Rob Franks
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Are you using the “PRO” encoder or the “STUDIO” encoder?
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Use the PRO encoder. The “Studio” encoder is not dolby certified and will re-compress just about every time.
Also make absolutely sure your output is compliant with the dvd (or blu ray) standard or re-compressing will occur.
Third item… DVDa likes a SEPARATE video stream and audio stream as an input. Don’t try to mux your audio/video before bringing it into DVDa. Instead bring them in separately and allow DVDa to do the muxing.
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Do we know if this is the actual card that is causing the problems…. or the asio driver?
Try downloading ASIO4ALL driver (free) and see if that eases things…. (or complicates them)
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Absolutely agree.
I do a lot of 5.1 work and the mixing/gain adjustments can be quite the challenge some times. The ONLY way to do it properly is with a true surround system and speakers (in the proper location) for monitors.Headphones (of any kind) are totally useless for 5.1 work.
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What do you have on the time line?
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You MAY be able to squeeze a BIT more out of xp 32 by killing as many tasks as you can, but for the most part that’s about as good as you’re going to get.
In a 32 bit system you have about 3.5 gig available. XP will use some of that and it will reserve a bit more for maneuvering room, then your tasks and processes will use some, if you have a video card with SHARED memory then it will gobble some ram up, and then Vegas itself will use some (this is IN ADDITION to what you’re asking it to reserve for dynamic playback).
In a 64 bit system you can set for 3072 (but no higher) and you can actually get that… but in a 32 bit system even with the max set at 3072…. you’ll never reach it.
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“User applications in any 32-bit version of Windows can only see 2GB of memory.”
Not necessarily true. You can very easily reset the “large memory aware” flag in any .exe or .dll file so that file will use MORE than 2 gig memory… even in a 32 bit system.
Sony Vegas preview ram can not use more than 3072M of ram…. but it WILL use more than 1 gig…. even in a 32bit system. All you need to do is reset the 1 gig max (through internal settings).
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You will have to re-render your credit rolls as ALPHA CHANNELS. This will give you the transparent background you’re looking for. There are only certain formats that support alpha channel…. uncompressed avi being one of them (which is what I use). It’s probably the most generic approach and will import to just about any NLE.
Render your credit rolls as uncompressed avi (you’ll need a lot of disk space) and you will see an option for alpha channel render.
Import this to vegas…. but you will have to TELL vegas that it’s an alpha channel. You can do this by right clicking the clip while it’s in the project media window. In the properties box you will see an alpha channel option box.
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It is possible to adjust but you will need to go to INTERNAL settings and adjust the maximum. Hold the shift key down while clicking on preferences and you will see an extra tab come up marked “INTERNAL”
Look for “preview ram” and you will see that the max is set at 1024. Reset this to 3072 if you wish, but on a 32 bit system I would be careful about actually trying to use that much. Make sure you have absolutely no other programs running with the preview ram set this high with xp32.
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Go ahead and export your subtitles as-is. Once you import them to DVDa and place them on the time line, you can then change their location, font, size…. etc. There is provision for this in DVDa.