Richard Bartlett
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When I say folder, I intend to refer to the folder icon used as a registry key. The path I gave removed the slashes as this forum filters them when used as a text insertion.
This note wasn’t a universal fix and helped my problems with XP (x86/x32).
So follow down to the key “folder” in regedit. Right-mouse select it and go to ‘Permissions’. Hopefully you still have this when you use Vista.So double important as you are Vista and I’m XP…. Please backup anything you are about to change including the means to recover it should you be unable to boot afterwards.
The Internet is full of fixes and problems and rarely do you ever find news that something will simply work untouched. So you may be indirectly finding a problem with COM or the Sony software that is more accurately described as being a reflection on the integrity of your Windows installation itself.
As I recall, the released/purchased version of VegasPro didn’t have this problem on any subsequent system I required use of it on. FWiW.
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I had a similar error message (without Vegas bailing out, just a component problem) when using the (old fashioned) Insert-> ‘Text Media’ feature. (I’ve posted this in response to a similar ‘COM error’ thread.
The problem has been resolved for me by trawling for other people having COM issues. Try giving full control permissions for “Administrators” using the RegEDIT tool to change permissions on the folder key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesEventlogSecurity”. Vegas Pro 8 and the demo of Vegas Pro 9 were both aided by this fix. I’d previously given up on installing this for when I’m using my wife’s PC but my ambition to demo VP9 encouraged me to try harder!
Right mouse this folder in regedit. Confirm Administrators is ticked for FULL CONTROL, if it isn’t – this might fix all your troubles!
Not sure how Windows gets into a state where you can’t control this resource even while you are logged in as an Administrator. Also, YMMV – and only go into regedit if you feel competent that you could change ANYTHING you alter back by yourself please.
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The problem has been resolved for me by trawling for other people having COM issues. Try giving full control permissions for “Administrators” using the RegEDIT tool to change permissions on the folder key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesEventlogSecurity”. Vegas Pro 8 and the demo of Vegas Pro 9 were both aided by this fix. I’d previously given up on installing this for when I’m using my wife’s PC but my ambition to demo VP9 encouraged me to try harder!
Right mouse this folder in regedit. Confirm Administrators is ticked for FULL CONTROL, if it isn’t – this might fix all your troubles!
Not sure how Windows gets into a state where you can’t control this resource even while you are logged in as an Administrator. Also, YMMV – and only go into regedit if you feel competent that you could change ANYTHING you alter back by yourself please.
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It sounds like you’ve identified something quite lacking here.
I did mean that I supposed the problem arrived when you had a 60p print after this stage:
“I render this out to a suitable format. for example x264 720p60.”
However after reading the latter part of your reply to my post, I suspect there is a bug in Vegas. I’d assumed the lack of advancing was on the x264 reader having some dependency on the source being read at a 30 per second cadence. The result being in the Vegas case that the same field was presented twice, not that it should have been.
As you point out and clarify, rendering works fine, previewing doesn’t. Hence why Vegas seems to be off kilter.
I presume secondary monitor AND windowed preview both have this trouble? (ignoring the DV-firewire or BMD/AJA options you might have at your disposal).
Various distillations to 24p, 25p, 30p and 60p from the more dominant 1080i are only going to crop up more and more. So I’d recommend submitting this to Sony and hope that if someone there is aware of this thread, that they can add supportively and post here.
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It could be the H.264 reader that has the issue.
Have you tried rendering a short section to an intra-frame compressor codec (although as you did before, not one that is constrained to SD)?I’ve not come read that there is a flaw with 59.94/60p projects.
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What DSE said,… adding to his post with this:
E.g. ebay item number (not mine BTW)
120152665035This is the older serial port version of the Mimio board writing/digitizing suite. Throw in a whiteboard and you can record your handwriting and record. Then you can use Vegas’ size/position tool to zoom your writing to the size you wish. If you need something that will work with Vista later, you can upgrade to Xi down the track.
Otherwise there are some nice scribe fonts available to back-track erase over.
Or my personal favorite, is to use the Bauhaus Mirage and it’s stroke recorder (using a touch tablet or mimio-mouse) and then to add some finesse with particle effects and/or volumetrics to enhance the concept of the pen flowing.
Mimio is a nice touch. Great for getting friends and family to draw something out on special occasions. Very personal, especially to capture something as personal as someone’s handwriting being written to be able to call on it, possibly after they’ve gone on to the next world. Also great for including materials for school projects (in my case for the kids to submit).
I picked up a mimio for ebay prices at a nearby Staples over a year ago. I was going to have my company claim for it, but got hooked and rarely bother with my touch tablet for stroke-style art. Perhaps more because I’m no artist.
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I believe there is something missing in your understanding of what differs between type-1 and type-2 DV.
Type 2 is type 1 except that the audio is in there twice. The second copy is extracted from the mux into an AVI level audio stream.
DV type 1 AVI
AVI wrapper[DV video+audio]
DV type 2 AVI
AVI wrapper[DV video+audio|dupe audio-stream]
Sync issues should not occur with type-1 as it is a blind bit copy at ingest. Rendering could make it go wrong, and both directions are vulnerable with type-2.
So Vegas support for DV, and what it captures has moved on to type-2 because this is the most acceptable format for other applications that might share the same capture contents or subsequent file renders. Type-1 is more pure but at least for Windows apps, it is the less adopted form.
Coders that wrestle with the microsoft AVI writers and the non-Sony codecs themselves have historically tripped up on both device access and timing issues with the microsoft libraries. So type-1 has been turned to because it is less dependent on getting these aspects bang-on right. I believe XP sorted out many of the firewire issues with DV device control and access. Think of that as a patch update that just needed paying for. 😉
GSpot may help you identify the properties of what you’ve captured going back to VegasPro.
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I have 7.0d running with two MP3 test tracks both tied into trackFX with SideKick v3 active. Seems fine.
Eugene – Could it be that either of your sources are floating point or multichannel audio. SidekickV3 doesn’t seem to mind if I’m in 2 channel or 5.1 mode at any bitrate.
Perhaps re-install the plug-in and/or replace the VST in the default folder and rescan for it in the Vegas Options|Preferences [VST].
I also have SideChainComp 1.02 loaded, but I don’t recall if it worked in the class of VST host that Vegas represents itself as or if it was any good.
I haven’t tested on 7.0e at present.
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Top drawer:
https://www.toasterdudes.com/pages/logo_arsenal.htmlMiddle draw:
3D positioning tools in Vegas, AE, or other 3D animation tools. All require your rigging – extra dimensioning.In most cases you may need to be tracing the original logo with a wireframe equivalent, digitizing or at the very least font matching.
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……or use debugmode.com ‘s frameserver (for vegas6d) and output the timeline directly into windows media encoder (a separate download). This makes up for a few API/SDK interfacing limitations that you get with most integrated environments. Microsoft keep the best controls and optimizations for themselves!
Anyway, this works for me – no intermediate render and good metadata control on the output.