http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: vegas - Recent Posts en Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:53:57 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/opinions-on-sony-dcr-sr68#post-74668 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:15:23 +0000 John 74668@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I am starting a documentary in the next month and am looking into purchasing this or a Canon Vixia Model.  I am on a budget, but I can afford about $600 on the camcorder.  I was wondering if anyone had any opinions on this camera for the type of work, interviews and such, as I will require a mic for it.</p> <p>I'll probably be running Sony Vegas for the Editing software.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-successfully-import-a-dvd#post-73209 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:22:32 +0000 rs170a 73209@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I've used it successfully on Pro 8, 9 and 10 but I see no reason why it won't work on all versions of Vegas from 6.0 onwards, Movie Studio included as this was when Sony introduced the DVD Import option.</p> <p>Mike</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-successfully-import-a-dvd#post-73208 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:09:15 +0000 SargeHero 73208@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Do you know which versions of Vegas support that feature?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-successfully-import-a-dvd#post-73207 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:05:04 +0000 birdcat 73207@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Great info Mike! Thanks!</p> <p>This will solve a big problem for many!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-successfully-import-a-dvd#post-73191 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:32:42 +0000 rs170a 73191@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>If you're like me, you periodically have to import a DVD.</p> <p>The problem has always been the short gap in the audio and video at the VOB break points.There are a variety of ways to work around this but now, thanks to Gary<br /> James on the Sony Vegas forum, there's a MUCH better and easier way.I'll quote his post verbatim.</p> <p> Vegas allows you to open up a DVD .IFO file. This imports the entire .VOB chain for both video and audio tracks.</p> <p>Click File / Open, then navigate to your VIDEO_TS sub directory and<br /> enter *.IFO in the File name input field. For a regular DVD you will see<br /> a VIDEO_TS.IFO, and a VTS_01_0.IFO. Select the VTS_01_0.IFO file and<br /> click on Open. Don't try this on a DVD disk because Vegas will try to<br /> build an .sfk file containing audio peaks in the VIDEO_TS directory.</p> <p>Mike</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avchd-full-hd-dvd-help#post-72119 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:44:31 +0000 The_Jesus_Followa 72119@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>So didn't anybody give you an answer yet?</p> <p>1. You shouldn't try to put 1080p videos on a DVD to be played on a DVD player.</p> <p>2. You CAN though get a very nice quality converting it down to 720x480! That's real I tested it on a 46" TV and it looks nice! (if the video is 8mbps+).</p> <p>Now what you want to do is to edit your video in Sony Vegas anyway you want and you are going to render the video separated from the audio(which is very quick to render) and let them have the same name so that DVD Architect caches it automatically. How many minutes do you have? If it's less than 60 min don't worry about bit rate and size of rendered video.</p> <p>Render you video as "DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream" under MainConcept MPEG-2. Note that if you want the best quality you are going to have to make a new profile(scroll down and select Customize Template) and change the bitrate to Constant Bitrate and put 8,000,000 there. Also select "Best" for Video rendering quality under Project. Don't forget to save it with another name and make it your favorite). And render the audio as "Stereo DVD" under Dolby Digital AC-3 Studio. </p> <p>Then on DVD Architect go to import media and select your video, if your audio is on the same folder that the video is it is going to import the audio automatically. Good luck!</p> <p>Dude you don't need to switch to Vegas Pro just to do that. Try the trial first if you don't believe me. Vegas PRO is too professional for a non-professional user. I have Vegas Platinum HD Production Suite and I don't need anything else.</p> <p>I hope I've helped. Please tell us if you have found the answer!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/vegas-pro-11-to-vegas-pro-10-render-speed-comparisons#post-71757 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:18:07 +0000 doublehamm 71757@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I upgraded my GPU to a GTX 580, and now it renders the entire ceremony referenced above fully edited and color corrected in 00:29:42 (Vegas Pro 10 64-bit took 1:32:27 to render).  Sick...</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/vegas-pro-11-to-vegas-pro-10-render-speed-comparisons#post-71718 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:16:40 +0000 doublehamm 71718@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I forgot to mention an important detail.  Both versions I was comparing (Vegas 10 Pro and Vegas 11 Pro) were both 64-bit versions - so this is not a 32 bit to 64 bit comparison, it is truly 64 bit to 64 bit comparison.  </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/vegas-pro-11-to-vegas-pro-10-render-speed-comparisons#post-71712 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:02:38 +0000 DSFilmsja 71712@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>thx for the info great!!! veGAS 11 sounds to to well improved! </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/vegas-pro-11-to-vegas-pro-10-render-speed-comparisons#post-71704 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:48:43 +0000 doublehamm 71704@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>As for playback during editing, from the amount of time I have been able to use it (have not done a complete project on it yet), the preview seems to actually be able to stay at "Full" rather than having to keep resorting to "Half" like Vegas 10 always did to get the video to play smooth with a couple effects added.  </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/vegas-pro-11-to-vegas-pro-10-render-speed-comparisons#post-71703 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:34:34 +0000 doublehamm 71703@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Leapin' Lizards! I just did some speed tests of renders - Results are<br /> posted below, but I will not waste time fully upgrading to Pro 11.  </p> <p>The advertised speed upgrades from Pro 9 to Pro 10 were fairly<br /> minimal in practice, but they definitely found out how to harness GPU<br /> power in Pro 11.</p> <ol> <li>First I took a fully edited and color corrected (short) wedding<br /> ceremony I did earlier this month.  My source files were about 75% HDV<br /> (as 25Mb/s .m2t files from my Z5U) and about 25% AVCHD (as 17Mb/s .MTS<br /> files from my NEX5).  My destination file was a 16Mb/s .m2ts (AVCHD)<br /> file I use to compile blu-ray discs with.</li> </ol> <ul> <li>Using Vegas Pro 10:</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Project Length:  0:21:32    Time to Render from mixed AVCHD and HDV sources: 1:32:27</li> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Using Vegas Pro 11:</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Project length: 0:21:32  Time to render from mixed HDV and AVCHD sources: 0:43:31</li> </ul> <ul> <li>I would guess that if I had straight cuts and not dissolves this<br /> would be a MUCH faster render as it stutters a bit with every dissolve<br /> transition.  In any case it was still over 2x faster to render with<br /> Vegas Pro 11.</li> </ul> <p>   2.  Second I did a render from one minute unedited clips.  </p> <ul> <li>Source file for clip 1 -  AVCHD (as 17Mb/s .MTS file from my NEX5) and destination file was a 16Mb/s .m2ts file (AVCHD)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Using Vegas Pro 10:</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Project Length:  0:01:00   Time to Render from AVCHD to AVCHD: 00:03:01</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Using Vegas Pro 11:</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Project Length:  0:01:00   Time to Render from AVCHD to AVCHD: 00:01:19</li> </ul> <p>    3. Lastly I did another render from one minute clips:</p> <ul> <li>Source file for clip 2 -  HDV (as 25Mb/s .M2T file from my Z5U) and destination file was a 16Mb/s .m2ts file (AVCHD)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Using Vegas Pro 10:</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Project Length:  0:01:00   Time to Render from HDV to AVCHD: 00:02:55</li> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Using Vegas Pro 11:</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Project Length:  0:01:00   Time to Render from HDV to AVCHD: 00:01:17</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>This is starting to be almost rendering at triple speed in Vegas Pro<br /> 11 compared to Pro 10 - in fact it seems that AVCHD is well on the way<br /> to be able to be rendered in close to real time.  If I had the newest<br /> graphics cards out there, it just might happen.  It was not long ago<br /> that rendering DVD .mepg files took far longer than real time to render,<br /> and do not worry about those in Vegas Pro 11.  Vegas Pro 11 will create<br /> your 720x480 MPEGs at 3x-4x real time!</p> <p> </p> <p>For reference, my graphics card is a nVidia 1GB GTX285 - a dinosaur compared to the newest nVidia cards!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/24-fps-and-youtube#post-68541 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:13:19 +0000 SgtWelsh 68541@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>&nbsp;Hello Birdcat, thank you for helping me </p> <p>I will try MP4 from mainconcept. I do not remember if it's support 23.976 fps..... Yes Probably</p> <p>I'm interested to see a native 23.976 video(MP4) on youtube, if it's possible .</p> <p>Thank you Birdcat&nbsp;</p> <p>I really appreciate</p> <p>Bonne Journée Monsieur</p> <p>sgtwelsh&nbsp;</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/24-fps-and-youtube#post-68538 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:27:15 +0000 birdcat 68538@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have found that MP4 gives you the best and quickest results.</p> <p>Choose Main Concept MP4 and the click on the Customize button - Then on the Video tab set your frame size and frame rate.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/24-fps-and-youtube#post-68535 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:57:51 +0000 SgtWelsh 68535@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>&nbsp;Hello folks,</p> <p>I'm working on a project about a trip to Philippines. I shoot it with a Sony NXCAM NX5U camera.</p> <p>I filmed in 1920*1080 23.976p and it's my setting in my NLE, Sony Vegas Pro.</p> <p>So, I did a trailer because I want to advertise my film on youtube.</p> <p>I would like to know which "export settings" is the best when we want to upload a video on youtube. I mean, when I go in the menu " Render as" in vegas, which options becomes the best way to keep the overall quality of the entire project without degrading too much the pictures.</p> <p>Maybe some of you has encountered once this kind of questions. It's not a big difficult question.</p> <p>Thank you very much to you and Videomaker</p> <p>Merci et bonne journée</p> <p>sgtwelsh</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/can-i-burn-1080p-footage-to-a-dvd-how-1#post-68077 Wed, 18 May 2011 09:20:30 +0000 Dave Haynie 68077@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>There are a couple of ways to put HD on a DVD. None of them will play in a conventional DVD player. </p> <p>Some very small number of regular DVD players have supported alternate formats, including HD, but this is very specific to your player. The more common formats here are DivX-HD and WMV/HD. DivX-HD is just a DivX file authored at standard bitrates specified by DivX, Inc. They work with hardware manufacturers to ensure compatibility. WMV/HD is a fully authored format, based on specs defined by Microsoft, using HTML and Javascript. There's virtually no authoring software, though, so it's a bit of hand coding. I had a player that played both of these types, before real HD standards emerged. </p> <p>Aside from that, you need a Blu-ray player or PC to play HD video. Most Blu-ray players support the AVCHD format on DVD, which is a subset and slight mutation of Blu-ray. This was created by Sony and Panasonic for DVD camcorders, but you can put your HD videos on AVCHD disc and expect them to play in most BD players and many PCs. The main limitation is that you must use AVC, not MPEG-2 or VC-1, and the bitrate should be below 18Mb/s. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/super-effect#post-67527 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:26:36 +0000 rs170a 67527@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Great find Shane. I was positive you'd have to use something like Boris or AE that had motion tracking capabilities.</p> <p> </p> <p>Mike</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/super-effect#post-67526 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:07:33 +0000 shane007 67526@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I v find this tutorial: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDkIeWiWR0A" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDkIeWiWR0A</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/super-effect#post-67524 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:58:44 +0000 grinner 67524@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> yes. FCP will import png sequences, as will most other NLES. If they are not png freiendly they are tga, psd, or otherwise friendly. Bottom line is any alpha friendly uncompressed file will work. </p> <p>That said, if looking at rendering image sequences, you may as well just bust out an uncompressed quicktime. Far more handles when it comes to fields, ect.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/super-effect#post-67518 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:03:02 +0000 Don 67518@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>yeah Grinner I was thinking along those lines, wasn't sure if all nle's will use png with transparent backgrounds, that is why I was guessing using green background layers... thanx for correcting me.</p> <p>:0)</p> <p>another question Grinner.. is it possible to use animated pngs as well? like if you used photoshop to make each image an animation? Will that work with nle's such as final cut?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/super-effect#post-67516 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:51:49 +0000 grinner 67516@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> the multi freeze frame effect can be done by exporting the frames you want to freeze then cutting out what you want to keep in photoshop. Save those as png files and import them into vegas with alphas. You can then lay em in as you like with the video. Keep the native res the whole way and you won't even have to reposition the alpha freezes.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/super-effect#post-67511 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:55:58 +0000 shane007 67511@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Ok! Good work!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/super-effect#post-67510 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:43:05 +0000 Don 67510@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>not this week. I'm building a new studio, and filming the build process.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/super-effect#post-67509 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:41:14 +0000 shane007 67509@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks for the answer!<br />This is the theory and I've just started to edit videos and so I'm not very good yet... If you have time can you do a video tutorial??<br />Bye!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/super-effect#post-67508 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:40:59 +0000 Don 67508@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I'm thinking the parts where they slowed the motion down, they then marked out several frames, created still images from the frames, then imported the stills into photoshop where they removed the backgrounds and added chroma green. they then imported the still back into the NLE. each still frame as a new video layer, set back to start at thier original frames with durations that allowed them to overlap for the entire slow motion clip.</p> <p> </p> <p>I don't know If I've explained it clearly, but I think I could replicate it.</p> <p>BTW it certainly IS possible, if one person can do it, so can another! ;0)</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/super-effect#post-67507 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:25:02 +0000 birdcat 67507@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>There may be a plug in to do this, and it would certainly be easier if the camera was stationary but without actually having done this (and someone will correct me if I'm wrong I'm sure):</p> <p>At first glance, in Vegas, I would save the several frames I wanted to freeze, rotoscope to isolate the person, place each "still" on a separate track with one track as a parent for motion control to match up with the camera motion and voila.  The hardest part will be the motion control.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/super-effect#post-67506 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:53:01 +0000 shane007 67506@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi guys! Do you know how to do or if it is possible to do a effect like this: <a title="THE VIDEO" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTrWm4nxM2w&amp;feature=channel_video_title">(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTrWm4nxM2w&amp;feature=channel_video_title" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTrWm4nxM2w&amp;feature=channel_video_title</a></a>)  on 0:47 to 0:51  on sony vegas pro 10?? If you can do it may you make a tutorial?? </p> <p>I think that that video is  edited with "Final cut" on "Apple"</p> <p>Thanks and sorry for my english (I'm italian)</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/sony-vegas-project-template-vs-render#post-67290 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:58:47 +0000 PJ McConnell 67290@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>"Is it as simple as me just setting up the template in HD, then choosing to render as either HD for BluRay or SD for DVD?"  </p> <p>Yep, it is that simple.</p> <p>"Setting up the template in HD for editing but then rendering to SD will not cause issues will it?!"</p> <p>the only issue you might run into is letterboxing because of different aspect ratios, but you can fix that by altering the SD frame size while rendering.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/sony-vegas-project-template-vs-render#post-67286 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:09:45 +0000 Cville 67286@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>No issues.  I use Vegas pro 10.  I shoot and edit in HDV and render out based on what I need.  For the most part I render out SD wide screen dvd but I also render out for Blu-Ray when required.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/sony-vegas-project-template-vs-render#post-67285 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:50:19 +0000 navyspecwarfare 67285@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>So, sometimes I am a bit confused about the difference between setting up the Sony Vegas template vs. the render settings. </p> <p>I am assuming that the template is supposed to match my media.  In other words, if I shot in HD, I should make sure my template matches those HD settings.  If I shot in SD, I should make sure the template matches that such as NTSC DV 720x480. </p> <p>I am also assuming that you just render to whatever media you want your final project on. </p> <p>So, in my case, I have footage shot in HD.  I want to edit it in Vegas, yet I want to have the option to output it to both HD Bluray and SD DVD.  </p> <p>Is it as simple as me just setting up the template in HD, then choosing to render as either HD for BluRay or SD for DVD?  Setting up the template in HD for editing but then rendering to SD will not cause issues will it?!</p> <p>Many thanks. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/avchd-mts-to-standard-dvd-in-sony-vegas-and-dvd-architect#post-67195 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:42:34 +0000 panasoniccadd 67195@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Import/Convert Sony SR12 AVCHD Videos export WMV to Sony Vegas Pro 8 <br />Recently I have purchased a Sony HDR-SR12 and Vegas Pro 8 bundle from B&amp;H. When I transferred some HD video, AVCHD to be specifically, to my PC for editing in Vegas 8 Pro I get a "format not supported" error. I just couldn't believe it! If Sony Vegas Pro 8 can not handle 1920*1080 AVCHD videos whey B&amp;H sell the two as a bundle in the first place? <br />I'm all new to video stuff and editing as well, I just need a simple solution to help me import SR12 AVCHD files to Vegas Pro 8 successfully. I've tried Picture Motion Browser PMB for my editing purpose as someone suggested on some forum, but the software crash so often that I can barely get it to work. From some threads on creativecow, I tried out a program called <strong><a href="http://www.aunsoft.com/final-mate/">Aunsoft Final Mate</a></strong>, which is exclusively designed assistant software for HD camcorder users proclaimed by its developer Aunsoft Studio. Honestly speaking, I'm very happy with the result. As far as I can tell, <a href="http://www.aunsoft.com/convert_sony_hdr_sr12_avchd_videos_export_wmv_to_sony_vegas_pro_8/">converted videos from Sony SR12 AVCHD 1920*1080 M2TS videos to Sony Vegas</a> WMV(VC-1) format work smoothly on Sony Vegas Pro 8 and there is no degradation of picture quality from naked eyes. <br /><img src="http://www.aunsoft.com/img/guide/guide-20110413/convert-avchd-to-sony-vegas.jpg" /> <br />Besides that, Aunsoft Final Mate also allows me to <strong><br /><a href="http://www.aunsoft.com/final-mate/manage_the_movies_in_the_program.html">merge all my AVCHD video clips into one single file</a></strong> on a timeline basis, which have saved lots of time for me. <br /><img src="http://www.aunsoft.com/img/online-help/final-mate/create-a-movie-by-adding-to-timeline.jpg" /> <br />I recommend this product for people who have similar problems with me about AVCHD importing to Sony Vegas Pro 8. At the same time, try not buy the Sony SR12 and Vegas Pro 8 bundle. Trust me. It's not a happy experience.</p>