[Sean Mcnally]

Thanks for taking the time to give a thorough explanation! I’m starting to understand it now, just a few questions:

[Shane Ross] “I send them a bin of my cut.”

What exactly do you send over to New York? A drive, with the big “Avid MediaFiles” folder on it? Or do they already have their own drive with that folder on there? By “send them a bin”, do you mean it’s not necessary for you to send them all the source media files, because they already have them? Finally, when they sent you over the media, did they process it through Avid, or are you just getting raw files dropped onto a drive? If it’s the latter, I don’t understand how they can simply open the cut without Avid having to go and find the files.

[Sean Mcnally]

[Shane Ross] “Want to move files, CONSOLIDATE within Avid.”

What’s the process like for doing that? Does that actually move files from one place to another, or is it more of a copy/paste sort of thing?

[Shane Ross] “Avid touts strong media management, not file organization.”

Gee, didn’t know there was a difference. What, then, is “media management”, if not organization?

[Sean Mcnally]

Not a “real” GPU, an onboard graphics chipset for the Intel Core i7 5600-U processor, it’s the Intel HD Graphics 5500. Not sure when the last driver update was. This is my machine, the ThinkPad Yoga 12.

[Sean Mcnally]

Hi Justin,

I’m having the exact same issue. Will post here if I find a solution. In the meantime, if you’ve found anything that helped you with this problem, please let me know!

[Sean Mcnally]

Not quite. See, if you crop a 16:9 image to 8:5 and save that as a preset, that preset is only accurate for other 16:9 images. If you take, for example, a 4:3 image and try to use the same preset, it will not be accurate. Oddly though, the built-in Vegas aspect ratio presets (1:1, 4:3, 16:9) are always accurate regardless of the source aspect ratio.

[Sean Mcnally]

Yes. I can’t seem to replicate it now to put it into a gif, but it is consistent when it happens, and I have to restart vegas to fix it.

[Sean Mcnally]

[Jorma Nippala] “Pause
Pauses playback and leaves the cursor at its current position.
Stop
Stops playback or recording and returns the cursor to its starting position.”

This is not quite what I meant. I am aware of the difference between pause and stop. What I mean is that sometimes when I hit play, the playhead follows where the edit cursor is moved to, and isn’t treated as a separate entity. Other times, as the playhead moves through the timeline, the edit cursor is completely separate, and can be moved around during playback. I am aware of its behavior when stopping playback, I am curious about its behavior during playback.

Here’s what I mean

Sometimes it locks:

Sometimes it doesn’t:

[Sean Mcnally]

1 – I’ve never gotten GPU rendering to work, it’s incredibly buggy in Vegas.

2 – Here is the definitive tutorial on render settings, it is what I have been using for years. It is one of the most in-depth tutorials on the subject out there – https://youtu.be/rWMX5lSvEgY

3 – This is fairly easy. Don’t bother with envelopes. To speed up/slow down, simply hold control while dragging either end of the clip. This makes the clip faster or shorter rather than cutting frames off the ends. As far as reverse, simply right click any clip and select the “Reverse” option in the context menu that pops up.

4 – I’m not really familiar with GoPro studio, but it seems like color correction is the way to go. If you want something more in-depth, take a look around for third party color correction plugins that might better suit your needs. However, if you think Sony vegas isn’t representing the original footage correctly while exporting, refer to the YouTube link I included earlier. It includes tips for, not enhancing, but accurately rendering out color in the footage.

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[Sean Mcnally]

Vegas doesn’t handle GIFs well. However, you can use free software like GIMP (my personal favorite) to export each frame individually.

[Sean Mcnally]

Excalibur might have what you are looking for. I haven’t used it myself, and there isn’t really any good video documentation of it online, the best I could find is a russian tutorial on it. He goes over the multi-cam options here:
https://youtu.be/QR-JawKeGR8?t=3m (Skip to 3 minutes in)

Again, as I’ve not used it myself, and the video doesn’t go in-depth on this feature’s functionality, I can’t vouch for it, but it looks like this might be what you want.

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