[Nigel O’neill]

Yeah, if it is a mostly static scene, VBR works really well and you can get 2+ hours of footage on a DVD. If it was a football game, it would turn out terrible and blocky with motion artifacts that are obvious.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (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]

Jack

You can control the data rate when you render. Select the template as usual and then click on Custom. On the Video tab you can set the data rate to be VBR or CBR. You can set it to CBR of 8,000,000.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (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]

Jean

You cannot open a version 10 veg file in Vegas 9. It may be possible to do a timeline to timeline copy from version 10 to 9, but I have not tried it.

Adrian

Are you using 10e? I recently had issues with a 10c project that I was able to successfully render using 10e/11.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (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]

Matt, have you installed any Codec packs lately? They do not socialise well with Vegas at all.

Just as a test, do a render to an m2t file or something other than your current format. Do the out of sync issues still crop up?

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (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]

Byron, you could try rolling back your drivers to the ones Windows shipped with i.e. take it right back. If that works, I would leave it at that.

If it does not, I would stick to WHQL certified drivers obtained from manufacturers web site. I would avoid obtaining them from Bit Torrent sites or similar, and I would avoid beta releases.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (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 do a lot of live work and use a LIBEC ZC-3DV remote LANC controller on the FX1, Z1P and NX5 cameras. It should work on the NX7. It’s pretty basic, but it’s cheap and was all I needed. It does support variable speed zooming, and the LIBEC supports Panasonic cameras at the flick of a switch.

I don’t actually use the zoom rocker on my camera anymore, but if I do, I use the zoom ring on the camera for more organic zooms.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (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]

You might want to consider Vegas Pro 11. Early versions of 10 (up to 10c I think) did not offer proper support for NXCAM footage, which was the source of all my grief.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (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]

That kinda defeats the main benefit of upgrading to Vegas 11. I think Sony has some answering to do.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (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]

If the AVI files are DIVX or XVID, that’s where the problem most likely is. Vegas supports the Microsoft AVI specification, but DIVX/XVID are variations to that which can cause issues with Vegas.

I would need to know how the mpg files were created to comment.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (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]

Dave, HDV has 3 times the quality of DV to begin with. Even if you record in HDV, you should edit in HDV. The quality is noticeably better when being output to DVD (which is SD). If you need to output to blu-ray, you just simply re-render the project using the appropriate DVDA template from Vegas.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6