Stephen Mann
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Did that fix the problem?
In Vegas 9 you can put a veg file on the timeline and Vegas will treat it like media. This way you can have an opening or closing scene that every project has, and instead of creating it every time, you just make it once and put the veg file for the scene on your project timeline.
The reason I asked is that if your embedded veg file cannot locate missing media, Vegas won’t tell you and it just sits there forever marking time.
Steve Mann
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“Render as” Sony AVC and use one of the “Internet” settings under Sony AVC which are specifically designed for YouTube-like delivery. You can fine-tune the preferences to match your media and save the new template with a name you can easily recognize.
I put “Render As” in quotes because you really aren’t rendering AVC, you are encoding it. I really wish that Sony hadn’t put the encoding formats in the “Render As” menu.
Steve Mann
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[Gilles Gagnon] ” you’re not concerned about that drive dying on you?
the external USB drive provides good response while you work directly from it?”
I’ve never had a disk that didn’t work upon plugging it into the dock, and I’ve been doing backups to HDD for almost ten years. If that fails, there’s always the DVD. The fact is, most reasons to revisit a project is if the client wants more DVD’s. Rarely to change anything.
The SATA port is a USB2 device. It is fast enough for simple two-camera, simple editing projects. It grinds when I add any FX. Lately I have been using a 100Gb SSD as my work disk, but it appears that the USB port is my limiting factor. The editing PC is an HP Pavilion, and HP has the BIOS locked up tight. I can’t add an eSATA or USB3 card – the BOS just won’t see it. I do have an internal SSD for the projects that are heavy with FX.
Steve Mann
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BD is 25Gb and DVD5 is 4.7Gb. The quality would be the same. The question is will you material fit on 4.7Gb, and will your player accept a DVD5?
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Never. Disk space is so cheap that it doesn’t make much sense to take the time to “save with media”. If I need to revisit a project, I drop the drive into the SATA desktop port, and it open as if I had been working on it yesterday. Hint: I keep a “notes.txt” file at the root of every project where I jot my random and significant thoughts on the project.
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Any embedded veg files?
Have you tried removing any unused media from the project media folder?Steve Mann
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Hard disks are so cheap, I just have two SATA drives (in an external USB dock) for each project in progress. One is the primary and the other is the daily mirror backup. (NewEgg recently had 500Gb drives for $20.) When the project is finished and delivered, I just put the project disk into storage and reuse the backup disk. This is pretty much what I’ve done for ten years, and as new, higher density drives come on the market, I migrate my old storage to them, refreshing the backups. Anyone want a box of old 20- and 30Gb IDE drives? (Actually, I’ll dismember them to get to the really strong magnets inside) Just a few weeks ago I migrated about a dozen projects on 20Gb drives to a single 2Tb drive.
Steve Mann
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Not necessarily. If it’s short enough you can burn it to a DVD-5 (4.7 Gb), but some players won’t handle it.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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“unhandled exception” is almost always a driver issue.
I really can’t remember the last time that Vegas crashed on me. Version 7, I think. And it was self-inflicted.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com