Stephen Mann
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“Sometimes the flashing (to black) occurs about once per second, and at other times, the image is stable for a minute or so.”
Just a shot in the dark here… (bad pun, but I try).
What is your external monitor and how are you getting the video to it? Is the video going black, like someone pulled the cable out or does it fade to near black then back up to normal? If it’s the latter, then you may be fighting the Macrovision detector in the conversion device (camera on pass-through ot Canopus Firewire to AV box, etc).
Steve
Stephen Mann,
MannMade Digital Video,
San Jose, CA -
Gaming machines are typically overclocked and are tweaked for the installed graphics card. Vegas is uncomplicated with support for any external GPU and works just fine with a simple VGA display adapter. Your $1,000 gaming video card offers no advantage to Vegas. Overclocking can lead to timing problems if you are right on the edge of not working, and overheating since rendering is a very processor-intensive operation.
Let the flaming begin….
I predict that Sony will add GPU support to Vegas, along with increasing the tech support personnel count for troubleshooting graphics related problems.
Do you have plenty of space on all your hard disks? I suspect that the undo data is stored in a temp cache, maybe on your temp device.
You mentioned “other glitches”… The other glitches are probably related, though it may not sound like it.
So, the “undo” button crashes the program.. First, have you tried CTRL-Z instaed of the button? Do you know that Vegas is not running? – Hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up the task manager – is Vegas still running?
Stephen Mann,
MannMade Digital Video,
San Jose, CA -
Sounds like a display problem.. Adapter, resolution, driver…. No way to tell yet. Make sure you have the latest XP service pack (SP2) and the latest driver for the display adapter. Failing that, I would plug in a simple VGA display adapter just to rule that out.
It’s not a gaming machine, is it?
Steve
Stephen Mann,
MannMade Digital Video,
San Jose, CA -
I really doubt it. Did you recently autoplay a music CD on the computer?
Stephen Mann,
MannMade Digital Video,
San Jose, CA -
As Ed said – they are hidden because they are risky to change if you don’t know what you are doing. You can make Vegas unusable if you aren’t careful.
Steve Mann
Stephen Mann,
MannMade Digital Video,
San Jose, CA -
“… affordable broadcast flat panel …”
Assuming you mean LCD, not the Sony Vega flat panel CRT’s?
LOL. “Affordable” and “broadcast” in the same sentence. In the broadcast industry, money is no object.
Sony makes an professional LCD monitor, for about $6,000. Even then I would be dubious of it’s value as a critical monitor. LCD’s make notoriously bad monitors for color and exposure decisions. White depends on the color of the backlight, black is an illusion because some of the backlight makes it through the LCD cells. Contrast depends on the viewing angle and brightness varies according to the ambient light. And then how would you calibrate it since there’s no “blue only” button, no hue, chroma, phase or aperture controls.
Shop around on E-bay and look for used pro monitors like the Sony PVM-14. You can probably find one for a few hundred dollars.
You’ll also need a firewire converter. You can either use your camera or look for an ADVC-100. But, if you’re going to buy new, I would go for the ADVC-300 with a built-in TBC. You don’t need the (TBC) Time Base Corrector for viewing what’s on the Firewire port, but if you ever copy analog (like VHS tapes) to AVI files, you’ll be glad to have it.
Stephen Mann,
MannMade Digital Video,
San Jose, CA -
“Any idea how to link to wmv files or rm files?”
The DVD video files can only be MPEG-2. You can recompress the WMV files in Vegas or let DVDA do it for you, but you’re SOL with RM.
Steve Mann
Stephen Mann,
MannMade Digital Video,
San Jose, CA -
I’m not sure I follow your problem. You didn’t say which version of DVDA, so we’ll assume that you’re up to date.
Your audio must be AC3 or DVDA will encode it for you. Double click on the movie media and in properties and find “end action”. You want it to go to your logo media. As long as your logo media is .mpg and .ac3, then it should work.
Stephen Mann
MannMade Digital Video
San Jose, CA -
Mine is a simple 2Ghz AMD box that I built for about $400 total including the drives.
Whatever you build, go overboard on the power supply. PC Power and Cooling makes a 1,000 Watt unit that should fuure-proof your PSU requirements for quite a while.
Steve Mann
Stephen Mann
MannMade Digital Video
San Jose, CA -
Just don’t “continue”.
Click on optimize and look at the list, then cancel.
You really have the curiosity up – let us know what optimize says.
Stephen Mann
MannMade Digital Video
San Jose, CA