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Nigel O’neill
May 19, 2011 at 4:01 am in reply to: Duplicating Video Fx

How about selecting ‘copy’ on the source event and then selecting ‘paste event attributes’ on the target event?

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Nigel O’neill
May 18, 2011 at 10:38 am in reply to: Vegas 10 Constant Crashing

You could have a look through event viewer and look for entries with red flags next to them. Type ‘eventvwr’ after clicking start > run. Look for video driver or disk i/o errors.

From what you have described, the error might not actually have time to write out to the log file (in my case, but I was able to see the blue screen message as it stayed there for about 20 seconds. My particular issue took several months to figure out).

You might want to see if Device Manager is reporting any conflicts, usually shown by a yellow triangle and an exclamation mark. It could indicate a driver conflict issue causing the restarts.

You may also want to try uninstalling Vegas, restarting your PC, then reinstalling it. I notice you have installed 10c, so you might want to give 10d a go.

Lastly, XP is pretty buggy. Since going to Windows 7 x64, I have not had one spontaneous reboot. I briefly dabbled with Vista x64, but that ran so slowly and occasionally crashed.

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Nigel O’neill
May 18, 2011 at 10:28 am in reply to: System Tweaks?

You could go for solid state disk drives. That will give you one heck of a performance boost.

A recently released high end ATI or NVidia video card with 400+ CUDA cores can improve rendering times with certain video file formats.

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Nigel O’neill
May 18, 2011 at 10:27 am in reply to: max quality render settings DV AVI to MPEG-2

The templates are there for a reason and generally do a good job.

You can increase the bit rate, but some DVD players may not play your discs.

Even though you are editing in HD or HDV, if you are delivering a standard definition DVD, upping the bit rate beyond specs will not make much of a visual difference.

If you are delivering in blu-ray, use the blu-ray template. You will be amazed at the difference.

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Nigel O’neill
May 18, 2011 at 3:41 am in reply to: seperating Multicam

Roger

Or you could look into Vasst Ultimate S 4.x or Vasst Infiniticam. I use Vasst extensively, not only for its multicam (4 cameras) support, but also for its montage, lower thirds, film looks, MotoFX, audio tools, batch rendering and a range of other nifty features.

I don’t work for Vasst, in case you were wondering: just know a good tool when I use one!

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Nigel O’neill
May 18, 2011 at 3:30 am in reply to: Vegas 10 Constant Crashing
[Constant and unpredictable spontaneous reboots of my system, which is a core i7 running XP pro, both during playback and rendering.]

If your system is actually restarting, it could be an indication of one of the following:
a cooling problem with your CPU
a silent blue screen which you are not seeing because your Startup & Recovery settings on System Failure are set to ‘Automatically Restart’ (it’s in control panel under System properties > Advanced > Startup & Recovery [Settings]

The blue screen (if there is now one appearing) might indicate where there problem lies.

On my old XP editing system the NVIDIA SATA drivers, specifically NVATA.SYS was causing instant reboots under load. I simply uninstalled the NVIDIA drivers I had recently obtained from NVIDIA and rolled the SATA drivers in device manager right back to the ones that XP was shipped with back in 2001. The crashes stopped.