Stephen Mann
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[John Rofrano] “but I don’t think anything you do with 2 sticks vs 4 sticks is going to make any difference.”
In memory-intensive applications like high-performance gaming, 4×8 will outperform 2×16 memory sticks in benchmarks. But the difference is so small that any disk I/O will instantly wipe out any performance improvements you might see.
But to gamers, one-half of one-percent is a big deal. They’re nuts.
Steve Mann
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[Steve Rhoden] “Yes Jeff, Installing much OFX and GPU dependent plugins, gradually opens up cans of worms for Vegas.”
The PC that I test software on is so loaded with crap, weird codecs, hundreds of unrelated programs, multiple versions of just about everything. And it just keeps working. I wish I could replicate the experience for others, but all I can say is that I always follow the Windows updates with a driver version review. (Sometimes they are linked, but nether party tells the users). I never run Norton *anything*. And the only games on this PC are solitaire games that come with Windows.
My main production PC is a BYO, and only has Vegas and DVDA installed, plus BCC8, NBT and Sapphire Edge plugins. No Photoshop, no MS Office programs, and other than an nVidia driver problem early on, no problems.
Steve Mann
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I seem to be a pariah around here since I can’t get on the “It’s Buggy” wagon train, I only have good to report about the latest release. No crashes, NBT works, Genarts Sapphire Edge works, BCC8 works.
Steve Mann
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You said you had the bars. You have bars with an image overlaid on it which complicates the process. If it were just bars then chromakey would be an easy fix. I don’t think there’s any way to do it easily in Vegas alone.
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You are correct, Brett – I missed the BluRay reference in the OP.
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[James Magda] ” even if I render out this huge file, will DVD Architect accept it as an input file?”
Yes, but it will re-encode it to the format it wants. Compromising quality and unnecessarily taking more time.
You encode your video in Vegas using the Main Concept codec and the DVD Architect template. You encode the audio using the Dolby Digital AC3 template, using the same root file name. When you bring the video file into the DVDA Project Overview window, the audio should follow. (The audio doesn’t show up in the Project Overview window, it does show as a waveform in the Timeline window.)
The default parameters in the video template are good for a 70-minute DVD. If your video is longer than 70-minutes, you will have to reduce the bitrate (Google for a bitrate calculator) to make it fit without DVDA wanting to re-encode the video.
My rule of thumb – put the audio, video and any extras files into an empty folder. If they total 4.3GB or less in Windows Explorer, then they will fit in a standard DVD.
Steve Mann
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If it’s not too big for Dropbox, send the original media and the veg file and I’ll try it here. (Assuming I have the same third-party plugins you used.)
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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[Phil Seymour] “”Display driver stopped responding and has recovered”
I used to get this all the time on one workstation. Nothing would fix it. I replaced the video cards (there are two in this workstation) and the problem went away. (From older non-CUDA cards to low-cost cards with CUDA).
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com