[Nigel O’neill]

Either that or there is now a ‘stealth’ or ‘black ops’ editing mode in Vegas.

🙂

* grin *

But seriously Brian, the GPU acceleration feature in Vegas has been problematic in SVP11 and SVP12, to the point it is sometimes best left switched off, although most users have been reporting problems rendering, not previewing.

Make sure you report it to Sony

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]

[John Rofrano] “The LUMIX GH-3 shoots at a higher bit-rate when writing to MOV files than MTS files. That means you are sacrificing quality by shooting AVCHD @ 24Mbps instead of AVC/H.264 @ 73Mbps because you will have less bits to represent your image.”

I had no idea that there were cameras out there that shot at such a high bit rate. I thought 36 Mbps was the bees knees 🙂

What reasonably priced video cameras out there can you suggest/recommend that shoot at such high bit rates?

[Nigel O’neill]

Thanks John

Excellent advice as usual.

David ending up using the Vegasaur plug-in and the client was extremely happy the results. The 320×240 frame size was a client requirement.

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 this n00b 🙂

https://vegasaur.com/download/Video4YouTube

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]

True, nothing wrong with Avid, but why should one be forced to buy a second package, when one should do what it is supposed to do? SVP is by no means cheap, and I feel like I have been paying for upgrades for limited benefit. I think since I bought Vegas 9 for $900 back in the day, I have since spent $500 in ‘upgrades’ that have not brought complete stability and performance I was expecting.

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]

Unfortunately the VG30 is a pro-sumer camera at best and does not support the view finder (VF/LCD) output setting you are seeking. The VG30 suppresses sending the camera data down the A/V connector :-(.

I would contact Sony to see if there is a way to enable it through some Easter Egg type of functionality or combination of button presses that service personnel would use.

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]

Only 1 crash a day? That’s pretty decent, plus Vegas’ crash recovery is very good IMHO. In V11 it was a life saver. The crashes were annoying at times, but the recovery was excellent 🙂

I find it strange that Sony has not responded. All my logged calls with Sony support through my account have been attended to, albeit slowly. They do try and fob me off now and again, but I persist and refuse to let them close the issue until the problem is resolved.

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]

I have found V12 to be very stable compared to V11, but have had to copy tracks, markers and events of my finished projects to V11 just to render, as I was seeing strange artifacts in the V12 output. It adds about 5 minutes to my workflow to do this, but that 5 minutes is nothing compared to the constant crashing and time wasted of V11.

Sony’s testing and quality control is not like it used to be. I have seriously contemplated using Adobe editing software, but the cost to migrate is quite prohibitive, plus the reason I moved to Vegas was because Premiere used to be as unstable as a flea on a dog. Vegas was rock solid in V8, 9 and 10, and then along came V11… freezes and crashes galore. V12 is definitely a vast improvement, but still has issues unfortunately.

There are those on this forum who have not had any issues with V11 and V12, but they are quite selective about their hardware and video cards and have no issues as a result. As a semi-professional hobbyist, my budget does not quite stretch as far, hence the issues, I guess. The money I make is enough to cover my software, hardware and camera purchases 🙂

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]

That’s because Vegas is expecting to see a firewire (1394a) connection. That means your PC has to have a firewire card or connector installed. From what I can determine, the Dazzle DVC accepts RCA & S-video inputs, but outputs only via USB, hence why Vegas does not recognise it as a device as such.

If you do have a firewire card and an old DV video camera that accepts an RCA (analog) input and has a firewire connector output (both on the camera body), you can use the camera as a ‘pass-through’ device to convert the analogue input signal from a VCR to a digital video signal via the firewire connection. Vegas will recognise the camera in this case, and all you will need to do is start the VCR, and when you see the video appear in the capture preview window, you can manually start (record) the video stream in Vegas. This method will give you the best possible capture quality. You don’t need to have tape in the camera, and you can record long VHS tapes this way.

Note that some DV cameras that have an analogue input don’t permit pass-through, but all that means is you record to DV tape first ‘in camera’, rewind when you are done, and then playback and capture in Vegas. You are limited to 83 minutes (if you are using Panasonic 83 minute tapes). You might be able to use long play recording on the camera, but that reduces the bit rate and thus, quality.

If you don’t have a firewire connection to do a passthrough, the DVC100 is your best option, but that means you have to use Pinnacle to ‘capture’. If you have an option to capture as AVI, choose that, but be aware it is around 11 GB per hour of video. You can capture as MPEG2, and I would avoid MPEG1.

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]

One day the devices will support NTFS :-). The DN-60 Datavideo recorder I use does support FAT and NTFS, and I have currently formatted it as NTFS to get uninterrupted recordings. The downside is that the device needs 4 AA batteries 🙁