Stephen Mann
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I never heard of iBUYPOWER.
99% of what you posted is meaningless marketing confusionspeak. Designed to impress people who don’t know DDR from SATA. (Sorry if that includes you).If you don’t know enough about building PCs (it’s really easy), then stick with established brands. I have mixed experiences with Dell computers – more good than bad, but HP has **never** let me down. I have also had very good experiences with eMachines.
Here’s what it important..
1) Get the fastest processor you can afford.
2) Vegas does care about the GPU, everything is done in the processor. (See number one). But as John said, a lot of programs use the CUDA processors in the nVida GPUS. No one writes for ATI, except game programs.
3) More RAM is generally better. I am not certain, but I think that VMS is a 32-bit program so your use of more RAM is limited.
4) Get the fastest processor you can afford.Steve Mann
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From the help file, under Event Envelope:
Right-click a video event, choose Insert/Remove Envelope from the shortcut menu, and then choose Velocity from the submenu. A velocity envelope is drawn on the event.
Drag the envelope up to increase the playback speed of the event, or drag down to decrease its speed.
Setting a velocity envelope to a negative value will cause the event to play in reverse. Video events can only be reversed if there is media to reverse: an event cannot be reversed past the beginning of a media file. An event that has been reversed will play backwards until it gets to the first frame and will then hold that frame for the duration of the event.
Steve Mann
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Delivery formats are heavily compressed. They “look” good because it’s easy to fool your brain into filling in the missing data. The decoders do a pretty good job of guessing the approximate data between i-frames (i-frames are a complete image, only compressed as a JPEG image). Here’s the best explanation that I’ve seen for i-frames: https://support.slingbox.com/get/KB-2000081.html
Delivery formats are very bad for editing because the processor has to reconstruct all of the data between the i-frames. While your eye/brain is very forgiving, the PC is not. This is why heavily compressed formats, like MPEG and AVCHD require very fast processors.
The source is, where did the video file come from?
Steve Mann
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h.264 is a delivery format and not well suited for editing. What is your source?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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“I would like to see it worldwide and get royalties every time it is played.”
So would every filmmaker in the world. Unfortunately, the vast majority of short films never see a penny of revenue. Heck, Hollywood studios put out some 300 films a year, sometimes at a cost of millions of dollars, and most of them never get to your local theater.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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You are running out of “temp” space on your hard-disk. Generally you need at least 2X the final project size in free hard-disk space.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I have never seen this kit, but I shoot in my studio with a lot of CFLs. They are all rated at 5600K and as long as I don’t mix them with halogens, white balance has never been an issue.
One caution, however. The “watts equivalent” is *always* off by as much as 50%. In other words, if you are replacing a 500-watt halogen with CFLs, you will need 750-Watt “equivalent” in CFL.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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As I stated above, this is a Windows error.
Some things to try:
In a cmd window, run “sfc /scannow” to check for system file problems.
Turn UAC off completely.
If you are using Norton Antivirus, you have my condolences.
Make sure you have all the latest Windows Updates. (What can it hurt?)
I found these elsewhere, so I take no credit nor responsibility:
start regedit
navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SQMClient\Windows\DisabledSessions
rename MachineThrottling to _MachineThrottlingLast thing to try – disable the error message. Your application may fail anyway, but just maybe, disabling the error message will provide more clues as Windows crashes.
This is NOT recommended nor tested:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Windows
\Windows Error Reporting\Dont Show UI = 1Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Your computer is probably OK for HDV or AVCHD, but what specific errors are you getting? “Program XYZ Stopped…” is a Windows error. What version of Windows are you using. (And if you say “Vista, you’re only asking for trouble). 32- or 64-bit?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Probably not gong to happen unless you make the cuts on i-frames. And if nothing else changes.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com