[Stefan Scheidegger]

I didn’t find out much about the bugs in the Sony Vegas OFX interface. But I think I know by now what are the three instances good for:
instance_1 creates the plug-in and the user interface
instance_2 will render the frames
instance_3 to x are more renderers to accelerate the render process. ImageEffectDescriptor::setRenderThreadSafety() can be used to change that behavior. If I set for example setRenderThreadSafety(OFX::eRenderUnsafe), then only instance_2 will be created to render.

If someone knows more details about this, feel free to share.

[Stefan Scheidegger]

I think I found the solution for this problem in Sony Vegas:

1. Open a Vegas project with HD settings
2. Import the SD footage
3. Apply the de-interlacing filter not as a track or event effect, but as a media effect. That way apparently it will work with the source media resolution and successfully de-interlace my media.
4. Apply all the other effects as usual as track or event effects and profit from HD resolution.
5. Render to HD

Some important points in my case:
– I applied BCC deinterlace in Boris RED as a media effect. But Boris RED recognized my HD project settings and used those. I had to manually change the Boris RED project settings to SD for the de-interlacer to work!
– My SD footage is quite blurry. Boris uprez didn’t make a big difference compared to just importing the SD footage to Vegas. But applying BCC unsharpmask in an HD project instead of an SD project made a huge difference!

Best,
Stefan

[Stefan Scheidegger]

Peter,

did you hear anything about these issues? Were you able to reproduce them? Is there a bugfix release for BCC scheduled?

Thanks a lot for your help,

Stefan

[Stefan Scheidegger]

Perfect, thanks a lot! Looking forward to hearing from you.

Stefan

[Stefan Scheidegger]

Thanks a lot for the hints! I think I’d prefer to keep working on the whole one hour clips. I have about 40 of them to stabilize and the result is good. As I said, it just needs time.

I was zooming 400% to 800%. But with 1 hour of tracking points (about 90’000) it’s still not possible to select the desired point. I wish there were some keyboard commands for moving the current tracking point (e.g. arrow keys) and for also selecting the neighbours of the selected tracking point (comparable to text editing: shift – arrow keys). (Yes, I’m one of those who do everything with keyboard short cuts!)

About locking points I didn’t know. I’ll definitely give it a try. Thanks for the hint!

Best,
Stefan

[Stefan Scheidegger]

Hi Peter,

Thanks a lot for the information. Looking forward to it!

Stefan

[Stefan Scheidegger]

For the moment I found a workaround for this issue: When I want to do motion tracking in Boris RED as a Vegas Plug-in, I close the Vegas video preview window and I hide the timeline. Like that I face fewer problems with RED changing to the green V1 footage.

Is there an estimated release date for the RED update solving these issues?

Best,
Stefan

[Stefan Scheidegger]

Thanks a lot, Bob.

Maybe I should rephrase: I’m looking for the least bad U-Matic machine.

So far I use an old VO5850 with an external TBC to play back. But I hope to get maybe a few less drop-outs or tracking problems when using a later model. (Unfortunately I didn’t find any NLE filters that automatically treat those problems of old analog material.)

Now I’m undecided whether to go for a BVU-900 with TBC and noise reduction or for a VO9800. Well maintained is a prerequisite anyway.

[Stefan Scheidegger]

I have just run another test: I used RED Engine (without Sony Vegas) to apply a filter (BCC dust/scratch removal) and render to an uncompressed .mov file. The behaviour is the same: The memory used by the RED Engine process keeps growing while rendering until it crashes (after rendering about 15 minutes of footage, the process used more than 2 GB RAM). There was no error message, the application just closed! Even when I successfully render a short clip, the memory is not freed afterwards!

So this is actually not a problem of the combination of Vegas and RED but of RED itself. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong here! Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot!