Stephen Mann
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That’s not a Vegas error, it’s coming from Windows.
Look for reasons the file can’t be opened.
No room on the hard disk?
The file is ready open and/or locked by another application?
No room in the TEMP folder?Try a different name.
Steve Mann
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You should not ever have to remove any SCS products to install updates.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Thanks John – I’ll download the trial and try it out. CD Architect is probably a tool I should have on the shelf anyway.
Steve
Steve Mann
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That’s really strange. If you can provide a file less than 2Gb for me to try encoding, I’ll see what happens here.
When I send a large file, I use Dropbox.
Dropbox is one of those handy inventions where the more you use it, the more you come up with reasons to use it. Dropbox is a cloud-based file sharing service that syncs file across all your computers. It works with files (video, graphics, text, anything) of any size, and it syncs automatically whenever a new file appears or a change is detected. Best of all, it’s free for a 2GB account.
Just put the file into the public folder in your “My Dropbox”, right click on the file, select “dropbox” and “Copy Public Link”. This puts the public link of the file into your clipboard. Send me this link and I’ll get the file.
Get your free Dropbox here and we both get an additional 250 MB:
https://db.tt/KCWoOts
Thanks.Steve
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That’s pretty much my workflow. HDV from the cameras to m2ts (AVCHD) for the web. Never seen this problem.
Have you done something different from earlier encodes?
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I did it all in Vegas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJbTN2XP1-Q
I used Photoshop to put each character on a separate layer, then drag the psd file to the Vegas Timeline across tracks. (I could as easily have done it with the character generator in Vegas). I enabled the Composite Level envelope on each track and initially set all tracks to zero. The Composite Level was brought up for three frames per letter, in sequence, finishing with the letter or number I wanted. I created a track group (Version 10 only) for each character in the final presentation and added a parent track for positioning. Select all tracks in all track groups and drag the end of the tracks to two-times the desired length.
Finally, I opened my demo project and embedded the veg file with the scrolling characters on the track above the background. Now I compressed the scrolling text by doing a CTRL-drag of the text track to the desired length.
The time compression makes the individual characters fly by faster, plus it gives me some flexibility in the final project.
This whole project took me about two hours, but a) I love a challenge, and b) I got faster as I progressed. Also, duplicating characters that I already keyframed (like the “1”‘s in 2011) only took a couple of minutes to duplicate and move.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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It looks like the digits are scrolling through numbers. Like before you see “5”, it goes through 1-4.
Nice effect but I can’t think how to do it without a lot of keyframes.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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[Chris Morley] “Any ideas?”
Yes. Subst.
I do this all the time. My projects are on removable drives in a desktop dock. Depending on how many drives I have on, including any flash drives, the drive letter is unpredictable.
So, on each drive I have a small DOS batch file that changed that drive to whatever drive letter I want, drive M in this example. Feel free to use it. Just change NEWDRIVE= to whatever drive letter you want.
Now, if I can just figure out a way to run this batch file every time the drive comes on line.
@ECHO OFF
:: CURDRIVE.BAT
::
:: Substitutes CURDRIVE with NEWDRIVE
::
SET NEWDRIVE=M
::
SET CURDRIVE=
CD | CHOICE /C:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ > NUL
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 SET CURDRIVE=A
IF ERRORLEVEL 2 SET CURDRIVE=B
IF ERRORLEVEL 3 SET CURDRIVE=C
IF ERRORLEVEL 4 SET CURDRIVE=D
IF ERRORLEVEL 5 SET CURDRIVE=E
IF ERRORLEVEL 6 SET CURDRIVE=F
IF ERRORLEVEL 7 SET CURDRIVE=G
IF ERRORLEVEL 8 SET CURDRIVE=H
IF ERRORLEVEL 9 SET CURDRIVE=I
IF ERRORLEVEL 10 SET CURDRIVE=J
IF ERRORLEVEL 11 SET CURDRIVE=K
IF ERRORLEVEL 12 SET CURDRIVE=L
IF ERRORLEVEL 13 SET CURDRIVE=M
IF ERRORLEVEL 14 SET CURDRIVE=N
IF ERRORLEVEL 15 SET CURDRIVE=O
IF ERRORLEVEL 16 SET CURDRIVE=P
IF ERRORLEVEL 17 SET CURDRIVE=Q
IF ERRORLEVEL 18 SET CURDRIVE=R
IF ERRORLEVEL 19 SET CURDRIVE=S
IF ERRORLEVEL 20 SET CURDRIVE=T
IF ERRORLEVEL 21 SET CURDRIVE=U
IF ERRORLEVEL 22 SET CURDRIVE=V
IF ERRORLEVEL 23 SET CURDRIVE=W
IF ERRORLEVEL 24 SET CURDRIVE=X
IF ERRORLEVEL 25 SET CURDRIVE=Y
IF ERRORLEVEL 26 SET CURDRIVE=Z
IF “%CURDRIVE%”==”” ECHO Error checking current drive
IF NOT “%CURDRIVE%”==”” ECHO Current drive is %CURDRIVE%:subst %NEWDRIVE%: /d
subst %NEWDRIVE%: %CURDRIVE%:Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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[Mark Prebonich] “I just upgraded my memory from 4 to 8GB. I previously had been using only around 2.5 GB when rendering. I see that I am still using only about that same amount even after the upgrade (not really any difference noticed?).”
I’ll assume that you are not using XP which limits you to 4Gb.
Vegas, all Windows programs for that matter, use whatever RAM they need. If you don’t have enough RAM then pagefiles come into play, but that’s another discussion. The operative is “use whatever they need”. (You can lead a horse to water…). What you are seeing is that Vegas doesn’t *need* more RAM, so it isn’t going to use it.
But having more RAM is never a bad idea because it allows background tasks to stay in RAM, making everything run a little smoother.
That said – you get the most bang for the buck with a faster processor. What’s your CPU usage look like? if it’s near 100% while you run Vegas, then you simply need a faster or more processors.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com