Sebastian Alvarez
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That’s not really a solution, unless your final delivery format is HDV. I wouldn’t recompress all my footage to HDV format to then recompress it again to DVD format. It’s too time consuming, but even worse, takes a toll on quality, always my main concern. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
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Also, what you can do is try to find a Vegas 6 or 7 original on eBay and then buy the Pro 8 upgrade from B&H at $150, and the upgrade does come with DVD Architect.
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Actually I read that Nero Vision did smart render so I tried it and it didn’t work in my case. I set the options to match my footage and I made sure smart render was selected, but judging by the amount of time it was going to take, I knew it wasn’t going to smart render at all. I didn’t see it as a big improvement over the pixela junk though, it seemed simple and even more annoying in some things.
One thing I discovered playing with the pixela soft that made it not so unbearable for me is that it’s much easier to cut out rough edges in a take by dragging its edges in the timeline rather than in the video window, because the video window wants to redraw dynamically which is why you don’t have any control over it. But if you drag the edges of the take in the timeline view, it might not be totally frame accurate, but at least it’s better, and tolerable for home movies, with the huge advantage that it always smart renders. Of course, if I have to edit something for a customer, I can use Vegas and have all the pro stuff that I need.
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[Dengse Nimo] “First they replied to change the file name from MPG to VOB”
Whoever told you that obviously has no clue. I’m not an expert, but I know that VOB files are DVD mpeg2 files, which are program streams, as opposed to m2ts files, which are mpeg4 transport streams. But chances are you spoke with one of those guys in India or who knows where who have no clue about anything. I called a while ago about something related to my Sony Blu-Ray player and the guy gave me information about a firmware update that directly contradicted what was listed on the firmware update list of features.
Regardless of this, I keep wondering why some people have problems loading or playing AVCHD in Vegas, because I have files from the Panasonic SD5 that I had for a while, and they load and play, although they play at like 10 fps because it’s a very CPU intensive format, and I can hear the CPU fan going up a few seconds after I start playing them in Vegas. And while I don’t have the fastest computer in the world, it’s a 2.4 Ghz Intel Core2Duo with 4 GB of RAM, so I would say it’s a fast computer. It also might be that the implementation of the format in Vegas is not perfect. When I play the AVCHD files in the Panasonic HD writer software they play smoothly, which means the computer can handle the format, but Vegas is not fully optimized for it.
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Mike is right, as far as I know they added the Pro to the name starting with version 8. I’m pretty sure that the version 6 B&H is selling is the Pro of that number, because otherwise the CD would probably say Platinum but also I don’t think Vegas Pro 8 would install if it detected that the version 6 installed is not the Pro.
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[Ty Ford] “go for it”
Go for what?
Does anybody have a cheap but decent ambient microphone to recommend?
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Well, I haven’t meassured it, but it’s not too tall, probably 9 feet or so.
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[Ty Ford] “I like to mic presenters with a Countryman e6 and go wireless or hardwired to a mixer that feeds the camera or recorder.”
I looked it up and that mic is over $300 and if I understand correctly each speaker has to wear one. I need something a lot cheaper and simpler. Just one ambient microphone which is decent at capturing voice (I know it won’t be anywhere as good as a clip-on mic or a person holding one in their hand), and without the need of any extra mixer. I can see why the cable is a good idea, so I just need a wired mic with a long cable that I can connect to the mic input of my camcorder.
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[Ray Palmer] “First rule of wireless mics, don’t use them unless nothing else will do.
Can you run a hard wired mic? It would be cheaper and a lot more dependable.”I suppose I could, it would be more difficult but it can be done. Of course the microphone itself would have to be small because it would be hanging from the ceiling, in other words, no Shure SM58 type microphone. And it would have to be good at capturing voice in a wide area, rather than being directional. A circle of 10 ft diameter would suffice.
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[Kip Count] “What sort of things would unlimited tracks let me do? Layering and setting up effects? I’m somewhat new to advanced video editing so I’m not sure why I’d need more than 4 video tracks (as an audio guy, I can certainly see why I’d need more than 4 audio tracks though! 🙂 )”
Well, I’m not much of a professional, but I would say doing things with lots of titling and composition. 4 video tracks should be good enough for lots of cool stuff though, but with unlimited tracks you can do whatever is on your mind. It’s just like audio I would think.