[Stephen Crye]

Hi;

It is possible to burn a project direct to DVD in Vegas Pro, I used it once or twice:

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM Vegas 10e x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

[Stephen Crye]

I meant Vegas Studio Platinum, that was the first version I tried that got me hooked on Vegas Pro. oo00Oops.

steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM Vegas 10e x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

[Stephen Crye]

I can help with the Youtube and Facebook questions direct from Vegas, but I am confused about something.

Sony Vegas Pro comes with DVDA . Which version of Vegas to you have? Even when I bought Vegas MovieMaker Platinum, it came with a non-pro Version of DVDA. Your Download or original media should have included it.

For YouTube or Facebook, if your source is 720×480, I’d render to a .mov or .MP4 format. To avoid “blotch”, pick a higher bit-rate than the defaults, by setting Custom. I never use 720×480, but I just created a quick custom template to show you.

Here are some screen shots:

Please provide us with the details of your Vegas, and we can provide better support.

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM Vegas 10e x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

[Stephen Crye]

Hi Dan;

I have not thought about Sorenson squeeze for many years – in fact, since I started using Vegas. I think I have V5 sitting on a shelf somewhere.

One thing that strikes me about your YouTube vids is the excellent lack of motion artifacts, compared to my vids. For mine, I’m taking AVCHD 1080 60i footage from my Sony HDR-CX550V and using the Vegas AVC .mp4 encoder, set for 1920×0180 30p and 10 Mbps. Motion looks terrible. YouTube always takes forever to “process” my upload before it goes live, so I know the format is not what YT wants.

Please help me understand – I have heard that YT likes h.264 best, but I am not an expert on these matters, or how Squeeze fits into the equation. Do you use Squeeze after rendering via Vegas, or is it chained as a plug-in somehow? Details would be great, I’m so green I don’t know what questions to ask.

An example of my lame encoding efforts – please be aware this is a “home movie” with almost no editing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qD-jioVTI8

Thanks!

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM Vegas 10e x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

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[Stephen Crye]

Hi Thomas;

I, like you when I first started using Vegas, wanted to do everything “inside” it, but I quickly discovered that following John’s recommendations is so much better. The extra step of using DVD Architect (DVDA) will become second nature. And, it will allow you to create cool menus, put multiple vids on a single DVD, etc. Spend an hour or two learning, well worth it!

All you have to do is pick the Main Concept and Dolby in the “Save as Type” drop down. After you create those two files in the same folder, when you run DVDA and pick the .mpg, it will know to associate the correct .ac3 file. Here are screen shots:

Good luck and have fun!

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM Vegas 10e x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

[Stephen Crye]

Hi;

Sorry to hear about the mombo driver problem. The only possible way around that would be with the VMware player, but that would be pretty slow.

I have never tried the dual-boot from a single drive, but It would work if you first re-sized the parition. But, that is potentially perilous!

Adding a second SATA drive for Win7 is suuuper easy. You can either install it internally, or get one of those external “naked” SATA drive docking stations, such as the ones from BlackX. ( I use two because am swapping 1 TB drives like crazy).

After you add the new drive, use XP to partition it, put NTFS on it. Then boot from the Win7 Pro DVD (don’t use anything less than Pro). One of the menus will ask you if you want to dual-boot, pick it and just follow the prompts. When the whole thing is complete, you will boot to a text-ish menu where you will have a choice of Win7 or the “old” OS. The Win7 install will modify the master boot record on the existing drive 0 (your old C: drive). When you boot to Win7, the Win7 drive (drive 1) will be the C: drive and the old XP drive will be the D: drive. Conversely, when you boot to XP, the XP drive will be C:

Works like a champ every time!

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM Vegas 10e x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

[Stephen Crye]

I’m still working with them. They are not just blowing me off, and have provided pretty decent support. They have the serial number of the unit I’ve sent back for a refund.

Right now I’m trying to get them to commit that at least one problem, the asymmetrical edge aberration, is a defect that could be fixed under warranty if I were to purchase another NX70 and it has the same problem.

Several people have commented that the asymmetrical aberration could be caused by a misaligned sensor. However, in my night shots of city lights, I can see that there is also spherical aberration – that usually means defective lens design.

Have a look at this vid, I’ve tweaked the URL to go to the spot where the spherical aberration is apparent ( you will need to copy to a browser window and remove the spaces )

youtube . com/watch?v=xZzz-dvUMP4#t=1m12s

Notice that the blurs from the out-of-focus lights all point away from the center of the image, and are worse on the right side of the frame.

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM Vegas 10e x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

[Stephen Crye]

Dan, your problem is waaay to technical for me to be able to help. I just wanted to compliment you on the video! Gorgeous. Makes me homesick – I grew up in Florida … been away from the ocean for far too long.

I’ll follow this thread with great interest , I’m already learning things that will help when I finally buy a camera capable of 4:2:2 .

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM Vegas 10e x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

[Stephen Crye]

Thanks, John.

What you said would make sense in situations when auto-focus is on. However, the “pulsating blur” happens in manual focus. it is a compression artifact.

I’m pretty sure it has something to do with a slightly different implementation of the GoP in the new AVCHD codec that has the PS mode and the 24p mode. It does not happen in the CX550V, even in situations with exactly the same low-light and noise.

I’m not sure how long the GoP sequence is in the new codec, but the fact that the pulsation has a definite periodicity makes me suspect it is GoP related.

Thanks for taking the time to comment!

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM Vegas 10e x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

[Stephen Crye]

Hi Alfred;

If all your drives are fast SATA, I would say that is a good setup. the idea is to keep the heads on any drive from having to whip back and forth between reading and writing.

But, if some of your drives are USB, then the config you proposed might be slower than having some of the functions on the same, fast drive.

Last year I did a bunch of tests on my system to come up with the optimal configuration. What I noticed is that it did not make a big difference, because my system is CPU-bound, not IO bound. I recommend installing Process Explorer to keep an eye on performance.

Good luck and have fun!

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM Vegas 10e x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V