Rick Mac
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Josh,
You nailed it, normal. The lines you see are the result of interlaced video being played back on a progressive scan computer monitor. All will be well when played out to a interlaced TV. I would suggest that you add a DV converter box such as a DataVideo or Canopus box which will output your timeline to a video monitor. That takes the guess work out of it.
Regards, Rick.
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The short answer is no. Whenever you start cutting clips, adding transitions, and filters, your going to have to render. Vegas is dependent on your computer’s processing power. The Faster your computer the shorter your render times. If you do a print to tape Vegas renders only what needs to be rendered on the timeline. Some jobs require that you render the entire timeline (MPEG for DVD as an example).
What a decklink card brings to the table is a very high quality input and output device, and high quality codecs.Even true realtime (hardware accelerated) edit systems have their limits as to what can be played back in realtime with no rendering. For example the system I use at work will playback up to 3 video streams without rendering. Add a key over that and it’s render time across that section. Add an overlay alpha it’s render time again.
Rendering is just a fact of life unless you a doing very simple projects. We are a Final Cut Pro facility with Kona 3 cards and we still have to render.
So do yourself a favor and get the fastest computer and drives you can afford, with lots of RAM, so that render times are short.
Hope this helps.
Regards, Rick.
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The problem is that you are missing the required codec.
Avi is simply a wrapper around your codec.
I do remember a thread not to long ago with the same situation,
an avi from a digital camera. I believe that Edward Troxel has
fielding the codec needed question.You can google for a free app called gspot. It will analyze your
avi file and tell you what codec the file requires. From there google
the codec, download, and install. Then Vegas can read your avi video file.Regards, Rick.
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The glow filter might look nice.
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Should be OK if you switch to Vegas 7. It is much faster with HDV than version 6. In fact I have a friend editing HDV with Vegas 7 on a laptop with very respectable framerates.
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Vegas Network Render can take advantage of those quad cores.
Regards!
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Core 2 Duo looks sweet.
Here is a link to some good info on the Core2 Duo.https://www.tomshardware.com/2006/07/14/core2_duo_knocks_out_athlon_64/
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“i have heard of those matrox cards being pretty cheap.”
No way. The Matrox G450 is a great dual monitor video card.
If all you are doing is editing in Vegas it is awsome.
If you will be useing some type of application that needs
Open GL accelreation (ie Boris Blue as an example) to speed up
preview renders, than you could make the argument for a high end card.
Do remember your header? Cheap/Budget.“which model datavideo box do you have?”
DataVideo-100.
“is there any frame lag (very important for my scoring work to be spot on)”
If by “frame lag” you mean preview framerate, such as 29.97 FPS for NTSC Video, that depends. Sony by it’s nature will adjust your preview framerate depending on many things. The speed of your computer, the quality setting for your preview monitor, file type being played, are you playing back a rendered file or playing back a project with multi-layers and effects.
As an example, On my modest computer, a AMD-3000+ 1gig RAM ATA-100 7200rpm video drive, playing a rendered DV-AVI File I get full 29.97 framerate easy.
Since you are scoring I would guess you are being supplied a pre-edited and rendered file, which is easy to get full playback rates from.I have had very good results with the DataVideo-100. It is less expensive than the Canopus brand. However, I have heard good things about canopus.
Stay away from the ADS Pyro AVlink, many people have reported problems with it, including myself. If you are running WIN2000 you might be better off with the canopus. I love my DataVideo-100 useing XP but for some reason WIN2000 does not give me stable operation.The Canopus Converter capture quality is very good but cost is higher than DataVideo. If you are on a budget the DataVideo will give you very good previews and good quality captures.
Regards, Rick.