Frameserving from Sony Vegas Movie Studio?

[trock]

Has anyone succeeded in frameserving from Sony Vegas Movie Studio? If I use the debugmode frameserver all I get is a file with audio and no video.

VFAPI gives an error every time I try and use it with Movie Studio - it says it can't accept the format (no matter what the format).

Even when I do get the blank video file with the debugmode frameserver, Movie Studio still spends all the usual time rendering the file, which defeats the purpose of frameserving even if I could get a file with video.

I want to edit in Movie Studio, frameserve out (without rendering) and encode in TMPGEnc. Any ideas?

Thanks,

trock

[BJ_M]

can you play the frame served file in media player?

no mater what -- if there are effects or such (other than straight cuts) , the file will have to be rendered at some point ..

[BJ_M]

movie studio and Vegas will accept vfapi frame served files - no problems .. do it all the time ..

check your vfapi installation

[trock]

movie studio and Vegas will accept vfapi frame served files - no problems .. do it all the time ..

I know that but that's not what I'm trying to do - I'm trying to frameserve out of Movie Studio not in. And it's files that only have straight cuts.

I do it all the time out of Vdub without problems but I haven't been able to get Movie Studio to do it. And in looking across many forums across the web, many others are having trouble with it. I was hoping that maybe someone here had successfully figured out a way.

trock

[BJ_M]

then if you are going OUT of movie studio , what has vfapi have to do with anything ?

the only frame server (out) that works with movie studio is the debugmode one ...

straight cuts - movie studio will not re-render if your project properties match the source properties and it is a dv file..

[BJ_M]

i briefly looked at the official movie studio sony forum , and didnt see any one having any problems like this (or much of any other)

[trock]

I briefly looked at the official movie studio sony forum , and didnt see any one having any problems like this (or much of any other)

I came across the problems at the Sony forum and the debugmode forums by searching on frameserving and Movie Studio.

I'm evaluating Movie Studio with a view to purchasing it and I just want to be able to frameserve from it but when I looked for how others were successfully doing it all I could find so far are others complaining about the same blank video or other problems (which I don't have).

[BJ_M]

ahh - well that is no good ....

pick up a copy of vegas 4 instead (older version) , you can buy them for about the same as movie studio and a lot more features (and the frame serving works)

[trock]

Thanks, sounds like a good idea.

[BJ_M]

on ebay i see for less than $100 for the whole package:

vegas 4
acid 4
sound forge 7
dvd author 1

and a bunch of extra stuff -- all legal ....

3 hours left