• Video

  10 answers, most recent on 8/8/2006

  RE: OT: Comercial TV providers
  I receive all of the local stations OTA with some difficulties. One of them is not enough power for PBS stations due to antenna management problems. The others have huge sound level problems and the levels vary from commercials being about 15 db
• Video

  17 answers, most recent on 8/6/2006

  RE: Browser Opens By Itself--Need Help!
  If it's what I think it is, you have two options. 1-Unplug from internet. System Restore to several days before it started. Clean browser cash and remove all cookies. Then run updated spybot, adaware, AV. 2-Format C:, reinstall
• Video

  20 answers, most recent on 8/1/2006

  RE: HDV Rendering Time
  I ran an HD Tach test on the hard drive to which I am rendering the files. The results were: Burst speed: 227.8MB/s Ave. Read: 52.3MB/s CPU Utilization: 1%+/- 2% Random access: 15.2ms I am no expert at reading the numbers, but using the comparison
• Video

  20 answers, most recent on 8/1/2006

  RE: HDV Rendering Time
  I ran an HD Tach test on the hard drive to which I am rendering the files. The results were: Burst speed: 227.8MB/s Ave. Read: 52.3MB/s CPU Utilization: 1%+/- 2% Random access: 15.2ms I am no expert at reading the numbers, but using the comparison
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  6 answers, most recent on 7/28/2006

  RE: HELP WITH HDV CAPTURE
  1) make sure the camera is on, and in play mode. 2) make sure your firewire port is working on your computer. When you plug the cable in with the camera on you should hear a "ding" and a pop up message in the tasktray saying that new hardware is
• Video

  41 answers, most recent on 7/27/2006

  RE: IS THIS IT?!?! - XHG1 . . . sigh . . .
  Yes, using Babelfish translator, it is HDV! Type name XH G1 XH A1 Image record standard * HD HDV 1080i * SD DV standard Audio record mode * HDV 2CH: MPEG1 Layer2 (16bit 48kHz and bit rate 384kbps) * DV 2CH: PCM digital recording (16bit
• DVD Architect

  6 answers, most recent on 7/21/2006

  Menus and Chapter Markers
  I am new to the whole digital video scene and I apologize for the length of this posting, but I wanted to give enough information so that my question could be fully understood.. I recently bought a Sony DCR-DVD405 camcorder and also the Sony Vegas
• Video

  12 answers, most recent on 6/21/2006

  RE: OT: Need everyone's input, please!
  This should keep you busy for awhile. It's my entire Favorites folder that relates to video. A few of the links may be old, but most of them are good. John ==================== 1394 host adapter card and DV camcorder help
• Video

  9 answers, most recent on 6/19/2006

  RE: Upconverter DVD players and home video
  Sometimes yes and sometimes no. Some of the players are poor, some are OK, and some are good. Some don't do very well with homemade videos, only with 24p. I would do a lot of research on these forums. I have a Cyberhome 655. It seems about as
• Video

  One answer, on 6/14/2006

  Need help with new Canon DV camera capture...
  I just got my FIRST DV camera today: Canon Elura 80. Works great, had (almost) all the features I wanted, etc. Only 1 problem. I can't find my 6pin to 4pin firewire cable. So... I hooked up my ADS Pyro AV Link to my PC via 6pin-6pin & my
• Video

  58 answers, most recent on 7/20/2006

  RE: ConnectHD 3.0
  malowz - your shorthand was quite hard to follow.. im converting with avisynth-avs2avi using rgb24 colorspace Converting what to what? the file show in vegas as 24b What does this mean? when render some effect, the preview file as 32b Sorry,
• Video

  8 answers, most recent on 5/19/2006

  In what order to boot?
  Do you have a referred way to booting up? During a Vegas session does this result in a any less or more successful working session? I've played with: 1/- Switch on Deck then turn on PC - I use my deck as a means of not only capturing, but it is
• Video

  72 answers, most recent on 5/13/2006

  RE: 2 hour Brick Wall - Fave DVD Templates? Pleas
  "So, for me, the way I would recommend using DVD Shrink is for those cases where your bitrate calculator gives you an encoding rate that turns out to give you a project that is a few percent too large." Well, guys, and for what ever reason, this
• Video

  72 answers, most recent on 5/13/2006

  RE: 2 hour Brick Wall - Fave DVD Templates? Pleas
  Sorry, so many posts hard to sort out what you did versus what people were telling you to do. Bob? It was MY initial post. See above . .please? So lets see if I get this right, you encoded using those numbers but the file was too big to fit the
• Video

  72 answers, most recent on 5/13/2006

  RE: 2 hour Brick Wall - Fave DVD Templates? Pleas
  Just got outtaa bed . .and have seen and read ALL your posts . . I'm really grateful . . most helpful indeed - Good People! OK . .. John M - I didn't truly appreciate that 2-pass was employing this feature to determine where from AVE to MAX
• Video

  72 answers, most recent on 5/13/2006

  RE: 2 hour Brick Wall - Fave DVD Templates? Pleas
  http://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm With 5 ave you should have room for the 1hr50min, but depending on how long your outtakes are, you might not have enough room at 5. Personally, I'd be doing 2 pass at 5. It really depends on your material as to
• Video

  72 answers, most recent on 5/13/2006

  2 hour Brick Wall - Fave DVD Templates? Pleas
  Ok, I know this is an old chestnut - BUT . .. . I'm really at the edge of the platter here: What has been your MOST for BEST quality MPEG2 out of Vegas . . for DVDA3? Here's mine so far, and I'm really scraping me knuckles on the pavement
• Video

  12 answers, most recent on 4/22/2006

  RE: uncompressed AVI frame rates?
  YUY2, RGB24 and RGB32 do seem to have both a processing and disk I/O "tax" when run through Vegas. For example NewTek had multiple realtime uncompressed and (mainconcept-DV or PICVideo aided) alternatives codecs running with full preview (on
• Video

  17 answers, most recent on 3/31/2006

  RE: 8mm Video 8 capture and using AVISynth help
  Took twelve and a half hours but AVISynth in Virtual Dub finally finished rendering the hour and fiftyeight minute video early this morning. I was using this script of yours "VHS cleanup (fft3dfilter, depanestimate).avs" prior to your latest upgrade
• Video

  17 answers, most recent on 3/31/2006

  RE: 8mm Video 8 capture and using AVISynth help
  I do in fact have the FFTW3.DLL file in there, so I have no idea why it keeps saying that. It's really frustrating. Yeah, you need to read the doc pretty closely. That file is supposed to be put in the SYSTEM32 folder, which you will find in your
• Video

  8 answers, most recent on 5/16/2006

  RE: HDV and deinterlace method
  This doesn't address your question. I just wanted to share an Avisynth script I use for converting HDV to SD (interlaced). I was not satisfied with the interlacing artifacts I saw when using Vegas to do this directly. I experimented for two days
• Video

  13 answers, most recent on 3/28/2006

  RE: Output to video projector.... Advice please!
  Wow, thanks. Great advice. I'll try the black menu DVD. But I think I'll add some subtle marks in the corners, or maybe a dark gray border on the black menu, just enough so the AV crew can see that the projector is ready. Then the 2 videos set as
• Video

  22 answers, most recent on 4/1/2006

  RE: OT: 8" LCD Monitors - ongoing follow-up.
  I will second the vote for dvd players w/ an AV in. I found an Axiom at Radio Shack that is tablet-style (needed to flip for lens adapter). Definitely not a professional calibrated field monitor! We were using DV Rack, but this worked great for
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  19 answers, most recent on 3/14/2006

  Error msg & hang VMS 6.0a
  I use VMS ver 60a bld 85. It produces error msgs, a variety, and hangs. I upgraded from 6.0 where I never had msgs or hangs. I completed a still photo project with text, menus, and music track OK and it will preview perfect on the new ver 60a.