Scott Simpson
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I respectfully disagree, Dave. Certainly no smaller than project size for the sake of quality, but Vegas is happy to handle huge images, which can be desirable if you’re panning and cropping along the way. I’ve had my share of Vegas choking on big JPGs, but if you work with PNGs, you’re free to go big and crop happily.
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com -
Which they? Your capture or your render is 30? Because, truly, neither one should be.
TV is 29.976 frames per second. Your capture should be that, not 29.
You should render at the same rate, not 30.
So if you captured at 29, rendered at 30, you’ve done two things in a row incorrectly.
If MediaInfo is saying either your captured video or rendered video is 30 frames per second, something has been done wrong.
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I’ll chime in with the rest and say building your own is worth doing.
I built my current system two or three years ago with parts bought online, and by following some of the online “do this … then this … then this” guides, it was easier than I’d imagined. Honestly, the two hardest parts were 1) not letting sweat drip onto the motherboard as I put the CPU in, and 2) tidying up all the cables in the case when I was all done.
The only downside I found is the analysis paralysis that comes with planning and buying. Following someone’s tried and tested recommendations and just buying the parts and building it would overcome that. Otherwise you can get stuck in a loop of research, pricing, pondering and wishing. Eventually, as with any creative and expensive endeavour, you just have to say ENOUGH and pull the trigger, and live with the fact that if you can afford to buy it, it’s probably obsolete by now.
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com -
I don’t see a fade, aka a dissolve.
I see the graphics popping up.
Do you want a fade or a pop-up? They’re not the same.
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com -
I came across LUTs when I tried using Technicolor CineStyle on my Canon DSLR. Cinestyle is a picture mode for the Canons that is designed to capture maximum dynamic range and detail at shooting time, so you can have the most flexibility in color grading later.
It was very popular, and might still be…it’s been a while since I looked it up.
On some editing systems other than Sony Vegas, Cinestyle users would apply a LUT – a look-up-table, that would remap the pixel values in the captured file to a wider dynamic range in the editing software. It would take the ugly-looking in-camera file and re-beautify it. Following along so far?
In other words, using the Cinestyle preset and just playing the file back normally, you’d think you captured something ugly and flat. But applying the LUT in editing, all the richness comes back.
What I learned is this: Vegas doesn’t have LUTs. HOWEVER, there was a workaround. You’ve probably found it or can find it easily. Use Color Curves.
A couple of people have replicated the Cinestyle LUT as an s-shaped curve in Color Curves. You can download it as a preset. I found two different ones that looked almost identical, but still gave different results. Since then, when I’ve shot with the Cinestyle preset, I’ve tried each of the s-curves and just picked whichever of the two looked best at the time.
Short version: I’m guessing you’re using Technicolor Cinestyle or some other “super-flat” capture preset in your DSLR. Some systems use a look-up table to expand the range in editing, but Vegas Pro does not. Use Color Curves instead.
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com -
Just to double-check that, could you try using something like MediaInfo to check the actual frames per second? If you’re using the Windows ‘properties’ check, be aware that Windows (7 anyway) rounds off the number, so 29.97 will show as 30.
MediaInfo should also show you whether your video and audio tracks are actually the same length — of course, you want them to be. I’ve come across videos that have video and audio tracks that are different lengths.
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com -
Yeah, I’ll chime in again on this.
Quicktime in Vegas, both in and out, began failing for me immediately after updating to the latest iTunes. I searched the error message and came across several message board threads where people were complaining of the same thing — concluding that the latest iTunes package was wrecking things for some people. Not everyone, obviously, but enough identical botched installs with matching side effects that people were warning Win7-64 users to steer clear of the update.
So, I used Revo Uninstaller to get rid of all the Apple products. That included the Apple software support, Quicktime, Itunes, Bonjour — everything that Apple installs. Revo takes the extra step of letting you get rid of the Registry entries and leftover files associated with the software. Again, Revo lets you sweep the registry and your hard drive clean of the offending product, going well beyond what Apple’s uninstaller will do for you.
Reboot afterward, of course. Probably run CCleaner an extra time, too.
Then, reinstall Quicktime from a fresh download.
Also reinstalled DNxHD — that might’ve been a repair install, actually.Back to working normally now.
John and the others are correct in saying Quicktime should work smoothly in Vegas, or at least much more smoothly than it’s working for you.
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com -
Well, if you’ve installed and configured ffdshow, closed and opened Vegas, rebooted and tried again, I’m out of ideas for you to try with that file.
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com -
So, you’re dragging a file with an .avi extension from, say, Explorer, onto the timeline, and what happens when you let go?
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com -
Here’s one guide of many available: https://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/ffdshow_install_configure_page_3.cfm
Basically you’re setting it up to say “Computer, when Windows wants to play an xvid file, I want you to feed push the encoded video to ffdshow and trust that ffdshow will spit out a decoded video on the other end.”
Right now, Vegas is looking for a vfw filter for xvid and finding none, so you’re probably getting a blank video, yes?
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Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com