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Videoon 1/20/2012
V11 SPOT
The problems i"m having with V11 are few and far between. Just finished posting a project with 9 hours (each) of multicam ranging from AVC from GoPro's, to splits from 2Kfps to XDCAM EX3 to AVCHD from several CX series cams. There are a couple plugs that hiccup and/or cause crashes, but once I'm aware of them, I avoid or save before invoking. I'm using on my old MBPro/boot camp and on a couple of dual quad core systems. I recently finished writing a new book on Vegas, David McKnight and I took the old Vegas books and put a match them. The new Vegas book tore deeply into compositing, Color correction, yadayada. We put Vegas through its paces. Although the new titler blows (I use the legacy titler or PTT, or NewBlue, or build in AE) most everything else is pretty stable.
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Videoon 1/12/2012
V11 SPOT
What would you like to know? I'm using it :-) I don't frequent the boards as much as I once did, just not enough time in the day it seems.
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Videoon 8/10/2011
Stabilize Media Problem
Stabilization will generally require some cropping of the image as the source is moved around to track movement. This can sometimes lead to softening of the video, and/or some blurriness. Third party stabilizers can do a better job, but they're slower to render (generally speaking). Keep stabilization to minimum settings for best results (depending on how unstable the footage is to begin with).
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Videoon 8/2/2011
what's the deal with multi-cam monitoring?
you may need to reduce hardware acceleration in your video card settings or Windows Control Panel.
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Videoon 8/1/2011
OT: Vimeo now hosting pro video
Their Plus service has surely been worth the small cost. Even at 200 per year, well worth it, IMO.
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Videoon 6/29/2011
Good Source For MiniDV Tape?
how much tape do you need? We have a few cases in the tape locker
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Videoon 5/1/2011
Vegas Users in Boston/NYC
Thanks for the responses and PM's guys...found someone within 20 mins of my post! Great to see the enthusiasm and help!
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Videoon 12/23/2010
10.0b bug?
I've often wondered why the Real Player encoder was in a professional product? Because many corporations still run Real servers, and several broadcasters still use Real as a distribution network. Most social sites support it, though it seems to be rarely used.
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Videoon 12/22/2010
Zooming Videos, Resolution & Quality
Digifish, we use Camtasia every day. All day. VERY familiar with how it works with Vegas. Camtasia 4-7 hasn't changed much. The Camtasia AVI files work very, very well in Vegas 32bit (won't open at all in 64bit) so you're editing native source vs a recompress. .camrec is the default format for Camtasia, you can change this in your Tools | Options | General menu in Camtasia 6/7. There is no way to zoom in on a wmv file and have it look identical native source. Mathematically, visually, practically it can't happen. It's twice recompressed with pixels changing position and recompression of already heavily compressed media. You'll also save significant time working with native source 1920 x 1080 or even 1660 source files to 1280 x 720@ 10Mbps for YouTube or other UCG sites. The closer you can keep your source to a divisible value of your delivery, the better off you'll be. Faster, sharper, easier.
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Videoon 12/22/2010
Zooming Videos, Resolution & Quality
Been a very busy 9 months, travel seems to leave me exhausted. Between CBS' implementation of Vegas at many houses, the skydiving world, and some of the new marketing content we've been building for Win phones...I've dropped a few activities. Hangin' around here is one of them, but I've missed it. Lotsa new faces, guess I'm kinda one of em' again, eh? :^ ) I believe Digifish's bigger problem isn't one of resolution, it's one of recompression. Rendering to WMV at any resolution isn't helping matters, and then trying to zoom in on twice compressed media only makes things worse.
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Videoon 12/22/2010
Zooming Videos, Resolution & Quality
A-WMV is about the worstsource you can work with. B-Vegas works with Camtasia files just fine. Open the 32bit version.
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Videoon 12/22/2010
Zooming Videos, Resolution & Quality
So...you're rendering from Camtasia to wmv and then editing and rendering again? Do I understand that correctly??
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Videoon 12/22/2010
sot: video files on usb thumb drives?
I've delivered several masters on thumbdrives, slow and fast both. Once in the replicators system as an iso or ddp layer 0/1 file, speed of the drive doesn't matter. One of my clients delivers up to 100 thumbs a day as part of their SDH workflow (although this isn't the same as masters). They render to 1280 x 720 10MBps mp4 files.
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Videoon 12/22/2010
Zooming Videos, Resolution & Quality
If you want the best resolution for zooms, then you want to record at the highest resolution possible. The final output won't matter much. I understand it's not a preview issue based on your last post, so... if you're zooming much, you're going to lose resolution. It's not just a resolution issue, although that's part of it. The techsmith codec falls apart when it's pushed much at all. It's quite fragile when you start shifting pixels. For best crispness with Camtasia, let the application do the zoom for you. Otherise, you'll have to deal with a certain amount of softening when zooming. The other option is to push your viewing resolution and record full screen.
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Videoon 12/22/2010
Zooming Videos, Resolution & Quality
Test it in Best/Full mode before you decide the resample isn't good. Edit in Preview/Auto, but you'll render to Best Camtasia definitely doesn't resample well.
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Videoon 9/12/2010
WOT: Another Pet Peeve
Was this diatribe necessary? Prolly not. ;) Eye uhgree. Better then jes' be'in kuwhyett. Two meny peeps ferget werds r 4 cummuneikayshun. Whee r all 2 uptite sumtimes. L8r ;-)
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Videoon 9/12/2010
How does 3D work?
Just for clarification; You can put anaglyphic on a BD disc, but it's not supported as 3D. The BD spec only allows for DualStream/MVC. Other formats such as checkerboard, LA, side x side, etc can also be put on a BD, and 3D capable displays will properly decode/display as frame sequential. there are many paths to the kingdom of 3D. Vegas supports most of them. Spent the morning in an FCP tutorial session on 3D, and I found myself very appreciative of how Vegas works with these files (and displays them externally as well). The system Sony is running is using BMD card, REAL D glasses, and is getting a lot of attention based on the few times I ventured into the Sony booth.
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Videoon 9/12/2010
How does 3D work?
[quote]There is absolutely no way this Vegas 10 release will produce and burn 3D productions at this time. Wow...quite a strong statement, and entirely incorrect. As I stand here at IBC (not for Sony) showing exactly this. There are multiple types of authoring, burning, displaying 3D. Vegas supports the majority of them, but not all of them. However...vegas does ingest, edit, output 3D. Your MACHINE may struggle with it. My MacBookPro does not. I'm playing back dual streams of AVC and AVCHD at the same time (sourced from NXCAM and GoPro's). I'm experimenting with two EX1's as well. They decode more easily, of course.
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Videoon 8/13/2010
OT: SCS moved?
I don't think anyone could say "Vegas grew too big for Madison" as opposed to "Time for the company to be in a real office vs a half-empty building (Sonic Foundry isn't in there either, anymore) in an expensive neighborhood. The new location is in an area with more efficient resources and similar businesses. IMO, it's a good move for them even if the view isn't as pretty.
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Videoon 8/11/2010
? Sony HDR-CX150 as interim camcorder, low/m light
I sure as heck wouldn't consider a 150 as anything to be used indoors unless you've got plenty of light. I own four of em' for skydiving. They suck even at late sunset. If it's just family stuff....they're probably fine, but bear in mind that noisy footage makes for terribly noisy encodes to the web and DVD.
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Videoon 8/1/2010
SCS needs to buy Corel Cool 3d Studio Production
I'm still a big fan of the Cool3D app, and still use it on occasion as it's a very powerful tool. I do wish the current owners of Corel would sell it off or do something with it. However...the current owners are much better known for letting tools/code just die once they've picked out the guts than they are known for actually using a business model. Their revenue isn't remotely related to software.
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Videoon 7/30/2010
OT: NR2
Multiple passes at NR vs trying to do it in one pass. You can also apply multiple instances.
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Videoon 7/30/2010
OT: NR2
Default works best in *most* instances. Wish I had word on any 64 bit port, but honestly...I'd be surprised if it was. Use small noise slices for best results, and sample multiple points/times vs trying to grab big slices.
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Videoon 7/12/2010
Spot laid up ...
shield your eyes.... :-) you can see three of the four broken screws. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1331990&l=fff5bd478f&id=1032868837 no worries Keith, I've got a great staff of mechanics. I've broken more bones than I am old. Please notice the zipper installed for faster access. :-)
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