Scott Simpson
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If you’re trying to figure out how much you can fit on a DVD, you’ll be looking at (total video time) * (bitrate). There are lots of bitrate calculators around that’ll work out the fine points for you and give you a reasonable number. I used one recently that even recommended an average, peak and minimum bitrate for two-pass rendering.
Now, you won’t be rendering 1080p for DVD. DVD doesn’t go that high. You’ll want to use the Mainconcept DVD rendering template and adjust your bitrate there.
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com -
Just so I understand what you’re trying to accomplish — you’re using three separate instances of the Sony Levels plug-in to make fade-ins and fade-outs? I’m always interested in learning new things — so can you tell me why you’d do that instead of, say, using a conventional fade-in or fade-out, which is built right in and can be accomplished with a single click and drag?
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com -
I went through a marathon series of renders about a month ago … hour-long shows would take me, literally, days. I was rendering to 1440×1080 interlaced MXF (mpeg2) at 35MBps. I’m running a first-gen i5-750 and Vegas 12. Days. Like, three or four days for some of them. Once I surrendered to the fact that renders were going to take a long time, I focused more on having Vegas do them without crashing. Stability beat speed for me at that point.
So, 8-10 hours for a 30-minute program sounds entirely plausible.
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com -
John’s answer is entirely correct, but I’ll throw in another thing you can try.
Make sure your sample rates match. Your camera is probably recording at 48KHz, but your recorder might be recording at 44.1KHz. Matching them is just math, but the more math conversions you introduce into the problem, the greater the chance some mismatch could be introduced.
Since most video standards use 48k audio, try on your next shoot to adjust the groom’s portable recorder to a 48KHz sample rate. I’ll be curious to see if it makes a difference for you.
Cheers!
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com -
You’ve inadvertently hit the split-screen button, causing the split-screen appearance. Toggle it off. You’ll find it near the preview.
See here:
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/images/ss/full/Rebholz-2013-12-02.jpg—
Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com -
I’m late to the game in replying, but I’ll join the chorus of people recommending some sound gear. Even a used Zoom recorder would be a game-changer for you.
An external monitor would be great, but I’d go for the sound stuff first.
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com -
Going about it a little wrong, sir. For a lower third (or key, or chyron, depends on how old you are in the TV world, I guess), you won’t be using a composite mode. You’ll be telling Vegas you want to use the clip’s own transparency.
Render the graphic with alpha channel in AE. That makes the background transparent.
On the Vegas timeline, right-click on the clip, choose properties, and select the proper alpha channel option. I think in this case you’d be choosing Straight (Unmatted).
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com -
Wow!
I’m very honestly ASTONISHED that I’d never been exposed to this idea before now. I’ve been using Vegas for years. I’ve read books. I’ve watched tutorials. I’ve read forums. I’ve watched webinars. I’ve taken in everything I could find.
But I’d never, ever seen this technique before. It’s making me wonder if there are OTHER “everyone knows” workflows that I’m not aware of.
What else do you guys smack yourself in the head for forgetting to do? Those “I should’ve known better, but just forgot” things that you regret once the rendering’s all done?
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com -
IIRC, I solved my h.264-AVI-Vegas problems with x264vfw64: https://sourceforge.net/projects/x264vfw/files/x264vfw64/
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com -
Events turn pink to alert you that they’ve gone out of sync with a related event — at least that’s been my understanding. If I have a video and audio event grouped and one of them is moved, the audio will turn pink to show me that it’s now out of sync. Everything still tight and satisfactory, though?
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com