[Nigel O’neill]

John

Thanks. So just to clarify, my workflow needs to be as follows:
– Vegas project template = PAL DV WS
– render out = PAL DV WS DVDA template
– Make the DVD in DVDA = 720×576 PAL

Hopefully the Best quality render settings in Vegas will not introduce any motion artefacts.

I have mixed DV and HDV in the past, and I was using Sony Vegas 8 at the time, but I believe the DV camera was a locked off camera in a wide shot, hence the motion artefacts would not have been obvious.

That’s the last time I forget to check my gear less than twice!

[Nigel O’neill]

Wow thanks! I did not spot that in the doco! I wish I had known that 3 weddings ago 🙂

[Nigel O’neill]

I regularly edit with 4 cams with a mix of HDV, AVCHD,DV and imported audio. Vasst Ultimate s 4.1 will do what you want, letting you see all tracks and manipulate them.

My only beef with Ultimate S is that if you decide to move your timeline, or want to insert extra footage, none of the cam sync points can be globally selected to move the lot. If you have 200 switches between 4 cams, be prepared for a lot of Ctrl-clicking before you drag!

I tend to edit linearly, planning ahead what I want to do on the timeline to avoid this!

[Nigel O’neill]

You may check if Windows firewall or your firewall is blocking the 1394 port. This was a gotcha for me on Vista64.

[Nigel O’neill]

You need to make sure music copyright issues are addressed as you are, in effect, making a recording that involves copyright music. Even ambient music is protected!

[Nigel O’neill]

Rob

Obtaining a *quality* power supply is essential, amongst other components. Oftentimes, cheaper power supplies rated at xxx watts tend to underperform under heavy load.

For example, I used to run an ASUS A32N-SLI board with an AMD 4400 CPU Quaddro 1500 FX card, 2 x IDE burners, 5 x SATA HDD (3 of which were WD Raptors) and 2GB of DDR2 RAM off a quality 500W Power Supply Unit. A mate of mine skimped on the PSU in a nearly identical setup and after replacing his PSU, calm returned!

In closing, I should add that a stable editing platform is a eco-system of parts carefully chosen to be compatible with each other: motherboard, CPU, RAM, hard disks, graphics card, power supply, operating system and installed software all most co-exist happily.

And then there is the setup and tuning of the PC to optimise it for editing and to draw maximum performance from your hardware… .

[Nigel O’neill]

I just made the transition to V Pro 9 and agree it does have a few kinks, as can be expected from a major update. I look forward to V Pro 9.0a… .

If I recall, the dark interface can be changed under ‘Preferences’ somewhere.

[Nigel O’neill]

Your PC is up to the task, unless time is an issue and you need faster render turnaround times.

My experience is that Vegas Pro 8d handles previewing of AVCHD/HDV on the timeline better than Vegas Pro 9. I believe it has been noted on this forum elsewhere. I am not sure if it is a bug or an undocumented feature 🙂

[Nigel O’neill]

Rob

I regularly edit large projects using both AVCHD and m2t on the timeline and have had no issues with Vegas Pro 8. As a former user of video editing products from other high profile companies I shall not mention, I have found Vegas to be a reliable/dependable workhorse.

Without any specific of the errors you are experiencing, crashes can be caused by conflicts with other software on the PC. Ideally, your editing machine should be as vanilla as possible with no antivirus or firewall software installed.

I have had problems in the past with underrated power supplies and video driver problems, but they tend to result in blue screens, not application crashes.

I recently was experiencing Vegas crashes during renders, but it turned out one on my project media assets (a video file) was corrupted. It did take me a while to figure it out with a bit of trial and error by doing Render As on a segment of the timeline at a time. If you have the luxury of a second PC (I believe your licence entitles you to install Vegas on up to 3 computers for network rendering), you can simply copy your entire project folder to a portable hard disk e.g. veg files, media files etc., and try rendering the project on another installation of Vegas.

Hope this assists, but for us to be of any further assistance, you really need to provide more specifics surrounding your problem.

[Nigel O’neill]

I use Vasst Ultimate S 4.1 for this very reason, which keeps the video tracks paired with your audio. I can be editing 4 cams with an additional video track plus 2 miscellaneous audio tracks and it gets quite disconcerting to see the video tracks ‘collapsed’.