Randall Raymond
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[marmels] “what should give me reall time render with vegas?”
A 1.21 jigawatt flux capacitor. 😉
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Look for a program that is trying to grab hold of the new file – perhaps Nero or a utility like Diskeeper trying to defrag the file right off the bat. – run – ‘msconfig’ will tell you what programs are autostarted – the culprit will be in that bunch. ‘Probably’…:-)
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You have to set QT to a custom frame size 720×760 in Vegas rendering. Or take it down to 360×380 encode to QT and match that custom size (and frame rate) for the flv encoder.
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[Tony Wall] “First off, I don’t have squeeze or anything, I am just using the standalone flv encoder that comes with Flaxh 8. My question is, for video that is not DV (720×780-ntsc), is there an alternative to rendering from vegas as uncompressed in order to encode to FLV with the standalone encoder?
Thanks!”
Yes, encode to quicktime then to flv. I usually match the frame size in QT to match the flv frame size.
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[msvideo] “Whilst Vegas in its 7th carnation has decent functionality, its RT performance and lack of hardware acceleration options are saddly lacking. Am I missing something here? Is it the learning curve of moving to another NLE or the cost of changing why Vegas still has a loyal following of seamingly pro users?
Regards
Mark”I think it’s both. Only FCP and Vegas can edit natively with HDV – but when you do that with FCP – you can’t monitor it at all! You have to encode to a proxy in FCP. Vegas is superior in that regard – even given the hit in framerate.
Have you tried editing with the proxy files from the xdcamhd? Or you could use a program like Gearshift to flip HDV footage to DV for editing and flip back for output.
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[msvideo] “I cannot understand why Vegas has such a following of users content with monitoring on small preview computer monitors or adaptive resolution and frame rates when so many competitor systems have hardware solutions to give full frame rate/ resolution output”
I think you will find that those ‘hardware’ solutions are based on intermediate codecs. Vegas does not use an intermediate codec but directly with the original native footage. Nothing is lost.
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[Dr. Dropout] “When doing that, what framerate do you get in a no-fx situation (cuts only)? Should be a solid 25…”
It WILL be a solid 25. Like a straight pipe-line to the firewire out.
Now tell the CPU to brighten every frame and add a little contrast to every frame and sharpen every frame and reduce the green just a tad and cross fade that clip with the next and the challenge to the CPU becomes apparent…
I love Vegas – I can cut extremely fast on it. I rarely render and when I do I go directly to what I will out-put – usually Mpeg2 – I test with short segments and play that out to a monitor.
You kinda get an eye for what you’re going to get after doing that a number of times.
‘Real-time’ is still a misnomer even on a $100,000. Avid system. It’s real-time until any system is challenged by the reality of a typical editing session. “Real-time for one or two layers of HD” (Yeah, if you don’t change ’em too much!) What’s real about that???
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The original footage is never changed – so all previewing is on the fly while the CPU changes the footage by instructions of the .veg file. Going out through a card is not going to help since it must first get its picture through the CPU. Going Quad-core with lots of ram and a fast board will get better play-back – more frames per second.
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[Art] “The guy asked a technical question which was promptly answered. He doesn’t require any further advice.”
Well, he mentioned being a newbie. I was trying to help.
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[Mike Kujbida] “Watch any well-edited movie and count the number of straight cuts to cross-fades. It will be about 100-1.
How many folks here do feature length movies? My guess is not too many.
The bulk of my personal work is slide shows and I guarantee you that one of these done as cuts-only would be sent back to me to be re-edited :-)”I cut slide shows to the music and move the camera on every shot and keep every shot to 3 seconds or less – straight cuts – no complaints. What are people used to seeing in professional edits? Straight cuts.What are people use to seeing in non-professional edits? The usual mush.