[Norman Black]

You can also do a search in the project media window.
Search for
Media FX, greater than, 0

You can then save that search as a smart bin which will always show you your media files that have at least one FX applied.

[Norman Black]

[Sorin Nicu] “None of the newer video cards is supported fully by Vegas. They are stuck in 2010 with their software and they keep raking up the $$$. The best cards that can fully use the Vegas capabilities are the Fermi generation (on nVidia) or HD69xx (on AMD).”

One must be specific. The Vegas video engine, effects and compositing support the newer cards just fine.

The Mainconcept AVC encoder is the one that is hard coded to specific GPU architectures. The Sony AVC encoder does get benefit on my newer GPU, but Sony AVC uses the GPU for so little it does not really matter.

I was one who got bitten by the GPU thing a couple of years ago. I had an AMD 5850 and the MC AVC encoder was quite fast. Then I got my current AMD 7950 and MC AVC does not work with it. I had posts in the Sony forum about this. For AMD I dumped the executables and found the hard coded architecture limitation.

As stated, the video engine works very well and things that could not perform fully on my 5850 do perform better on my 7950.

[Norman Black]

The Vegas help for the effect states things better than I could.

[Norman Black]

Secondary color corrector.

[Norman Black]

[Aleksey Tarasov] “Try Twixtor or Respeedr…”

+1 on this. I have Respeedr.

The OP is looking for a 20x slow down (.5 -> 10). This is asking a lot from any software.

[Norman Black]

I have PS CS6 and I do not see any “color corrector” plug-in.
I see Color balance, Replace color, Match color, selective color.

Color balance in Vegas is much like color balance in Photoshop.
Color corrector, HSL adjust, LAB adjust, color curves in Vegas are for general global balance.
Secondary color corrector is for adjusting a specific color (range).
Color match tries to match one media clip to another.

[Norman Black]

I use Medium FOV and don’t bother with removing lens distortion. It is low enough in that mode. You should not see any loss in resolution.

My biggest reason for using Medium is that Wide is just too wide. Everything gets too small unless you are right on top of it.

[Norman Black]

Here is an example command script I use for frameserving to ffmpeg. It encodes to AVC with x264. x264 is faster than other encoders and also give better quality at the same time. I also have scripts that encode to ProRes. ffmpeg encodes just about anything.

One of these days I will write a utility program with a nice GUI to do this and avoid the separate scripts. For my use it is all just fine.

There are some assumptions in the script. That the output is going to a specific folder and Debugmode Frameserver is using a an AVI signpost file of a given fixed name.

I know about the Handbrake setup someone did. Reading that discussion, I decided to use ffmpeg because it supports frameserver directly without all the psuedo filesystem drivers and it also supports encoding to ProRes, DNxHD, XDCAM and most other things one might possibly desire.

My email address is a gmail address “@gmail.com” and my username is normanpcn. I am more than happy to give you help using ffmpeg frameserving. Then again, as per JR, maybe we could/should create a separate post so all can see it.

start of example script “encode crf25.cmd”

REM @echo off

title encode crf25

cd d:\renders
d:

echo AviSource(“server.avi”) > server.avs

c:\systools\ffmpeg32\bin\ffmpeg.exe -threads 0 -i server.avs -c:v libx264 -preset medium -profile:v high -me_method umh -crf 25 -colorspace bt709 -color_primaries bt709 -color_trc bt709 -pix_fmt yuv420p -bufsize 40M -maxrate 40M -c:a libmp3lame -qscale:a 2 -chunk_size 64K output.mp4

del server.avs

pause

REM alternate command options
REM -vf scale=out_color_matrix=bt709

REM (mp3 160k vbr) -c:a libmp3lame -qscale:a 4
REM (mp3 192k vbr) -c:a libmp3lame -qscale:a 2
REM (aac 192k vbr) -strict experimental -c:a aac -q:a 2.4
REM (aac 192k) -strict experimental -c:a aac -b:a 192k

[Norman Black]

[Seth Kopchu] ” I was just told that .mxf will open in Vegas, and here I am, looking at a .mxf that won’t open. “

Only certain MXF files will open in Vegas. The file you encoded probably does not conform to that spec. Only HDCAM SR, XDCAM and Panasonic P2 MXF files work. MXF is generic and can contain just about any codec in existence.

When you report that some file does not open, please include a MediaInfo report from the file in your post. Otherwise we have no idea what you are trying to use.

[Norman Black]

You have a levels problem.

Stills from a camera are full range levels and video needs levels to be in studio range, aka video levels. Use the Sony levels effect, Computer to Studio RGB, preset to adjust your stills as necessary.

Note that this happens often with video as well. Many cameras output video in full range. Commonly DSLR and digicams and GoPros.