Stephen Mann
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You don’t say which version of Vegas, but that’s pretty much a moot issue here.
DV is normally two channels of 16-bit audio, so your shooter probably fed the wireless mics into both channels. (Consumers call this “stereo”). If you capture the DV to Vegas, you will have one audio track in the timeline which should contain two audio channels. One from each mic.
I don’t like the way that Vegas treats two-channel audio tracks like everyone records with stereo mics, but the first thing I do is to duplicate the audio track then right click on the top one and select “channels” then “Left Only”, then do the same on the second track but select “right only”. Now you have two tracks corresponding to the two mics.
Steve Mann
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Download “Levelator”. It’s free and it’s magic. It is made for exactly this kind of problem.
Steve Mann
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Use the Task Manager to make sure Vegas is still running, and you can click on “Switch To” to restore it.
Steve
Steve Mann
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When a PC fails at random times, I suspect a heat issue.
Steve Mann
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I suspect that it was Sony and not B&H who pulled the plug on the OEM distribution.
You can do your own homework when you want to do business with an online retailer that you haven’t ever heard of.
whois.com lets you do a domain search to determine who owns the website. “soft-low.net” is less than a year old and owned by an individual in Finland. I would not spend my money there.
I have a couple of fully-licensed, upgradeable copies of Version 6 that I’ll sell one to you. (Also Cinescore). You can try out Vegas 6 and if you want to go on to V8, just pay Sony the upgrade price. Or wait for V9.
Steve Mann
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WMV is not good for editing because it is a compressed encoded file. When I have a need to reduce the complexity of my timeline, I go to tools and “render to new track” and use the Windows AVI preset.
If your computer keeps crashing at random locations, clean out the dust bunnies.
Since WMV is an encoded format, Vegas has to reconstruct *every* frame (with some loss of quality) before it can be edited or rendered into a new AVI file. That is very heavy duty for the processor and it will run hotter than normal.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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“There’s to much wear and tear on the heads in your camera…”
Hogwash. You would have to run a LOT of tape through the camera to wear anything out. You would have to be in a full-time video business to get that many hours on a camera, and then to get that many hours, you would have to be pretty busy and probably easily afford a few editing positions with permanent decks.
I should Wish that I had enough business for this to be a remote concern.
On the other hand even for the part-time videographer, buying a used camera for capture is a good idea simply because it doesn’t tie up your shooting camera.
Also, never, ever use a cheap tape rewinder. Ever. Again, you are not wearing out your camera head. (And if you are, then buy a few decks for your editing crew). The cheap rewinders do not sense the hub speed to detect the approaching end of the tape and they depend on the strength of he tape and the connection to the hub to stop the rewind. It only needs to fail once for you to throw the thing under the bus.
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Like others, I’ll reply if I now the solution or think I can point in the right direction.
Re Subclips – My workflow doesn’t include the trimmer or subclips, and since Vegas V3 I have never used the trimmer. So, I can’t help there.
I am more frequently on the Sony forums and I don’t recall seeing your questions there.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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No, it sounds like a Vista problem. If it were a Vegas problem then more than one person would be experiencing it.
I only have one computer running Vista and will be shortly upgrading it to XP. So, any suggestions I make will be from my XP experience.
Is Vegas the first application that you run when you boot?
If you are running Norton Utilities, then delete it. Completely. Norton run a lot of background processes that suck the life out of your PC. Turn off the indexing service. It doesn’t suck much memory but it does suck performance.
In Vista, turn off all of the fancy eye candy services. They are memory and performance hogs
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com