Stephen Mann
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Your best solution is to buy a used Canopus ADVC300. You plug the S-Video or component (A/V) cables from the VHS player into the ADVC300, and it outputs DV AVI over Firewire.
Steve Mann
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I have ffdshow codecs installed and it doesn’t interfere with Vegas 11.
As a side note – NEVER install a CODEC pack on your Vegas computer.
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Without seeing a sample of the problem, I would have to guess that you’re seeing interlace artifacts. If I am correct, the faster the movement, the worse the artifact. Second guess – rolling shutter.
Steve Mann
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NEVER install a CODEC pack on your editing PC. Just a warning in case someone suggests it.
What is the source of the AVI file? AVI is just a container and the data it contains can be from any CODEC.
What O/S?
How much RAM?
Which Processor?
How many hard disk drives?
How much free space?
Does the problem present in any other programs?
Vegas version?Steve Mann
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I will be installing the public beta on a test system and I’ll write a review of how well or not it works with Vegas.
Steve Mann
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[Jason Himelreich] “rying to find as many Codec packs to uninstall as possible”
K-Lite is the worst, and the most common.
The CODEC packs are the least of your worries right now. You simply do not have the free space on your hard drive to do video editing. For my workflow, when a 1TB hard disk has less than 100GB free, it’s full. Add a second hard disk for your video projects. Microcenter has a 1.5TB bare drive for $99 today. That, and a desktop USB dock will have you set for a long time. Also, avoid “Green” drives. They are “Green” because they will slow down or even shut down during periods of inactivity.
Steve Mann
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[Mikhail Petrushin] “The 1st thing you have to try”
I missed that, Mikhail – the first thing I saw was that the OP was running one hard-disk that was almost full.
OP – overclocking is overrated. In video editing the performance improvements of 5% or less is simply not worth the myriad of seemingly unrelated failures that overclocking can induce. If you don’t know how to turn it off you shouldn’t be overclocking. Not to be condescending, but overclocking is something to be left to experts. My recommendation is simple – never. Take the computer where you bought it and make them remove it. Overclocking is simply begging for problems. You never want to overclock unless you know exactly what you are doing and are aware of the potential problems.
Totally OT, but a good place to inject this – NEVER install a CODEC pack on a video editing computer.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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[Steve Rhoden] “….That aint gonna happen.”
Which part?
Cinema delivery will be 95% by closed network in just a few years, and since the cost of 3D projectors is not much more than 2D projectors, the distribution will be saturated with 3D-ready theaters.Glasses-free technology? It’s already here. I’ve seen it at NAB and it’s pretty impressive.
Go into any Sony Style store and look at all the consumer 3D they are selling.
Just because you don’t see 3D in your future doesn’t mean that it isn’t coming.
Ten years ago videographers were laughing at the idea that everything would be HD in five years. “Ain’t gonna happen”, they said.
50-years ago “they” said the same thing about color TV.
75-years ago “they” said the same thing about color cinema.
100-years ago “they” said the same about “talkies” movies.Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Only one drive and only 10-20Gb free? Vegas needs temp space at least equal to your project size.
How big is your PageFile? All Windows since XP (and Unix/Linux for that matter) always wants to have page space. Always. Programs (including drivers and codecs) like to and are allowed to pre-allocate as much memory as they want. Even if they are never ever going to actually use it. Sometimes those programs properly deallocate memory, sometimes they don’t (resulting in “memory leak”). Sometimes, programs leave parts of themselves in allocated memory just in case you are going to run that program again. (MS Word, Excel and other Office programs are particularly adept at this). If you have no page file and a program wants to commit some for itself, your PC will crash (AKA, BSOD, or Blue Screen of Death).
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I can’t duplicate your problem. When I used the Sony Credit Roll, I did exactly the process you described and it always worked for me. I don’t use the Sony Credit Roll any more – not because there’s any problems – but because making changes can sometimes be tedious. And I was making a lot of changes.
I bought a copy of VideoTagger by Electric Happiness that lets me make my credit rolls in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. It also lets me add any .jpg images to the roll.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com