Stephen Mann
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Since my projects are each on their own hard drive, I don’t notice that my drive needs any cleaning up.
Steve Mann
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” I would rather use FCP as its a industry standard or one of them instead of Sony Vegas.”
Says who? The people who shelled out the kilobucks for an FCP workstation? The resellers who sell FCP?
It’s the user, not the tool. Do you ask your plumber what brand of tool he uses to clear your drains?
Steve Mann
Steve Mann
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“Is there any downside to doing all of this?”
Is there any upside to doing all this?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I believe that was John Cline on the Sony Vegas forums.
Steve Mann
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Everything after “access violation” is of value only to the original programmer, and then only in controlled conditions.
We have all seen access violations occur since we took ownership of our first x86 PC’s. The infamous “Bluescreen”, application crashes, it doesn’t really matter, access violations are all over the place. For any of you that remember the good old Windows 9x days, a General Protection Fault and Invalid Page Fault are basically the same thing (and a segmentation fault too). To many people, the phrase ‘access violation’ is synonymous with “crash”. But what exactly is an access violation?
To put it simply, an access violation occurs any time an area of memory is accessed that the program doesn’t have permission to access. This can be due to bad code, faulty RAM or even a bad device driver. It really doesn’t matter who the culprit is, the root issue is the same.
The free program: Prime95, available at https://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=103 will torture test your PC. If you have bad RAM or a heat sensitive component, this program will find it. While you may not be overclocking, Vegas is very processor intensive – more than Premiere. If you have a PC on the edge of stability, Prime95 will push your PC hard. If you can run Prime95 for an hour, then your PC is probably not the problem.
If you have a problem driver, I recommend running Driver Detective from https://www.drivershq.com/ (Actually a good plan is to run Driver Detective periodically. I doesn’t do anything to your installed drivers unless you tell it to.)
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Run ‘chkdsk’ to make sure your filesystem is not corrupted.
Steve Mann
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“No, I mean CTRL+S as in “Save you work often!” :-D”
Oh. I forget about CTRL-S since I can’t recall the last time Vegas crashed on me. I tend to go for an hour or two between saves.
Knock on wood?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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You mean CTRL-Z, John….
But, I am exceedingly happy with 10c. Never a problem, but then, I don’t edit AVCHD. (HDV multicamera projects to SD DVD’s).
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I’ve also had a problem when the psd file contains duplicate layer names.
Steve Mann
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Lost’a questions (you didn’t teach grammar, did you?)
Basically, the FCC says that any resolution greater than 525-line SD is HD. That’s kind of like saying that any vehicle with more than four wheels is a truck. Lot’s of grey territory.
So, “what is HD” will get many answers, most of them right and practically all of them wrong – depending on whom you ask.
To the purist coming from the Million-dollar studio, “true” HD is 4K frames and 4:2:2 colorspace. But unless you want to replicate 35mm cinema performance (and costs), don’t listen to them.
Most of us pro-sumers shoot HDV or AVCHD. Both formats are a compromise, both have their strengths and weaknesses. It’s getting hard to find an HDV camera (my preferred format), so if your are buying new gear, it’s most likely to be AVCHD. The biggest problem with AVCHD is that it is extremely CPU intensive to edit. That means any PC with less than a quad-core processor will be a disappointment.
Delivery.
First, a disclaimer. Everything I do is delivered on an SD DVD because no client has ever asked about HD or BluRay. I haven’t experimented with HD disks yet.
You can put a few minutes of AVCHD on a 4.7Gb DVD, and *most* BD players will play it, but it’s not guaranteed by any stretch.
Many videographers are delivering Blu-Ray DVD using a BD-burner in their PC, and again, almost all home BD players will play these. It’s not unlike the early edition of DVD disks as the hardware and software were both a work in progress and early adopters were frequently challenged for results.Hope this helps
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com