• Video

  7 answers, most recent on 11/24/2008

  VOB files, MPEG and AVI
  In his post of 3 November under the heading "Audio Gaps in Imported DVD," John Meyer gave some excellent advice about using (and how to use) DVD Shrink to import VOB files into Vegas (Thank you very much John - most helpful as always). Many VOB
• Video

  13 answers, most recent on 11/16/2008

  RE: OT" WOW! Unbelievable Toshiba Customer Support
  Well, I am guessing I should send in my HD-A30 registration or check and do it online. It works well but I guess I should be keeping it current. I am ordering a Samsung BD-UP5000 to replace it and put the A30 up to make sure I have a good HD player
• Video

  11 answers, most recent on 11/2/2008

  RE: OT - Cheap HD TV/Monitor?
  OK Jim, here is what I found. You could go the route of an LCD monitor and a TV tuner card for your PC, but you will likely end up with a TN panel which will limit your off axis viewing. You probably don't want limited angles for viewing. In
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  4 answers, most recent on 11/10/2008

  "Pinnacle DV/AV could not be opened".
  Hi I used to use Pinnacle Studio to do my video capture and editing but have recently bought Sony Vegas Studio 9 Platinum. When I try to capture video from my Canon MV500i the program tells me that "The device 'Pinnacle DV/AV Capture' could not be
• Video

  30 answers, most recent on 10/25/2008

  RE: Just in case you missed it, major security update.
  "but if 1% of all sites are bad, and if the HOSTS file gets 85% of those ..." You have 0.85% of ALL websites in your hosts file? Just how big is your multi-terabyte RAID that it can hold those hundreds of billions of entries? How many centuries did
• Video

  63 answers, most recent on 9/29/2008

  RE: OT: Trying to pick an HD camera
  TB: For what it's worth, I shoot HDV with the Sony Z1 camera, and tapeless recording with the DVR-60 unit. (Look on the Sony site for current rebate programs. I got my DVR-60 with a $500 rebate from Sony, bringing the price down to a little over
• Video

  16 answers, most recent on 9/27/2008

  RE: Render stops at 49%
  Problem solved: Solution: 1.) Adjusted Windows cache settings (was stunned to see that it was not set for 1.5 times physical RAM) 2.) Reduced the size of .psd still graphic 3.) Lowered rendering threads to 1 4.) Increased RAM preview settings
• Video

  3 answers, most recent on 9/11/2008

  VidCap Problem Revisited
  Well I thought I had found the answer to the problem, but I didn't so.....I'm trying to capture 1080i footage from a Z1U using Vegas 8 Vid Cap. I can capture DV footage from this cam but I can't figure out what it is I have to do to capture HDV from
• Video

  10 answers, most recent on 9/6/2008

  RE: Slow Motion
  "How would a simple vegas user go about using these AVISynth plugins like MVTools?" From Vegas you would need to use DebugMode the Frameserver to serve to AVISynth, then another app (AVS2AVI or VirtualDub) to save the output of AVISynth. Simplest
• Video

  12 answers, most recent on 8/22/2008

  RE: Best Turnkey Vegas/Sound Forge Vista64 PC for $2K?
  A friend of mine, with a EE Masters degree, didn't want to put together a PC like quite a few of us here on the forum do. So he bought the following PC from HP. I think it was an excellent deal, though I would have added a Blu-Ray burner and a
• Video

  6 answers, most recent on 8/4/2008

  RE: Vegas & Canon XHA1
  Well I hate to beat a dead horse but I couldn't understand why on my desktop the OS didn't recognize my XHA1 but if I swung the cable over to my laptop it would be recognized. Also when I ran the HDVSplit and it didn't see the camera. Having
• DVD Architect

  4 answers, most recent on 7/16/2008

  Importing vid into BD proj.
  Importing media into a BD project in DVDA5 seems a bit hit or miss, with mpg2 very possible, & AVC quite possibly broken. Importing either mpg2 or AVC works better on a new project (importing a file judged non-compliant seems to sometimes cause
• Video

  4 answers, most recent on 7/11/2008

  cool new toy #2: Pyro Kompressor HD
  I came across the following post on the SoCal Vegas users forum and thought some folks here might find this interesting, especially the comment from one of the company engineers :-) Enjoy!! Mike Pyro Kompressor HD details B&H pricing ($2950
• Video

  5 answers, most recent on 6/30/2008

  RE: Only 1 second of video preview when capturing...
  [Many months later...] Damn, it happened to me again... I am trying to digitize footage from an 8mm deck, going through a miniDV cam (using it as an AV-DV converter), then into the computer via Firewire. The preview shows up for 1 second, then
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  9 answers, most recent on 7/21/2008

  youtube audio synch problem
  I hate to bring up another youtube issue ... but I can't help it! My audio is always out of synch with the video - by about 0.05 sec (sound is late). Now I go to the extreme of forcing my youtube version of my video (the vegas movie studio rendered
• Video

  13 answers, most recent on 6/30/2008

  RE: OT: 'EndItAll' to quit anti-virus etc
  Today, viruses and worms don't come just from porn sites and warez downloads.Cours, what you and Eileen are pointing to is "spoofing," and that is a MAJOR problem. However, AFIK, Norton won't keep you from getting suckered in by these legit-looking
• Video

  13 answers, most recent on 6/30/2008

  OT: 'EndItAll' to quit anti-virus etc
  Spot mentions in his V8 book this free application called : "End It All 2" http://www.docsdownloads.com/enditall-1.htm to stop selected programs like anti-virus and anti-spam programs from running in the background while capturing and editing,
• Video

  17 answers, most recent on 6/16/2008

  RE: RAID Settings Needed as It's SLOW.......
  Here are my results using HD Tune (Bobs link not work for Vista) and 64 bit chunk size. MB/s and ms, % Dirve,Min Tns;Max Trns;Ave Trns: Access time;Burst Rate;CPU
• Video

  17 answers, most recent on 6/16/2008

  RE: RAID Settings Needed as It's SLOW.......
  In the interests of some dodgy science I just ran HD Tach 3.0 on three disks connected to my 2.4GHz Core Duo: WD 1TB My Book via eSATA: Burst 100.9 MB/s Av. 40.0 MB/s CPU 7% Samsung HD120 IJ via SATA Burst 124.8 MB/s Av. 49.5
• Video

  9 answers, most recent on 5/31/2008

  Using HVR-DR60 (SONY)
  I recetly bought HVR-DR60 hard disk and Sony HVR-HD 1000N Video camera, I already have some videos recorded on HVR-DR60, my main problem is that once I plug it into my PC: Model: HP d4990y Windows Vista' Home Premium +service pack 1 Memory:
• Video

  2 answers, most recent on 5/9/2008

  RE: Why are Vegas' MP4s renders invalid in QuickTime?
  I suspect this is something to do with the order of moov and mdat atoms in the H.264 files that Vegas generates. It is the same issue that causes Flash player to buffer 100% of these mp4 files before playing them. This can be fixed by remuxing the
• Video

  14 answers, most recent on 4/18/2008

  RE: Understanding Dropped Frames ??
  Assuming the OP actually wants/needs virus protection on the PC, uninstalling it is not such a useful suggestion. There may be two ways to stop any service running on your system: (1) the application itself has an option that turns itself off
• Video

  5 answers, most recent on 4/12/2008

  OT: I was wrong [hangs head in shame]
  The PS3 IS firmware upgradable to DTS MA and other hi def audio systems.... and the upgrade is on it's way. http://www.dts.com/company/press/press-article.php?ID=1601180336&cID=1&yID=2008 A third party company has also developed an IR
• Video

  2 answers, most recent on 4/11/2008

  Need Help Capturing HDV ....
  I am trying tto capture HDV from FX1 to Vegas 7d. I believe I have the settings right on the FX1: In the "In/Out Rec" menu I have tried both auto and HDV, the i-link conv is OFF, the AV-DV out is OFF, the tape was recorded in HDV and the HDV