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You can download the XviD codec from: https://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/ or even from https://www.xvid.org/ if you want to compile the source code your self.
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Get YAAI (https://yaai.sourceforge.net/). This will tell you what codec the AVI is encoded with. Make sure you have that codec installed, and Vegas should be fine. Should being the key word.
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Clearly this card is giving you a bit of trouble, and I am not sure that there is an easy way around that trouble. The drivers may be bad, the card may have issues, I do not know.
A new OEM FireWire card is going to cost somewhere between $5 and $15. Would it not be easier to go with a new card?
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I would recommend the AMD 64 X2 4400. This is probably the most bang for the buck you can get now. Do not go for the 4600. The reason is that the 4400 has more L2 cache, which generally will make it faster than the 4600, even though the 4600 is a higher spec.
I got the ASUS A8R-MVP motherboard, and I would strongly recommend against it. It is the most unstable motherboard I have ever had. It gets very good reviews in the press, but I can’t see that any of the reviewers can have tested it over time. Even after upgrading to the very latest BIOS etc, applications will hang very often.
Don’t save on memory. Get high quality memory, 2x1G.
The Video card is far less relevant. For video work, there is no real advantage to having a really fast video card, but then again, Windows Vista is coming out “soon”, and you may want to upgrade. Vista will not run on anything but high-end video cards if you want the nice stuff. Go for at least a nVidia 6600 card or better. I’d recommend one that has two DVI outputs. If it has S-Video and HDTV out, that won’t hurt either.
Harddrive – just stay away from Matrox is my advice. Get two disks as big as you can get.
When I built my system I opted for 3 Seagate 250G drives, they are fast, and completely silent. I also opted for a nVidia 6600 based graphics card with no fans. The problem with fans is that they make noise. I like my system quiet. The graphics card is a ASUS SILENCER Geforce 6600LE. It is fast, it works well with my system, but it probably wouldn’t be great if I wanted to do extensive high-end gaming, but I don’t, so I don’t care.
Case – find whatever you like the look of, but that people say are easy to work with. I like my cases big, working inside a small case is hard. For powersupply, get a big one. Lots of power. Easiest is to get it with the case if possible.
I got my stuff at newegg, where there are reviews and stuff, so it isn’t too hard to find what works.
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QT, particularly for Windows, is pure and utter garbage. Sorry to any Mac fans, but that is simply the case. If the Vegas output doesn’t go down well with Apple, log a trouble ticket with Apple.
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You don’t need SP2 (or XP for that matter) to support disks over 139GB. Windows has supported disks of 2TB (a little over 2000GB) at least since Windows 2000. Some very old motherboards will not support disks of this size, but if you can run Windows XP on your PC you probably do not have that old a motherboard.
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It will re-render WMV-9. Check if the Windows Media Encoder can be used, but I doubt it. You can also try out Windows Movie Maker, but again, I doubt it.
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If you start with DV-AVI video and add a soundtrack, then render as DV-AVI with the same settings as your original video, Vegas will not re-encode your video. Naturally it will have to render, you are creating a new file with a new sound-track, but the video will be copied bit for bit as is.
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If you install Windows XP using Boot Camp, that should not be a problem at all. The new Macs are just regular PCs that run OSX for Intel.
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[anotheruser] “4) Use Firefox for your internet browsing (and disable all cookies except ones you manually authorize)”
I agree with every point of your post, and half of this point. Using Firefox is far safer than using IE, and you should never use IE unless you have to. IE was designed specifically by Microsoft to enable the distribution of virii.
I spend quite a while every week using the browser, and manually acknowledge each and every cookie before they are allowed to be set would be cumbersome, and it is also overkill. Note that it is not possible to spread virii or spy-ware using cookies. A cookie is simply a text string, and unless there is a bug in the browser it is harmless.
What cookies can be used for it to trace your browsing habits, which is a privacy concern. Spy-ware companies and ad guys use this, even on regular websites, to try to find out where you go and what you do so that they can target ads to you specifically. In order for them to be able to do this however, the cookie must be set for a different website than the one you are browsing. For example, if you are browsing creativecow, and their ad-guys want to enable The Nasty Ad Company (www.thenastyadcompany.com) to see that you are browsing creativecow, the ad guys at creativecow would set a cookie (or allow The Nasty Ad company’s ads) to set a cookie with the address of thenastyadcompany.com, so would New York Times, and the Nasty Ad Company will then be able to see that you browse both creativecow and NYT. They can then target you as a NYT and creativecow user.
This can easily be avoided, but is sadly not enabled in Firefox by default.
Go to Options->Privacy, Check “Allow sites to set cookie” and also check, “for the originating site only”.
If you do this, cookies are guaranteed to be completely harmless, and there is absolutely no way they can be used for a nefarious purpose.
Doing it like this you are 100% safe, and you do not have to manualy approve every single cookie.
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