Robert Browne
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You might want to consider building your own box. It REALLY isn’t difficult. Don’t be intimidated by all the hardware involved, it’s all pretty much plug and play. Too many people think building a computer is difficult — my kid built his first when he was about fifteen years old. Used it for years.
I just built a video machine. AMD 64 dual core processor, Abit motherboard, 2 gigs of memory, PCI-E SLI video card with dual monitor outs, DVD burner, two 200-gig hard drives. Total monetary output: $1,000.
Buy one with that power or have someone build it for you, you’ll pay nearly twice as much.
rgb
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Yeah, I used the preset. Which is why I was surprised it decided to recompress. Is there a way to shut off the recompression in DVD Architect that I don’t know about?
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The file is about ten minutes long. Rendered to DVD Architect settings, separate video and audio streams. I rendered the audio to PCM, it’s also saying it’s going to recompress the video. Since I’ve already compressed it, this makes no sense to me.
I’ll try the restarting trick, but would it be better to render my original file as an uncompressed AVI in Vegas, then let DVD Architect create the final mpg files?
I thought I was saving time by compressing to the DVD Architect template. Apparently not.
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I’m coming in VERY late on this post, but I wanted to point those who can’t believe the iRiver would be worth anything to this recording done by the iRiver:
https://web2.streamhoster.com/agardner/garner-1.mp3
An article that includes this clip can be found here:
https://www.videouniversity.com/iriver.shtml
I think this recording demonstrates that the iRiver can indeed sound pretty damn good for a 90 dollar device.
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After using a little app called Sherlock to get a detailed list of all the codecs on my machine, I noticed one called qdv.dll, the DV video decoder. I downloaded a new copy and replaced the file and low and behold, the original was corrupted.
Playback of my DV rendered files now looks fine in BS Player and MPC.
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Crisis averted. Amazing how much time we spend on nonsense. It turns out that it’s not Vegas, not the AVI codecs or anything like that. Instead, it’s simply BS Player and WMP Classic, which both decided to go wonky at the same time. Bizarre, eh?
Thanks for the help.
rgb
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Well, it turns out this isn’t a Vegas issue, I guess. I tried looking at some rendered AVI footage that I KNOW is good and it also looked very, very bad when played in anything OTHER than Vegas. And the NEW rendered footage also looks great in Vegas.
The problem seems to be on playback with another app, like BS Player or WMP.
I suspect that my MS AVI codec may be corrupted. Does anyone know how or where I can get a replacement? I assume its on the XP disk, but is there a way to simply download and install it?
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I’m rendering straight out to the standard DV NTSC template. To AVI, not tape. I’m rendering at Good, but have tried Best with no changes. The final product looks like really badly compressed crap.
When I render the same file on another machine, it works fine. So I’m thinking there’s something wrong with the machine. Maybe a file is corrupted or Vegas needs to be reinstalled.
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I’ll second the Studio Projects recommendation. If you’re on a budget, you can go with the SP B1, which goes for about a hundred bucks and sounds great. I used it all the time.
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False alarm. I forgot to turn off motion blur on the track….