Norman Black
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[Dave Carpenter] “Guess I’ll just have to tell my client I can’t edit his stuff until I can update. :(“
Proxy will work just fine. I have used the Vegas smart proxy with some 1080p60 GoPro footage. It is quite transparent to use. The proxies are big with 60p stuff and smart proxy. A more classic proxy method it a little more work but you control the proxy format.
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[Carlos Silva] “I’ve been recording videos in AVCHD (.mts). Since the files are huge I intend to save storage/space by converting the files to other format/container (keeping the original bitrate and resolution). “
If you keep the same bitrate then the new files will be the same size as the original.
AVC/H.264 is quite editable. It does take more compute power to decode than mpeg-2 for example. As long as your CPU can work with your source files you should be fine.
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The Vegas AVC decoder is not the best and 1080p60 footage will really tax the system and you need something fast.
I am not stating that is the problem, but rather the AVC decoder is a known issue with GoPro 1080p60 footage and it could be a problem with other camera files as well. Either way 1080p60 material is a workout for your PC.
You might be on the razor edge of functioning smoothly or not.
Transcoding to something easier to decode or proxy files are possible workarounds.
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[Steve Rhoden] ” The main question here is… Why have you gone backwards
from using Vegas Pro to using Movie Studio?”Or at least have MS13 Platinum. Then with advanced mode you have the normal Vegas user interface and most of features you are used to.
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“Slices” does not appear to be in the help file.
Just use 1 for this unless you have a very specific reason for more than one. Such as level 4.1 Blu-ray.
Slices divide each frame into X number of independent parts. They can be encoded and decoded independently, but you lose some potential ability to compress the video better.
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Here is the original thread for reference.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/980186If all you have is simple edit mode and it does not have the group/ungroup features then your only option I can think of is what I stated in my original reply.
Add the media to the timeline as video or audio only. To expand on that, here is a link to the Movie Studio Help file show how this can be done. Read the section titled, “Adding multiple files and creating events”
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Your Media FX is on a still image. Still images have no internal time, they are static. Media FX keyframe on the media time and not the event or timeline time.
If you want to keyframe the effect, then put the effect on the event and not the media.
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No there is no way to copy/paste media fx. You can do this with events using copy and then paste event attributes. This only works on event level FX.
Other than this the easiest way to get the FX on multiple media is to save your settings in an FX as a preset, call it temp, and then select that preset when adding the FX to an event.
If you are adding a sequence of FX then you can save a temp filter package and add that filter package to each media file.
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[John Rofrano] “[Norman Black] “Sony AVC is about 2x faster than Mainconcept AVC at 1 pass. You might try that one.”
Are you talking about CPU Only renders?”Yes. The OP has a Kepler GPU and the Mainconcept AVC CUDA may not support it well, just like what goes on with newer AMD GPUs and MC AVC OpenCL.
That being considered Sony AVC will be faster than MC AVC since MC AVC will always be CPU at that point. Sony AVC supports newer GPUs fine but it only uses GPU for motion estimation as far as I can tell, so only a small speed boost.
IF MC AVC supports your GPU on CUDA/OpenCL then that should definitely be faster.
Sadly I remember the days when MC AVC OpenCL ran at light speed when I have my AMD 5850 GPU. I now have a 7950 and MC AVC does not support that.
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[Steve Pas] “Anyone with any ideas on how to get the render quality closer to the preview? Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.”
Use a higher bitrate.
Virtually all file outputs are lossy compressed formats. The lower the bitrate, and thus smaller file, the more loss you get. This is often what trips up people uploading to Youtube/Vimeo since they always re-encode your upload to a bitrate which may not preserve you video qualy as well you you would like.