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This is what I would do: Move the project media to another folder so that Vegas can not find it. Then add media, either one by one, or in groups, to try to identify the offending clip.
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I have Cinescore and the music, particularly the one that comes with the product, is very electronic. You can listen to the other packs on Sonys site. I like the way the product works, but it has some 1.0 aspects to it. Too little control over music etc.
Since I am not a pro, I don’t really mind, assuming it will improve with newer versions. If it doesn’t I would do as others seems to have done, which is to go with Sonicfire.
Also, Sony really needs to hire some real composers, not just the ones they get through their Acid program.
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Nothing free, but Gary Kleiners tutorials are great. I’d recommend starting with a book though, Instant Vegas or something similar.
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As Ed points out below, it is highly unlikely that a regular NTSC DVD will not work in Poland. In fact, I would be hugely surprised if it didn’t. People in Europe buy a significant portion of their DVDs from the US, a non-NTSC capable player simply wouldn’t sell in Europe.
Go for NTSC and you will be fine.
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Yes. No problem. Keep the footage in 16:9 and 4:3, drop it onto the DVD. No worries. Done it several times.
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The problem with DivX and XviD encoded movies is that they can be encoded with a wide array of sound codecs. Get YAAI, it will (perhaps) tell you what sound codec the movie is encoded with. Then go search for that codec.
Generally, editing highly compressed video such as DivX and XviD is not particularly fun.
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I am aware that rendering is CPU bound, it is less RAM intensive than most people think. In fact, for a video editing system the top four things that matter is CPU1, CPU2, CPU3 and CPU4. Next there is RAM. Video cards have no impact on rendering at all.
This means that exporting from time line to tap is not a real good measure of how good a system is since it will always take 1 hour to put 1 hour of video onto tape. This means that the fastest ANY computer can be is 1 hour. Some computers will not be fast enough to be able to do it, and therefore they won’t compete at all.
An imaginary list of computers and their rendering times would look like the table below, which isn’t all that meaningful. Either the computer takes 1 hour or it can’t complete the test.
Rendering to hard disk is a more relevant test since you don’t have the Mini-DV recorder slowing the thing down. Most modern PCs can render to DV-AVI a lot faster than real time. My PC, for example, takes around 5 seconds to “render” a 1 minute DV-AVI file consisting of two pieces with a straight cut. It would therefore take about 5 minutes to render an equivalent 1 hour movie. Rendering to MPEG-2 or H.264 would be another, and far more interesting test.
Computer name Time to render Super Duper Fast 8 CPU computer 1 hour Super Fast 4 CPU computer 1 hour Fast 2 CPU computer 1 hour Slow computer N/A Slower computer N/A —
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You won’t need to re format, but you might want to keep a backup of your drive somewhere while you do this. Open up a command prompt window (popularly called DOS window, though there is no DOS in XP). Run the following command:
convert /FS:NTFS
: For example, if your drive is E:, then convert /fs:ntfs e:
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Exporting 1 hour of footage to Mini-DV takes one hour no matter what CPU, Graphics card, RAM, car or house he has. DV export is in real time. If his CPU is reasonable, he will probably be able to render real time for uncomplicated projects as well, any CPU not marked Centrino bought in the last two years should be able to do this.
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Have you tried a DVD ripper? Gordian Knot may work. Since you go all digital from the get-go, you should see less quality loss.
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