Stephen Mann
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“For internet delivery I think you want to keep the file size as small as you can,”
If you are uploading to a hosting service like Vimeo, then deliver the best quality that you can, which is the opposite of small file size, because they will re-compress it anyway.
Steve Mann
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In the Rendertests, the dual Xeons blew everything else in the smoke.
SSD’s do have a write cycle limit, but PC Magazine did some tests and you will be upgrading a long, long time before that limit starts to bite you. But, yes, keep the Swapfile, Temp and Documents on other drives.
Green drives. NOOOO!! Not for an editing PC. The last thing you want is for the drive to shut down (green) just as the NLE wants data, and errors out because your media disappeared.
X79? That is so last year. I just built a new editing PC with the Gigabyte Z87 mobo, an i7-4770K, 32Gb of RAM – all new components for a total of $1300.
I’ve had nothing but problems when I ran Radeon display adapters. But if it works for you…
Steve Mann
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That’s the same noise reduction engine as in Sound Forge, but they are both expensive, so I bought SF thinking that I might have better audio editing capacity. Unfortunately, the user interface is SO different from Vegas, I haven’t used it for audio editing at all. Bottom line, I should have just upgraded my copy of Noise Reduction 2.0
Steve Mann
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I use Sound Forge and Noise Reduction for things like this, but since we’re talking about more than lunch money, you can try applying the graphic equalizer and reduce the high frequencies a little.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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What device are you trying to use with Device Explorer? I am thinking device driver here.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Why do it the hard way? I use an external dock with bare drives. The dock has USB3 and eSATA ports and is plenty fast to edit HDV footage.
Anytime I need to work on a project, I just grab the disk for that project:
Here’s a short batch file that makes the external drive look like Drive B: in Windows. This is handy to guarantee that the external drive will always be Drive B: and you don’t have to worry about Windows assigning a different drive letter from the first time you used it. Just put the bat file in the root of the external drive, and run it.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Are you starting Vegas by the Vegas shortcut or are you double-clicking on a .veg file?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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That blue line means that you have snap enabled. Look in the help file for “Enable Snapping”.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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A picture would help, but a thin blue box around an event means that the event is locked.
(By the way – there are no clips on the timeline – only events).
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Then, I am convinced that it is a codec issue. Try updating your display adapter codec – believe it or not, there are audio components in there.
As a last resort, you may want to use a third-party program to convert it to something more editor friendly. I use Handbrake when a client gives me a video file that Vegas just refuses to play nice. If Handbrake won’t do it, I fall back to Wondershare Video Converter.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
