Stephen Mann
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Why are you asking if we have no real value to you?
Steve Mann
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I did this just today. Just open two instances of Vegas. On the destination target, create a blank video track. On the source, right-click copy the event you want o copy, then on the destination, right-click paste on the new video track.
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Nothing in your description rings a bell. Is the error message a Windows error or Vegas error? If it’s a Windows error you will be asked if you want to search the web for a solution (a waste of time), or there will be nothing but “Vegas has stopped”. If it’s a Vegas error you will be asked to describe what you were doing.
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“Tell them to open the MP4 file in QuickTime and it will work fine.”
The free VLC media player (From videolan.org) will also play the MP4 files if your clients are adverse to installing QT.
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Those are data drops – not to be confused with Dropped Frames. You don’t say what camera or how you are getting the data, but you do need to go “upstream” to determine where the problem is being introduced.
If it is a tape in a DV camera, then…
Does it show up when playing in the viewfinder? If yes, then it was recorded that way – your data is toast.
If it’s clean in the viewfinder, then your data is good as recorded.So if you’ve determined that the data on the tape is good, then try recapturing. If the problem persists, then as another poster said, if the errors are in different places, you can mask/blend them into a good track.
A bad Firewire cable can introduce this kind of noise.
Dirty heads can also cause this, but if that were the case you would see it on the camera’s viewfinder.
Hope this helps.
Steve Mann
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There’s a free utility: “belarc advisor” (https://www.belarc.com/free_download.html) that will tell you what version you are running, plus a lot more. I highly recommend it.
Steve Mann
Steve Mann
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“I don’t actually have a turntable that does 78rpm, so this should be fun.”
Record it at 33 1/3 RPM and speed it up in Vegas by 75%.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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“but thats not the case cause i have 8 gb of RAM so it shouldnt be a problem.”
I’ll let John continue to address the half-screen problem, and I’ll address the Windows “low memory” warning.
Here’s my boilerplate response (recently updated):
Low Memory or Out of Memory does not mean “Not enough RAM”, though adding RAM can sometimes fix a “Low Memory” waning. A “Low Memory” warning usually means that you have exceeded your commit limit. You need either a bigger page file, more physical memory, or both.One of the biggest sources of confusion over Windows memory usage is the whole concept of virtual memory compared to physical memory. Windows organizes memory, physical and virtual, into pages. Each page is a fixed size (typically 4 KB). To make things more confusing, there’s also a page file (sometimes referred to as a paging file and dynamic RAM). Many Windows users still think of this as a swap file, a bit of disk storage that is only called into play when you absolutely run out of physical RAM. In versions of Windows starting with Vista, that is no longer the case. The most important thing to realize is that physical memory and the page file added together equal the commit limit, which is the total amount of virtual memory that all processes can reserve and commit.
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).
Paging file configuration is in the System properties, which you can get to by typing “sysdm.cpl” into the Run dialog, clicking on the Advanced tab, clicking on the Performance Options button, clicking on the Advanced tab (this is really advanced), and then clicking on the Change button. I would suggest a value of 1.5X the currently allocated value. The old advice of 2X or 3X your RAM is, well, old advice when a few MB of RAM was normal. The largest paging file that you can select in Windows is 4,095 megabytes (MB).
Also, Windows supports up to 16 paging files, but each must be on a separate volume, so if you have more than one internal disk drive you could try enabling a Paging File on your second hard-disk. DO NOT put a paging file on an external drive because if it’s not present when Windows boots, then Windows will crash.
For more information, see https://support.microsoft.com/kb/237740 and https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2267427
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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“… but the VHS tapes are still siting in a pile waiting..”
So are mine, as are my pile of LP records.Too bad that I can’t write an educational syllabus and get a summer college intern.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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You could get an HDMI to Analog converter, then use the Z1 as a pass-through to Firewire into Vegas.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com