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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 11/12/2014
Missing Audio
'Import DVD Camcord camcorder disc' was created for importing video filmed with a camera using mini dvds as a storage medium. It is not intended for what you are doing. You may be able to copy the vob files directly from dvd to hard drive. That's what I do. If your VHS tapes were copyright protected, there may be copyright embedded code on the dvd as well, triggering errors in Vegas. Vegas is notorious for being unable to edit copyright protected materals. I'm not judging anybody. Just giving information.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 11/11/2014
Super Slow Motion ... Sound
In 'preferences' of Vegas, you can uncheck the audio pitch fix for slow motion.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 11/10/2014
Low Memory Error
Version 10 couldn't cope well with high resolution still images. Delete them from your timeline. Then, in your photo software, resize the images you want to use to a resolution of 2048 pixels wide (or less). Put these low rez images on your timeline. Now you shouldn't have memory issues.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 11/10/2014
GPU acceleration fix,
My card is the Geforce GT 640. (I updated my profile) The current drivers is the 340.62 After installing the CUDA Toolkit, the automated driver update to 344.65 through the GeForce Experience module fails. It auto-downloads, but installation doesn't work without much further info. I then downloaded the same new driver manually and the upgrade to 344.65 worked just fine.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 11/9/2014
GPU acceleration fix,
I installed the Cuda Toolkit and compared the rendering times of a simple real life project. Before the Cuda Toolkit: 12:35 After the Cuda Toolkit: 11:15 While rendering, the gpu usage is between 12 and 48%. I can imagine that if you have a more complex project, with more effects active that are cuda enabled, that then the render time will improve more substantially.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 11/1/2014
Stabilizing shaky video in Vegas Movie Studio 11?
I can't remember if it came with all versions of VMS11. It could well be you need the platinum edition. Right-click on the event on the timeline that needs to be stabilized and then select 'stabilize'. A window will open with some options. Here is a test I did 4 years ago with VMS10. https://vimeo.com/12472052
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/31/2014
rendered movie is choppy/freezing at 3:30 min mark
Does it finish the rendering (so the rendered video is choppy) or does Vegas crash at 3:30?
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/30/2014
Smoothest Crop and Pan movement
Try avchd (mts). Not all tv sets will play these, though.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/29/2014
Movie Studio 12 - Project Media Window Problem
Man, it took a while to find this! It is right there in Vegas, but only in the Platinum version, and it only works with still images. You need to go to the Insert menu and select 'Slideshow'. A screen will open where you can add still images (and NO video!), then start rearranging as much as you want. When done, you can drop the sequence in a video track. There are also settings for transition effects, overlap time etc. Hope you've got the Platinum version, Sam!
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/29/2014
Motion Blur Pixelation on Render!
Is this your footage or is it something you ripped? If it is ripped, I'm afraid your video is already in 'delivery format' and it will be very hard to get rid of the blocks. Most likely, increasing the bitrate of your rendering template/codec will decrease the pixelation. Nowadays, I set my bitrate to average 18Mbps, maximum 24Mbps (using the MainConcept AVC/AAC 1080p template). I don't think you will get rid of them completely, though, as this is typical of compression. Note: the higher the bitrate, the larger the rendered file will be! As you are using an old version of Vegas, you may consider upgrading. I upgraded myself from version 10 to 12 (which I still use), and I must say the performance of Vegas increased noticably. With each new upgrade, Vegas' codecs get a bit better. It is nothing flashy, but in the end it affects the image quality. https://vimeo.com/110084457 Here is one of mine. Not many blocks, if you ask me. Shot in avchd 50fps 24Mbps with the GH3. I recently started shooting in the avchd format, contrary to what many bloggers suggest (they promote mov a lot, with a much higher bitrate). In my experience, avchd does a really good thing with fast movement. So next time you do some filming, consider avchd. Avchd is less suitable for intense color grading, though...
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/15/2014
Best rendering from AVCHD source to Internet file
I'm always interested in better quality. Just like I said, Parked: a waste of time. I downloaded GoPro Studio and tried to import my GH3 avchd file (with the extension .mts) into it. The programme doesn't even show my avchd files. It only recognizes jpg, mp4 and mov files.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/14/2014
Best rendering from AVCHD source to Internet file
I disagree with Parked. Since Vegas 12, it can handle avchd files perfectly well. Just put your avchd files on the timeline and start editing. Make sure to match the project properties to the videofile. There really is no need to decompress the files with an intermediate programme. It is a waste of time, and there will be no improvement of image quality in the final mp4 file. If you want to keep the 5.1 audio surround, make sure you choose the correct Mainconcept template with those audio settings.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/13/2014
Basic Editing Video out of sync with audio
Try rendering your video. It may well be just fine, while it is the preview that is having a hard time. To deal with the playback issue, you may want to play around with the audio buffers. They can be tweaked by hitting Options, hit Preferences, tab Audio Devices. There are two sliders here. Increasing the buffer size usually solves the issue. As for rendering, use the Mainconcept AVC/AAC codec, choose 720p or 1080p template with the correct framerate for where you live. (25fps or 29fps)
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/13/2014
Basic Editing Video out of sync with audio
Sync the audio and the video at the start of the track. Then move to the end. Hold CTRL and drag the audio event until it is again in sync at the end. If you are lucky, the whole thing should be in sync. If the video and audio events are different, it will be very hard to sync them.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/12/2014
Best rendering from AVCHD source to Internet file
I don't see what the problem is, really. Just use the sony mainconcept AVC/AAC codec to render to mp4. Choose for the full hd resolution and a bitrate of 18 to 20Mbps. This will render a good quality full hd mp4 file which still isn't too big to upload to the internet. Here are two examples of mine. They were shot with the GH3 in avchd 50p 1080p, and rendered to a 1080p 25fps mp4 with the above mentioned codec. It is fine to upload to vimeo. (And my Samsung Smart tv can play these videos in crispsharp resolution from an usb stick. I can tell from experience that Samsung tvs won't play mts files from an usb stick.) I'm using Vegas 12, btw. https://vimeo.com/108669570 https://vimeo.com/108000853
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 9/13/2014
VMS11 Audio Drops Out After 80% Of A Rendered Vid
Very weird indeed; not something I have seen before. The only issue I had in the past was sound falling away during editing. It was resolved by playing around with the audio buffers (under preferences, tab audio device, by making the buffers larger). Perhaps this will help for you too, but i'm not sure.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 9/12/2014
error rendering to mp4
Perhaps it is time for you to upgrade... I upgraded from version 10 to 12 and experienced great improvement in overall functionality of Vegas. I'm still using VMS12 and haven't seen the need to upgrade to 13. I'm not an expert at all, but have been using Vegas since version 6. In my experience, with each new release, the performance of the codecs and dlls improve a lot, while the changes on the surface seem minimal. In my opinion, the time you waste on this much more valuable than the price you pay to upgrade VMS. Just my 2 cents, I'm no employee of Sony. One of the best investments I did was to buy an SSD and install my OS and Vegas on that. Since I did that, and upgrading to Vegas Studio 12 64bit, I haven't had any crashes as far as I can remember.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 9/11/2014
error rendering to mp4
Make sure your destination drive is not formatted FAT32 but NTFS instead. The max file size for a FAT32 drive is 4GB, anything bigger will give you errors. Formatting your destination drive (eg a thumb drive) to NTFS will allow you to render to big files. Make sure to back up any files before you format a drive, as this will delete all the information on it.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 9/9/2014
Rendering to mp4
The Mainconcept codec has a reputation of taking better advantage of the GPU (about 10% of it) on a pc. It can shorten render times a bit, but not drastically. For consumers like us, the details in codecs don't matter that much. For pros, who often have special, dedicated hardware, cameras and capturing/broadcast devices all using the same codec, it can make a much bigger impact to choose the right codec which will enable them to edit and deliver their video report lightening fast.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 9/8/2014
Rendering to mp4
check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiview_Video_Coding mcv is for sterescopic video; aac is fererring to the audio compression used.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 9/6/2014
Open MS 11 projects in MS 13
I don't use V13 myself, but I can tell you there was a huge increase in performance when I upgraded from V10 to V12, esp. the codecs and preview screen performed better. That alone is worth the upgrade. As for the plugins, be prepared to lose some old ones, but when you choose the platinum or suite edition, you'll get plenty of new ones at a great price. Don't forget you can always have both V11 and V13 installed on the same machine, so your old plugins will still be there after all.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 9/3/2014
Crashing when importing 1920x1080 @ 60i fps
What do you mean with 'everything crashes'? Does Vegas crash, or is it that you don't like the flickering end result on the blu-ray? Make sure you apply the 180-rule. When filming in 1080p 60i, your exposure should be 1/30, 1/60, 1/120 etc When you do this, you'll get a much more fluent end result with less flickering and hickups in the final result on blu-ray (or the internet). Also, avoid very short exposure (anything shorter than 1/400 will give a flickering result). Therefore, when filming in bright sunlight, you must use a nd-filter (built in or on screwed on the lens). Mp4 is a delivery format; it exists so one can film it and watch (or put it online) it immediately without editing or rendering (hence the low bitrate). If you plan to do some editing or burning to dvd/blu-ray, you must film in avchd or mov, which has a much higher bitrate and will give a much better quality end product.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 8/31/2014
How take parts of 2 original videos and make one.
Is this your first project with Vegas? I'm asking, because what you want to do seems pretty straight forward to me. (No offense intended) Editing in Vegas is non-destructive for the source file, so you can cut and edit all you want on the timeline, while your original source file remains untouched. Reserve a video track for each source. Then drag your files to the corresponding tracks. Make sure the audio also has its own audio track. Then start cutting/splitting (by putting the cursor where you want the cut and hit the S-key. You can delete what you don't need. First throw out the uninteresting parts of each track. Then recreate the chronology by moving the pieces around.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 8/29/2014
Movie Studio Platinum 13 Rendering Stuck
Try this: open your project and hit CTRL+A to select all and then copy everything by hitting CTRL+C. Then open a new, blank session of Vegas and paste all in it. Save this new project under a new name. Try rendering it. If you are lucky, it will work. (this would indicate that your original project somehow got corrupt.)
Ivan Lietaert
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