Seth Estrada
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First off you need to know that Vegas 7 does not support 10-bit media, only 8-bit, so the extra money you’re spending “ain’t worth 2-bits” Though capturing ‘full raster HD’ instead of 1440×1080 does add more information to your media… but not enough to justify the extra $350 unless you’re also getting the extra color information (the 10-bit color depth) That’s my ‘2-bits’
-sethp.s. Vegas 8 should have support for 10-bit uncompressed media, but that’s not for several months still.
“Oh be wise, what can I say more?”
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What Ed is telling you is that you need to Control+Drag the edge of the clip instead of applying a velocity envelope, since velocity envelopes do not slow down audio. You should probably also not try to preserve the original pitch of the audio as it tends to sound really bad after being slowed down too much.
-Seth“Oh be wise, what can I say more?”
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I’m not sure what type of batch capture scripts are already available for Vegas, but somebody must have a good one. In the meanwhile, be sure to log your tapes and other media into a spreadsheet program like MS office or OpenOffice, then you’ll have a searchable index that can go anywhere with you. A good script should allow you to just paste in the tape name, in and out points of the desired clips, and then let Vegas do it’s thing, but I’ve never written a script, and I don’t actually know if one like this exists. Does that help? If you you’re just going to dump a bunch of media on a NAS, then just use Picasa: it’s searchable, free, shows thumbnails of the media, and will let you drag and drop from the search results.
-seth“Oh be wise, what can I say more?”
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I totally second what Rick said, and add this pearl: You seem very concerned with processor speed, but processors have not really been a big bottleneck ,when it comes to working with DV, for a few years now… the culprit is Hard Drive I/O. Look into a good RAID, whether you build an internal one or buy an external one you will notice the difference much sooner than with getting a fast processor. Vegas is a much less resource hungry program than any of Adobe’s applications, so it won’t eat up your processor. Again, be sure to make a preemptive strike on sluggish data I/O by adding a RAID to your list.
-seth“Oh be wise, what can I say more?”
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Yes, they ‘play nice’ in most areas but DVCPRO, in general, is not one of them. DVCPRO HD is not something that Vegas 7e has support for out of the box. (Nobody’s perfect; FCP had horrible HDV support for a painfully long time) But he can use Raylight, a non-free third party tool, to put DVCPRO HD into an ‘AVI wrapper’ and then edit in Vegas. My big questions are what is your final delivery format? And do you need to do heavy color correction/post processing/VFX?
-seth“Oh be wise, what can I say more?”
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What hardware are you running? (ie PIII, P4, AMD, single core, cual core, dual proc, home built, Dell, HP, Intel Mac, etc.)Which version of windows? OS updates/servicepacks? Which versions of .net do you have installed? When was the last time you re-installed windows? Which revision of Vegas 6 do you use? Is it the latest available? How did you deploy the media manager software in to your system? Have you tagged your media for media manager to find it quickly? These are not accusations, but a list of things for you to check if you haven’t already. I am curious to know the answers so I can understand a little better what the full context of your bad experience has been.
Vegas 6 is the first version to include media manager, so there may be an issue/conflict there between media manager and explorer. It could also be an incomplete or incorrect update/servicepack implementation. I noticed strange behavior from XP when I installed .net for the first time, but it never gave me trouble with Vegas, of course Vegas 5 didn’t use media manager. At any rate, I would be more suspicious of explorer than Vegas. I hope that’s helpful, get back to us about your system specs and hopefully we’ll have a solution soon.
-seth“Oh be wise, what can I say more?”