Stephen Mann
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I also have Sound Forge here, but the only thing I use it for is the Noise Reduction tool. Everything else I do with Vegas.
Steve Mann
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I don’t use windows 8, nor do I have any plans, but on win7 it’s in the control panel under Mouse. You may have ClickLock turned on.
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I would just fix the problem in Vegas and render the whole file again.
What you describe will sort of work, but it has a couple of problems. First, DVDA does NOT edit anything. You can move the start/end-points on the timeline anywhere you want, but the full file is still loaded on the DVD, meaning your MPEG file is the same size no matter what you set the in/out points on the DVDA timeline. Second, some DVD and BD players will experience a notable “pause” as the player loads the new media. Also note that the markers in DVDA are supposed to be on i-Frames, so if you move the DVDA out point to a b- or p-frame, synching could be a problem.
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As Steve R said, hardware is the only way to really make Windows run faster. Most of the online suggestions for speeding up Windows really do make Windows run slightly faster. But you want Vegas to run faster and those tips won’t help much.
Clearing the %temp% and prefetch folders only slightly help Windows run faster, and only temporarily. They can’t hurt and likely won’t help.
Turning off unused processes is also marginally effective, and as you use the PC they will be turned on again as needed. Killing the processes do release some RAM (a few hundred bytes at most) and cuts a few CPU cycles out of the background, but they are background processes meaning that when Vegas is running, they aren’t.
If your editing PC is not on the net, as in unplugged, you don’t need anti-virus software.
Two things that really suck RAM and CPU even if you don’t run them are your browser and any Microsoft Office programs. Both preload when you start Windows so that when you do run them, they appear to start much faster than if they have to load everything from hard disk.
Here’s some tips I have collected that may help:
1) Turn off Aero: Right-click on the desktop and choose Personalize from the menu. Then scroll down and select a Basic theme.
2) Start, enter “Windows Features” and Uncheck “Tablet PC Components”.
3) Run cCleaner once in a while. (Google it).
4) Move your libraries to the HDD. In “Computer”, right-click on any library then click on “Properties”. In the window that opens, add a folder on your HDD, then select it as the default.
5) Disable unnecessary Windows settings that are not needed by SSD drives.
Drive Indexing speeds up file searches on HDD’s, but it just thrashes your SSD unnecessarily. From MyComputer, right-click your SSDdrive and select Properties. At the bottom, uncheck the box for “Allow files on this drive to have all contents indexed”.
Defrag also unnecessarily thrashes your SSD. From My Computer, right-click your SSD drive and select Properties. Select the Tools tab then hit “Defragment Now”. (We’re not actually going to defrag; it does nothing to improve performance of an SSD and it thrashes your drive for no reason. Select “Defragment Schedule” and uncheck any schedules that may have been set up.
Superfetch means that most commonly used files are stored to disk to be more quickly accessed later and Prefetch is a process that anticipates what data your program will want next. Neither of them work well and are constantly thrashing your drive. SSD users won’t see any change and HDD users might see programs take a second longer to load when fetch is turned off. But this starts with a Registry change:
Start, enter “Regedit” then find this key:
HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParametersNow right-click both Superfetch and Prefetch and change their values to zero. You’ll need to do a restart for the changes to be saved because the Registry is in RAM and doesn’t get written back to disk until you shutdown the PC. When Windows restarts, go to Start and run “services.msc”. Find both the Superfetch and Windows search. Right-click on each and select “Properties”. Use their drop-down menus to set the Startup Type to “Disabled”.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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No one has addressed the OP’s question. When you star any template, original or custom, Vegas remembers your selection. Close Vegas, Open Vegas and the starred favorites are just as you last had them set.
That’s the way it’s supposed to work, but for the OP, Vegas isn’t remembering what the P had starred as a favorite.
To the OP: Does your installation not remember ANY starred favorites? Do you also have the “Match Project Settings” checked? If your starred template does not also match your project settings, you won’t see it.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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“I was just thinking it might be beneficial to edit on the same kind on monitor my audience would watch my videos on…”
No. No two of your audiences’ TV sets will be calibrated alike – if they are calibrated at all. So if you make your video look good on the typical consumer wide-screen TV, it will look like crap on a properly calibrated monitor.
In other words, it’s their problem. You produce the best product to technical standards using the scopes and a properly calibrated pro monitor, then let the consumer properly adjust their TV sets.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I don’t work with ProTools, but you brought up an interesting question. When I embed a veg file, it’s because that veg file is complete. No more editing on it is needed, including any audio assets. So, I don’t notice, nor care, that the audio embeds as a stereo track, regardless of how many audio tracks are actually in the embedded veg file.
But, your only option is to ask the Vegas editor to export Pro Tools AAF files from the original veg files.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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You don’t say which CRT monitor you have, but generally, unless you spend a lot of money (like north of $5,000), you won’t be able to accurately calibrate your LCD monitor. You will get close, but not as accurate as you can with an analog CRT. LCD’s can’t make black because some light leaks through when the LCD cells do dark. White is an illusion because it depends on the color of the backlight.
That said, I do 99% of my work with my Dell consumer LCD’s. Sometimes if color accuracy critical of something just doesn’t look right, I pull out an old Sony PVR CRT monitor to check.
Mmany claim that you can calibrate an LCD monitor. I use a ColorMunki calorimeter on my LCD’s, and even after a fresh calibrate, no two of my six LCD monitors are alike.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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VOB files are a maximum of 1Gb by spec. How on earth are you capturing VOB files? HDV should capture as .m2t files.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com