[Nigel O’neill]

Doh!

🙂

[Nigel O’neill]

The timecode FX is still in Vegas 11 pro. I just used it extensively in a speed skating shoot. It is on the Video FX tab. The look for Timecode. Drag and drop the timecode FX on an blank text title from the media generators tab (use the one with a transparent background). When you stretch the title, it automatically gives you the time in hh:mm:ss& frames (no hundredths of a second).

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 11 (x32/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 suspect you will hear crickets from Vegas support until four things happen:

a) Windows 8 is officially launched as a main stream product
b) Sony endorses Windows 8 as a supported and tested platform for Vegas
c) Nvidia releases official drivers for Windows 8
d) Sony releases a Windows 8 update release for SVP 11 or new version i.e. version 12. In recent years, Sony has typically released major versions of SVP around about September or October of any given year.

Until then, any issues you experience are a case of caveat emptor.

On the plus side, at least your system is not blue screening :-). It sounds like the video driver is self-recovering.

As to why it is not rendering, it may be o/s related, or even CODEC related.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 11 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

Thanks John. I didn’t mean to imply Ultimate S was at fault. I am 100% certain SVP is at fault. I

[Nigel O’neill]

Thanks John

Didn’t know these videos existed until now 🙂

[Nigel O’neill]

MXF definitely works with SVP 10 and 11.

[Nigel O’neill]

Ron

I have added UltimateS buttons on the main tool bar, such as ‘cut to’ and ‘fade to’ cameras.

I have noticed that the buttons sometimes disappear in 64 bit SVP in versions 10 and 11, but only when I use another application such as Excel or word for an extended period of time, say 10 minutes, and then return to SVP. The Ultimate S buttons are still there because if I hover the mouse, the tool tips appear and the still buttons work, but it is a bit of guess work as they have lost their icons. Restarting Vegas always restore the buttons.

I have not reported it to Vasst as I consider it trivial, plus the fix is simple. SVP crashes often enough to restore the buttons anyway 🙂

[Nigel O’neill]

Ron

I do what Roger does, placing cameras on a separate track, but I don’t split all the video and audio tracks and group them together like some other products do. I like to keep the video and audio tracks together.

I will sync all the tracks, and then using ripple editing and cuts across all tracks, remove the obviously unwanted material such as duly long breaks between scenes.

I then colour correct at the event level after enabling Quadcam in Ultimate S so I can see things side-by-side on a large Sony TV which I know and trust to be ‘true’, make the cuts I want, and then use Quadcam to assemble the master track.

The way I colour grade is the reverse of what a Cow Leader recommends, and it is suggested that my work flow is quite time intensive. Be that the case, I am self-taught in all my editing, and picked SVP because it is intuitive. Unfortunately, SVP training is no longer offered anywhere in Australia, and whatever other training for plug-ins I use is either by reading the manual or watching Youtube from some other amateur. Whilst manuals show technique, they cannot show specific context, which is where the creativity of an editor comes in. Yeah, I could order the training DVD’s for SVP, but as a hobbyist whose hobby just covers my interest through doing lots of community work in video and the occasional paid job, some of that training stuff stretches the budget a bit. Sorry for going OT. Time to et back on topic.

If I need titles, I add them right at the top, and if I need audio background music, it goes in right at the bottom most tracks.

Lastly, when the vision is the way I like it, I then pay attention to the sound, and adjust as required, which includes ducking the audio manually.

I will usually do a high speed run through of the entire project and tweak and tidy up. I am pretty meticulous in the edit, so it is usually things like a cut not working, or sound levels not matching up. I edit solely with good quality head phones and get good results, plus it does not drive my family nuts hearing me scrubbing over the timeline constantly until 2AM in the morning. I do this whilst holding a full-time managerial job in Government IT.

I have used the above techniques to generate some pretty impressive videos for high school graduations, based on parent and student feedback which I deliberately seek out. I did some work for a school a couple years ago and they loved it. They chose to use someone who a great salesperson and was cheaper the following year. He cut corners which including missing out his intended audience he was there to video. I heard that you could hear crickets in the sales booth later on. They have come back to me.

Before embarking on any project and actually commencing any work flow, I watch a lot of videos from Youtube as well as samples of other peoples work beforehand to work out what is appealing from a sound and vision perspective, and aim to reproduce that. I use it to help visualise and thus plan my shots, be it a stage production, high school graduation MTV-style of video or wedding. I learned how to edit weddings and graduations this way and have had great success when I apply the techniques I have observed.

Whilst technique is important, it is no good when you cannot connect with your audience, and I custom-tailor my editing style to suit. I once did a first year christening video which included a photo montage interleaved with footage from the actual birth set to music. When I heard that I had reduced the mother to tears, I was very concerned, until I was corrected that it was tears of joy and emotion that I had connected with.

I may not be the most technically competent or work-flow efficient videographer, but for me it is about delivering the product that the client wants. How I get there is immaterial to them.

[Nigel O’neill]

[Hsu Chaw-Bin] “Oh well, I’ll go back to 32 bits then”

You don’t need to re-install Windows. Just install 32 bit Vegas. Vegas versions happily co-exist.

[Nigel O’neill]

Sorry Amith, i meant reinstall Vegas, but try what Steve suggests first.