Sebastian Alvarez
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Indeed, I’m talking about the B&H version. They confirmed to me by email that while not boxed, it does come with its unique serial number. Since version 6 plus the Pro 8 upgrade is much cheaper than the full version, it’s a no brainer, but I want to make sure that it’s legal and that it will work just as well as the full version.
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So basically if I buy both version 6 and the 8 upgrade at the same time I would have to register the serial number that comes with version 6 at the Sony website and then install version 8, right?
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OK, but how does the upgrade version verify that you have the older version? Does it make you insert the installation CD for the older version, or does it make you type in the serial number from the older version?
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What do you use instead of I and O?
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I was referring to BD9, a regular DVD with Blu-Ray file/folder structure that can be played on BR players. I don’t have a BR burner and it will be a long time before I do, since not only they are expensive, but so is the media. Once the media comes down to $5 a disc, then I’m in.
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Sorry, my bad. I wasn’t using the best render settings for motion.
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OK, but that doesn’t produce smooth motion. I want to know if there’s a way to achieve a cinematic look and motion but without the stuttering.
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Thanks! And 7 to go to the previous point, as I just found out.
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[DSE/Spot] “Any professional MPEG encoding system renders the two files separately.”
Oh, I know that, I wasn’t talking about multiplexed a/v streams. I meant that the same module doesn’t output both the m2v and the ac3 files in the same step, like some other NLEs do. Not that it’s a terrible drawback, but it would be nice nevertheless.
Thanks for the VASST pointers.
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[DSE/Spot] “there are themes on the VASST Site at the Vegas Portal.”
Thanks for pointing me to that site, it looks like there’s a lot of interesting plugins for Vegas. The themes are listed there but their links don’t work, however I realized that changing the 3d color in Vista’s legacy color options changes Vegas’ background.
[DSE/Spot] “Edius does deal with MPEG 2 better, but my experience is that it doesn’t deal with HDV as well as Vegas.
The problem with Edius is that prior to editing AVCHD files (I don’t know about HDV) you have to use their utility to convert them to the Canopus HQ codec which takes quite some time. Loading the original files can be done, but they play very slow. Once that’s done, however, editing is fast. Vegas on the other side, takes the AVCHD files without conversion and they play, but they stutter. However, it’s fast to render to RAM a short preview of what you need at the moment, which I really like. What I don’t like is that it limits RAM previews to 1GB. Since I have 4 GB, I don’t see why I shouldn’t be able to choose at least 2 GB previews.
[DSE/Spot] “Perhaps listing the settings or template you’re using may help, particularly given that you were earlier outputting a 1920 x 1080 file.”
I figured it out after doing more testing. The problem was in the project settings, I had deinterlace set to none. That is kind of misleading, because since I want my project to be interlaced, I shouldn’t have to choose any deinterlacing method, but once I chose the interpolate fields setting, the output from the DVD encoding was perfect. I just wish that the Mpeg 2 encoder and the AC3 were in the same module, so I don’t have to encode first the video and then the audio.