Stewart Bourke
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John,
that makes sense – I had misunderstood the docs on the device – I thought the max was a 1GB card…
Thanks again
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Folks,
Thanks for the suggestions
John – I looked at the specs for the Marantz – nice little device – I have been using a laptop running audacity or cubase for doing desk-feed recordings – but something like this would be useful. One question – I see the mp3 stereo resolution is listed as 128K. Do you find this is sufficient for quality? I tend to use a min 192k as a minimum for mp3 where possible, and if there is a good quality sound mix from the desk I would want to get the best quality?
Thanks,
Stewart Bourke
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Jeff,
I recently moved from VMS9 to VMS10, and the ‘custom’ button is opened up for a number of the templates – including the mpeg2. However, having said that, taking into account the quality of my camera, the quality of the rendered output is always good.
I posted a couple of topics recently on this subject of improving render quality and there were a number of very useful answers regarding output quality.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/911411
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/911361I would suggest you post some more details regarding your settings, configuration, source material, capture settings etc it might help diagnose your problem.
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Mike,
first, a typo on my part – should have said PAL/DV. If I set the option to that the quality was not exactly the same as the original, but if I choose ‘uncompressed’ it is…
In any case, I understand a lot more now, and experimenting has taught me a lot. I also have been adding a small amount of sharpening and it makes a difference.
Alf – thanks for the comments – I do of course understand that the camera is more a high-end consumer – but for a beginner the quality has been fine. I will be updating, but I really wanted to spend some time learning about what to look for in a camera first before rushing out any buying one, and the best way for me to learn is to try and work with its output to try and get it to its best, then at least I know what to look for in a camera..
Many thanks to all again for the advice and info..
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Mike,
Too busy looking for the small things… Did not notice that within the avi template I had selected PAL/DVD – I changed it to ‘Default template – uncompressed’ – and rendered the loop – and on WMP (which is what I had been using) the quality looks like the original…
Starting to make sense now… thanks again for all your help. That link you gave me earlier on sent me off on about 3 hours reading…
Stewart
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Mike,
Many thanks for the detailed responses here and to my other questions. I really do appreciate the time you and others take to give detailed answers and explanations. The info (especially the link re the sampling method) is really interesting..
With regard to your answer re the AVI rendering, if I understand your post, the AVI should be rendered with the same quality as long as there are no fx. I have no fx on the event (or track) at all – I simply dropped the file on the timeline, selected a 30 second region and rendered to AVI again, and the difference is noticeable.
I have no doubt it is something I am doing but can you suggest any possible areas to check?
Is it possible that third-party codecs could be an issue here? According to gspot (which I am only starting to understand), when I point it at the AVI there appears to be a number of different chains, but from the details I am not sure which ones come with Vegas, and which ones are from other applications (e.g. I can see one chain referencing a Pinnacle file, and one referencing a Roxio file).
If it is a possible codec issue is it possible to have vegas list the actual codec/dll files it is using?
I did see a reference in one post on the forum which said that in the Preferences/general tab there was a box to tell vegas to use its own codecs, but I cannot see it in VMS10…
Thanks again for all the help.
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That was one of those moments when you kick yourself…
I have only ever dragged the media directly to the timeline, and it never showed me the markers. I thought I had tried everything, but clearly not – never even thought of trying the dragging onto the treeview.. Thanks for the info…
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Dan,
Right-click on the event, then choose ‘switches’, and set/unset the ‘Lock’ switch as required. This locks or unlocks an event.
Stewart Bourke
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Kevin,
I would recommend strongly that you download and run at least the following utilities:
https://www.malwarebytes.org/ – free version fine to start with
then
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
just run the installers – let the defaults apply and away you go.
it sounds like you may have some infections or virus(es) on your machine.
ccleaner clean out lots of old temporary files. Also, let it analyze your registry and clean out anything it finds.. *it will prompt you to make backups – make sure you do before it applies any changes*
once you have run these, then defrag your disc again..
This will take a while, but it will be worth it…
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I gave up trying to find out what the problem is. For every single project that I have done in Vegas, no matter what I try, no matter what settings I use – and I have definately clicked to include markers – the markers will not load into DVDA if I choose to make a menu-based DVD. IF I choose to make a single file DVD, when I load my file all the markers show up. In this case I simply add the menus myself.
The real issue is why it does it – my markers are definitely present – as they do show up in teh ‘single file dvd’ option…