a long period of time, 2-3 years. The chance of the problem occurring increases with use and the short term risk is small.

At least two SATA 3 ports are included on these motherboards and are not effected. Many desktop computers sold by Computer Alliance use the faster SATA 3 ports only and so will not be impacted.

Intel have started production of replacement chips and have advised that replacement stock of motherboards are expected in April. Manufacturers will supply replacement stock to existing customers FIRST!

We have been advised by INTEL that there is unlikely to be any issue in the short term and that customers can use their PCs as normal.

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[Nigel O’neill]

If you are going to the trouble of zipping the files (which may not work as your system will probably shutdown due to heat as the processor compresses the files), you may as well copy your entire project folder ‘as is’ to an external USB drive (including all veg files, ‘raw’ files and any graphics/mp3’s used in the project).

If you have another PC with Vegas, you should then be able to open your veg project, and after initially telling it where to look for the files (since they have moved), you should be able to start working where you left off, including render.

It might help if you fill in your profile with respect to your PC setup and Vegas version.

I didn’t understand what you meant by the following so I have ignored it:

I’m not yet sure if it’s possible, but if it is feel free to add me and we’ll keep contact and the video will be given in to you around Thursday (3rd) or Wednesday (2nd)and is due the 7th.

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[Nigel O’neill]

Tammy

Which solution helped? Was it an interlacing or cropping issue?

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[Nigel O’neill]

You haven’t accidentally muted the audio events by any chance (they show up as shaded sections on the time line) or dragged the gain from 100% to zero on the audio event?

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[Nigel O’neill]

Tammy

Unfortunately what you are experiencing is a consequence of excessive panning and cropping of video. You can usually get away with maybe 10% or 20% of cropping, but after that, visual artefacts such as the ones you describe creep in.

I think you might have to review your camera work and frame things a bit tighter or better so as to avoid having to zoom in on video events ‘after the fact’, or use the optics of the camera in real time to zoom, rather than attempt it digitally in post production.

If it is something you can reshoot, you should seriously reconsider it.

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[Nigel O’neill]

Zach

The same plug-in that John mentioned also has a built-in preset called ‘Desaturate All but Reds’, but the method John mentioned is good for isolating any colour.

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[Nigel O’neill]

I assume you are using SVP9:

Right click the event audio wave form you are trying to improve.
Select Apply non-real time event FX
Choose Audio > Sony > ExpressFX Graphic EQ or Graphic EQ

Have a play around, noting that there is also an output gain slider. Experiment.

If you are using SVP10, this is available in real-time.

You can do it at track level as well, but it affects the whole track. In my case, I only needed it for certain video events.

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[Nigel O’neill]

84 GB is not much to render to. I would leave it as is.

Are your source and output render files on the same striped array? That could possibly impact read/write performance. You might want to consider separating them.

An NVIDIA video card will definitely give you a rendering performance boost. ATI cards do nothing for Sony Vegas.

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[Nigel O’neill]

The problem is still occurring and is fixed by restarts/reboots. It also effects the renders in the same way. I have reported it to Sony.

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Mark

Make sure you place it on the top most event/track… .

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