Rick Mac
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[sean141] “What kind of rendering times am I looking at with the Vegas software to complete a video.”
That is a loaded question.
Render times depend on many factors.
It sounds as if you have a pretty fast computer which
helps those render times a lot.Render times are dynamic. For example, will your project be rendered to the same format as your source video? If not, your computer has to do more work than if you do not change your scale or codec. Some effects take a lot more processing time than others. For example, gaussian blur is very cpu intensive. Some plugins render quickly while others are a lot slower. For example, if you are going for a film type color balance, VASST reelpak’s process very quickly when compared to Magic Bullet.
HDV takes more time than DV.If you are rendering a DV to DV project with modest effects and transitions you will most likly render faster than realtime. If rendering to MPEG for DVD it will take longer.
Maybe others on the forum can share their render time experinces with you. I tend to do very long and complex projects with lots of plugins, filters, and broadcast filters. I run a AMD X2 3800+ dual core with 2gig ram and my render times are pretty good. I have found Vegas to be fairly efficient with render times as compared to other products.
I know this does not exactly answer your question, but there are just to many variables to reach the enlightenment you seek
grasshopper.Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
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Benny,
Have you tried taking VirtualDub out of the mix?
Try using Vegas to extract your vob file and see if that works better for you.Regards, Rick.
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[Mike Kujbida] “Sounds to me like your cropping on cam 2’s footage changed it from lower field to upper field.
Try cropping it again but this time shift the crop position one line lower or higher.”I agree with Mike. Seen this happen before and as Mike suggested moving the the crop position up or down one line can fix it.
Regards, Rick
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[Mahesh] “so for now I may stick to V6 for titles.”
That would be a shame since the new titler is very much worth learning.
Regards, Rick.
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For many task I would rather work in Vegas than FCP or Premiere. FCP does have some nice bling fast, and premiere intergrates well with After Effects. Can you do some really slick stuff in Vegas, (heck yea). As far as I’m concerned Vegas has the best audio toolset of any NLE and boy can you cut somthing fast on it.
Regards, Rick.
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Since I am not doind HDV yet I will quote from Spots book,
HDV What you need to know.“Bowse to file/project properties, and choose “match media settings”. This will allow you to browse to a file that should define your project settings, and Vegas will autoset the properties to this format. If your not sure which settings to use, this is the best option.”
Hope that helps.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[Phorland] “When I right click on the footage in the time line and go to Preferences it does say that the footage is 23,976 so everything is fine, I’d say. But when I look at the Video Preview it says the project is either 30i or 30P. Why would the preview be different than the time line?”
When you right click on the clip and choose preferences you are seeing the attributes of the clip itself. The preview window is showing you your “project settings” which can be set to many different settings. You would most likely want your project settings to match the attributes of your source clips.
Hope that helps.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[steveandbelinda] “what sort of way would you use to see a defining point on the audio, for syncing each one?”
You could set off a camera flash that all three cam’s can see.
Cam flash is great since it happens so fast you can get your sync frame accurate. You could also put all three cams together and clap. Then look at the audio waveform to sync.Be sure to keep all cameras rolling (no stops) until the ceremony is done, that way you do not have to resync your cameras.
I use excailbur for all my multicam shoots and it works very well.
If you forget to do a sync flash or clap of your own fear not, at weddings there are so many flashes going off that you can use one of them.
Regards, Rick.
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Here is a link to a video tutorial.
Regards, Rick.
https://www.jetdv.com/excalibur/multicam.php
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
I can confirm that it does work with 8 Pro.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377