Stephen Mann
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“If you consider that your pc can be a server by itself.”
If you have enough bandwidth, yes.
Steve Mann
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This technique was used on a Stupor Bowl ad about 15-years ago. By placing a neutral-gray filter over one eye you delay the brain from registering motion by a millisecond or so, so motion appears to have 3D depth. (I think it was Coke and they were putting millions of these special glasses in cartons of Cocke products leading up to the Stupor Bowl. The ad featured a lot of slow dolly moves, and it did look like 3D).
You can try it yourself using an old pair of lightly-tinted sunglasses. Knock out one eye of the glasses and watch some motion on your 2D TV. Your brain *will* see 3D. (Very-dark or heavy tinted glasses won’t work as well).
Now, extrapolating that effect to a single-camera shoot… I would imagine that you could duplicate the illusion by delaying one eye by a single frame. Might be fun to try.
Steve Mann
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I usually avoid these discussions because asking for opinions about Editing Software is like asking about religion.
If the people who designed the early NLE’s had created the first word processor, the PC would beep at us when we reached the 80th character and we’d all be pressing the Carriage Return button at the end of each line! Sometimes emulating the real world is the worse design choice you could make.
(I don’t recall where I stole that quote, but it is very apropos).
Sometimes a paradigm shift is good. In the case of Sony Vegas, away from the film world.
Now you know which religion is my editor. (Or is it the other way around?)
MPEG2 is a lousy format for editing regardless which editing platform you use because it’s already compressed. (You don’t say what the source media is).
I don’t know if the metadata remains intact as I’ve never looked at it.
That said, my local PEG station edits from DVD’s all the time (which are MPEG2). (And they are still in a 4:3 SD world).Interesting aside – they use Avid for editing and had a DVD of a project that needed the head and tail trimmed to time and some graphics added. The Avid editor got started and I took a copy of the DVD to my studio. I imported the DVD media into Vegas, did the edits, burned a new DVD and drove back to the station. The Avid guy had just started editing – after transcoding the DVD files into a format that the Avid system uses.
If it helps your decision, just download the demo from SonyCreativeSoftware.com and try it. It’s fully functioning and works for 30-days. And you won’t find a better group of users to ask questions than on the COW.
If you do download the demo and try testing for the metadata, please let us know what you find out.
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That was a long while ago. Sony generally only allows the discounted upgrade for 30-days after the version release.
Steve Mann
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I’ve installed many codecs
This could be masking your problem. Installing a codec pack may be replacing the fine codecs installed by Vegas.
Have you tried reinstalling Vegas?
Steve Mann
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You may have a problem with MSVCR90.dll which is a part of the Microsoft visual c++ runtime library.
I recently had similar problems with ATI drivers on a Windows Vista system. The system is an HP Pavilion which came standard with an on-board ATI chipset. The user added a dual-port ATI card to add a second screen and everything went to heck. ATI catalyst was causing an error with both MSVCRT.dll and MSCVR90.dll. I won’t elavorate on the hair-pulling this one caused me, but a fresh install of Windows 7 and all programs, including Vegas, fixed the problem.
MSCVR90.dll exists in multiple locations on your system, so I would do a full search for it. See if one copy was recently modified, and maybe overwrite it with a copy from somewhere else on your system, or another system. A lot of programs install their own copy.
Other things to try:
Make sure that you have the latest graphics drivers.
Run the sfc /scannow System File Checker command to replace a missing or corrupt copy of damaged system files. If this DLL file is provided my Microsoft, the System File Checker tool should restore it.
Install any available Windows updates. Many service packs and other patches replace or update some of the hundreds of Microsoft distributed DLL files on your computer. The msvcr90.dll file could be included in one of those updates.
Repair your installation of Windows. Performing a startup repair or repair installation should restore all Windows DLL files to their working versions. How you do a repair depends on how Windows was installed. Whether you have the install disks from Microsoft or it was preinstalled by the PC manufacturer. You’re looking for “System Repair”.
Perform a clean installation of Windows.
If any msvcr90.dll errors persist after a clean install of Windows, your DLL problem can only be hardware related.
Steve Mann
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could it be because the source files are coming from an external drive via USB and not the more stable FireWire?
Nope. This is my normal mode. I put each project on an external bare SATA drive in a USB 2.0 dock
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Run chkdsk from the command line. If it reports cross-linked sectors you have a serious problem developing.
Steve Mann
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It’s possible that you have a problem in your .net installation.
Here’s what I would try.
In Control Panel, uninstall Vegas and .netGo to
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9cfb2d51-5ff4-4491-b0e5-b386f32c0992and download/install a clean version of .net
Then reinstall Vegas.
Please let me know if this helps.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com