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Scriptingon 2/10/2016
Batch Render Regions to Filenames??
I just purchased Render Assistant and it works for me except in one regard: I create regions on large assets (like 2.5 hr movies) I do this on a scene per scene basis. I need to extract a select group of regions. I can highlight regions in the region list but Render Assistant ignores the selection and renders every defined region. As a workaround I could save a temp project and delete all the unwanted defined regions but this is a tad awkward. Any chance of being able to specify which regions to render (like Sound Forge)? thanks
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Videoon 5/3/2009
HD intermediate problem
Thanks Serena. Suspecting Cineform, I downloaded the free trial of NeoScene ($129 product). Armed with this the intermediate files look good and frame rate is 30 fps. After I finish this little project and the trial lapses I will try the bundled Cineform again. Since the Sony installer installs Cineform, how do I re-install? Where might I get the detailed instructions that you speak of? ddt
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Videoon 4/29/2009
HD intermediate problem
based on a good suggestion I rendered the aforementioned video clip to AVI uncompressed. The uncompressed AVI looked like the original so Vegas isn't messing it up as it passes it to the rendering codec. A still will be more useful to see the artifacts: http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww184/daudioguy/cineform.jpg There is an alternating venetian blind artifact as well as the red and blue dashed. This is consistent (I wish it would go away). Is this a known problem with Cineform or am I just using it in a manner that is inconsistent with its design? ddt
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Videoon 4/29/2009
HD intermediate problem
yes, due to the low light levels and the inexpensive sensor the footage is way less than optimum. However, the Cineform intermediate is really corrupted with bright red and blue artifacts. It is difficult to see off the clips as the results were first compress to a wmv and then to a flv so I could post it to this site where I could share it. It is a good suggestion to try uncompressed. I will try the uncompressed render as due diligence but Cineform is trashing the clip. thanks for your input ddt
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Videoon 10/4/2008
subclip comments vanish
Yes, I have a big blob of media, I find a take, I make a subclip of it, I type a comment to characterize it. Now, knowing that the field is not likely to hang around, I should put the identifying tags in the subclip name. Still, it doesn't seem correct that the contents of the comment field is tied to basis clips location.
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DVD Architecton 6/26/2008
recompression jaggies
GPU, that's interesting, I'll try that. I have prepared the same file on both my old machine and new machine. No problem with the old machine and the artifact with the new machine. DVDArch can use a Replay MPG file and produce good results. In parallel I have been dealing with someone from Sony support who insisted that the amount of compression was responsible. So I tried an experiment. I manually set the compression down from 8 to 7.9. The result had the same artifacts. If I don't recompress it looks fine. Both machines are running XP with the same SP. As far as DVDA exposes settings the file coming in has the same properties as the file going out, DVD MPEG settings so there shouldn't be any transformations and I haven't explicitly invoked any filters. In any case MPM, thanks for your thoughtful suggestions.
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DVD Architecton 6/25/2008
recompression jaggies
John, Thanks, I will check it out. I am reticent to add another step to an already time consuming process but if the resulting DVDs look better I might do it. I have a feeling that something is wrong with the MPEG2 compression codec/and or settings that DVDArch is using to recompress, but so far I haven't found them in the interface (other than to limit the lowest bitrate). Thanks for your input. david
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DVD Architecton 6/25/2008
recompression jaggies
I have tried Media Player and Media Player Classic, plus I have played the resulting disk in two different DVD players and the artifacts are always there. You are right, I could set Replay image quality and avoid recompression. I'd rather not do this for two reasons. a - It is already at medium compression which is at about the same level of artifacts as the Comcast signal I am capturing. b - We watch the captured stream from Replay most of the time and I don't want to go any lower on image quality. Basically I am caching shows on DVD so that I can clean up the DVR's disk. Back to the problem, it is very regular on the horizontal scan lines as if every so many pixels are shifted up and down. I believe that it is happening on all the horizontal lines it is just most obvious in areas of high contrast. Bizarre.... thanks for your input
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DVD Architecton 6/25/2008
recompression jaggies
the pixel dimensions of the original file are 720x480 Let me state that I have used DVDArch to make more than a hundred disks on a different machine with other files that I transferred from this DVR. So DVDArch can recompress these files on that machine. The DVDArch install is on a newer quad processor machine that I am trying to move my apps to. So far this is a deal breaker. The screen grab looks a bit wierd because it is a camera shooting the screen. Alt/PrtScrn just grabs black so I took a picture. It is a bit wierd but portrays the artifacts faithfully. david
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Videoon 5/16/2008
cineform hdv intermediate has artifacts bad ones
You are right, 40 hours of HDV is a lot. Ultimately the output of this project will be 40 5-25 minute videos. There were two HDV cameras with for 4.5 days. If I have my way we will end up using less than 15% of the HDV since most of the useful moving pictures are Camtasia captured screen. Still to figure out what I need, I still need to see them sync'd with audio. The good news is that the second camera rarely has anything useful enough to bother with so I am going to start with intermediates only for camera A. So, I downloaded the 15 day trial of CineForm Neo HDV and voila, clean intermediates. I don't have time to fight a war over why the Sony version of the CineForm codec codes as caca. Even after I had the HDV codec loaded the Sony Cineform coded files were unusable. So the answer is, spend $250, advance to GO. I spend $200 bucks to add a 1.2 terrabye RAID 0 array to hold the intermediate so now it will just be rendering time. It should only take 60 hours to create intermediates for 20 hours, by next week I can be editing. ddt
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Videoon 5/16/2008
cineform hdv intermediate has artifacts bad ones
Laurence:"I've had the Cineform codec produce artifacts like that when I tried rendering to unstandard frame sizes." That's interesting. I kept running trials with a 5 minute sample, each time getting more conservative until I rendered out at stock setting 1440x1080. Still no joy. Thanks for the pegasys tip. I dug a little further - even though the template says Cineform 2.8 when I look at the properties of the resulting file: General Name: MJ6_cineform hdv native.avi Folder: K:\Aud4Int\Filter\Power Shell\Monday Type: Video for Windows Size: 2.31 GB (2,362,434,048 bytes) Created: Friday, May 16, 2008, 09:32:51 Modified: Friday, May 16, 2008, 09:41:46 Accessed: Friday, May 16, 2008, 13:20:36 Attributes: Archive Streams Video: 00:03:45.592, 29.970 fps, 1440x1080x32, CineForm HD Codec V3.3.0 Audio: 00:03:45.592, 48,000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, Uncompressed CineForm HD Codec V3.3.0. Now that is interesting. I downloaded the free CineForm NEO Player and still no joy. Maybe I need to reboot to get the codec to be noticed? I tried Media Player and I get the same artifacts. http://cid-cd0e17091a1e1d24.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!CD0E17091A1E1D24!124/ While I haven't purchased Cineform directly I may still ask a question on their site. I'll let you know what it takes to get rid of this. ddt
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Videoon 5/16/2008
cineform hdv intermediate has artifacts bad ones
Yes, I am using the Cineform intermediate template that came with Vegas Pro 8 to reencode the mts file. I am using 2.8 version. Thanks for the link. I will try it out. If it is within the budget of the project I will also consider just buying the Cineform codec since my clients have saddled me with this media, I have a lot of it and I will have to use it. thanks for you help david
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Videoon 10/18/2007
ProTitler dissapointment or am I missing something
This is a more profound dissapointment because I complained about this exact same thing on the original titler a couple of years ago. While ProTitler is significantly more capable in some respects, changing the look of it for my purposes is a bit like "dressing up a pig". How much more powerful titling would be if presets could be separate from text. ddt
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Videoon 4/9/2006
two firewire devices simultaneously
Mike, now that is information! It didn't occur to me to use the JVC for NTSC preview. The other reason is that I added the JVC later for the purpose of capturing DV tapes (this is for an in- corporation studio that sees moderate traffic). thanks ddt
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Videoon 4/8/2006
two firewire devices simultaneously
Jack gave me two important bits of info a - it works for him (I had never been able to do it on other systems) b - turning external devices on after booting I plugged M-audio into the hub and got audio working again. I tried capture. No device. power cycled the canopus voila - it captures! the JVC DV/VHS deck lowered my expectations enought to discourage me from poking around at other related problems. thanks, consider this post successfully closed ddt
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Videoon 4/8/2006
two firewire devices simultaneously
Thanks Jack, that is information. I did some knowledge base diving and found that the JVC DV deck uses a naughty firewire chip which doesn't relinquish the 1394 bus. I am using motherboard firewire which uses a TI 1394 controller. This should be ok. So I am still between a rock and a hard place the rock being: MAudio http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FirewireAudiophile-main.html and the hard place: Canopus ADVC-100 http://www.canopus.com/products/ADVC110/index.php My goal is simple: MAudio for audio during editing and ADVC-100 for capture without having to go the hub and disconnect.
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Videoon 4/8/2006
time for those Vegas 7 wishes...
please separate the properties of titles from the text! I might have a couple of dozen title clips and the client wants blue/shadowed text. I want to change the color and shadow properties of a group of selected text clips without changing their text. there are lots of ways to do this (see layout and word processing programs) Also, why is the text window not sizeable? My screen is big, why can I see the project window where I am typing? Fancy text would be nice but basic text stuff should just work better.
David Thiel
Offline, Member since 5/12/2005