Stephen Buckley
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Yes, yes, I realize all that, of course a faster system is idea. I have a quadcore amd with 12gigs of ram running windows 7. BUT! as I mentioned in all my posts, my edit system runs pretty good with some occassional hiccups which I cannot ever reproduce; by occasional, I mean maybe every fourth or fifth project, but it also depends on the complexity of the project. Anyways, the fact that I can already edit fine, it can be inferred that some other factor is causing the infrequent problem; the weird phenomenon as I described in the original post.
Thank you for all your attempts to assist, but I think we’re having a communication breakdown, because I keep repeating myself, so sorry if I sound short, its just frustrating. I’m trying to word things as detailed as possible. Thank you.
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I realize that multicam does require a significant amount of horseposer, since the system has to parse additional footage simultaneously, but the problem I’m having is NOT an attempt to use multicam. I only want to preview a standard single stream of footage; simple good ol’ fashioned editing, nothing complicated. But yes, the system acts (as I said, on occassion) sluggish as if it were parsing multiple tracks simultaeously.
I now realize I worded my original posting by mentioning the ‘other’ tracks below, but when I edit, clips tend to get shuffled around often on 3 or 4 video tracks. I never intended to do multicam. From what I always understood and observed is that the top most track is what the system will preview unless the top most track or clip opacity is set to something less than 100%
I didn’t think it was important to mention my specs, because most of the time, my system plays the clips fine. Once in a blue moon, this phenomenon happens. It can be deduced that my system specs are not causing the problem, but a setting in Vegas MUST be the culprit. This is because I can toggle the increased performance by either muting the tracks below, that are never supposed to be seen anyways OR by soloing the track that is supposed to be seen. When I do that, the performance of the playback goes back to its normal playback.
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hmm…I wouldn’t agree that vegas renders all the video tracks for viewing in the preview window. You can do a simple test by making stacking two tracks and bringing the top track opacity down so that there is a mix of the two images, upon playback of the timeline; you will notice that the cpu is taxed a bit more than if you were just playing the top track completely normal (eventhough there is a clip beneath). Plus, it would be a waste of effort and efficiency for Vegas to always attempt to playback all the track layers when only one is being seen.
BUT, that does seem to be what is happening every once in a great while. It doesn’t happen to me often and I don’t know why it does it. Hence my inquiry.
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I am running a Win7 x64 duocore with Vegas 10 and successfully use the Lagarith codec. The only problem since using V10 that I noticed is that either, rendering out clips from Vegas using the Lagarith codec WITH alpha channels is NOT working OR V10 is successfully rendering alphas, but V10 is not recognizing the alphas when bringing the clip back in. I never had this problem from previous Vegas’.
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hey there Travis, I’m sure this solution isn’t 100% reliable, but it actually worked in my instance.
My situation was I was given a 90 min documentary edited in FCP and I was to color correct, clean up and mix the audio in Vegas. For the most part it was a cuts only edit with some crossfades. I had a friend with FCP download the 15 day Boris FX AAF Transfer demo plugin and I emailed him the FCP proj file. He then opened the proj (he didn’t even have the media) and then simply exported via the Boris FX AAF Transfer and emailed that file back to me. I wasn’t expecting anything when receiving it, but the project opened (with a little help on my side by telling Vegas where the media resided).
Everything from what I could tell was intact and in sync. Even the few crossfades where intact. Automatic Duck also have an AAF Transfer tool, but they don’t have a demo version and their program is quite expensive. Oh yeah, you’ll also want MacDrive if the media is on a mac formatted disk and you’ll have to ensure to turn off the option where Windows will add the presumed extension to the filename.
Going back to FCP, I cannot tell you if it works that way since I was finalizing in Vegas.
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yes, applying to the event works fine. I went ahead and tried the media FX again, but NOW applying a filter package works!…seemed fine after I rebooted. Then again there is still the issue of the importation of older projects that loses media fx….sometimes. I guess I’ll just run with this. I can’t argue with that, but I have an uneasy feeling it may rear its head up again. Thanx for the responses.
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*bump*
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surely somebody has encountered this situation?
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Thanx for the response, ugh…although it hurt. Not good if that is the case.
Here is the article that led me to believe that 5.1 nesting was capable. Perhaps there are some particulars I didn’t grasp.
“… Even if you import/nest a 5.1 project, all buses and mixes associated with buses, along with any FX you may have added to the buses or projects, will show up properly in the new project. Just be sure that if you import a 5.1 file to a new veg file, that the new veg file/project is also 5.1, or you’ll be collapsing the surround mix to a stereo mix.”
https://vegas.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=34682-1
A follow up question would be, if 5.1 nesting is not maintainable, how Could I maintain all those channels in the master project. There is atleast a few dozen nested projects that I simply cannot forsee unnesting all into a master project. I guess I could export all the channels as separate wav files then place them into their appropriate placement in the main project. Although it becomes quite a pain if I need to make an edit, but I suppose if thats what it takes. Help.
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Wow, good to know how to do that. I still wonder why the multiply mode is so different than in After Effects/Photoshop. Seems like it should be called something else.