Hello-
I am a long time (Since v3) vegas editor and part-time evangelist. I shot some footage on a Canon 7-D, and was planning on editing with it. I have a dual XEON processor (3.6 GHZ ea), with 4GB of RAM. Admittedly it is an old system, but i have some decent horsepower and an NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics card...
A bit of history...
-this is my first footage that i have that is full HD
-I used to edit on Vegas 8, 64-bit, when i had Windows XP64 but found it too buggy all in all
-I now have Windows 7 Pro 64 bit, but have been using the 32-Bit client of Vegas because of my experience with 64 bit on my previous OS.
I have a LOT of footage (about 30 min to edit in to 2 minutes or less)
When I play back ANY of the H.264 MOV files in Vegas it is a choppy, choppy mess. i should have expected this, i HATE editing MOV's in vegas.
I re-encoded 41 seconds of footage from .MOV to the .AVI using the Sony HD 1080-50i YUV codec - changing ONLY the field order to progressive. I was then able to preview and work with this footage quite easily, but it took 30 minutes to render. I don't have a full day to re-render all my footage to this codec (though i wish i did).
I read in a couple other forums about setting up a proxy system in Vegas? Is that feasible? Could some one explain it to me clearly?
Is there a way to setup a batch render that i can let go overnight while sleeping? I am in amsterdam and would like to start editing for client tomorrow if possible.
I am obliged to all the Vegas editors out there. I realize i should actually spend more time on this forum... i would like to spread vegas as the #1 editing system out there.
thanks!
matt
I am a long time (Since v3) vegas editor and part-time evangelist. I shot some footage on a Canon 7-D, and was planning on editing with it. I have a dual XEON processor (3.6 GHZ ea), with 4GB of RAM. Admittedly it is an old system, but i have some decent horsepower and an NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics card...
A bit of history...
-this is my first footage that i have that is full HD
-I used to edit on Vegas 8, 64-bit, when i had Windows XP64 but found it too buggy all in all
-I now have Windows 7 Pro 64 bit, but have been using the 32-Bit client of Vegas because of my experience with 64 bit on my previous OS.
I have a LOT of footage (about 30 min to edit in to 2 minutes or less)
When I play back ANY of the H.264 MOV files in Vegas it is a choppy, choppy mess. i should have expected this, i HATE editing MOV's in vegas.
I re-encoded 41 seconds of footage from .MOV to the .AVI using the Sony HD 1080-50i YUV codec - changing ONLY the field order to progressive. I was then able to preview and work with this footage quite easily, but it took 30 minutes to render. I don't have a full day to re-render all my footage to this codec (though i wish i did).
I read in a couple other forums about setting up a proxy system in Vegas? Is that feasible? Could some one explain it to me clearly?
Is there a way to setup a batch render that i can let go overnight while sleeping? I am in amsterdam and would like to start editing for client tomorrow if possible.
I am obliged to all the Vegas editors out there. I realize i should actually spend more time on this forum... i would like to spread vegas as the #1 editing system out there.
thanks!
matt