Stephen Mann
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Also make sure that each embedded project will render completely. If one if them has a problem you could get this kind of error.
Steve Mann
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I haven’t run a RAID array in about 15 years when it was necessary to keep up with a data CD burn. Which failed with a data underrun more often than not. PC’s were sooo slow then.
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One thing I’ve learned the hard way – make an iso copy of the discs as soon as you receive them. DJ will only replace them if you can’t install the disc within ten days of shipping.
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WAV files work just fine on many hundreds of Vegas installations, so if it doesn’t work on YOUR PC, then it’s Sony’s fault?
Upload one of those big bad wav files and let us have a shot at loading them.
Steve Mann
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Good – it wasn’t just me.
I was initially excited about their new Vegas projects, but the problems I was having with Juicer was really driving me nuts. I would load the product but about half of the previews would not be available in Juicer.I probably spent five hours on the phone with their support person, and even gave them remote access to my PC a couple of times as they kept escalating the issue. Juicer and the Ready2Go products were reinstalled at least a dozen times. Libraries and indexes were deleted and rebuilt three or four times. I think I was my case that precipitated build 370. I was watching an engineer from the Juicer team look at, delete, build, move and otherwise examine my installation remotely when he said they would call me with a solution. About an hour later the support guy called me back and told me to download build 270 and try again. It still didn’t work.
I went away on a planned vacation, and when I got back, my case had closed due to non-response from me. (Sound familiar?) A week ago I threatened to expose my problems on the video editing forums I frequent. No response from DJ, so here it is.
What problems have others had?
Steve Mann
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” How, then, did you get a jpg from Vegas when I am saving pngs? How are you setting up VLC to capture 24-bit files when I only can muster 8-bit images? I also cannot figure out how to move frame-by-frame in VLC, but perhaps this program is incapable of that. Would you kindly clarify your methods, as I now am on the right track? Would you please go into detail your step-by-step procedure? Thanks in advance, Stephen! This will help out quite a bit!!”
Well, one question I can answer.
The JPG/PNG option is in the Internal Preferences. Hold the shift key when you click on “Options/Preferences”, and filter on PNG. You can safely change this parameter. (In general the Internal Preferences is hidden from view because you can truly hose your installation of Vegas here.)Everything else are the defaults. Perhaps VLC frame grabs are bigger here because I run VLC in the full-screen mode.
VLC is incredibly complex and in the command line mode you should be able to capture every frame of a video clip. I haven’t figured it out yet.
But this got me to thinking of a better way.
I zoomed into the keyboard of various frame capture images in my viewer. The VLC capture showed some significant compression artifacts (JPEG compression hates solid colors and sharp contrasts). the Vegas grab was slightly better in this high-contrast area, but both VLC and Vegas captures were overcompressed.
I used the Image Sequence template in the “Render As” menu and did some experiments. Exporting as a JPEG sequence using all defaults looked just like the Vegas Frame Grab, as expected. I changed the template to “best” and exported various image formats. Upon comparison, the best was using the BMP format. The images were better than either the Vegas or VLC frame grab. (I knkow, they aren’t all the same frame).
Steve Mann
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What is air?
Roger – I am surprised that you haven’t heard of VLC player. Really. It’s a really neat video player that will play practically anything because it has its own codecs.Get it now: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Steve Mann
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I know of no one who uses the AB mode – I suspect it’s there to give a familiar UI to editors moving from ancient platforms.
Entering and reversing the mode are explained in the help file, but the step you may have missed is to select an event first. It may be a bug but after entering the expanded A-B mode, one of the events is highlighted as if it’s selected, but you need to click on it again to select it.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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” Is DVD Arch looking for some mpeg data in the C drive?”
Yes. Look in Options/Preferences/Burning for the location.
Another thought of why you could be getting the error. If you ever kill a program that has files open, Windows won’t let another program open a file by the same name.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
