Preston Mullins
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Thanks guys, I actually dropped them in Paint of all programs. I resaved them as png and lost the trasparency. However, I was able to key out the white background and it turned out great.
Thanks for the suggestions!!
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Yes, I have the NX5U. I agree that the housing is not cheap plastic, which I never suggested it was “cheap.” And I never use the internal mic, I switched it over to test the noise issue I was having.
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Danny, thanks for the GSpont link, I’m about to try it out. I have another question maybe you can help me with. I’ve never used my camera for anything but web videos. I’m about to accept a gig for a guy who wants me to shoot an interview for him. He’s not very familiar with AVCHD, as am I since I just bought my NXCAM. So, what would make it easier for him; for me to hand him the SDHC card I shot the video on, or to dump the files to his external hard drive. I’m not sure what editing software he uses, but it’s video for a documentary intended for television. Giving him the card would be easier for me, but if I have to dump the files, I would simply import them to my computer’s hardrive via the Content Management Utility, then copy past the files to his hard drive, right?
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Okay, good. I did that for my latest set of videos. I also saved them as .mov MPE4 this time instead of .mov Animation. Maybe that is what made them jumpy?
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I can’t thank you enough for taking the time to tell me these things. I don’t think you are being mean, just very helpful. I need all the constructive criticism I can get.
-preston.
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Thanks, Ron. I basically needed to post my reel for a news job here in Las Vegas so the station could view my work online. I realize that Creative Cow is probably not the site I should have used, being that it seems geared for (for lack of better words) more creative and artistic gigs far different from news.
However, I’m glad I stumbled upon this site. I can tell it has a wealth of info. that I need to know. The fact that Douglas Spotted Eagle is a forum host here is awesome. He did a training session on Sony Vegas at my old station in Portland, OR a few months ago. It was great.
Anyway, I’m just stoked to me here.
-preston.
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Oops, sorry guys. I guess I have a lot to learn about online demo reels. Ron, I will definitely shorten it. Am I allowed to show bits from my AOL videos as long as you can’t see the watermark or the AOL logo? Also, I did not see a message regarding the length in my email, I may have erased it on accident. Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it!
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That depends on if the playback is CPU bound or I/O bound. If it’s I/O bound, it’s your hard drives that can’t feed the big file fast enough so the Core i7 doesn’t mater.
Forgive me, but I’m not very clear on what I/O bound means.
Actually it does not make sense. I assume AOL.com wants video for the internet so why would they ask you to use an interlaced DV format? You can certainly do this in Vegas. It supports DV/DVCPro NTSC. You just have to make a template for it.You might be better off figuring out why they had interlace issues with your last movie because the Animation codec will give you much higher quality than DV. (I assume you are shooting SD and not HD)
What are they going to do with this video? Are they going to edit it further? If this is the final delivery format, why not render to MPEG4/h.264 for the internet?
I do shoot these videos in HD. They are for AOL’s ‘Pawnation’ section of their website. They are called ‘Pet On The Street’ videos. Not sure if I’m allowed to post links, so I won’t, but if you google those titles you’ll find it pretty easily.
The AOL guys took a look at the render options in Vegas and helped me create this template, we named it “DVCPro HD Template:”
Frame Size: High Definition 1920X1080
Field Order: None (Progressive Scan)
Frame Rate: 29.970000
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.000
Video Format: DV/DVCPro NTSC
Compressed Depth: 24bpp color
Quality: 100%They told me this template should work. I think they suggested the DV/DVCPro format because they felt the Animation format was too big and unnecessary for web videos, plus a lot of other guys shoot with DVCPro, so that’s what they are used to. I’m kind of the black sheep with my Sony gear and Vegas Software. So I rendered one of my projects with their template and it seemed fine, yet the quality was not as crisp as the Animation format. I think you’ve solved my problem. I should just stick to the Animation format or try the MPEG4 format which is the same as h.264?? I did not know that. For some reason I think I remember one of the guys saying not to render as MPEG4. I’ll have to find out why, or maybe I heard him wrong. I thought of trying h.264, but I didn’t see the option in Vegas Pro 9, of course at that time I didn’t realize MPEG4 is h.264. And yes, this is the final delivery format. They don’t do any additiional editing.
Also, maybe you can help me with this… Would you recommend a website I could use to send them these files over the internet? Right now I send them on dvds, or they send me a hard drive where I dump the videos onto and send back. They told me to look into a file sending system, but I really don’t know much about that.
Hey, thanks for your help. I sort of jumped into this gig, but beleive it or not it’s going very well. They like my work a lot, it’s just some of the tech stuff with computers I’m unsure about, and the AOL guys are so used to Final Cut and Panasonic gear (however, they were very impressed with Vegas’s rendering and output options.) So thank you!
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I know it’s been a while, but has there been any final resolution to the buffering problem? I just bought this camera and I’ve used the heck out of it, luckily with no problems whatsoever. I have not used the 128gig hard drive and I have not simultaniously recorded, so maybe that’s why I haven’t come across the issue.