[Nigel O’neill]

[Graham Bernard] “John, your replies should be made ESSENTIAL reading at the top of ANY Video forum.”

Both him and Dave Haynie 🙂

[Nigel O’neill]

[Thomas Felton] “What you see is what you should get.”

Not entirely true. If you monitor is poorly or not calibrated, you colors will be ‘off’.

Color correction is unavoidable. In most video situations, color temperature will vary and affect your white balance. I do a lot of theatre work and white balance for tungsten. Occasionally, the lighting guy throws in some LED which throws the manual white balance off.

[Thomas Felton] “apply the Levels filter and select computer rgb to studio rgb”

This only works if you are using a properly calibrated monitor, otherwise its a bit of a crap shoot.

I don’t think I have ever done an edit where I have not done some sort of color grading.

[Thomas Felton] “I’m getting Adobe Premiere lol”

Enjoy Premiere. I suspect we may see you back in a few months 🙂

[Nigel O’neill]

Thanks. What really peeves me is users of this forum who think this is an official support forum of Sony’s. It is not. It is community supported, but perhaps they don’t realise it.

I have to admit the advice I get here is tons better than the official Sony support forum.

[Nigel O’neill]

I have noticed that mixing older HDV cameras such as the Z1P or FX1 with the nextgen cameras such as an NX5, EX1 or EX3 can be problematic, even if you white balance them side by side. For one, they have have different sensors (CCD vs CMOS), and in the latter cameras, the operators can change the picture profile or gamma of the image. In general, I have found the skin tones to me more natural in modern cameras out of the box, but blacks in dark scenes can be a little brown. I have found it quite difficult to match DSLR footage with HDV or AVCHD footage shot on typical handicams. The lenses on most handicams cannot match the cinematic quality of prime lenses.

[Nigel O’neill]

[Paul Gregory] “One link from a scene selection menu plays the 2nd scene rather than the first & so far I’can’t see where I went wrong”

If you enable the Navigation Tool in Vegas, you will be able to see your linkages. From the Edit menu, choose Editing Tool, and then choose Navigation Tool to view and edit information about which menu button is selected when you use the Up, Down, Left, and Right buttons on your player remote control. You should be able to work out what went wrong.

Search DVDA help for Navigation Tool or Editing Toolbar for further information.

[Paul Gregory] “quality of the Scene selection menu’s & their thumbnails is terrible”

I typically don’t use the thumbnails, and simply use text links.

[Nigel O’neill]

[Rick Qi] “That’s really shit if compared by Adobe’s.”

Hey Rick, if you think Adobe is so great, why are you even using Vegas? I moved from Adobe and Avid liquid because it was so unstable, to the point I could not deliver a project or more than 1 occasion. Vegas has never failed me once, and I have done 100’s of projects. Yes, it does occasionally crash, but show me software that doesn’t.

BTW, all the contributors of this forum are volunteers. Abusive tones and rude language is the fastest way to get alienated and ignored. Maybe it is tolerated in your generation or culture, but here, on this forum, we treat others professionally and with respect.

[Rick Qi] “The default setting is 8-bit just because it requires a weak hardware to work.”

As John said, 32-bit is only for people working with 10-bit YUV video which you are not. You should be using 8 bit. This is good advice from a professional who has been working in the business for many years.

[Nigel O’neill]

[John Rofrano] “Try rendering the same thing with GPU acceleration turned off.”

I think Sony needs to pony up and state unequivocally which video cards absolutely, positively work with SVP 11/12 with their CUDA implementation. I have seen many posts to rendering issues, of which the ‘fix’ is to disable GPU acceleration. From previous posts I know you have a work station grade video card, but not all of us are in the business full-time to install a component that can cost several thousand dollars, so we get a GTX570 or similar ‘gaming card’ which Sony says is compatible with Vegas and CUDA, but in reality is not. Sounds like a bit of false advertising.

John, please not that this is not a personal attack on you! It’s just frustrating as a consumer/hobby editor to try and do the right thing by buying gear that Sony says is compatible, only to learn later on that may not be the case.

This is almost like Windows 7 drivers: certified versus compatible. The former is guaranteed to work, the latter may or may not. I am wondering if the video cards and drivers tested by Sony fall into similar categories. Can we get such a definitive list from Sony?

[Nigel O’neill]

Thayalan, it’s good to be appreciated once in a while. Thanks!

[Nigel O’neill]

[John Rofrano] “it builds them if it sees a WMV file just in case you might want to include the audio late”

Looks like Sony is building predictive/ artificial intelligence capabilities into Vegas 🙂

[Nigel O’neill]

Go to control panel, programs and features and see if K-lite or any other CODEC pack is installed. If so, remove it/them as they upset Vegas.

Before you do, download and install gspot and inspect the file. It will tell you what CODECs were used to create the file and whether the CODECs to read the file are present/installed on your system. You can then selectively install the required missing CODEC. Be advised that this does not always work. I once was given an AVI file that used the 0xfffe Wave Format Extensible CODEC, which I selectively installed, but Vegas still did not read the audio from it. From what I’ve been told, 0xfffe should only be used for 5.1 surround audio headers. Vegas (and many other programs) are not expecting to see this in a stereo audio stream.