Russ Froze
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Last time I had to go to the new blue site and do a live chat.
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Yes there is a way to take templates with you. Of coarse you will have to find where your os has put them. I the case of Win 7 they can be found at
C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Sony\File Templates
if they are not in the administrator folder, look for them in the account you use.
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Hi, you can begin by looking at the project media tab where the bins reside. There you can sort, catalog and add tags to your clips. Tags are very useful for gathering relevant media together without having to rename them externally. Myself when faced with such a task I place each section of the sorted media on the timeline and then save the veg to a folder named for that set and include the media. This way I get copies of the media in a folder that is aptly named for the footage. I repeat this process until all footage is cataloged into separate folders. Take the original and put it in a safe place. From there you can either use the footage from the folders or you can use the nesting method. Some people have nothing but troubles with nesting projects and others swear it’s the only way to work on large projects. Myself, I use the nesting method for longer projects.
There are tutorials online at sony creative media that speak to the new features staring with version 11 or 12, sorry I don’t recall exactly.
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Have you read my reply at the bottom of the page?
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That’s really cool a new feature. sadly my install of version 13 just did not take, it’s kind of half working. 🙁
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Now aint that what I said… are there any odd ducks on the timeline. Yup a jpeg avi is ok but the odd frame rate of 20 fps and unusual audio sample rate in that file will certainly throw a wrench into the works. I told you it’s about math… that is what these programs do. Now look at what is being asked of the engineer who wrote this software. Kudos for Vegas for even trying to do the calculations and eventually succeeding. I assure you that programs used in high end productions would flatly refuse to do the math by simply disallowing the file. Programs / applications such as Final cut and Avid are used in production settings not because they are great, rather these apps are use because they will reject files that do not conform to standards and as such can not be used for broadcast. Back to the problem at hand. Throwing an odd duck on the time line results in the program having to do the math to match the desired output. Mainly readjust the audio and from 20 fps to match 30 fps or whatever the chosen output frame rate. So Vegas needs to interpolate audio bits and interpolate video frames that do not exist. This will take time a lot of time. I must agree with Graham Bernard that it would serve us all well if you were to read, watch or take a weekend course on the basics of digital media capture. Ask any question in forums and people will bend over backwards to help you on your journey. No question is too stupid, if the answers are not fully understood then ask for a different explanation and someone will be able to explain things in a manner that makes sense to you, we all learn in different ways. Still I’m pleased the issue has been resolved and something has been learned. Oh yes had the avi been a divx then unless the divx encoder is installed Vegas would not know how to interpret the file and would have told you that it can not imported. There are also ways of getting files into Vegas without trans coding but that is for another lesson. As for the problematic file, it could have been encoded to an avi again using one of the intermediate setting or perhaps an uncompressed avi.
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Alright, request granted. I have been trying to get this out for a while now. Did a post three weeks ago and no one seemed to care. Looking for a way to just view Magic Lantern raw dng and cdng I downloaded the Adobe dng codec and installed it. Yes it allows the viewing of dng and cdng files in the default windows picture viewer. Messing with an edit in Vegas I noticed the dng files in the explorer window and though lets try and surprise… vegas read the dng file which prompted me to import the series. It works… slow but it works. Duplicated the process on three other machines just to be certain.
Here is a link to another thread where it’s explained, youll find the answers near the bottom.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/979809#981751
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No doubt a strange problem. I’m beginning to suspect a hardware issue. Have a look at task manager look under performance and see if anything is eating up ram or CPU usage.
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Uhm silly me, Question are you rendering to the same drive as where you footage resides? If so don’t do that.
Now let’s get this straight.
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You have a clean win7 instal with only Vegas version ? installed, nothing else.
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You have a win 7 instal where programs were uninstalled until only vegas version ? was left.
Which is the case 1 or 2.
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Ok fair enough. So it’s time to rule out hardware issues or perhaps software config issues in win 7. In short try a different machine. Also are there third party codecs installed and vegas grabs one that is inefficient in working with Vegas.
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