Re: Brian's Comment:

"BUT, THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE - the capture settings of the Connect HD are priceless!!! The simple feature of scene detection in Connect HD is well worth the money! I don't know how people could try (or want) to edit a 50+ minute clip of any sort when capturing from the Vegas Capture program. Unless you sit and control scene breaks manually. For me, the split scene makes editing far more efficient..."


You can use a free program to capture in .m2t that includes scene detect. I believe it is called HDSplit or something like that. I am at my office now, and have it on my home office system. I did notice a couple of drop outs on the the captures I did when I compared them to same captures I did inside Premiere Pro 2.0.

Still, the biggest difference out there reported by experts here is the better editing, color correction, and color rendition capability coming from Cineform editing process.

Connect HD Vegas 6 P4 2.8?
 

Looking at Connect HD, I have the minimum spec P4 2.8 (non HT), 1gig ram, 9800Pro a 160gig and 320gig drive, not Sata. FX1.
For basic editing, ie: single video layer, basic text, cuts/dissolves only.....will the machine be ok or would I be in for a rough ride?

Mike, you'll be fine for basic editing as you describe it. To verify, you can certainly download the Trial version from our website and experiment with it.

David.

Vegas 6d crashes, cfhd.dll problem?
 

I am using Vegas 6.0d and it keeps crashing on me. Here is an error message that appeared from the last crash a few minutes ago, when I started to render a project which included 1080i HDV (.m2t) material

Sony Vegas 6.0
Version 6.0d (Build 210)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) WRITE:0x3C IP:0x4154A28E
In Module 'cfhd.dll' at Address 0x41500000 + 0x4A28E
Thread: ProgMan ID=0x91C Stack=0xAACF000-0xAAD0000
[...]
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I do not recall Vegas crashing on me when I was editing strictly DV material. This is very frustrating since my project will be shown by the client this Friday I must get it finished soon. Is it correct that 'cfhd.dll' is the CineForm HD module? Is there an updated version I could use that would help?

We sell the updated version through Connect HD, yet the free version should not be crashing. This is a good question for Sony tech support.

tested with HDVSplit files?
 

Thank you; I have contacted Sony Support and am awaiting their response.

By the way, have you tested your software using .m2t files generated by HDVSplit 0.75 (a widely used, useful, and free utility from Paviko in Poland) ?
http://strony.aster.pl/paviko/hdvsplit.htm

There is nothing "obviously" wrong with the HDV .m2t files recorded by HDVSplit. Editor software such as Vegas 6d and Womble MPEG Video Wizard, and all my video players from Windows Media Player 10 to VLC Media Player 0.8.4a can display them.

But according to another Vegas user, the ConnectHD software (latest version & build) will lock up on m2t files from HDVSplit if they are shorter than a certain length.
See also:
http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/for...6913&Replies=4

Sony Tech support sent me a nice note saying I should update my drivers, defrag my hard drive, and use my computer in a cool place.

You refer to a "free version" and I wasn't aware there was any. Is it downloadable from the CineForm web page?

Sorry, "free version" ment the free CineForm VfW codec that ships with Vegas. Connect HD is a commercial product. Sorry Sony support was of so little help.

redistributable CineForm codec?
 

I have a friend with a multimedia PC connected to his 1080i HDTV and he'd like to see some examples of my work in high definition. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD isn't here yet. He doesn't have Vegas. Is there any redistributable version of the CineForm codec (so I could give him a disk with video in Cineform HDV-Intermediate format) or is WMV or MP4/H.264 the only way to do this?

You can get a free decode by installing the Connect HD trial, as the decoder components do not expire. Or find the CFDecoder2.ax files (Program Files/Common Files/CineForm/..) and register that on your friends PC. One day we will make this very easy (in the meantime the Connect HD installer is the easiest way.)

Vegas 7/6 & cineform
 

i have Vegas 2-7 installed ... connect HD 2

at some point after installing V7 90% of my cineform clips STOPPED playing.
i get mostly red frames in V7/6 or the files cannot be put into TL .. now i noticed this is only on my 2 computers with V7 installed along with connect HD 2 ( laptop and desktop) ... i see sony says to use connect HD 3 with V7 but these files will not play using V6 ( on computers with V7 installed) ...i have no problem playing the cineform clips on my other 2 computers that have V6 installed and no connect HD installed ... so is the problem with V7 & connect HD 2 - if i uninstalled connect HD will i be able to play my cineform clips in V7 or is the problem V7 ?

now i always thought data was data ... i transferred my 2k scans ( from 1394 drive) using cineform codec to a back up drive using laptop with only V6 installed and they play back in V6 ... i then transferred another copy using different computer with V7 installed to internal drives = all those files will not play .. i then transfer those files to a laptop ( v6 installed ) over my network and they will NOT play on the laptop using V6 ... if i transfer the files from the 1394 drive to laptop they play ... if i access the clip on desktop ( that has V7 installed) i cannot play them on laptop with V6 .. now i would assume that it's the same data but it appears that if V7 is installed on a computer that once that data is accessed/transferred thru that computer the files become corrupt ??? no problem transferring/accessing clips between 2 computers that do not have V7 installed ??

Sounds confusing, simplified - Vegas 7 broke, Connect HD 3.2 fixed the break. Connect HD 3.2 will work on everything. You will need to upgrade older decoders to use newer data, but that has always been the case. Install Connect HD 3.2 on all your PCs to get newer decoders.