With my slower single core P4 desktop and laptop, I am always looking for ways to save CPU and storage space on projects.
I just tried using Gearshift with the http://www.pegasusimaging.com/picvideomjpeg.htm$28 Pegasys MJPEG codec[/link]. I generated Gearshift proxies that were 640x360x29.97P. That way Vegas would be doing no scaling or deinterlacing on preview with an easy to see preview window. It seems to work really well. It previews even through transitions without dropped frames. I used a medium quality setting. The MJPEG proxies are a fraction of the size of DV proxies. 15 gig of HDV footage amounted to only 2.55 gig of MJPEG proxies.
Anyway, for desktop editing with a Canopus box, I'd still recommend using standard DV proxies so that you can preview fullscreen with an external monitor, but if you don't have the external firewire monitor setup or you're editing on a a laptop at Starbucks, MJPEG proxies work really well.
This also opens up possibilities like copying the tiny MJPEG proxies to a pendrive and editing a project on a laptop, then bringing the project back to your desktop and "switching gears" for the final render. You could also edit this way on the built in 4200 or 5400 RPM drive of a standard $500 laptop, and just bring the completed VEG file back to your desktop for a final "switch gears" and render.
Pretty cool stuff if you ask me!
I just tried using Gearshift with the http://www.pegasusimaging.com/picvideomjpeg.htm$28 Pegasys MJPEG codec[/link]. I generated Gearshift proxies that were 640x360x29.97P. That way Vegas would be doing no scaling or deinterlacing on preview with an easy to see preview window. It seems to work really well. It previews even through transitions without dropped frames. I used a medium quality setting. The MJPEG proxies are a fraction of the size of DV proxies. 15 gig of HDV footage amounted to only 2.55 gig of MJPEG proxies.
Anyway, for desktop editing with a Canopus box, I'd still recommend using standard DV proxies so that you can preview fullscreen with an external monitor, but if you don't have the external firewire monitor setup or you're editing on a a laptop at Starbucks, MJPEG proxies work really well.
This also opens up possibilities like copying the tiny MJPEG proxies to a pendrive and editing a project on a laptop, then bringing the project back to your desktop and "switching gears" for the final render. You could also edit this way on the built in 4200 or 5400 RPM drive of a standard $500 laptop, and just bring the completed VEG file back to your desktop for a final "switch gears" and render.
Pretty cool stuff if you ask me!