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Videoon 10/5/2015
13 w/ Nectar Elements
i have been using it for a few versions now as i use a bit of voiceover in arts supplements for our college bound seniors, who can have pretty annoying voices on a good day. once you have their voices sweetened up, you can set presets that will work for many similar sounding voices. Good for sound FX voices as well. If you have done any audio work at all, this would be an even better tool as you would have the understanding of approach that i don't have...however that said, i have been pretty successful with it in my own work.
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Videoon 10/5/2015
win 10 worth it?
I've installed on all my machines hoping to end networking issues with different OS previously...i still have one machine that doesn't want to talk to the others but they can talk to it. my biggest complaint is that it appears to put my many hard drives to rest when not being used which then takes a while to wake back up when going into file explorer...haven't had time to research it yet to see if there is a setting for this. with multiple drives on most of my machines, it gets annoying. programs are all working great so far including all my Sony programs. they all seem to load and work a little more responsively, but that may be wishful thinking or it just isn't loaded up with jis & putz yet! So far, i'm sticking with it...like it much better than the Win8. the switchover was rally painless as well.
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Videoon 12/19/2014
How are you guys dealing with distribution issues?
I wrestle with this too. Our school presells the school shows and i do alright with DVD sales, but our dance company doesn't and is further complicated with multiple casts from different performances, which i shoot with 2 cameras each night for 4 nights. I am at the point where i am going to start charging for the time and let them deal with the DVD sales however they want. The DVD market is limited to just our parents and families of the students because of copyright issues with the music that gets used by the performances which pays royalties for performance but doesn't include DVD distribution rights.
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Videoon 12/16/2014
HardDrive Storage (cont.)
Well, now i'm beginning to sweat...what is the current consensus on large storage then? I have massive amounts of video files to store for archival reasons and now besides the Drobo, i have them spread out over three machines and several 3.5 hard drives of various sizes that i access by E-Sata docks. These are primarily performance reels, taken by two cameras at each concert, 8 performances each performing season (3) and school performances as well...it adds up quickly. I had other raid systems and have had failures with them with lost data...as far as back-up, well, not any budget for that.
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Videoon 12/15/2014
HardDrive Storage (cont.)
My archive system is a Drobo 5N NAS with 5 WD Red 3tb drives, set up for single redundancy (one drive can crap out without data loss) and have 10.87tb of storage space available. The Drobo can be set up with double redundancy, but with less storage capacity. the newer models support a SSD that supposedly boosts the performance of the rest of the system and the new models support some of the higher capacity drives available. I believe WD had 4tb red drives now, and i have seen drives up to 6tb, although i do not know how reliable these would be in a Drobo system. The drives are hot swappable, and can be different sizes, make, and model, although mine (with the WD Red drives) has been very dependable.
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Videoon 10/1/2014
nvidia driver?
GTX 670...i rolled back to 340.52, and have not had the desire to go beyond that as it is working well on the Win7 machine. Have a GTX 580 on a Win8 machine and running driver 331.65 without issue...if it ain't broke...
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Videoon 8/18/2014
What do you look like? (2014)
http://cl.ly/image/1N2929352y1G Shooting in the Tirol...
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Videoon 8/2/2014
Editing Keyboard
I use the Bella keyboard and have for a couple of years now. you can program a series of one touch buttons to automate many tasks and i used the jog wheel a lot in the early days, but not so much anymore...easier to use the left/right arrows. the keys with the shortcuts printed on them helped me to memorize the keyboard commands and really helped when i would inadvertently hit the wrong key and something would happen on the timeline that i had no idea what i did, i could look in the neighborhood of where my hands were and figure out what i did. It confuses the heck out of people who sit down at my computer to just type something (don't know why) but other than that, it works pretty well for what it is.
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Videoon 7/20/2014
Audio envelopes in V13
Thanks! I knew it was something simple.
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Videoon 7/5/2014
OT: more RX 3 tutorials
thanks! Just what i have been waiting for!
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Videoon 5/26/2014
Sony Production Assistant???
+1 for Excalibur, especially if doing multi-camera editsl
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Videoon 5/17/2014
13 - couple of minor bugs...
I have had several freeze's using Pro 13 now including the error message when i have shut it down at the end of an editing session. They appear to be random, although usually occur when moving media around on the timeline, or during playback on the timeline. What graphics driver is everyone using (335.23 for me on a GTX 670 card). V12 has been working pretty much uninterrupted with this configuration.
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Videoon 4/8/2014
Pro 13 press announcement
This is the first release since i came onboard that says...nothing to me. unless everyone starts totally raving about it, this is the one i will pass on. I am seeing a trend in how to get the loyal Vegas users to spend more than they normally would by adding more plugs and gimmicks, none of which is needed by this user. This may be the year to take my upgrade money and put it towards equipment, so that's a win!
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Videoon 2/4/2014
recommended graphics card for VP12 and windows 8.1
Here's a link: http://www.microcenter.com/product/425171/015-P3-1580-RB_NVIDIA_GeForce_GTX_580_1536MB_PCIe_20_x16_Video_Card_-_Refurbished
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Videoon 2/4/2014
recommended graphics card for VP12 and windows 8.1
I managed to pick up an EVGA GTX580 rebuilt card at Newegg this past summer for my latest build. Since, i have seen them at Microcenter as well. Mine has been working well (i need to update my system info and include this latest build.) and it smokes the GTX680 on my previous build.
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Videoon 2/3/2014
OT: I want my own drone
You could always claim you were making "refreshment" deliveries...Waiting for this concept to catch on in Colorado and Washington!
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Videoon 2/3/2014
OT: I want my own drone
Well some folk just get stupid with these things, although I admit, one would be fun to play with! http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/10/nyc-police-search-for-owner-of-drone-that-crashed-in-midtown/
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Videoon 2/3/2014
Go-Pro Video. Multiple files, two cameras question
The audio from the goPros, if they were in the weathertight cases will be very muffled and not likely to have any clear signal for PluralEyes to discern. If the footage is so similar, how critical is it to match exactly? (Is there an event that occurs that would show the difference?)
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Videoon 2/3/2014
WOT: KVM switch
I'm currently using an IOGear one touch 2 port USB KVM switch between my new Win8.1 build and my old XP machine, sharing keyboard, mouse, and one of two monitors. I use the XP machine as a production server for a Rimage 2000i DVD duplicator and only need the one monitor. I mounted the switch next to my keyboard tray and click between the machines as needed. the setup was pretty straight forward and other than about a 1-2 second delay, it works well without any issues. they make models for multiple monitor setups, but this one works fine for what i'm using it for.
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Videoon 1/27/2014
wmv settings
Thanks for the help guys. I seem to remember trying to do something like this before (PIP) and tried using pan/crop and being able to get the clip re-sized, but only being able to drag it so far on the screen when it would disappear before getting to the edge of the screen. I just tried it now, and it works as explained, so not sure what i was thinking of. Thanks again!
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Videoon 1/27/2014
wmv settings
Would I down size it in pan/crop and then place it in position in track motion?
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Videoon 1/27/2014
wmv settings
Thanks Lawrence...I'll do a test with your method and see how that looks. Right now, i'm having quality issues with the small frames done in the track motion and wonder if there is a better way to achieve that?
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Videoon 1/16/2014
ReSpeeder
I got it recently and have only played around with it a little, but the little i have has worked very nicely for slowing down some dance sequences beyond what i could do with stretching the timeline in Vegas. Very smooth. My eye is not always as discerning as some of the other forum folks here, but not noticing artifacts on the clips i played with or other problems...just beautifully slowed down movement. Very easy to use interface and controllable with in and out points on a timeline and can ramp up and down to your desired speed. I'm using standard DV clips though, so can't speak to how it is on HD material.
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Videoon 12/29/2013
Favorite Plug-ins
Excalibur & Pluraleyes for multicamera edits. Isotope RX2 and Nectar for audio Not a plugin but very useful for the new sports cameras is ProDrenalin Mercalli 3.0 for stabilization. Getting ready to cull the herd of plugins on my machines. Too many of the new blue plugs will freeze Vegas. Have not gotten the hang of the Boris FX ...I used to really like the Magic Bullet Looks plugs that i used in VP9 on my XP machine, but can't afford their prices to upgrade to the 64bit version.
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