Renato Zuma
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I believe my friend has deleted the original FRAP files. Anyway, it looks like M-JPEG files are too big for the task. The main reason why he converted the original files to AVC before sending them to me is exactly file size… What I needed for future videos (we are in a gaming community… He records it, I edit it) is a file that is as small as possible and Vegas-friendly at the same time, without losing noticable quality.
As a workaround, can I just use the converted M-JPEG files with no audio, and then extract something like wave audio from the original files (which are AAC) and try to sync both in Vegas?
“This is not a good sign because Vegas Pro 10 can read M-JPEG files natively…”
No sorry, I meant to say Vegas wouldn’t let me drop AVC files into it before I installed additional codecs. It’s reading M-JPEG just fine.
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Ok, I downloaded Avidemux and used the settings you suggested.
There’s no noticable quality loss, but output file has no audio. Original audio codec is AAC, can’t it be converted to PCM?
Vegas wouldn’t let me drop those files into it before installing additional codecs. Well, it’s been such a hassle for a noob like me that I may have actually confused myself whether it wouldn’t allow them as mp4 too or just avi. Should Vegas accept AVC files in mp4 containers with original Windows Seven/Sony Vegas codecs??
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hehe, no sorry I’m not that old. However my first PC was a MSX. It certainly couldn’t handle 2GB’s of ram.
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You convinced me. I’m gonna get 2GB’s more. Not just for vegas but for general purpose.
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=== I’m sorry. Some moderator could kindly move down this reply to the other John Rofrano’s reply below, please. I was still confused by the way this board works. Think I’ve finally learned. ===
A friend of mine recorded game scenes using fraps, which gives out files bigger than 50GB. So he converted original fraps formats to H.264/AVC in order to upload smaller files for me to edit them.
In this scenario, for the next games he records what codecs should he use instead to convert fraps files into small files and keep it vegas friendly, without losing quality (which by the way isn’t HD. Quality is actually kinda poor. Just don’t want it to be worse)?
Back to my end, so my best option now is to convert these AVI H.264/AVC to Motion JPEG? Am I losing quality? I’m gonna try that.
My codec pack is the Win7codecs by Shark007. I didn’t have any additional codecs until I realised I couldn’t drop AVC files into Vegas, so I found this by googling.
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Not sure what you mean by XT. But if you meant XP, no. I’m on seven 64bits.
Anyway, if that was related to lack of memory, shouldn’t memory usage be close to my 2GB’s on task manager and my pc going slow and about to freeze up? Cuz that’s not happening at all. Vegas was loading my project while I was replying to this thread, talking to my girfriend on msn and surfing the web with lots of tabs on chrome. And memory usage wouldn’t go higher than 1,15gb.
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Memory usage while it’s loading my project goes up to 1,12gb. Still lots of juice available. It’s not like my pc is freezing or crashing. Still, should it really eat so much memory just to load a 15min project?
(may sound stupid but I didn’t find how to respond to the entire thread at once so I just clicked to reply John Rofrano altough I’ll comment on all previous inputs)
Jeremy, it just says “opening project blablabla.veg” and shows progress percentage. There’s nothing saying what it’s loading specifically. Anyway I’ve let Vegas upgrade itself to it’s last version.
Steve, I doubt there’s another process slowing things down, unless it’s hidden and it’s related to Vegas, because I have no problems with all other softwares I use.
Ok, after 2 hours and 20 minutes my project is finally loaded (lol). I realised there’s no previewing problems: no black screens at all and it’s now fast like in any other video format without the need of shift+b.
So I should assume that Vegas 10 precaches and processes all frames before loading the project, while Vegas 9 wouldn’t cache anything unless you force shift+b?
That makes sense. As I said, previewing AVC files were a nightmare in Vegas 9 and it’d take a lot of time just to cache a 30 secs event.Well, if this is it, what codecs does Vegas like more so that it’d speed things up?
My project consists of editing 1 hour of AVC/AAC video into 15 minutes of whatever is faster for Vegas. Source files were in AVI containers, I used MediaCoder to convert them to mp4. Maybe I messed up the configs? Can you guys help me configuring those settings properly so I can import Vegas-friendly files to my project?Thanks guys.