Rick Mac
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Kevin,
Are you having the same issue on all of your Vegas 7 systems?
As I’m sure you know there are many things that can cause dropped frames during capture. Since you are not dropping frames capturing with U-Lead I think it’s safe to say your hard drive is not the problem. Here is a few things to try.
1) Go to control panel/system/hardware and look for the 1394 Bus Host Controllers and double click on it. Delete any drivers that are not microsoft drivers, such as TI, Lucent, or VIA drivers.
2) Some 1394 cards are installed as Network Cards. This can cause conflicts. Double click on Network Adapters and disable the 1394 NIC/Network Card (this is not needed for any networking stuff).
Now for some obvious suggestions.
1) Reduce the size of your capture window.
2) Disable any background applications such as AntiVirus
and Internet Connection.Hope this helps you.
If not let us know and we will go from there.Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Can you post the workflow that you are using while captureing in Vegas. Also are your captureing via firewire?
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Give this a try.
Go to Options/Prefrences/Video Tab and set “Dynamic RAM Preview Maximum” to 0. Then set “Maximum number of render threads” to 1.Hope that will do the trick.
Let us know.Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[Mike Kujbida] “Sounds to me like a track level or video output level FX accidentally got turned on (with keyframes).”
That is what I would think as well.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[Douglas Spotted Eagle] “only helps if you’re changing the temporal AND spatial characteristics of the frame. It won’t benefit from spatial changes-only.”
Spot, can you flesh this out a bit?
You lost me. What is temporal and spatial?
Will super sampling help Gary up-rez his 320×240 avi’s
to 720×480?
If so, is the workflow I suggested to him sound or does it
need tweeking?Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[Laszlo Kovacs] “May I miss something… isn’t supersampling for TIME?
(I mean interpolating frames when slo-mo?)”Nope. It is a big help when you up-scale your video.
Let’s say going from 320X240 to 720X486.
It is also good for speed (time) effects as you mentioned.
I got this tip from DSE’s book (Vegas 6 Editing Workshop).If you have more questions about super sampling post
a message attention DSE (Douglas Spotted Eagle).Give it a try.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[Allen Zagel] “VHS tape Composit cables”
VHS does not have much resolution to start with.
I think all that is going on is that you can see warts better
on your big screen TV. SD can look poor on HD big screen.Your encoding settings looked good to me. I to have read not to encode over 8,000. Some players might choke on it.
I can’t stand to watch SD Broadcast on my 50″ HD TV for the same reason. It just looks fuzzy. My DV stuff looks pretty good on it.
Perhaps someone out there has found a way to make VHS stuff look respectable on a large screen. If so, jump in here and
share your wisdom.Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[Gary Chvatal] “they are avi’s at 320×240.
I know this will look terrible…especially if I try to stretch the video to full frame.”What you might try is “super sampling”.
It will help sharpen up that low rez stuff when you
up rez it.
It will take much longer to render the super sample
areas. Here is where you find it.
View/Video Bus Tracks (Shift+CNTRL+B). This will insert a
super sample envelope on your Video Master Bus. All you
do from there is raise the value of the envelope during the
areas that have the low rez stuff, back off during regular rez stuff. Note that your preview frame rate will drop way down during the super sample sections. The higher you raise the super sample value the more sampling it does and the longer your render time.I would suggest that you render a short section of the low rez video using the super sampling to see if it will do the trick for you.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Generally speaking a Standard Definition project will look much sharper on a SD TV than a HD TV.
That being said, if it looks really poor you probably
can do better.
I have a 50″ HD TV and my SD DVD projects look pretty good.
Can you tell us about your project?
Source Media, Project settings, and render settings.Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Just for grins, try setting preview quality to
preview full.Sometimes I get better framerates in preview-full.
Did this help?
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377