Rob Franks
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Region markers are markers that come in sets of 2… a start marker and a finish marker. They’re used for many different things but in this case they’re used to indicate the start of a time/date stamp and then its finish.
For example… if I have 2 clips together on the time line and one clip was shot on saturday and the other on sunday then I would use a start marker at the beginning of the first clip and a finish marker at the end of the first clip and the word “SATURDAY” in text in between the markers. The start and finish marker will tell the dvd player to flash “SATURDAY” on the screen in text for only the period of time that the first clip is being shown. The same thing is done with the second clip only the text “SUNDAY” is used. So on playback in a dvd player, “SATURDAY” is flashed as a subtitle when the first clip is viewed and “SUNDAY” when the second clip comes up.
“DVDa” is slang for DVD Architect. It’s a dvd/Blu Ray burner program that comes with Sony Vegas. I’m not sure what your final output will be so your workflow may or may not finish the same as mine (I burn my work to Blu Ray and use the time/date stamp as subtitles).
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I do this all the time from my SR11 with; Vegas Pro, Excalibur plugin, ReNamer.
If you drag the clips DIRECTLY from the cam onto your computer then Windows explorer (do not import with PMB!)will show the REAL time/date in the date column when the window is viewed in the “details” view.
Use ReNamer (or similar batch re-naming program) to re-name the clips with the explorer time/date, then import to Vegas
In Excalibur plugin there is a subroutine called “quicklabels” which has the ability to automatically place the names of the clip(s) which in this case is the time/date, on a separate overlay track complete with in/out region markers. (This is all done in a few seconds for 500 or so clips. Of course Quicklabels allows you to choose the placement of the time/date stamp as well as font… color… etc.
From here you can render it out with the time/date as a permanent overlay burned into the video…. but that requires some rendering time… and a bit of quality loss. I instead like to use the “Export regions as subtitles” script (supplied with Vegas) to create a subtitle set for import to DVDa. This requires no rendering of any overlay. I import the subtitle info to DVDa when I burn the Blu Ray disk. The end result is a time/date stamp that can be turned on/off with the remote and no quality losses due to rendering in an overlay track.
Excalibur: https://www.jetdv.com/excalibur/home.php
ReNamer: https://www.den4b.com/downloads.php?project=ReNamer -
I use newblue, prodad, and magic bullet without issues. Boris works but it does not work internally to vegas.
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You can have a look at edward troxel’s site:
https://www.jetdv.com/vegas/forum/index.php?sid=4f729d75369fb22ac324955ca13ca5d0
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I remember seeing a script for vegas that would do just that but I can not remember exactly where. The person to probably best ask would be Edward Troxel at:
https://www.jetdv.com/vegas/forum/index.php?sid=4f729d75369fb22ac324955ca13ca5d0
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DVDa 4.5 does not support avchd
DVDa 5 does support dvda but the trial does not come with full codec support. You get full codec support once you purchase the program.
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Well if your preview was good before and is on the fritz now then there must be something with the machine that is causing the problem. If you can’t even playback standard definition without skipping then it simply can’t be a Vegas issue.
I have a Q6600 quad with 8 gig ram and windows 7 (64bit) and have very few problems playing back avchd at full frame rate (until of course I hit a transition.
I would say either your machine is buggered or you have some settings wrong in Vegas. What is your preview ram set at? What screen quality do you have set?
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Okay… I got ya’. You’re capturing direct through firewire.
No. Avchd cams do not have a firewire port as they are not needed. You can still capture direct (with some of the avchd cams) but it involves the use of something like the Black magic intensity card which will connect to your HDMI port…. lots of extra money though….. more money than it’s worth (IMO).
I’m still however not quite sure what your concern is. If you have the usb cable connected and ready to go then it will only take an extra 15 to 30 seconds to import onto the time line. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a client walking out because of a 30 second delay.
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I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying here?
Capturing from tape works in real time while importing from an avchd cam is FASTER than real time.
An avchd cam for all intents and purposes is looked as as another hard drive by windows. In other words transferring your video is about as fast as copying a file from one hard drive to another. In fact what most people LOVE about avchd cams is that importing is MUCH faster than capturing a tape (or a portion of).
You can even drag the file directly from the cam’s HDD (or card) right into vegas. I can drag an entire hour of video from my avchd cam into vegas in about 10 minutes. Can’t do that with hdv.
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Yes… it’s a problem.
I have seen the same issues with the studio encoder. Not to mention the fact that the studio encoding (99 times out of 100) gets re-encoded in DVDa anyway. The studio encoder is not certified in any way, shape or form and therefore…. stinks (to put it mildly 🙂
If you use the Pro encoder you will not get this issue and you will also never re-encode (provided of course your encoding meets the proper standards)