Stephen Mann
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I have been using the cheapest ink-jet printable discs that I can find, and over the past two years I’ve delivered about three-hundred discs burned on my A04, and not one of them has come back as unplayable. When you burn at a slower speed, the laser gets a few more nanoseconds to “burn” the data bits into the dye layer.
I don’t have any “faster” drives to verify this, but it appears that half the rated speed of the media (discs) seems to be the sweet spot. The closer you push the burn to the rated media speed, the more coasters you make.
Steve Mann
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You can have quality or you can have speed. I’ll match the vegas-rendered video quality against any Premiere or Pinnacle render any day.
Steve Mann
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Don’t stop there – how did you do the various glows around the model?
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“(1) Windows-Delayed Write Failed”
I got this error once and did a lot of research into what could be causing it. I found that there was no one single cause, but thousands. If you google this, you will find tens of thousands of hits. And almost every one of them with different “causes” blamed. This is a bug that can’t be duplicated under controlled conditions, so it’s practically impossible to focus on a cause let alone fix it.
This error is like the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) and ARF (Abort, Retry, Fail) error from days past where something went wrong and the software nor the O/S can figure out what.
What seems to be the most common link with this error is external USB drives.
In my case, (after weeks of hair-pulling) I simply moved the offending USB device to another USB port.
It’s never come back to bother me since. Go figure.
Steve Mann
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Some people see an improvement by making your pagefile a fixed size. You do this by setting the initial and max size to the same value.
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” Sounds to me like a slight head alignment problem …” There’s only one head (OK, two at 180-degrees so that one is always in contact with the tape)- it reads/writes the digital data in one pass. There is no separate audio head as in older analog decks. If there is a head alignment problem it would affect both audio and video. (In other words, the read/write head only sees bits and can’t differentiate audio, video or control data).
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Dropped Frames occur when your computer and hard-disk can’t keep up with the data stream from the DV deck or camera.
The most frequent cause is trying to capture DV to your “C” drive. I don’t use the Vegas Capture because I’ve always used Scenalyzer Live even before using Vegas, so I stick with what I know. Scenalyzer has a free demo download and it includes a disk write speed test.
Some people with marginal systems have had better luck using Scenalyzer for their capture.
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It’s your BIOS. Make sure the removable drive isn’t in your boot drive list. Also, when the drive is in thr tray, go to your control panel, hardware, right click on the drive and see if you can select “removable”.
Steve
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When I used Premiere, it crashed hourly. My Vegas (3, 4 and 5) has NEVER crashed. I thought that it did crash once, the three-finger salute said that the application wasn’t responding. It turned out that I had a failed Firewire peripheral.
On the UI – Of course it’s different. Vegas designers weren’t trying to imitate film editing and linear video editing paradigms.
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OK, I am missing the boat here now… Why would you want to import a PSD file into separate tracks?