Paul Goelz
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Later that same night…..
I thought I had things under control but I’m now confused. The camera original footage (Canon HF100) as far as I know is 1920 X 1080 60i. Media player shows it as 1920 X 1080. However, Vegas properties claims it is 1440 X 1080. If I set the project properties to 1440 X 1080 with 1.3333:1 pixels, the image is compressed horizontally. If I set it to square pixels, the image is not compressed but it is letterboxed (black above and below).
If I set the project to 1920 X 1080 and square pixels (what I think the file really is), the image is perfect even though it does not agree with the file properties per Vegas.
Properties also shows the file as MPEG-2 Transport Stream (MTS) and does not show what CODEC was used although I know it is h.264. Is the transport stream format perhaps why it is being re-encoded prior to burning a BluRay?
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My experience is limited to Vegas 9 and Premiere Elements 4 and 7. However, I re-read your original post and you say you have issues renedering to MPEG. From what original format? The resource issues I have had were editing 1080i h.264. That seems to stress either system, but Vegas less than Premiere. All of my original footage is 1080i h.264, so I can’t comment on something less stressful like MPEG.
Paul
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FWIW, I came to Vegas from Premiere Elements for the very reason you want to go back. On my XP Pro 32 bit 4GB RAM system, Premiere had serious resource issues when editing clips or projects longer than about 20 minutes. I found Vegas quite a bit better but I could still crash it with large projects. When I switched to Vista 64 bit, things got quite a bit better still.
The issue I think is that although you have 4GB of RAM, a 32 bit OS can only deal with 3.2GB, and splits that 50/50 between the application and the system. It is the same with virtual memory….. I think the most it can hand out to an application is 2GB.
This gets a little better with a 64 bit OS, since it can deal with more than 4GB RAM, but unless your application is 64 bit, it still is limited to 4GB max.
At least that is how I understand it.
Paul
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This is admittedly a long shot, but it happened to me so……
Make sure your hard drive is OK. I just had a situation where my Seagate 7200.11 1TB drive (known for their issues) went offline during long read/write sessions. The data is all there and it works fine for shorter tasks. But it would go brain dead during a DVD prepare. It passes all normal diagnostices so it would have been hard to spot except that I was already suspicious of it from what I have read on the net.
Just a thought….
Paul
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I too have been attempting to put a slide show together and had unpredictable results applying transitions to all photos at once. For one thing, there was no plain old crossfade available and all of the available transitions were too distracting when used through the entire slide show.
I ended up reading the HELP and found that a far easier way to do it is simply go to OPTIONS > PREFERENCES > EDITING and set “New still image length” to whaever you want the total duration of each image to be. Then, check AUTMATICALLY “Automatically overlap multiple selected media” and adjust the “Cut-to-overlap conversion” parameter to the desired crossfade duration. Each still image added to the time line after setting these parameters will overlap by the “Cut-to-overlap” duration. The overlap is interpreted as a simple smooth crossfade.
Paul
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Thanks but I’m done buying software for now 😉 I came to Vegas because I discovered that my former editor (Adobe Premiere Elements 7) did a truly horrible job rendering HD to DVD. I like Vegas and would like to stick with it. I’ve even gotten comfortable with DVDA after a brief struggle 😉 I find it hard to believe that Sony would market Vegas Studio 9 with DVDA 4.5 when it is clearly aimed at HD users and says it will burn a BD disc but doesn’t specifically state that you can’t do menus. That is very close to false advertising. I can only hope that the next release is affordable to upgrade. Or better still, just allow an upgrade to a “Studio” version of DVDA 5.
In the mean time, Premiere Elements 7 seems to do an OK job with HD assets rendered to a BD disc so if I need to burn a BD with menus I can still go that route.
Paul
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Hmmmm….. turns out that I DO have one other question. Vegas Studio 9 will suit me just fine but it looks like DVD Architect 5 is what I REALLY want…. but you can’t buy it by itself? If so, that is a shame. I downloaded the trial version of DVDA 5 and it indeed does what I need. It can do HD Bluray menus where 4.5 cannot. But clicking the BUY link only offers to sell you Vegas Pro and that is unfortunately way more money than I want to throw at this.
Paul
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You have to manually create chapter points here as well unless you did this in Movie Studio already and rendered with embedded markers in which case they will automatically get imported from the markers in Movie Studio.
Bummer! What a silly function to omit. I can live with it, but it makes quickie “vacation video” projects more difficult.
Actually they don’t affect the render. These settings are for how Vegas displays the footage while editing. It is a good idea to keep them the same as your render format so that there are no surprises when you render but you can have a 60i project and render to 24p if you’d like.
Thanks, I found that answer in the newbie forum shortly after I posted here…. and discovered that was probably where I should have posted in the first place 😉
I don’t have the Movie Studio version but I do know that DVD Architect Studio cannot handle HD/Blu-ray. I believe your only options is to render a Blu-ray disc directly from the timeline with the menus option: Tools | Burn Disc | Blu-ray Disc… (I think Movie Studio has this option)
Thanks, I missed that one. Yes, it looks like you can render to Bluray in either MP4 or MPEG2 including chapter markers in Vegas Studio….. just no menu.
OK, that does it for me…. I think I can fly solo.
Thanks,
Paul