Sony Vegas HD 11 & Adobe Audition running on a Pentium III Compaq

[FilipinorenderHD]

me still using pentium 4 and can still render up to 1080HD :)

[agoodm]

Lol! keygen.exe :-) Guess you didnt spend the mega millions to actually buy vegas; probably like most people!

[vwestlife]

@agoodm The keygen was for Adobe Audition, not Vegas. I'm still on the free trial with Vegas. It's the best PC based video editor I've tried so far, but my main annoyance is that it has no good option for producing standard definition widescreen (854x480) non-interlaced video. It doesn't look too bad when I upscale it to 720P HD, but to me that's just a waste of pixels when the video wasn't HD to begin with.

[agoodm]

@vwestlife I ran into this but later found out how to do it correctly... (see some of my vids are upscaled cus I couldnt figure it out) When rendering your project choose render as... In the type I generally use the MainConcept AAC/AVC option then under profile choose default profile. This defaults the output dimensions to the size of my input video. Ensure to adjust the bitrates as they dont seem to be set adequately by default.

[vwestlife]

@agoodm At least in the free trial version of Vegas Movie Studio HD 11, there is no such thing. Under "Render As", I have to choose one of the presets it comes with; I can't modify a preset or create my own custom one. And if I want progressive (non-interlaced) widescreen output, under "Sony AVC/MVC" it gives me "Internet 640x360 30p" and "Internet 1280x720 30p", but there is nothing inbetween the two.

[agoodm]

@vwestlife In vegas pro 10 there is save as type and template. My video is 800x480 as it comes off my camera phone... In order to get the correct size video output I have to go to properties and select my custom project size then go to render as; choose type mainconcept avc/aac and choose template default. Then I can click on custom on the right where I can change bitrates, pass numbers, interlacing you name it.

[tunkunrunk]

@vwestlife I tried to play 720P on my pentium III computer using the fastest pentium III ever : the tualatin 1.4ghz , with 1.5GB sdram and I was unable to play HD videos perfectly , there's too much frame skipping ,along with the sound , and even more with a 512mb nvidia video card . so I have a doubt about what you say

[beatlesfan464]

doesnt sony vegas cost alot of money? i dont have alot of money .but i want sony vegas

[EastAngliaUK]

A noisy camera.

[Machinia]

Don't need a new computer to edit video. No doubt, I used to convert DVD rips to a VCD format using a Pentium II overclocked to 300Mhz. I believe it took about 4 x the length of the movie to complete.

[lmull3]

those little compaqs sure are workhorses. gotta love it.

[bamdadkhan]

ah, now i know why you needed sp3.

[maskedmillionaire]

time to load After Effects and edit some AVCHD video! woohoo!

[wildbilltexas]

Just out of curiosity I got Sony Vegas HD 9 to run on a Acer Aspire 1 Netbook with a 1.6ghz atom processor. I'm surprised it worked though i cant run the preview window on the best setting for editing ("good" works) and it takes a while to encode an mp4 video.

I just wonder if I have to pay Sony to upgrade from Vegas HD 9 to 11.

[NobbysPcHelp]

@wildbilltexas i beleve you do but it is discounted

[ashleycox432]

is this going to be your main computer? or is this just a bit of fun.

[Ryoga2K]

You can try to get a copy of Adobe Premiere 6.0 at one of the thrift stores you visit, I used it back in the day when I only had a 500mhz Pentium II and I could make very decent Divx (version 3.11 and 4) videos and the rendering wasn't blazing fast but it was about the same you would get in a modern computer with vegas, also the actual program started and worked very fast.

[artifactingreality]

good stuff; do you have a specific use for this computer then?

[talldude123]

Is your Deskpro EN using the integrated video, or a video card?

[vwestlife]

@talldude123 In my recent video on it, you can see exactly its hardware configuration.

[talldude123]

@vwestlife Okay, thanks, just noticed that you are using the built in Intel 815 video chipset. I am suprised Vegas would even work using the onboard video, usually video encoding requires a video card of some sort.

[themaritimeman]

I don't why Sony just randomly tacked 'HD' at the end of the name of their consumer version of Vegas started with version 10 - Vegas has been capable of HD video since version 7 or 8. lol

My Deskpro has been my video editing machine since my custom-built computer bit the dust. It works great, using Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9.

[SVTcontour98]

lol a wang keyboard

[CenTexVideo]

The waveform looks pretty flat across with a few stray peaks. Not bad.

Sony Vegas, at least v9, allows me a lot of adjustable parameters. Some presets can't be changed, and therefore, you will have limited codec options. At least for my use, I have a lot of play with different codecs. The only limit is the codec itself.

[bakonfreek]

the motor noise seriously sounds like the VCR component started smoking at some point (like on my VHS camera), is that a problem with the audio head or the tape transport spinners?

[vwestlife]

@bakonfreek The TRV318 camcorder shows signs of heavy usage, so maybe the bearings are starting to get noisy, but otherwise it still records and plays video perfectly.

[CenaTv2]

There's sony vegas 11?

I've been playing around with Sony Vegas 10, but the rendered mpeg2's have issues with deinterlacing in some scenes

[themaritimeman]

@CenaTv2 @CenaTv2 MPEG-II, being the native format for DVD video, was meant to be interlaced, which is probably the source of your problem. My personal codec of choice for deinterlacing video upon rendering for YouTube or whatnot is WMV.

[themaritimeman]

@CenaTv2 Whoops, I just got to the point of the video where he said her renders in MPEG-II with deinterlacing with no problem. In that case I'm not sure?

[vwestlife]

@themaritimeman If you upload an interlaced MPEG2 file, YouTube will de-interlace it by the most simple method of ignoring one of the two fields, which cuts the vertical resolution in half, often making diagonal lines look jagged. So to get better results, I choose to de-interlace the video first, using a better method such as field blending (which iMovie '06 uses, and Vegas offers as a choice), and then save it to a progressive (non-interlaced) MPEG2 or MOV file.

[themaritimeman]

@vwestlife Sheesh, I sure didn't pay attention to my spelling last night. lol

Yeah, I know that now. I didn't know it was possible to deinterlace MPEG-II.

[uxwbill]

Compaq Deskpro EN...for today, tomorrow and maybe a few more years yet. :-) I don't need to say that they're great machines, although I will confess to being a bit amazed by how well Vegas actually worked!

It's been a long time since I had the key lock toggle sounds enabled on any computer...used to be real handy on laptops.

[Lachlant1984]

@uxwbill I've always used the ToggleKey sounds, my old Acer PC had a wireless keyboard which didn't have any indicator lights on it, you had to use a program to find out when caps lock was on, now i use them all the time on my HP computer at work, plus I have a vision impairment, and I don't like taking my eyes off the screen to find out if caps lock is on or not.

[BeltDrivenMadness]

How did you get Sony Vegas free?

[vwestlife]

@BeltDrivenMadness I am using Sony's 30-day free trial. Video editing is important enough to me that I would never use anything illegally copied.

[BeltDrivenMadness]

@vwestlife Also, which camera did you use?

[vwestlife]

@BeltDrivenMadness I used two Sony analog Hi8 Handycams... first a CCD-TRV318 for most of the video, then near the end when I showed the completed audio recording, I switched to a CCD-TRV138.

[joshhsega]

not bad at all for a p3

[joshhsega]

she just dont have the power lol