Location of stabilized clips

JoeBW wrote on 1/30/2012, 8:26 AM

In VMS11, does anyone know where stabilized clips are stored? If you stabilize a clip called 00000.MTS you get a 2nd clip called 00000.MTS - subclip 1 (stabilized) but I can't find any new file in either the same folder as the original clip, or in the temporary folder:
C:\Users\Joe\AppData\Local\Sony\Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum\11.0
If you right-click on the stabilized version and choose properties, it refers to the original clip (location and all the file properties)

It must be saved somewhere....

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 1/30/2012, 9:57 AM

If it's a subclip then it's not a new file. It will be a reference to the original file. Stabilizing must be done in realtime rather than generating a new, stabilized output.

JoeBW wrote on 1/30/2012, 10:54 AM

OK, thanks for that... though I am a bit mystified as the stabilization process (producing the subclip event) takes about 30 seconds for a 12 second AVCHD file, on my computer - about the same time as it takes to render a 12 second clip on the timeline. So the results of all that processing must surely be stored somewhere??? Also, the subclip can be previewed just like the original clip and you can clearly see the difference between the original and the subclip.

Chienworks wrote on 1/30/2012, 12:13 PM

Couldn't tell you, sorry. I don't have a version of Vegas that includes stabilization. Just curious though, maybe the stabilized version has a bunch of pan/crop keyframes added?

D7K wrote on 1/30/2012, 12:37 PM

Here's the here in formation as reported in HD11 bld 283:

General
Name: P1010832.MOV
Folder: E:\Oregon\OldMill\101_PANA
Type: QuickTime
Size: 76.97 MB (78,821,888 bytes)
Created: Saturday, November 19, 2011, 5:23:43 PM
Modified: Sunday, November 28, 2010, 2:56:02 PM
Accessed: Saturday, November 19, 2011, 5:23:43 PM
Attributes: Archive

Streams
Video: 00:00:19.500, 30.000 fps, 1280x720x24, Photo - JPEG
Audio: 00:00:19.500, 16,000 Hz, 32 Bit (IEEE Float), Mono, 16-bit Big Endian

Summary
[GUDE]: {7BB3FE15-954A-4E75-B5E1-45EE98F74990}

ACID information
ACID chunk: no
Stretch chunk: no
Stretch list: no
Stretch info2: no
Beat markers: no
Detected beats: no

Other metadata
Regions/markers: no
Command markers: no

Media manager
Media tags: no

Plug-In
Name: qt7plug.dll
Folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\qt7plug
Format: QuickTime 7
Version: Version 11.0 (Build 283)
Company: Sony Creative Software Inc.

Looks to me like it writes the stabliztion stuff in an SFK file, as my folder now has one related to this specific file.

Markk655 wrote on 1/30/2012, 8:55 PM

I had a look too. I couldn't find it either! The sfk filedidn't grow all that much after I did a stabilize, so I don't think it is there either. I used Vista's Resource Monitor to watch for files as they were being written to disc. I couldn't spot anything there either! I looked in the Project Media section and checked the properties (compared the original and the stabilized clip), but to no avail. Looked into the Internal Preferences, but didn't see any setting there either!

Sorry :(

Chienworks wrote on 1/30/2012, 10:49 PM

All the .sfk file contains is the picture of the audio waveform.