[Nigel O’neill]

Is your anti-virus running? It may be detecting the installation as an attack. Try temporarily disabling it.

Secondly, you need to run the installation as an administrator, i.e. right click the installation/setup executable and select ‘run as administrator’. If it prompts you for a password, you may have to ask your dad for one 🙂

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step

It’s quite a reputable tool:

https://download.cnet.com/TestDisk-and-PhotoRec/3000-2248_4-10511775.html

The one limitation of photo-rec is that it renames your files, and it simply places them in one folder. It does not preserve filenames nor folder structures, but it does work. Read the reviewer comments for other feedback.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

Try photo-rec from CGsecurity. It has a good price, too: FREE!

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

[Jack McGee] “Also, does anyone know why the more expensive and apparently high quality HD camcorders only have upto around 10X zooms, whilst the cheaper HD models have mega super zooms”

The bigger cameras have better lenses. I suspect that higher focal lengths require more glass, longer barrels and add weight. The smaller consumer cameras tend to be either plastic or lower in quality, and often are not sharp except in the middle of the lens (the edges tend to be a bit fuzzy).

[Jack McGee] “Would this new type of camcorders which I assume creates footage as AVCHD/MP4 format really offer any better picture quality than a 1080i minidv camcorder”

AVCHD offers higher quality footage compressed into smaller files. The downside is that it becomes more CPU intensive to play back or render.

I think Vegas 10 would do what you want.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

On the plus side it still records 🙂

Sounds like the slightly bent pins could have shorted something and the unit is no longer receiving power properly. At least you can also still run it off the L battery, albeit a second one.

You could try an electric contact cleaner on the contacts, but use it very sparingly and with extreme caution as some of these can be corrosive to PLASTIC.

I use a Data Video DN60 recorder on my Sony Z1P which has an inoperative tape mechanism. I mount it in the accessory shoe. I control recording from the unit itself, and take extra care to make sure it is running. Been burnt by not checking that properly once.

[Nigel O’neill]

[Brian Tallant] “the colors do not come out the same as they were when I edited them in Photoshop”

Brian, are your monitors properly colour calibrated? I mainly output in m2t using the DVDA PAL template and include photoshopped photographs and have not noticed any colour variations.

I also output to the PAL 1080i HDV m2t template, which is also YUV, but I have not noticed any colour changes.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

Disabling your antivirus software for a PC that is not connected to the Internet is likely to yield a small performance improvement, but if you do this you must must must remember to re-enable it when connecting it to other devices and networks.

[Nigel O’neill]

Is this what you see?

[Nigel O’neill]

[Anna Merry] “I can not change the camera…”

Yes, but you could use a faster lens ;-).

I don’t know if you are using a fixed focal length lens or a zoom lens. The zoom lens will always step down the f-stops the more you zoom in.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

[Thayalan Paramasawam] “System Details:
Custom Built”

Thayalan, you do not mention any hard drives or SSD in any of your system configurations. I would certainly use an SSD for the boot drive C:, and perhaps use 2 pairs (total of 4) of Western Digital 10,000 RPM VelociRaptor drives in a mirror and stripe configuration. This assumes your motherboard supports hardware RAID and can handle that many SATA connections (I count you would need 6). You could just get by with 2 VelociRaptor drives and not worry about redundancy and instead rely on regular backups to a USB 3 drive. You would most likely need to use a 1000W power supply.

I have used VelociRaptor drives and they do run quite hot, so good case cooling is essential.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6