[Scott Francis]

I will echo the B&H comments, they are very good!!
I have also worked with Adorama, Full Compass with equally good results!

Good Luck!

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

I shoot with pro cameras. The one that is AVCHD is a Canon XA10, and my others are Canon XA 20’s and 25’s.
They ARE long clips (over an hour each) so that may also have something to do with them.
I am working with 4 individual camera angles (all on their own tracks) and also a live edit feed (MOV) from an ATOMOS Ninja 2 coming from a Blackmagic ATEM Switcher, so 5 video tracks total.
So given the various formats (AVCHD, MP4 and MOV), that COULD be it. In addition I am working with about 10 additional audio clips (WAV) that are mixes of the entire pit orchestra and also individual and group dialog.
I have had issues before however, with crashes doing this same thing, when there were minimal formats used.
I hope Magix give us all a little more stability (in my opinion) with Vegas. I can say that I save VERY often, and usually after any big edits, because I have had SO MANY Vegas crashes in my 7 versions of using it.
I use a Contour Shuttle Pro and the second most used button is SAVE!!

Thanks again everyone!

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

Thanks all!

I have SF set as my audio editor in preferences (it actually comes up “open in audio editor” if you do not).
Of course there are work arounds, but it defeats the purpose of being able to do this in one move instead of two or three.

Of course I have had this issue for days, and now it doesn’t present itself today, after I post here!! LOL

However, it does give me an error when I try to save the file in SF…. weird.

Actually, now that I think about it, the file that was giving me this issue was an AVCHD file format, and today it is an MP4 file format….hmmmmm

I had issue with this prior as well, when I would bring clips into SF, they would play at about half speed and pitch. I think an update to SVP 13 fixed that bug..

This also has happened on multiple systems…

Thanks again!

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

There is Bluff TItler as well.

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

As in “fine” most of my MP4 renders are less than the timeline length in render time (as in, a 2hr video may take 1.75 hrs to render. If I am only using one video track and not a lot of FX’s it is much quicker(1/2 the time usually).
As others have stated render times are VERY subjective.

I don’t know why (unless $ is an obstacle) someone wouldn’t want to upgrade to the new upcoming Vegas. SVP13 was released almost 2 years ago and even then much of it’s architecture and rendering codecs were a little long in the tooth, not even touching on the totally out of date rendering and GPU utilization.
Even if you are not looking to move to 4K, I am really expecting Magix to give us many newer industry standard abilities that have just been lacking in Vegas. Could I be wrong? Yes, but dear God I hope not. If this upgrade doesn’t fill in many of the gaps Vegas has, I would think some of us will jump ship, especially those of us who may have been planing too until Magix took it over.

As Aaron said, you can do what you like, but I would caution about being to shortsighted at this stage in the game. Hope this helps.
Good luck!

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

I would personally wait (or use your old card) until Magix does the new Vegas release this fall.
I have a R290x and it previews and renders fine.

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

I would recommend searching the forums for info on video cards….

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

That explains a lot!!
Is Vegas combining the fields into frames? That would appear to be the case.
All the definitions I have read and so forth over the years never really explained this, I feel so dumb!!
I assumed it was 60 fps each being an interlaced frame vs solid frames with progressive.

Thanks for the clarification!

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

Gotcha, I was just wondering if you did….since that had been an issue for me prior.

I don’t know what (other than the aforementioned new GPU thing) that could be going on.
Is the one you are using able to do openCL and Cuda?
I thought only nVidia cards did Cuda, and AMD openCL…. I am not familiar with the one you mentioned.

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

It should be 60i so 59.94 fps interlaced. Not 29.97 fps interlaced….that is my issue.
My understanding for years is that 1080i is 59.94 fps and that is what the Ninja is saying when it records.
Now when I open it in Mediainfo or Vegas it shows me 29.97 fps, when it should be 59.94

I have also used the progressive format and had to do the same as you mentioned above, but you are not able to change the FPS in Vegas…

Does this make sense?

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions