• Video

  46 answers, most recent on 1/4/2007

  Vegas choking on little projects
  I'm getting desperate to find out why Vegas is choking on little projects. I'm typically editing very simple little 640 x 480 clips: one track, maybe an effect, one or two simple 1-second fade transitions, total running time of about 30
• Video

  24 answers, most recent on 12/26/2006

  RE: OT: Good article Blu Ray vs HD DVD
  It's surprising that there are so many HD-DVD movie titles available (160+), yet I can't recall ever having seen a single HD-DVD player advertised by a local retailer... Why? =========== Toshiba is the only company that makes a standalone player.
• Video

  5 answers, most recent on 12/16/2006

  RE: Anyone recommend some render settings for 8mm
  I've reduced the screen size down a little. They were grainy 8mm's to begin with so blowing them up on a 36" tv won't look that great anyway. I'm running a test at VBR using a max =6 ave=5 min=192. Three of the five files are about 38 minutes
• Video

  65 answers, most recent on 1/4/2007

  RE: Sonic announces affordable BluRay authoring
  I have just successfully burned my first HD DVD video using Ulead DVD Movie Factory 5 and Nero 7 onto a standard dvd. It was a short CGI file created with Vue 5 and edited with Vegas 7b. I rendered using 1440 x 1080 60i mpeg2 program file, not
• Video

  4 answers, most recent on 11/22/2006

  Sony Z1 not found
  I have just reformatted my Sony Vaio Laptop because XPservice Pack2 was playing havoc with my DV Rack..... I installed a fresh copy of XP with SP1 and now the computer won't recognise my Sony HVR-Z1. It displays an error message in the Device
• Video

  37 answers, most recent on 11/9/2006

  RE: "C'mon get 'em while still hot!" New SKYPE
  yncView is definitely a cool tool for collaborative video work. I'm in CA & my Parents are in VA. (3,000 miles apart) I would like to get VideoChat set up for My House & My Parents.(so they can watch and talk to my daughter as she
• Video

  37 answers, most recent on 11/9/2006

  RE: "C'mon get 'em while still hot!" New SKYPE
  SyncView is definitely a cool tool for collaborative video work. I'm in CA & my Parents are in VA. (3,000 miles apart) I would like to get VideoChat set up for My House & My Parents.(so they can watch and talk to my daughter as she grows.)
• Audio

  20 answers, most recent on 11/1/2006

  RE: Is Vegas REALLY robust enough for audio work?
  I also have had terrible audio stutter with Vegas 6 and SIR and Ambience reverbs, I have 48 tracks, many plugins used [ mostly Sony ] processor seems to max at about 60 percent but still get stutter. Using P4 3.0 1 gig ram audigy 2ZS card onboard
• Video

  5 answers, most recent on 10/17/2006

  RE: No audio from laptop firewire out
  All you need is one more cable. A 6' or 12' 1/8" stereo to dual RCA cable connected between the laptop headphone jack and the TV will take care of it for you. These can be had at Wal*Mart or Radio Shack for under $10. Compared to the firewire card,
• Video

  57 answers, most recent on 11/21/2006

  RE: OT - AMD x2 AM2 -vs- Intel Duo Core 2
  I don't have any Intel DC to compare, but I just upgraded my AMD machine to another and am quite pleased with the performance improvements. Old Configuration, Render Time: 3m 52s or 232s AMD Athlon XP 1.29 GHz 1GB RAM WinXP Pro Version 2002 SP2,
• Video

  11 answers, most recent on 11/24/2006

  Producing WMV-HD for Kiss DP-600
  Ok, after having spent nearly one week of my life and hundreds of hours rendering time trying to get a WMV-HD file out of Vegas that would play back smoothly on my new Kiss DP-600 HD-player I think somebody might take advantage of my findings, so
• Video

  16 answers, most recent on 9/27/2006

  RE: OT: Audio XLR splitter
  In addition to Spot's recommendations, I forgot that I had recently picked up an for press conferences around the college. I got the BM-AV model as it more than met my needs. Single line level audio source feeds 12 XLR and 4 -1/8” mini phone
• Video

  9 answers, most recent on 9/20/2006

  RE: OT: pc reboots often, locks up..driver ideas?
  OK, Ken let's keep it simple:- #1 - You have lots of AV ware working? #2 - During Summer? Hot? Overheating PC? #3 - Get another PC and run your other AV stuff on that. PCs are cheap. Your time aint. Factor in the ROI on several "other" PCs and
• Video

  6 answers, most recent on 9/19/2006

  RE: Capturing Analog Video (HI8)
  When you say "system" you don't say whether this is a deck, or your PC. If it is a canopus drive-bay analogue->DV converter - then great - that would be about the same as the Pyro AV Link (props for the model 555). The best way wasn't
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  2 answers, most recent on 9/16/2006

  HDV capture quality, am I expecting too much?
  Hi everyone, I've been looking in this forum's messages going back to Nov 2005 to see if I can find a solution to my problem but I haven't so I've posted this to ask for help. I recently bought a Sony HDR-HC3 along with Sony Vegas Movie Studio +
• Video

  88 answers, most recent on 9/11/2006

  RE: Are You Upgrading: Yes or No?
  No I do not do HD and there are's norhing I want for SD editors. I moved to v6 from V5 because 1-I liked AV sync feature 2-DVDA3 cleared the MPEG2 bug which bugged(!) me in V5.0d. But for me: V6 is slower than V5
• Video

  12 answers, most recent on 9/12/2006

  RE: DVD overall burn quality
  Right, learning more about Nero. Media ID is : CMC MAG.AE1 Running Scandisk over the DVD in question I got 100% "good". Disk Quality: PI errors, av=62.51, max=287, total=508700 PI Failures: av=1.77, max=74, total=51702. The running time is 54
• Video

  3 answers, most recent on 9/6/2006

  RE: Jog My Memory
  It sounds like the machine I first edited on (showing my age here!!) which was a Sony AV-3600 or 3650, an EIAJ 1/2" open reel unit. Vidpax is one place that does restoration of obsolete formats. Mike
• Video

  19 answers, most recent on 8/31/2006

  RE: Capturing Firewire or USB2?
  Grazie ! - What you and other contributers said was useful and meaningful to the consumer and forum but was less than accurate for me the engineer to pass by. I don't think I've set out to change the message, but to set the record straight. USB2
• DVD Architect

  3 answers, most recent on 8/21/2006

  RE: Checking AC3 audio
  You may be able to use your DVD playing software to play the AC3 file. I use Cyberlink PowerDVD XP and it will play AC3s quite happily - just drag and drop the file onto the player window. This pipes the AC3 bitstream out of the digital output on
• Video

  No answers, created on 8/18/2006

  Choppy video playback
  I'm confused!!!! I can't get Microsoft AV/C to recognize my Sony Z1 - - so I played around and assigned it to another card Hauppauge WinTV PVR. But the video is choppy as I apply it to the Vegas timeline for editing. Some of it plays really
• Video

  42 answers, most recent on 8/24/2006

  RE: OT: Hardware recommendations for new build
  Yeah - I am recycling mainly the hard drives since I purchased them within the last 6 months. Budget??? LOL - my budget is basically what I can find at the lowest price. Work has been kinda slow so the budget is tight currently and recently my
• Video

  7 answers, most recent on 8/18/2006

  RE: In for a new HDTV- fuzzy on HDMI differences
  Okay, took a look at AVS and got some ideas. I am looking at this model: Samsung LN-S4052D - B&H has it for 2500.00, Tigerdirect has it for 1899.99 and I found another site (Soureceoneaudio.com) that has it for 200 cheaper. It has HDMI,
• Video

  10 answers, most recent on 8/8/2006

  RE: OT: Comercial TV providers
  You can access the DBS Fourm via the AVS Forum. There is a recent thread on the DBS High Def section on the SF HD locals offered by Dish Network.. I have Dish (E* for Echostar) as my provider. I don't have any of the metal packs just the old HD