Stephen Mann
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I can tell that you have some FCP or Premiere in your background. In Vegas, unlike the three-A’s (Adobe, Apple and Avid) you never have to recompress your media files. Intermediates are generally not necessary. Just drop them on the timeline, edit, done. If your PC is too slow for HD, you may have to use proxies, but that isn’t the same as intermediates.
In general, you shoot and edit in the best resolution you can. You only encode the video to the final format as the last step. One time.
Event Pan Crop has a preset to crop your 4:3 media to 16:9 widescreen.
Steve Mann
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" is rendering separate segments of the film as AVI the same thing as nesting that project into the final timeline?"Yes, but more work.
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AVI is just the container- you can put video files from many codecs into an AVI file. It’s likely that the codec you need is not installed. Run it through Mediainfo to see what codec created the file.
If you installed a codec pack (DONT!!) you may have overwritten a needed codec.
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Thanks, but I am an old fart and don’t do FaceBook.
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Put the batch file on the external drive and run it. So if Windows assigns F: to your external drive, put the batch file on drive F: and run it. The next time you open “My Computer”, you will see Drive F: and Drive B:. Just use Drive B: for your open and save locations.
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Here is a 12-second clip from a BMPCC camera posted by a user on the Sony forum. It drops into my Vegas 12 timeline – no problems. It is recorded in ProRes HQ film log format and Vegas imports it as Apple ProRes 422(HQ).
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1421565/Vegas/Blackmagic%20Pocket%20Cinema%20Camera.mov
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If you really need that much online all the time, then you have two choices. Three if you consider a very expensive media server. The cheapest solution is buy a few 3Tb drives and some USB 3 docking stations. There are 4Tb drives coming on the market now, but they are too new to trust. The next more expensive is to buy a 4-bay RAID box and fill it with 3Tb drives in RAID5 configuration.
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I don’t know where you’ve been getting your information, but several people have dropped the Black Magic Pocket camera files right into Vegas. I believe that you may need the Avid DNxHD codec. I can’t imagine why you would need a lot of external drives and a server??
They still make matte boxes?
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I use an external USB-2 docking station and bare drives. Each project gets a drive of it’s own, and with 1Tb drives going for $50 at NewEgg, I pretty much have unlimited storage.
Here’s a batch file I wrote to make any drive look also like Drive B:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1421565/Make_Drive_B.batRun this from the external drive and no matter what drive letter Windows assigned to it, it will also be Drive B:.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Mike, what if you do a save-as to a new name, still in Version 9, then post it back for Theo? It’s a long shot, but…
Theo – move your media files to a new location so that Vegas won’t know where they are, then try to load the project again. If that loads fine, move a few of the media files back to where Vegas expects to find them and see if it loads again.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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