Vegas Video discussions from 2004 (Q3Q4)

[Dan Euritt]

you can use any ac3 encoder you want to make ac3 audio, so if you already have one, why buy another?

after awhile, you begin to realize that most of these editing packages that include dvd authoring software have too many limitations... vegas5+dvd could be the best of the bunch, but i bet that dvdlab pro runs rings around it when it comes to making serious dvd's.

most of us probably won't need that kind of capability, but if it's in your future plans, start looking at your options now.

[Chris Moore]

I have a Asus P4PE with a Geforce 4 64 meg video card.
Pentium 4 2.4 Gig CPU.
40 GIG IDE ata100 Hard Drive.
1 stick of Crucial 512Meg. PC2700 DDR ram.

I am thinking I should get A SATA Hard Drive as an addition to my other. I am using Vegas 5.0 w DVDA.

Should I Upgrade my CPU to Hyperthreading Level, or Get more Ram first.

Could someone who is smarter than I (most poeple on this forum) maybe rank these steps in order of importance and possibly add others I'm not thinking of.

[Chris Moore]

Could anyone post links to tweaks I could or should make on an editing computer? I found some good info on the videoguys site. Is there any other good info availible for mining on the net?

[Edward Troxel]

More RAM can definitely help. Consider getting a second 512 Meg stick.

More hard drive will be NEEDED. The 40 Gig drive will be too small to do any serious work. Get a second drive for your media.

[Edward Troxel]

I make no vouches for any of these places but simply typing in "XP Tweaks" in Google yields MANY possible places. In addition to Video Guys tips, you might also check:

www.tweakxp.com/
www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/ ...powertoys.mspx
www.musicxp.net/
www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20011204S0009

[Matthew Lombardo]

Hello,
I'm a new user and have been using vegas for a few weeks now. I was wondering if someone could help me out and give me some examples of the settings they use in vegas to post video to the internet.

Most of my work will be online at my website. Clips may be 5 minutes. Just not sure what setting may work best to get the best video for other viewers.

I have been experimenting a bit with different compressions, but not sure which is correct if any?

Thank you for your help,

Matt

[John Lee]

I agree, you definitely need more storage space. 1 hour of minidv footage = 13GB. I find it very difficult to do any project without at least 60GB minimum free.

(Which is why I recently bought a 300GB SATA drive for $206). If cost is a concern, you could even pick up a 200GB ATA drive for about $110.

[Chris Moore]

I have an SATA port to use and its my understanding that they're faster. I will also Upgrade my ram. Any way to configure SATA and Original ATA drive? Example i've heard Only media on bigger drive.

Edward as much as you reply on this forum and others you must be injecting coffee!

Thanks for the input guys!

[Fred Finn]

Hello,

So yeah like the subject. It did this, I reinstalled windows and vegas (clean on a new hardrive). And this is STILL happening!! Anyone have any ideas? Other formats don't have this problem.

[Edward Troxel]

<<<-- Originally posted by Chris Moore : Edward as much as you reply on this forum and others you must be injecting coffee! -->>>

I don't even drink coffee!!!

Keep all of your OS/programs on your 40 gig drive. Use the new drive strictly for media files.

[Glenn Chan]

I have an SATA port to use and its my understanding that they're faster. I will also Upgrade my ram. Any way to configure SATA and Original ATA drive? Example i've heard Only media on bigger drive.

SATA is generally faster because they are the newer model drives. For DV work, you really won't see a practical speed difference between PATA and SATA.

A hyperthreading processor won't really help things, although a higher clock speed processor will. 800FSB versus 533FSB (front side bus) also makes a few percent difference in speed, as does hyperthreading.

I'd hold off upgrading as you're not going to see a big jump in performance right now (around 30% in render speed with a 3.2ghz Pentium processor... assuming it's compatible). Wait until faster processors come out, when you can upgrade your motherboard + processor + RAM at the same time (you'll likely need to do all three at the same time, as a newer motherboard may need newer DDR2 RAM).

2- Your system is likely good enough to edit video with. Vegas doesn't need a bleeding edge computer. Just get more hard drive space and you're set. Maybe dual monitors if you don't have that already.

[Ken Plotin]

If you rendered to UNCOMPRESSED .avi, most systems would have trouble playing that back in real time to an external monitor without some jittering. Does this happen when you render to standard DV format .avi's from Vegas?
Ken

[Rob Lohman]

Please take a look at our pretty extensive thread on Top Gear and
how they achieve "the look":

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...threadid=33117

[Rob Lohman]

That is correct indeed. The problem was probably not even the
MJPEG codec but that you had a wrong one. There are two codec
standard on Windows:

- Video for Windows (VfW, the old one)
- Directshow (the new one)

You probably already had a codec if you could play the movies in
mediaplayers, but it probably would've been a VfW codec (which
is often the case with MJPEG codecs). I'd bet you now got a
Directshow MJPEG codec, but ofcourse I could be wrong, hehe.

Glad it all worked out!

[Rob Lohman]

Matthew: just so you know: i.Link = IEEE1394 = firewire