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Posted by rrieaa sefifjls on 02/07/07 04:33
yo video production folk: Ok, I'm pretty new to NLE world, but have many
years of pc building experience, & messing with Pro Tools and other
DAW's etc, in a variety of formats and on a variety of pc systems. Vegas
7 seems pretty darn easy to use so I went with it. I am not going to do
anything but make music videos, so nothing will be longer than 3 or 4
minutes tops (no Thriller for me!).
current system -
mb: gigabyte
proc: Amd Athlon 64 3000+
ram: 2gb DDR 400mhz pc3200 ram
hd seagate barracuda 7200
video card nvidia geforce 6200 256 mb
Vegas seems to work fine as far as I can tell. After much ado and
research I discovered that editing found footage online, most of which
appears to be compressed (mpegs, what have you), is a total crapshoot
and that even getting the proper codecs to let you play stuff back is a
nightmare as far as if you want to do anything but cut and paste them
together without any sort of effects. A bummer. I also could not find
any software (virtual dub included) that appeared to be able to
consistently reencode the footage into something Vegas liked. Anyone?
Therefore..
I took it upon myself to create my own avi footage using my little canon
digital camera. "It makes avi's", I said to myself. Sure enough, though,
the freaking canon camera needs its own custom codec, which I obtained
and thus it let me play the stuff back fine - the codec I got is from
Morgan multimedia, their M-JPEG codec. Edits work fine. Everything plays
back smoothly with a few fx I have applied, in draft and preview mode,
at 'full' size. The playback slows down kinda jerky in 'good' and
'best' mode, but I just assumed this was because of my system power, and
that after rendering, the final file for playback would play a-ok.
NO such luck. I have tried every darn thing I can think of - I have
tweaked the hell out of xp. Every drive is defragged. I have nuked every
background process that I could think of that might affect my render
testing including windows explorer. I also tried test renders w/jacking
up the priority on Vegas itself just to see what would happen. This does
in fact all make a huge difference in render speed, but the end result
is the same... an avi that stutters seemingly every second or so in the
playback. I have tried messing with Vegas' 'video' tab to adjust the
codec for rendering, but none of them really seem to make much
difference. Additionally, even though previewing the video in Vegas
looks great and the settings seem fine - lets say DV NTSC 29.97, the
resulting framerate on the render says something like 25fps, and the
rate seems to jump around according to the display. I know my little
digital camera is not ideal for making this stuff, so.
1. is there no way to make this thing work with my canon sd500 output? I
know it's a wack format, but that codec from Morgan multimedia is pretty
thorough looking as far as features go. Not that I have any idea what
half of them are. If not, do people just generally xfer from DV cams
only, and that's it? What in the name of all that is holy is the EXACT
preferred format of incoming video in Vegas? And why bother supporting
all these other formats for playback in Vegas if it refuses to render it
to a usable file?
2. If you guys think this setup is in fact doable, what the heck is up
with the render?
Thanks so, so much for your help.
Sincerely,
Jeff Rosenberg
bitter kitten media
austin, tx
(512) 659-1187
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