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  7 answers, most recent on 4/3/2007

  RE: How to downconvert 1080i to DVD
  I've been shooting 1080i with my FX1 cameras for a few years now, and making SD DVDs. I don't know if there is such a thing as a generic "best" way for all purposes. However Vegas does a reasonable job of downconverting. I am editing at 1080i
• Video

  2 answers, most recent on 3/29/2007

  OT: Samsung Warranty Service
  One of my side interests is researching user reviews for electronics products because reliability is at the top of my list of factors before I buy or recommend anything. I read through this thread regarding a few Samsung DLP TV owners experience
• Video

  29 answers, most recent on 3/29/2007

  RE: OT: Advice on AV Receiver
  v qts (Is that 5 quarts?): I note what your post 5 said. My comments were to your responders in general as this is a subject I know a lot about and feel strongly about. I* still prefer good stereo on good speakers to 5.1 Do you have speakers
• Video

  29 answers, most recent on 3/29/2007

  RE: OT: Advice on AV Receiver
  v_gts Here's the first answer I got. Unfortuantely I got the price point wrong and overall it's not not good news. Where do you live? Are you in the UK? I am waiting on 2 more replies. Have you seen any Pre/pros above your budget that really get
• Video

  6 answers, most recent on 3/20/2007

  RE: ot dvd player with jog shuttle?
  I don't have an answer, but will be interested in the response. I would LOVE a DVD player that could do all the smooth shuttle moves that can be done with a computer DVD software player. To be able to smoothly shuttle back and forth rather than just
• Video

  57 answers, most recent on 3/4/2007

  RE: Sir Howard ....."The DVD war is over. " ????
  there is little here to debate since niether one of us are privy to the inner workings of Bestbuy (as well as those on the AVS forum making the accusations). There are a lot of paranoid people out there who will only see what THEY want to see.
• Video

  7 answers, most recent on 3/3/2007

  Available Capture space
  I'm trying to track down a problem with Vegas under estimating available drive space on a newly installed 500 gig RAID 0 array. It appears that Vegas (I tried V3, V5 and V7) is only "seeing" a maximum of 100 gigs of the drive. 1. Could anyone out
• Video

  57 answers, most recent on 3/4/2007

  RE: Sir Howard ....."The DVD war is over. " ????
  As for Best Buy hiding the HD DVD players, are you sure they weren't putting them all around the store in hopes that people who didn't come into the DVD player section would see them? Are you sure there was evil intent? Where's your evidence? For
• Video

  3 answers, most recent on 3/2/2007

  RE: Print to HDV tape "Device Unavailable" Why?
  It's finally responding. I did change out the 4-pin Firewire cable but it wasn't the problem. I cold-restarted the computer and the Z1U still didn't show up in Vegas, so I went through the camera's "In/Out Rec" menu selectively and changed each
• Video

  4 answers, most recent on 2/25/2007

  RE: Using Vegas 6.0 to create VCDs - No Audio?!
  How did you try to playback the VCD? I have a DVD player that is connected to an AV receiver using a 5.1CH toslink connection. For whatever reason when I insert a VCD into the audio is only sent to the player's L-R RCA stereo outputs (which at the
• Video

  No answers, created on 2/24/2007

  Vegas 7\Sony FX 1\Vista x64
  While running RC 2 I had no problems with Vista recognizing my FX1 and Vista showing two items in hardware manager drivers (one labled AV/C Tape Device) and the other was Sony FX 1. Now after installing RTM, I'm only getting the Sony FX 1. And
• Video

  57 answers, most recent on 3/4/2007

  RE: Sir Howard ....."The DVD war is over. " ????
  Toshiba had the same 2 for 1 promotional thru retailers, was that any more or less dishonest? =========== Not according to everyone on the HD DVD Software AV Science Forum. They didn't count their sales like the Blu-Ray camp. ========== Toshiba
• Video

  3 answers, most recent on 2/18/2007

  overlay time & date on HDV - one solution
  Is there any way in Vegas to overlay the recorded time & date on the video frame, using the subcode data stored in the HDV file? For a while I assumed that there was no program to do this. Today I discovered there is: the "HDVInfo" plugin for
• Video

  3 answers, most recent on 2/16/2007

  Comparing My Vegas to a Pro Hollywood Job
  In another current thread I (Analysing a Commercial DVD in Vegas) I had said I was analysing or comparing how a pro movie on the timeline compares to my work and gosh the stuff I noticed. It's amazing and we should all do this who are not 100%
• Video

  17 answers, most recent on 2/10/2007

  RE: problems
  Paging file should be 1 to 1.5 times the size of your physical RAM, so that should be fine. Either the special FX you are using on your footage is extremely slow (Magic Bullet?) or something is very wrong with your system, whether it is two years
• Video

  14 answers, most recent on 2/16/2007

  RE: You Must See This Video!
  Really well done and sometimes a little sad. It makes you think about the effect of culture. As a white guy it surprised me and saddened me somewhat to see all these black kids thinking white was preferable to black. I would have thought that old
• Video

  No answers, created on 2/1/2007

  Seeking Vegas Video Editor
  Seeking an editor working in Sony Vegas Video. This is a paid position. We're currently working in Vegas on a feature length documentary, around 100-110 minutes long. We're moving into post, and we have a paid position for an editor who can work
• Video

  18 answers, most recent on 3/24/2007

  RE: Rendering to a different MPEG2 Encoder?
  all purely FWIW... At one time in the docs or whatever I read that making Vegas' mpg2 encoder available outside of Vegas was a licensing issue -- at any rate the same was true of Prem Pro at the time. That said, the way Vegas works with RGB makes
• Video

  36 answers, most recent on 2/20/2007

  RE: Vegas render for youtube??
  Actually LiveVideo only gives you very slightly better video resolution, however it does seem to look better, and the audio is stereo and definitely sounds better. Details below from a test file I uploaded to both sites, downloaded the resulting
• Video

  16 answers, most recent on 1/16/2007

  RE: LG to Ship Blu-ray/HD DVD Player
  John: What screen material did you finally decide on? There seems to be a lot of hoopla on this subject. JJK =========== JJ, I made my first screen (an 80 inch 4:3 screen) out of Parkland Plastics Plas-Tex Polywall. It is .060 x 4 x 8 plastic
• Video

  16 answers, most recent on 1/16/2007

  RE: LG to Ship Blu-ray/HD DVD Player
  Craftech, What projector are you using? There being a million to chose from..... recommendations? Teaktart ============= I use an XGA (native 4:3 format ) projector with 3000 ANSI lumens and a 600:1 contrast ratio called the NEC LT380. Although
• Video

  69 answers, most recent on 1/14/2007

  RE: Blu-Ray Topic Deleted?
  In fact, the guys on the AVS forum are using this site as a guage: http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/ The AVS forum: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/index.php? (scroll about 1/2 way down... you will see HD DVD/BD players)
• Video

  69 answers, most recent on 1/14/2007

  RE: Blu-Ray Topic Deleted?
  I don't quite understand your post, Blink. ~We know that there are 1M Playstations out there. It's fewer than Sony thought there would be, but they also weren't counting on Wii to hit the market the way it did. Microsoft didn't expect it either. ~We
• Video

  46 answers, most recent on 1/4/2007

  RE: Vegas choking on little projects
  Thanks Sport/DSE. PC details as per above: The system: Vegas 7b build 151; Asus P5P mobo, P4 3GHZ CPU, 2Gb of very fast RAM; twin 7200rpm IDE drives; Matrox 550 card (with the latest driver). I've done all the standard performance tweaks, and have