[Nigel O’neill]

Thanks for the responses

I have a 2 monitor setup based on an NVIDIA GTX 9800 chipset. I could wait for the NVIDIA 580 series with 512 CUDA cores and get the single card, or get 2 ‘run out’ model cards and SLI them for less $$.

Intel i7 920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10 (X64), Vista x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S 4.1

[Nigel O’neill]

Thanks

Good to know, but why offer a quality slider then during firewire capture if it makes no difference?

I have also noticed a similar quality slider under the ‘video’ tab of the rendering templates. For HDV 1440/1080i it defaults at 15 (about half way) and for the PAL DVD Architect WS template it defaults at 20, with a possible maximum of 31 for both. Should I be cranking these up to get the best possible video quality? Furthermore, the ‘project’ tab setting of ‘best’ does not seem to have a bearing on the quality slider under the ‘video’ tab. I would have expected a corresponding change.

Does SVP default to the best possible video quality for the template chosen? Some members of my video club complain my videos sometimes look slightly ‘soft’, and I have to say I agree with them. They edit in Premiere/Pinnacle Studio/Ulead and produce fantastic looking output with default settings. I seem to have to tweak SVP to get results to match.

Does anyone else adjust their video quality slider settings?

Intel i7 920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10 (X64), Vista x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S 4.1

[Nigel O’neill]

The AMD offering is very competitive in terms of performance and price. It was not around when I was building a system so I settled on an i7-920 as well.

If you are on Vegas Pro 10, you should consider the NVIDIA 470 or 480 series video cards as the rendering engine makes use of the CUDA cores.

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[Nigel O’neill]

Woops!

[Nigel O’neill]

The 512GB solid state drive probably makes up at least $2000 of that. You have slightly more RAM and a faster processor in the more expensive system.

Performance-wise, solid state drives are extremely fast but VERY pricey.

Instead, you might want to consider getting the less expensive laptop with a PC Express slot that allows for eSATA or see if the laptop has an eSATA connection built-in, so you can hook up a much cheaper cradle ($40) and pop a standard SATA drive in the cradle. You can swap hard drives as a bonus.

OR

You might want to consider a laptop with USB 3.0 ports, and use USB 3.0 portable external hard drives. USB 3.0 drives are just starting to emerge. A 500 GB portable USB 3.0 should retail for around $120.

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[Nigel O’neill]

Ken

If you have Vegas x64 you should be able to render out the file. I got the low memory error all the time in Vegas 9.x and my “workaround” was to render in Vegas x64.

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[Nigel O’neill]

I forgot to add:

Download and use the bit rate calculator, and use it to determine the optimum bit rate, especially if your wedding video is over 1 hour long. For example, trying to squeeze 3 hours on a DVD is going to look worse than a 1 hour production. The 1 hour version is unlikely to require compression, whereas the 3 hour edit will.

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[Nigel O’neill]

Allen

Is the whole PC shutting down or is it just Vegas? If it is the former, heat (or rather, too much of it) as Mike suggested is causing a system shutdown (as a self-preservation mechanism of the CPU).

You might also want to look in Windows Event viewer which may have captured an application shutdown or crash message that you missed.

Are you using the 32 bit or 64 bit version of Vegas?

What version of Vegas are you using?

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[Nigel O’neill]

Caiti

This thread may assist:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/918246

in particular

change to CBR at 8,000,000 rate AND change the project settings to “best quality” and 32-bit/video level pixels

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[Nigel O’neill]

I tried it as well and it worked very well for some hand held wedding footage I had been given, but the cropping was too excessive. If the shot is too tight, it does not look right after stabilisation. But I agree it is a great addition to the editors tool kit.

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