Pat Keough
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This is VERY good news. When I first got the email from Sony reporting the sale, I thought it was the final nail in the coffin. Sony’s Catalyst suite is a joke right now. I couldn’t get any info out of them regarding Vegas so I bought a BMCC primarily for the Resolve license. I love the power of resolve but having come from a Vegas background, I find myself frustrated with the edit portion just like premiere.
In any case, when you guys release a new version I will certainly demo it and if it isn’t a turd, we will buy it. THANK YOU for promising not to go the subscription route! I will never pay into that business model.
Anyhow, as far as I am concerned, there is only one aspect of current Vegas that urgently needs attention and that is GPU acceleration. The current stability during edit and preview I can almost live with but I cannot render out a project of any substantial length without random render crashing when GPU is enabled.
I will also agree that the ProType text editor chugs miserably when you add shadow or other effects.
Anyhow, thank you to Magix for apparently not just acquiring a name and customer database. Vegas users are very loyal for good reason.
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I know this may be a silly question but do you have the XviD codec installed?
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Well, way to admit you were wrong with class and humility. (I’m not using sarcasm) I was talking about your screen grab. It looks like you were playing at a costume party or something and the guy in the center in the gunslinger costume with the light rays shooting from behind him (from the best (Auto) preview) looks pretty cool.
Well, at least now that you are seeing what you will get in the preview window. Unfortunately, that light rays effect in Vegas 10 is not that great. I was just messing with the Sony Rays effect in Vegas 12 and was wondering why you were having so much trouble until I went back to 10 and used Sony Light Rays. Now I understand. I know it doesn’t help your situation but the effect is MUCH improved in Vegas Pro 12 and I’m guessing it would be the same in Studio 12.
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Well Mike: that and your screen grabs pretty much showed the same thing happening and why. Not too sure how they could have been missed that….
Pretty cool screen grab from the music video though. Kinda makes me think of the Steven King Dark Tower books.
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Mike’s suggestion is not to be so quickly dismissed or even potentialy ridiculed. Everyone seems to be latching onto the “Best” portion of the preview settings and not the “auto” as he pointed out.
Your project is full 1920×1080 25p BUT your preview is only at 480×270 25p. I’m not saying that it is the ultimate reason or that there is not another problem but dismissing his help without acctually understanding what he is both saying and actually illustrating by saying again that you DO have it set to best is not the way to go.
Maybe try Best (FULL) and then come back with your irritation that someone couldn’t solve your problem for free for you. Then shoot a ticket to Sony Support once you are sure it is not just a setting.
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Can you explain what you mean by down? Darker or actually lower on the screen?
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Or running Windows Media Encoder
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What other cams do they have available or do they offer an external recorder to go along with the AF-100?
Yes, the Af-100 records to AVCHD wich is good ‘ole 8bit 4:2:0. Without an external recorder, you would be better served with a hacked GH2 and a fast SD card. Do they have any old HVX-200a or HPX-170s there? I don’t know what your final product is for but those two may resolve enough detail for you and still have the 4:2:2 color.
As far as the shallow DOF: It could be problematic if you don’t have enough lighting to stop down when needed.
The HPX-250 would have been nice indeed.
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From what I understand, the analog out on the S-video port has no sub sampling. Of course the draw back is that it is now an analog signal and the Chroma information is combined in S-video. For keying, the lack of sub sampling will probably outweigh the degredation from going to analog. The only experience I have is from hooking a DVX-100 to a Tricaster via S-video and it looked great.
If you already have the ability to capture from S-Video at 4:2:2 or better, do a quick test of the same scene on DV and S-video capture and see what you think. Then let us know…
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If the internal mic is recording good enough for what you need, then that is good news because you sure can’t beat the convenience factor.
As far as the external Mic: I am going to assume you have Win 7.
Plug the external Mic in.
Right clisk the little speaker icon on your task bar next to the date and time.
Select “recording Devices” from the menu that pops up.
You should see probably two microphone lisings in the box that will pop up. Determine which is the external mic. Hopefully they are labeled as such.
Double Click the icon for the external Mic.
Click the “levels” tab on the box that pops up.
From there, you can boost the level of the microphone untill it is usable. If it is already turned up as far as it can go, you have some other issue. (well, that is kinda obvious lol)