[Nigel O’neill]

Charles

Just be aware that RAID 0 (striping) offers no redundancy but offers excellent write performance. If you lose 1 drive in a RAID 0 configuration, you lose EVERYTHING on both drives.

I typically RAID 1 (mirror) my projects drive as it offers redundancy, plus RAID 1 offers good read performance. RAID 0 offer excellent write performance, and if I lose 1 drive, I can still regenerate from the source (projects drive) drive, which also holds all my media files.

With SATA 3(6 Gbit/s) drives now becoming mainstream with supporting motherboards, the performance gap between SSD and mechanical drives is narrowing. Furthermore, modern drives offer more platters and read heads and lower latency than drives 5 years ago did.

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]

Thanks Mike

I did mean component video – that’s what I get for reading and responding to the forum during siesta time.

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]

Oops, made a typo:

I think Lars question was about doing a mass pan/crop of the images.

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

I think Lars question was about doing a mass pan/crop of the images before the images are imported. I think Vasst Ultimate S Pro can do this BUT I think it is a static/fixed zoom or pan. I am not at my editing station at the moment.

I believe what Lars is asking is whether it is possible to do a gradual zoom or pan, with the next image zooming/panning in slightly than the previous.

If in doubt, you can always trial Ultimate S Pro from Vaast for free.

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 I understand the issue correctly, you can no longer see the pan/crop handles and guide frames.

Simply click anywhere on the bar at the bottom of your screenshot titled Position to get the guidelines back.

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]

Laptop

If you are running on a laptop and are using Windows 7, the default cooling policy is ‘passive’. I had this issue with my Acer laptop that kept on shutting down during renders. Once I changed it to ‘Active’ it was fine, but it does mean the laptop consumes more battery power. But, it renders!

If this is the case, “System cooling policy” is a power setting item for Processor under the Power options of Windows 7 -> change plan setting -> advanced power setting -> Processor power management.

PC

As suggested by John, rendering the with the side panel off and a big electric fan usually works

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 would not try to do the entire wedding in one edit, but instead break it up into ‘church’, ‘reception’, ‘interviews’, ‘highlights’ etc and have separate veg files. If you have changes, you then need only render out the changed project.

It does make calculations more tricky when you start using VBR rendering for long projects, but a simple spreadsheet can assist in tracking durations.

I use Vasst Ultimate S Pro 4.x for multi-cam editing. It is much more flexible that the multi-cam tool that ships with SVP.

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 you still have an old DV camera lying around, you can try this:

Using a component video cable, I hook up my VHS player to my old DV camera that supports pass-through straight to firewire. I then hit play on the VHS player and manually hit record in the Vegas capture utility.

[Nigel O’neill]

Looks like deinterlacing issue. Try setting Deinterlacing Method to blend fields

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 could also render them out separately and then use DVDA to create separate discs or discs with unique chapters, with each chapter being a rendered out file 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