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To expand, if you simply speed up the footage (which you can actually do with some file formats with a simple file patcher which changes the header and tells the program to play back and the faster speed) -- if you do just this simple speed up, the

Video

No answers, created on 1/29/2009

Rendering some help on a workaround

I shot my video on a sony HDRSR12E in AVCHD 1920*1080. I have edited it down to 90mins, nothing fancy mainly straights cuts and fades. I rendered to 1040*1080 M2TS with 5.1, using 8.0b. 24 hours later it completed but the sound went progressively

DVD Architect

35 answers, most recent on 1/29/2009

RE: **WARNING** to any professional users of DVD Arc!!

Well I have done both. Def more 29.9 but some 24p as well. I am not famillar with that encoder. But you got my point. Sometimes software doesn't play well together. I certainly would not imply that it was an error on your part. I have always run

Scripting

2 answers, most recent on 1/26/2009

RE: Tracks.Clear() - Exception

Now... if you're writing a Custom Command, remember that anything that CHANGES the project must be in an "Undo" block or you WILL get an error. Thanks a lot! This has to be the culprit. I will try it later today, and report back. Edited: I found

Video

14 answers, most recent on 1/15/2009

RE: How do I Exchange NEW for OLD Markers?

I can get this to work in a small case test. There maybe other gremlins however. Test 1: I created Proj1.veg with gen media and 3 markers. Rendered to mpeg-2 with markers and opened that in DVDA. Test 2: I opened Proj1.veg, Saved As Proj2.veg and

Video

41 answers, most recent on 3/6/2009

RE: Where is the speed advantage of 64bit?!

OK, additional tests with different preview ram settings: RAM Render Handles Time Physical RAM usage 128MB 16 7:38 1.38GB 2048MB 16 7:28

DVD Architect

6 answers, most recent on 1/3/2009

RE: DVDA 5 Cant Render Untranscoded - Buffer Underflow

I got mine to render and look great in a bluray burned from DVDA - This was a 17 minute video with protitler, color & contrast adjustments and a lightrays FX in one event. The player is a panasonic BD35 with what ever firmware it was shipped

Video

8 answers, most recent on 12/27/2008

My first HD clip on Vimeo

http://www.vimeo.com/2635558 Shot on EX1 at SP 50i. All cut aways were shot at rehearsals and some of the audio is bits patched in from them as well. As the composer / conductor was making changes to the score and tempo during rehearsals some

Video

6 answers, most recent on 12/22/2008

Delivering a HD file

I need to deliver a HD version of my film for the deliverables. For reasons I can't get into, I'm rendering from SD source material. I've set the settings to 24P 720 and was rendering with the YUV codec. 40 minutes into the render, I got an error

Video

14 answers, most recent on 12/16/2008

RE: Intercutting HDV and SD

I have mixed HDV and SD on the timeline with no problems-if rendering to DVD MPEG-2. I haven't noticed there being issues at the edit points as you have Bob, and I have been checking closely lately. Here has been my problem, as stated in another

Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

7 answers, most recent on 12/28/2008

RE: Workaround for AVCHD rendering?

Sony has acknowledged the AVCHD render crash problem and it has been escalated to the development team. So perhaps in the next release it will be fixed, or then not.... Meanwhile I've bee fighting to find any reasonable simple workaround, and now I

Video

10 answers, most recent on 4/14/2009

An Exception has occurred (access violation)

I have been using Vegas since 3.0 and I don't remember getting an exception before. I am trying to open a project. It gets 7 of out of 21 opening, then kicks this error: An Error occurred during the current operation. An Exception has

CD Architect

One answer, on 12/10/2008

CDA Hard Crash w/ Error Message

Anyone know what this error report means? Sony CD Architect 5.2 Version 5.2d (Build 240) Exception 0xC00000FD (stack overflow) READ:0x1522000 IP:0x5BAF27 In Module 'CDArch52.exe' at Address 0x400000 + 0x1BAF27 Thread: ProgMan ID=0xA0C

Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

5 answers, most recent on 5/28/2009

Constant errors and shotdowns

Hello everyone, I'm new with the Vegas software. I have the Platinum Edition Movie Studio 9. When I go to open a project, I get an error and the program will shut down. Sometimes it will load and I can start to do some editing of existing files,

Video

7 answers, most recent on 12/4/2008

RE: Capturing video in Vista64?

Still struggling with this. Here's what I've tried so far: Capturing with Vegas 8: Pretends to capture. No files are created Capturing with Vegas 8.1 Same as with Vegas 8, No clips written. Capturing with HDVSplit: Immediately stops. Capturing

Video

No answers, created on 11/25/2008

Vegas 8.0c hangs during building peaks

Hi, Just opened an old archieved project (just the source files moved onto an external hard drive by the Vegas own "save as" function). BANG -Vegas dies in the middle of the build. Was this something that was recognized as a problem, and is there

Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

One answer, on 11/25/2008

Help! Trouble burning Blu Ray Videos.

Really need someone to tell me what my Presets, Format and Template should be when I go to “Make Movie”. Using Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 8. 0. Equipment is: Sony HC7, Buffalo Tech Blue Ray 6x burner, Sony 25 gig Blu Ray disks. Playing on

Video

69 answers, most recent on 11/23/2008

RE: Vegas BR-out template vs DVDA recompression

Both my test pieces had the same average bitrate (15M) and the VBR test STILL came out smaller. That is caused by an error in the encoder in reality. Perhaps error is a harsh word, an inaccuracy. The easiest way to show this is as I did above. 4 +

Video

11 answers, most recent on 11/20/2008

RE: Other encoders

Do your own testing. There are definitely significant performance differences between encoders: some are much faster than the MainConcept encoder built into Vegas. However, at the risk of contradicting what I just wrote, it is actually quite

Video

6 answers, most recent on 11/9/2008

Vegas & FCP - EDL etc ?

Is there any way to get a Vegas edit (cuts-only, say) into FCP? As far as I can tell (from threads on other forums): 1) There is an "Export EDL" script (2004 vintage) to generate a "CMX 3600" EDL, but when I (and some others) ran it, just got

Video

11 answers, most recent on 11/6/2008

RE: Vegas noob question about video effects

I started with a one gig file. 640X480 xvid compression, 128k mp3 sound, 29 fps, data rate of 163kbps, 24 bit video sample size. . I cropped out a quarter of the video. (the rest will be a separate video). i tried to match the render options to the

Video

15 answers, most recent on 11/9/2008

RE: Will More Memory Help?

Terry: I too am working in 8.0c on a 32 bit Quad core and have an Nvidia 8800 GTS. I edit 24Mbs AVCHD files. The preview is not realtime, but the renders are fine. VLC (latest version) also has problems with playback. I recently had a memory

Video

No answers, created on 10/27/2008

MP4 rendering causes crash

When I attempt to render a Sony AVC *.mp4 file I get the following error. I tried to copy the dll file form another computer and replace what it says is the error, but no luck. Any ideas??? Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 Version 8.0c (Build 260) Exception

Scripting

8 answers, most recent on 11/3/2008

RE: Multicam script request

Try this one. I didn’t really tested it, so it can be bugged... //************************************************************** //* Program: Split Event At Interval + take switching.cs //* Author: Gilles Pialat //* Last Updated: October 24,